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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

abuses marre all whereof we must also spell some-thinges hereafter Impostes then by the Rules of our Bookes and Letters of our Lessons are eyther the Customs wee spoke of and those Customs Impositions that to maintaine the Essence of Maiestie Necessitie found out Or those Subsidies afore-said that Marchants by Trafficke doe franckly and willingly impose vppon themselues or els in our Natura Breuium no where to be found But as Aliquid Boni propter Vicinum Bonum so Multum mali propter vicinum Malum Our Neighbours sower Grapes haue set our teeth on edge Italian Gouernments and the Discords of the Netherlands For by their examples drawne as they call it from their Princes Prerogatiues but would say Preheminonce if they vnderstoode themselues Impositions are made Taxes vppon Marchandise besides the duties aboue-sayde not so much by Statutes or Treaties of Entercourse as by a kinde of discretion which wanting place and vse in the studie of our Customes haue likewise no part in the honourable ends thereby propounded and intended For beeing as they are Effects of vnknowne Causes of Matter vncertaine and of forme no wayes fitting the Mould of our free Commerce all men refuse to argue thereof to define to deuide or to bring them into Question The rather for that beeing in theyr nature irregular and litigious The Popes ambitious Taxes on our Clergy impouerishing the Realme by exhausting our Treasure made our Kings draw on the Barrons warres to supply theyr pouerty wants vpō the People Impositions doe but ayme at Order and the preseruation of our Shypping by guesse they haue beene occasions of much vnrest and disorders in former times especially in the first and second ages of our Kings till Magna Charta compounded such griefes And albeit the vse of them since might happily ayme at the beating backe of some Forraine idle Cōmodities brought in and obtruded vpon vs by Strangers to the hinderance of our Trafficke in Trades decay of our Ports in Mariners and Shipping which the wisedome of our State must alwayes maintaine yet gathering withall vppon the naturall and free-borne Subiects they repyne thereat as men willing to obey but not able to discerne betweene the dispositions of States and changes of Tymes The Ends of Impositions are Disorder of Trafficke so is a speciall ground of all our Disorders The Subiect still appealing to the positiue Lawes of our owne free Trafficke as their generall Inheritance and Strangers vrging theyr Treaties and mutuall Contracts These Imposts of discretion or strayned Preheminance if wee terme them right haue likewise begotten some other Impositions of baser Nature and more dangerous Effects whereby that sacred Word of Wisedome and highest power our Soueraignes Prerogatiue is vnreuerently prostituted and many wayes prophaned For beeing sometimes pleased as well may beseeme them out of meere loue and affection in publique restraints by speciall fauours to make some of their Seruants more happy then their fellowes the same by sales and transactions transmuted or transferred is a meanes to make Subiects from hand to hand Wine Beere Coales c. And whatsoeuer in this kinde is eyther solde or put ouer to a second or third hand for Money to racke and impose euen vpon among themselues When indeed and in truth the Grace looseth Beeing both in Matter Forme and Vse vppon the first Exchange For when Fauourites get suits vnfitting theyr Callings or vse them not themselues it is but Witcheraft and Sorcery that all such intend Simones-Magi as by Leases or Purchase for priuate gaine thinke PRINCES Prerogatiues eyther vendible for Money or subiect to Exchange Such Impost-Maisters Religion hath accurst theyr Money therefore and themselues without Repentance must perish both together These Imposts we take it vnder our Graue-Maisters correction are but Romish Peter-pence and Italian-Inuentions where theyr PRINCES Prehemirence and forst kinde of Dignities Trafficke ill beholden to all such English Gentlemen as trauailing for experience make the Impositions of Italy a fit precedent for the gouernment of England vvhen they come home haue little other Subsistence Beeing therfore but borrowed they may well be sent home England was neuer any vassall to Rome and hath or may haue beeing but rightly vsed enough of her owne But ô fortunatos Anglos bona si sua norint For the Maiestie of our Customes somtimes so admired seeme now like Anticke Medalls that reteyning but their sound haue lost themselues in theyr Value and Vse both of Matter and Forme Our Golden-Flees the Trophee of the House of Bu gundy Thus our Woolls some-times the wonder of the Worlde are now the Trophees of strange Lands and signes of our shame and turned into Cloth our Cloth into nothing at least nothing lesse then Bullion And the Rates vppon Wooll Our Cloth become confiscable beyond Seas or by speciall fauour returnable vpon vs. first grounded by Statutes layd on Cloth by Discretion not iustly discerning the reason of our Customes in the Vse of the One and End of the Other Our basest Fell-wooll of Shorlings the refuse of the rest and sweepings of our Staples neuer vsed in Cloth is by our kindest * The Duch-Church at Sandwich who flying the tyranny of Body and Conscience at home admitted to refresh themselues but with our English ayre layd the first foundation of true making of Bayes Sayes Sarges there Trades neuer vnderstoode of vs before till abuses elswhere ouer-whelmed them with others with an Imposition that well-neere breakes theyr harts yet hold they still theyr first innocencie and maintaine the credite of that Townes-Seale both for Number Weight and Measure in all parts of the World Neighbours in a new kinde of Drapery made the glorie of our Wolls and credite of our Kingdome and might be made a Patterne to reforme all our Clothing and recouer our Bullion Our Pells our Leather forsake vs by Licenses GOD knowes why where how or whether but without returne of Bullion Our Tyn and our Leade so lately well recouered seemes now againe layd vp in Huxters handling and might haue beene a sure and speciall helpe to haue drawne in Bullion Our Pettit-Customs onely seeme still to holde their owne Lex Mercatoria but with vncertaine Bya● since Lex Mercatoria became obsolete and to vs vnknowne In steede of all which our Returnes for the most part beeing but Silks and Tabacco Bells or Bables of things needlesse or bootelesse doe shew how Strangers for better wares can fat vs vp with pryde or fodder vs with folly Our Subsidies that sometimes were so fewe so easie so louingly offred so graciously accepted and so willingly payde as the Customes haue fayled are become the Subiects of Extremitie euen to the tything of our smallest Mynt and Comin And our sweet Nurse and Mistresse TRAFFICK distempered and distrest with dangerous fits of a hot burning Feauer Not farre from Frensie which wee poore Schollers cannot but see and what ere betyde vs bewayle and

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