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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

to our KING all his due homages in the Rights of his Customes and loyall Supplyes Deale I say iustly betweene the Prince and the People HOC OPVS HIC LABOR EST. This is the Dyapazon of all our Musicke and full compasse of that Song wherein each must hold apart heere therefore pause a while that all may sing together For great hath beene the care from time to time the inuentions sundry that haue beene vndertaken for the aduauncing collecting true aunswering of all such duties as grow in this kind But as in the State of a naturall Body those diseases proue of most dangerous consequence that are of longest breeding furthest from cure whose pulse is neuer felt nor Symptoma knowne so hath it long fared with this Argument of Customes Wherein sometimes about the Cause it selfe Trafficke vvhether free-borne or no then about the Matter without difference or distinction of Art or Nature Outward or Inward Abundance or Want Dutie or Free-will And lastly about the Forme of theyr orderly directing collecting and true answering how to stoppe the course of Errors and currant of Abuses is become the greatest pretended care at least and most serious Question For information and Reformation whereof how-soeuer the Conscience of my Calling vnder his sacred Maiestie speciall dutie besides as his Highnesse sworne Seruaunt haue singled me forth and prest me still forward by one occasion or other Quo fato nescio sed non sine Numine as my hope and comfort is first by 1 Against Informers of all sorts A Generall Apollogie thē a second 2 Against priuate Societies Replyes 3 A Treatise worth the reading The true vse of Port Bands lastly A Priuate 4 The Satisfaction of the offence conceiued against that Caution was the occasion of casting all the rest into this new Mowld called 5 The Customers ALPHABET PRIMER Caution against the Farming out of Subsidies vnder the name of Customes to presume thus with my penne but to wish and further I euer concluded that none but the Grauest and Wisest in highest Authoritie might promise and performe it Before whom now beeing so lately commaunded to speake I may not I cannot I dare not hold my peace All humble respect of Dutie therefore prostrate Reuerence premised I proceede with my Lesson and build on our Defence vpon my first Religious and reasonable grounds RELIGION and IVSTICE are the fundamentall stayes of all States and Kingdoms the one by sanctifying the other by assuring the perpetuities of all tranquilitie of Minds and earthly Honours Iustice beeing Distributiue and Commutatiue the Commutatiue part includeth Trafficke There was a time when the Christian world was all set on fire deuided by Disputes and distracted in Opinions The true Catholick and Christian Religion as soundly taught as freely professed in England Scotland and Ireland at this day as in any priuate or publicke part of the World about the Catholicke-Church and some poynts of Truth in the doctrine of Religion But the GOD of Heauen be praised it hath found the best footing in these our dayes Kingdoms that the world doth affoord and his hand in our Soueraigne and his foreuer vphold it Vppon the compounding of the Discordes in the Netherlands The like seemes now I say euen now to offer it selfe about the Vse Ends of our free-borne Trafficke that Nurse of Iustice which feedes vs All. The priuate peruerting of whose generall Intention to publicke Good hath much disturbed our speciall Blisse and giues occasion of this ALPHABETOR PRIMER Trafficke then beeing the hand that layes out all men theyr Worke prouides all men theyr Foode and payes all men theyr Fees ought at all handes to be seriously supported that so supports vs all and her willing Disturbers and witting Peruerters held as Enemies to Order that is to say to God and Nature And since in all Actions the safest path to walke in and surest rule to guide our selues by is to follow Nature the patterne layd out by the GOD of Order the way from Error to Truth from Confusion to Perfection must be by proportions vntill we come to that End which is able and sufficient to perfect and preserue all our worldly happines Measure therefore must sit at the Sterne and by steddy proportions cunne and steere this our Shippe of Trafficke thorow all the stormes of Extremities and dangers of Shyfts to our long-desired Port. As the beauty of Nature is Order so the way to Order is Number more or lesse to auoyde the Rocks and Sands of