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A07548	The custumers alphabet and primer Conteining, their creede or beliefe in the true doctrine of Christian religion. Their ten commandementes, or rules of ciuill life and conuersation, daily grace, generall confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such, as eyther in iest or in earnest, seeming doubtfull themselues, would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping. All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties customes, without possibility of fraude or couyn. Alwaies prouided, in reading read all, or nothing at al.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1608 (1608)	STC 17927; ESTC S114606	45,944	46

lament and before our Grauest and Wisest Phisitians prostrate our selues for remedy And I among the rest as the Apothecaries Boy that for bringing but one * The Caution writtē against the Farming out of Subsidies vnder the name of Customes Pill to preuent the last accesse was so shent for my labour The Symptome and Crysis of whose disease will best appeare in our Lesson nowe following ¶ The fashion and face of our Customes beeing thus layd open theyr Vse by practise but once made knowne would enflame the world with admiration and loue of the speciall Blessings Prudence of our Land the Zeale whereof onely hath preuented all our Studies almost consumde our selues and yet is the motiue of all our best Endeuours Customes therefore and Subsidies both depending on Trafficke as Effects that rise and fall with theyr efficient Cause the raysing of Trafficke like Hony in Hyues must needes increase eyther TRAFFICKE O the compasse and profunditie of this one onely word Trafficke more fit for Wisedome to study and Eloquence to vtter then our weake braynes to spell In which regard we cannot but bewayle the losse and want of those worthy Wits of older tymes that to tune the whole World wrote Volumes on this Theme SIBILLA CVMANA she wrot 9. Bookes whereof 6. she burnt and sold the other 3. to Tarquine for the price she offred them all at first The three Bookes of SIBILLA so well preserued so deerely bought and carfully kept by Tarquine the Elder are long since by Stillico that Traytor blowne vp burnt and gone Ne tantùm Patrijs saun et Proditor Armis Sancta SYBILLIN ae fata cremauit Opis ARISTOTLS abstruse Phylosophy to ALEXANDER the great Horis matutinis in Gymnasio Lyceo But ô those Acroamata and pryuate Instructions of kingly Doctrine so grauely discussed so attentiuely heard and richlie rewarded with Talents of Gold are eyther forgotten beyond our hearing or out of our reach Card Poole spent abooue 2000. crownes in sending to the Lybrarie of Cracou●a in Poland about it A●●● Sturm Epist lib 1. And Tully De Republica A Booke able to make a Wise-man in one dayes reading as some beleeue and write so carefullie sought for both farre and neere by our late Cardinall Poole hath not yet been seene except the Amalihean Vatican of our newe o Sir Tho Bodleyes Library at Oxforde TARQVINIVS PRISCVS haue happily found it out whose care cost and loue to Learning in the Kingdom of the Muses deserues a Golden Crowne yet this is our cōfort that the light they saw by was but beames of this Sunne their Enthousiasme but motions of this Good Spirit and their cleerest water fet from the streames of this flowing Fountaine that runnes so franckly and may serue our Turne For TRAFFICKE is but a free Bartering or buying selling of 1 Vendible Wares At 2 Markets cōuenient By 3 Marchants Subiects or Strangers According to the 4 Rules of Reciprocke Commerce Generally intending 5 Honour to Princes and Prosperitie to Common-wealthes And here at the first view appeare all our fiue Vowells in fiue Wordes that teach vs all to spell and make vs all to speake to wit a MATTER as Vendible Wares e PLACE Markets conuenient i PERSONS Marchants Subiects or Strangers o ORDER Rules of Reciprocke Commerce And u END Honour to Princes and Prosperitie to v Common-v wealthes The first wee call a. ¶ MATTER must be vendible The second stands for e. ¶ PLACE conuenient for Marts and Markets The third i. ¶ PERSONS fit to Traffick The fourth is o. ¶ ORDER in Commerce The fift stands for u. The KING And u. PRINCE SIRS And u. The COVNSAILE My Lords w. The Common-wealth And all Heere were fit staying to admire on the Maiestie of those two wordes of Power PReHeMiNeNS and PReRoGaTiue e. i. Whereof the first hath two of our Vowels for PERSONS and PLACE but the last contaynes them all a. e. i. o. u But wee must not play too much with the beauty of those Letters Let vs fall to our Bookes and spell out our Lesson a. ¶ MATTER must be vendible ¶ In the condition of the Matter layde out for Trafficke what euer it be Goodnes more or lesse makes it first Vendible as respected for the goodnes onely and so fit for Trades e. ¶ PLACE conuenient for Marts and Markers ¶ In the Places conueniencie at home or abroade easinesse of accesse by Sea or by Land freedome with safetie for Matter and Persons is onely regarded in all Marts and Markets i. ¶ PERSONS fit to Traffick ¶ In the qualitie of Marchants Persons whosoeuer they be Subiect or Stranger Loyaltie and Alliance onely makes their Traffick avowed For with knowne Traytors or open Enemies the Law admits no Commerce o. ¶ ORDER in Commerce ¶ The best Rules for Order to direct Trafficke by are those that beeing precisely squared out to the Generalitie Certaintie and Indifferencie of the Lawes of our Land and forraine Contracts admit no particular partiall nor doubtfull deceit iniury nor disturbance to Matter Persons nor Place u. ¶ END of Trafficke ¶ The End of all Trafficke is Honour to Princes and Prosperity to their Kingdoms whose policie and gouernment religious and Iust must needes be formed to their Patterne DEITIE by the Obiect of Goodnes and end in Peace But all Goodnes is needfull Trafficke therfore in regard of the Vse of Goodnes must needes be generall For looke what the Soule is to the outward Actions of the Body in ordering each Member so as Nature finds fit for the good of the whole Man such is Trafficke in disposing Mysteries Trades to the behoofe of the whole Common-wealth A consideration in no part of Ciuill Gouernment to be neglected much lesse in this great Cause of Customes GOODNES therefore as the life of the Soule to perfect our Trafficke both in Matter Place Persons Order End is the scope of our Studie and length of our Lessons That in Trafficke as in all things it may at last appeare that Finis coronat Opus Thus Customes from Trafficke haue their first Essens beeing and by it increase to the Honour of Princes and Prosperitie of Cōmon-weales For Trafficke then it is that we Customers contend stand bound to contest what euer betyde vs vntill shee be relieued for our Lesson let vs play the good Schollers and ply our Bookes well to spell out Goodnes that some Good-Man at last may get vs leaue to play ¶ In regimine Ciuitatis In Republica gubernanda et in Orbis Imperio Eusebius minimum est quod possunt homines In Causa vèrò Religionis multo minus Magna Magnus perficit DEVS He whose onely will and absolute Power could worke so well that all hee made became exceeding Good to his owne eternall Glory and Mans immortall Blisse GOD I say GOD I meane GOD the

and those Places that first affoord them According to these grounds of the three things in Trafficke before layd downe as Money for the Matter a Weight of greatest worth and for the Forme a worke of royall esteeme So Exchange a Measure of rarest perfection and Mystery of heauenlie skill fitting none but Soueraigne States and Kings must stint the values and guide the proportions of Goodnes in all Materialls besides But all Goodnes is needfull Exchange therefore as the Spirit in the Soule to perfect our Trafficke by the Fountaines of 1 Staples Bullion and store of Princes 2 Mynts Coyne in respect of the vse thereof ought to be generall Forasmuch as the good intended thereby is so due to all as cannot be disturbed or restrained to anie without disorder and confusion for Omne Bonum est sui diffusinum This I say then is that treble-twisted thred twyned by louing and loyall Ariadne to guide our fatall THESEVS by thorowe all the Muces and Mazes of that Labyrinth of Errors Marchandizing Exchange to free and redeeme the Bodies of Men and Soules of Christians from the yeerely monthly and daily deuouring Iawes of that Monster of Creete and Bawde of Bankers Vsury to the raysing againe and perfect vniting of Religion Iustice that Mercy and Truth among Men may sit kindly together and Righteousnes and Peace may kisse each other Thus all things in Nature doe tend to perfection by the Rules of Order and degrees of Goodnes but the vse makes all For Quò mihi Fortuna si non conceditur vti The vse of Mettalls both Gold and Siluer as cheefest materialls for Princes Coyne is in this respect so vrgently needfull that where Nature fayles Art must make good in which regard the want of Mynes in this Kingdome hath beene euer supplyed by forraine Bullion and auncient Customes The want of Coyne in the Princes Treasurie shewes defect of Naturall Mynes or neglect of artificiall Supplyes whereof Bullion is chiefest Neither is it enough fit nor conuenient that beeing prouided or brought to the Mynt Cudendae monetae Ius proprium est