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A26201	The way to be rich, according to the practice of the great Audley who begun with two hundred pound in the year 1605, and dyed worth four hundred thousand pound this instant November, 1662.	G. B.; Audley, Hugh, d. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B71; Wing A4200; ESTC R28318	23,533	42

black and dark night ct behold there met him a Woman with the allayne of an Harlot and subtle of heart and she caught him and kissed him and with an imputent face said unto him Come let us take our fill of love untill the morning let us solace our selves with love for the good man is not at home he is gone a long journey he hath taken a Bag of Money with him and will come home at the day appointed with much fair speech she causeth him to yield with the flattering of her lips she forceth him he goeth after her straight way as one goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks till a Dartstricke through his Liver as a Bird hasteth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life But to return to his calling He made it his businesse to be acquainted with the Stewards and Dependants of Grandees by whose meanes he might insinuate himself into great mens wants and occasions and so get within their Estates particularly he was acquainted with the great Tilseley Steward to the Dr. B. with whom he agreed to go halfe in halfe for all the Estates that they should meet with who dying about 1628. left some 1200. l. a year behind him whereof our Audley had the evidences which with a little money he secured to himself for ever He made use of two Scriveners from one whereof to the other he used to turn his money not without considerable advantages upon each alteration He made more use of his Clients in order to his designes then they made of him for their cause for upon first acquaintance with them finding which way they dealt he plyed them with questions and demands concerning persons and things which might conduce to his end and engaged them upon such particulars as he found them most likely to serve him in so vigilant was he upon his advantages that there hardly passed any thing or words out of which he could not pick out something of profit so that what ever happened his Mill was still going if there were any houses to be sold any Commodities to be vented he was sure to be a Customer but seldome approving himself having others at his command for that service whereof one serves him a trick thus Audley having bought a Tenement of 45. l. 10. d. a year in one Mickle Thwaits name this Mickle Thwait dyeth and his Wife finding these Deedes claimes her thirds and had it for her life notwithstanding all Audleys care to the contrary their cunning was outwited and for pelfe meets with one subtler then himself he employes one once to take a bond in his name for two hundred and fifty pounds and it happened through the neglect of him that he employed that these words were left out et ad eandem solutionem faciendam obligo me et harredes meos the party bound dies Audley sueth the Heir he pleades he is not bound Audley replyed that it was a meer default of the Clark and so might be amended and so procured an order whereby it was to be amended by consent and then went on in his suit and recovered the money there was an action upon the case brought against this Audley for receiving fourscore pounds twice but he avoided it with this quirk that they should have brought an action of acount Trin. 4. Cor. rol 305. Hil. 3. Caroli Roll. 43. there was a case between our Audley and one Halsey thus action surtrover of goods on the 25. day of Novem. Anno tertio Caroli upon not guilty a special Verdict was found that one John Hill and Alice Squire was possessed of these goods and used the Trade of Merchandize and being so possessed were bound unto the Defendant A o 20 mo 1. Iac. In a Statute acknowledged according to Law for a true and just debt that being forfeited he sued an extent upon that Statute 34. mo Octobrij 3. Cor. directed to the Sheriffes of London and they by virtue of that extent tricesimo primo Oct. 3. Cor. extended those goods the writ being returnable incrastino animorum and returned the writ and enquisition into the Chancery that the 3. of Nov. 3. 3. Cor. the said John Hill and Alice Squire became Bankrups being indebted to our Audley and to diverse others for true just debt upon the 6. day of Nov. 3. Cor. the Defendant shewed a liberate upon that extent and those goods the same day were delivered by the Sheriffes according to the apprisement in the extent and afterwards upon the 8. day of Nov. Audley sued out a Commission of Bankrupts against the said Hill and Squire and the Commissioners by virtue of their commission sold those goods to the Plaintiffe Audley upon the three and twentieth of Nov. aforesaid and the Defendants afterwards converted them to other uses this was argued several dayes at the Barre and the sole question was whether John Hill and Alice Squire becoming Bankrupts after the extent and before the Liberate the sale of the goods by the Commissioners to the Plaintiffe viz. Audley were good enough it was argued that this sale was good thus viz. for not withstanding this extent the property of the goods remained in the conusor and by the King are only seized into the Kings hands but that shall not devest any property from the Conusors for they be but as it were in protection of the King and then when the Conusors became Bankrupt before the Liberate those goods are in the power of the commissioners to sell and destribute among the Creditors but all the Court resolved against Audley that these goods extended before they became Bankrupts and delivered by the Liberate after they became Bankrupts could not be sold by the Commissioners because they being extend were quali in custodia legis so as the Conusors have not any power to give sell or dispose of them and it was therefore with much a do adjudged for the Defendant These intricate Cases make up Audleys life a life of intricacies and misteries wherein he walked as in amaze and went on as in a labyrinth with the clue of a resolved mind which made plaine to him all the rough passages he met with he with a round and solid mind fashioned his own fate fixed and unmoveable in the great tumults and stir of business the hard Rocke in the middest of Waves He took care to accompany himself with some Grave and reverend Divine to his dying day from whom if he gained not piety he gain'd the reputation of it you should have in his Chamber upon the Table a large Bible Bishop Andrewes Sermons and if you surprized him not you might find him busie with one of these Bookes but if you come suddenly he was in his Closet he was a great frequenter of the Church in the time of Divine Service but for Sermons he cared not for them and he was something concerned to see Religion as he used to say made a meer