Excesse and Defect Exchange therefore without all exceptions must lay the foundation and absolute ground of all our Endeuours to this intended Redresse The Writer heereof alluding to his owne trouble for the Caution hee wrote against the Farming out of Subsidies vnder the name of Custome sets forth withall a true Idea of Trafficke by fayning a Shyppe called the Harry-Bonaduenture fraught with pitch tarre mastes salt and oyle and good store of Bullion that after a long voyage in her returne homewards to the Iland of Exchange meetes with a dangerous storme in the Narrow-Seas and doubting the Geodyn-sands falls in with the Forelands casts Ankor in the Downes and there ryding all Windes to death puts in at last to Sandwich-Hauen Where finding neither Staple nor Staple-wares sometimes held there and sithence at Canterbury adioyning of Fleece-wooll Broad-clothes Tyn Lead nor Leather c barters her Commodities for Bayes Sayes and other Duch newe Drapery there And in Exchange for her Bullion bespeakes Kentish Broade-clothes against her next returne Prouided they be made warranted by the Rules of Sandwich Bayes and Seale of that Towne onely and none other Exchange haue we spyde out Exchange Then haile Maisters Marriners and Mates at all hands Call vp our loyall Marchants true Patriots Enterlopers and all and be of good cheere Belay well the Bowlyne keepe your tacklins tight and sure Aloofe aloofe with the Maine for feare of the Goodwines I seeme to see our Ilande for the Fore-lands appeare CASTOR and POLLVX cōming both together did boade vs good-lucke Our Barke is strong enough to beare out her leakes Our Loade-stone proues good and our Compasse is true therefore aloofe I say with the Maine by this Cape of Good-hope to the Harbor of Safetie and Hauen of all our Rest For Reliquis tantum Sinus est et Statio malefida Carinis Now all thinges consist of Matter and Forme et Forma dat esse rei the Matter beeing Weight and Measure the Forme are fitted and esteemed by their End and Obiect GOODNES All Goodnes is eyther by Nature or by Art And as in Goodnes there is a proportion to fit with the Matter wherein it consisteth Omnis Forma infunditur secundum meritum Materiae So in Trades the blessing of GOD by Nature and the benefit of Industry by Art is more or lesse admired to the speciall reputation profit of those Persons

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

Syncope or great swounding which heere is described and the remedies her pulse is weake her Spirits fayle her face is pale and wan at the name and sound of Staples the want wherof so wounds her Soule that her hart is set on bleeding yet cōfort her still hold her vpright to keepe her from deadly swouning and speake her fayre that she doe not despayre of the Cordialls in your onely keeping Tell her kindly withall Priuatio praesupponit habitum for neuer man yet was so continually sicke whose health hath not had a Beeing and the disproportioned disposition of Confusion it selfe dooth argue an intention and possibilite of Order Therefore speake my good Lords to reuiue all her spirits for your wordes are full of power yea speake aloude I say assure her you will belay all her Staples KINGE PRINCE Yea speake you and you SIRS for your Bullion sake for that is your right and no mans but yours by the Rules of all Truth and fixed Goodnes For your Mynts sake for that is your Honor and no mans but yours by the Rules of Iustice For your Exchange sake for that is your Glory and no mans but yours by the Rules of Equality and for your Customes sake for that is your profit and no mans but yours by the Rules of Iustice and Equitie Quiquid enim Iustum id etiam vtile censent sumini Philosophi itemque quod honestu id esse Iustum Ex quo essicitur vt quicquid honestū sit idem sit vtile Cice offic lib 2. so shall Honestum and Vtile concurre both together Honestie beeing euermore the height and type of Honour publicke Vtilitie the Mother of Iust and Right for each mans good and gaine Say not you can restore them for that shee knowes already but say you will doe it and then she will beleeue you And wee your poore Schollers loyall Subiects and Seruaunts wil euery way attend you with all our best endeuours Or els farwell sweet Trafficke and so farewell Customes yea farewell Iustice nay farewell Religion and then farewell All. So farre off are Customers from guilt also in this behalfe But alas poore Customers who doth harken to your cryes or beleeue your Reports Who shall weigh your zeale to our Soneraignes Honour and his