Principis et inde publicae fiunt the publicke pulse and hart of Trafficke priuate Subiects presume to coyne it for themselues least thereby Kings become seruaunts to their owne Vassalls and constrained to borrow that should be apt to lend A course in Nature both miserable and preposterous For what harder condition then to see Clothiers compeld to worke out other mens Wooll for a shred in the end of the selfe-same cloth Yet this is worse For where all Trades are valued by and vented for Money this makes Coyne both disvalue sell it selfe O hysteron proteron ground of all Disorder If KINGS aboue themselues haue none but GOD that only makes homage ioyne honor to their Crownes and seeing their seruice doth yeelde them reward all others below them beeing prostrate at their feete the names of Wages and Fees is too base for Soueraignes from beneath them to receiue and for Subiects to offer preposterous persumptuous and euery way prophane Constantinus Magnus ne aliter quam sanctè et legitimè hoc regale vterctur effigiem suam nummu sic inseulpi voluit vt hominis Deū flexis genibus invocantis prae se ferret Moneta autē dicta quod moneat ne quid frandis in Materia signo vel pondere fiat If then the Type of Princes be their Thrones and Dignitie if the Obiect of their Actions next the glory of that Deitie whom they represent be their owne greatnes honour if Marchants buy and sell Goodnes but for theyr owne auaile what greater gaine then for Subiects to attaine to their Soueraignes Dignitie And what harder estate then to see Kings set a worke and waged by their Seruants If the Law pronounce it death and that most worthilie to counterfet Princes Coynes by what meanes soeuer vvhat can expiat that sinne of Presumption that as it were with their owne Hands and Stampes vsurpe their Preheminence and disturbe their Exchange In a word let the hart by the lyuer receiue his tinctured Chylus by his owne mouth and stomacke and the blood with the Spirits shall fill all the vaines And if Nature haue taught all men to affect the generall Good by particular Trades and appoynted each Trade his proper Materialls by the helpe and vse of Money leaue Bullion for Princes and the World can vvant no Coyne the easie course and recourse of whose Exchange shall set all things in tune and serue all Mens turnes But to compare things by contraries will best illustrate either Wee all cry out of Couetyse and Priuate-gaine as good reason for GOD himselfe hath pronounced it the roote of all Euill and the loue of Money to be flat Idolatry Which being bad in Subiects must needes be worst in Kings How great then must our happines appeare to haue Bounty it selfe come dwell among vs And what hartie remorse ought it to moue to some him and his abridged or depriued of the principall meanes to practise theyr vertues Great therefore greater and greatest of all must theyr Accounts be to GOD and Nature that preposterously peruerting his proper Materialls turne his best helps for Bullion to their priuate aduantage to the intollerable disturbance both of Court Country and almost vnrecouerable wrong to the King and his Crowne Wherein Customers wanting wordes to set out theyr griefes haue made signes with their * The second Reply or Treatise of Exchange c. pennes And yet cease not by Prayer to groane in this manner O that our Tongues or Pennes could but expresse Or had the gist to make Men vnderstand Th●●● great Effects of sacred happines Exchange alone would worke by Prince and Counsells hand Religious Iustice should then so blesse our Land That Men on Earth might see by this Idea made What Heauen it selfe doth boade in this our Kingly Trade So farre off are Customers from guilt in this behalfe Now see but what is past so put all together to heare what words they spell That Goodnes whose Standerd is DEITIE Kaloca ' gathia id est Aequum et Bonum Honestum et Vtile Beauty and Bountie Profit Pleasure applyed to the actiue perfections of Commutaliue Right by the rules of our Booke and scope of our Lesson is a beautifull aspect and beneficiall influence of Heauenly Beatitude in the operations of Nature Art which in Greeke is vnderstoode by Calocagathia Sanctifying and assuring the formall Essence of all happy Beings And GOD sawe that all hee had made was exceeding Good For Bono suo consta●● Omnia That Bullion or Billion is a worde of Art giuen to the elementall perfections of purenes and finenes in the solide Commodities of Gold and Siluer Deprehensum a peritioribus est in Mundi creatione principē Deum Arithmetica esse vsum Geometria 〈…〉 Musica siquidē Arithmetica ratio●●●●●●pacta connexaqu● creduntur Elementa Geometria vero Figuras effinxit