tell out Money and take in Paper which if a man had many Millions of gold and silver could take up but a small portion of that precious time which God would have spent in some honest and fruitful Employment But what do I speak of the Judgment of reasonable men in so plain a matter wherein I dare appeal to the Conscience even of the Vsurer himself and it had need be a very plain matter that a man would refer to the Conscience of an Vsurer No honest man need be ashamed of an honest Calling if then the Vsurers Calling be such what need he care who knoweth or why should he shame with it If that be his Trade why doth he not in his Bills and Bonds and Noverints make it known to all men by those Presents that he is an Vsurer rather than write himself Gentleman or Yeoman or by some other stile But say yet our Vsurer should escape at least in the Judgment of his own hardned Conscience from both these Rules as from the Sword of Jehu and Hazael There is yet a third Rule like the Sword of Elisha to strike him stone-dead and he shall never be able to escape that Let him shew wherein his Calling is profitable to humane Society he keepeth no Hospitality if he have but a bar'd Chest and a strong Lock to keep hi● God and his Scriptures his Mammon and his Parchments in he hath House-room enough He fleeceth many but cloatheth none He biteth and devoureth but eateth all his Morsels alone He giveth not so much as a Crumb no no● to his dearest Broker or Scrivener only where he biteth he alloweth them to scratch what they can for themselves The King the Church the Poor are all wronged by him and so are all that live near him in eve●y common charge he slippeth the Collar and leaveth the burden upon those that are less able It were not possible Vsurers should be so bitterly inveighed against by sober Heathen Writers so severely Censured by the Civil and Canon Laws so uniformly condemned by godly Fathers and Councils so universally hated by men of all sorts and in all Ages and Countries as Histories and Experience manifest they ever have been and are if their Practice and Calling had been any way profitable and not indeed every way hurtful and incommodious both to private men and publick Societies If any thing can make a Calling unlawful certainly the Vsurers Calling cannot be lawful Sands Relat. 248. of Rich Antonio IN King Henry the 8th dayes there was one Mr. Gresham a Merchant of London setting Sail homewards from Palirno where dwelt at that time one Antonio called the Rich who had at one time two Kingdoms mortgaged to him by the King of Spain and being crossed by contrary Wind Mr. Gresham was constrained to Anchor under the Lee of the Island off from Bulo where was a burning Mountain Now about the Mid-day when for a certain space the Mountain forbore to send forth flames Mr. Gresham with eight of the Sailors ascended the Mountain approaching as near the vent as they durst where amongst other noise they heard a voyce cry abroad saying Dispatch dispatch the Rich Antonio is a coming Terrified herewith they hasted their return and the Mountain presently broke out in a flame But from so dismal a place they made all the haste they could and desiring to know more of this matter the winds still thwarting their course they returned to Palmerino and forthwith enquiring for Antonio they found that he was dead about the very instant so near as they could guess when that voyce was heard by them Mr. Gresham at his return to London reported this to the King and the Mariners being called before him confirmed the same Upon Gresham this wrought so deep an impression that he gave over all his Merchandizing distributed his Estate partly to his Kinsfolk and partly to good Uses retaining only a Competency for himself and so spent the rest of his dayes in solitary Devotion Cromerus of a rich Polonian A Rich Polonian was very Covetous much given to Rapine and Oppression who falling sick and being like to dye was admonished by his Friends to sue to God for mercy which he refused to do saying That there was no hope of Salvation for him no place of pardon left No sooner had he spoken this but immediately there was heard of the standers by most vehement stripes and blows which appeared manifestly upon the body of this dying Wretch who presently gave up the ghost to the great Terror and amazement of all who were present eye-witnesses of this sad and dismal Story Spotswood Hist of Ch. of Scotland of the Rich Bishop of Glascow JOhn Cameron Bishop of Glascow was a very Covetous man given to Violence and Oppression especially towards his Poor Tenants and Vassals but God suffered it not long to go unpunished for the Night before Christmas day as he lay asleep in his House at Lockwood seven Miles from the City of Glascow he heard a voice summoning him to appear before the Tribunal of Christ and give an account of his doings whereupon he awaked and being greatly terrified he called to his Servants to bring light and sit by him he himself also took a Book in his hand and began to read but the Voice calling the second time struck all the Servants to an amazement the same Voice calling the third time far Louder and more Fearfully the Bishop after a heavy groan was found dead in his Bed his Tongue hanging out of his Mouth A fearful Example of Gods Judgment against the Sin of Covetousness and Oppression Strada of the rich Cardinal Granvell Cardinall Granvell a great favorite of the King of Spain being placed under the Dutchesse of Parma as a chief director of all the affaires in the Low Countries when he was discharged of his office and saw all forsaking him he said that he had long enough waited upon other mens occasions that a man broken with Continuall toyl he could not but wish for rest and that to one besieged with Petitioners Liberty was not to be refused especially when he knew that petitioners and Letter-Carriers met like Pitcher-Carriers at a spring which they draine and trouble That favour at Court had a better face then inside and that all humane things are found to be far lesse in our possession then they are fancied in our hope and that all was vanity and vexation of spirit Mr. Latimer of a Rich man A Rich man when he lay on his sick bed was told by one that in all probabilitie he was not a man for this world as he heard it what saith he must I die send for a Physician wounds side heart must I dye wounds side heart must I dye and thus he continued and nothing could be got from him but wounds side heart must I die and go from my Riches Mr. Burroughs speaks of a Rich man who lived neare him who when he heard his sicknesse was mortal