Peoples Good or care for your Endeuors Yet be not dismaid In magnis voluisse sat est sint caetera Dinū Stand still but awhile and let GOD himselfe alone What though inveterate Errors of ages that are past haue multiplyed themselues and now seeme to muster against our happy dayes our DAYSTARRE that is risen and DAVVNING in our eyes KING PRINCE will in good time disperse them or amend them as they may and take but thus much onwards That Ignorance hath beene euery way the Mother but of Errors of whom came Mischiefes and of such our Inconveniences which though they threat Confusion yet tell vs notwithstanding there is a way to Order that leades vs to perfection as Truth by the Causes of Truth shal come but to be knowne Now Truth indeede lyes deepe and the danger such in diging that no man hath the patience to delue vntill they find her I am to too weake * The Wryter almost tyred out of hart referres the Truth of all to the Records of the K Treasury in his Exchequer for Weights Measures Staple Accounts Orders alas to worke her out alone O that WISDOME therfore which onely can disclose thē would make men admire those glorious Titles of Iustice and Mercy Emblemes of Truth that the Volumes in her Cabinet and Treasurie containes Then should wee learne the Rules and proportions of Numbers Weights and Measures The vse of Staples in former times how they were kept and whether they be gone Then should wee see those wonderfull effects of our Loadstones at home that haue wrought such miracles in other forraino Lands and Nations from abroade bringing Bullion in amaine make our * Myntes Pulses to beat in moe places thē one And we poore Schollers made confident in our Customes without possibilitie of fraude cause of distrust or feare of blame Customes in England or in English Trafficke alwayes presuppose our Staples and liue and dye or follow thē as Effects their proper Causes In the meane time sith no men can pipe well that want their vpper lyps consequence concludes it and Truth makes it good that as no Church hath no Tythes and no Court no Quit-rents so no Staples no Customes Whereby Necessity ouertaken beeing put to her shyfts makes bold with Free-will and to ayde PREHEMINENCE transcending to PREROGATIVE The blending or mistaking of Prerogatine for Preheminence a dangerous meanes to prophane the Soueraine effects and reuerence of Mercy in Kings turnes Customes into Subsidies of Tonnage and Pondage as if PREHEMINENCE and PREROGATIVE were meerely Synonimas and meant but one thing and bounded Iustice that layes out all our Rights were that boundlesse Mercy that makes vs all to liue and Mercy it selfe but a word of prophanenes or some ordinarie thing Marchants by Societies monopolizing our Staple Commodities and Royall wares haue found the way to Staple them still beyond Seas so confounding both our Customes diverting all our Bullion fill the Realme with baser or more needlesse matter in their returnes Thus whilst our Graue Maisters Moderators of our Schooles haue been busied and distracted in the studie and practise of the higher poynts of learning our Staples beeing stolne transmuted and transplanted our Customes are confounded and wee poore Schollers still tyde to our Stakes seeme fitte for nothing but beating and bayting Hence grew the grounds of all our Disorders the breaches of our Schooles and our * Trafficke Nurses deadly sicknesse that threatned all our Ruines had not Wisedome frō aboue out of loue and affection so belayde our falls that the power of that WORD which made vs first of nothing became the meanes to redeeme vs all from nothing and * KING BOVNTIE it selfe hath laid the foundation and begun at the least to become the MAN whereby our ioyes may be great The comfort that Customers cōceiue of the King and Prince and by so much the greater by how much our greatest losse as all men thought is like to become our greatest gaine Our comforts then growing from our Soueraignes owne PERSON and our hopes aboue hopes from the power of his WORD whose naturall storge to Iustice and Right beeing euery vvay good their affections also free and loue without end Le ts heere rest awhile and setling our selues both thinke and thanke God and learne to say Grace that Grace in disgrace may pitty our cases among the rest and raise our poore credites from impudent Ignorance insolent Pride and shamelesse Disdaine saying The Customers daily Grace As God by his Goodnes and Truth did direct vs whose mercy endures for euer So his Grace and his fauour vouchsafe to protect vs