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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88872	A remonstrance humbly presented to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament: touching the insupportable miseries of the poore of the land, especially at this time, and in this great city of London, within the line of communication, and bill of mortality; and the causes thereof. Together with the cure and remedy; and the great care which the princes of other nations, states, countries and cities have taken therein. / By Leonard Lee, Gent.	Lee, Leonard.	1645 (1645)	Wing L844; Thomason E273_8; ESTC R212173	8,130	20

A REMONSTRANCE Humbly presented To the High and Honourable COURT OF PARLIAMENT Touching the insupportable miseries of the poore of the Land especially at this time and in this great City of London within the Line of Communication and Bill of mortality and the causes thereof Together with the Cure and remedy and the great care which the Princes of other Nations States Countries and Cities have taken therein BY LEONARD LEE Gent. LONDON Printed by E. G. for John Rothwell and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard 1644. TO THE HIGH AND HONOURABLE Court of PARLIAMENT AMongst the many and miserable pressures in this Kingdome especially in this renowned City of London idlenesse and want of imployment hath been the destruction of many and as a pestilent malady it daily encreases For prevention whereof at the speciall instance and importunity of some Noble and Reverend friends I heretofore presented some propositions to the Kings most Excellent Majesty for setting the poore aworke throughout the Kingdome whereby all sorts of people men women and children aged and impotent might be imployed and relieved Which His Majesty together with the Lords of His Privy Councell commiserated and ordered a speedy prosecution thereof But by reason of the weighty and troublesome affaires of the State at that time all such publique businesses were neglected And now again upon the like importunity and in a desire of the good of the Kingdome and of this City seeing the poore and their miseries encreasing together in these disasterous and tradelesse times I have here presumed humbly to present some propositions and reasons conducing to the reliefe imployment of the poore which if they finde acceptance to execution it will bring a blessing to your selves a benefit to the people a reliefe to the distressed and an honour to the Nation which is the petition and prayer of Your Honours Orator and Servant Leonard Lee. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE the Lord Major of the City of London the Right Worshipfull the Aldermen and the rest of the Common-Councell THe Character set upon our English Nation by Strangers is To have excellent Lawes but no execution like Pictures curiously drawne well faced and lim'd but want life and motion They say likewise we have good materialls but bad orders little care and abundance of idle and lewd people few Cities and those ruinous basely built thin of Inhabitants and most of them poore and all caused through idlenesse and want of imployment And now since these unnaturall Wars begun the miseries of the poore doe much more abound wherefore upon the earnest desire of some Charitable and wel affected friends I have here presented some Propositions to the high Court of Parliament and likewise here unto you in whose power the promoting of so wonderfull necessary a worke doth lie It is a saving of the Soules and lives of many thousands which through want of imployment fall to lewdnesse and so perish for there is no vice villany murther or mischiefe drunkenesse and disorder but Idlenesse doth contract it nor is there any way to cure it but by imployment It is a worke never yet paralleled nor begun by any your predecessors and will render you famous to posterity It is pleasing to God an honour and benefit to the City and will be a patterne for the whole Kingdome nay for all the Kings Dominions to follow which is the great desire of Your friend and servant LEONARD LEE To the Charitable and Tender-hearted Reader Good friend SVch is the commiseration of the great Chancellors and Judges of this Land that if a poore man have sute at Law in any Court those Judges assignes learned councell to plead and able Atturnies to prosecute their cause without money And such councell are soonest heard upon any motion first for their poore Clients and afterwards for themselves which otherwise might waite longer Here then is the greatest suite in the Christian World that ever was presented to the power of Magistracy in forma pauperis It is the bleeding condition of the insupportable miseries of many thousand poore hunger-bit almost starved creatures Therefore as you have already received and hope for the continuance of mercies from the great Iudge of all the World who in a moment can blow an emptinesse upon your Estates and make you as miserable as any have pity upon these distressed ones be all counsellors advise plead and prosecute their now depending sute with your Heads Hearts Purses Paines doe all you can to promote it thereby you will finde some contentment in your minds that you have been instruments of any good a benefit to your purses to be eased of collections security to your estates to have lewd persons well imployed and the loynes of the poore will blesse you besides your reward from Heaven Farewell A REMONSTRANCE of the sufferings of the Kingdome by reason of the poore and lend people and of their miserie how the same is caused and how cured MAny things there are which doe tend to the good and flourishing of a Kingdome and many things to the ruine and destruction thereof Amongst which idlenesse and want of imployment is one of the greatest for what vice and villany is there committed or liksome poverty indured that is not generally occasioned thereby and such persons as live idly out of any calling 〈◊〉 ulcers in a Common-wealth oppressors of a State and impoverishers of a Kingdome And herein is this great City mightily oppressed for many yeeres since the number of the poore was exceeding great and now of late especially since these unnaturall warres began there are multitudes of poore lately sprung up whose miseries are many therfore the things that I shall here tender to your great judgements are onely these five To shew 1. Who these poore are To shew 2. Wherein the evill doth consist To shew 3. The causes thereof To shew 4. The cure and remedy To shew 5. And chiefly bow this cure is to be applyed And first who these poore are THey are the indigent distressed and helplesse creatures such as have not meanes to supply their present wants whereby they endure much in their persons and often endanger soules bodies lives and all to get it And therefore it is that Plato cals poverty theevish filthy sacrilegious wicked and dangerous for it makes many that would live honestly to cheat lie steale kill turne Turk or any thing According to that saying of the Wise-man Because of poverty the Land hath sinned And for the additionall poore lately sprung up these are of divers sorts 1. All such whose trades and imployment by reason of these troublesome times are wholly taken away 2. Such as are stript out of their estates in severall Countries here in England and likewise in Ireland and fled to this great City for refuge 3. Such whose husbands are slaine in these wars and left destitute with many children unprovided for 4. Such maimed and lame Souldiers as are