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B07949	Out-port-customers accompt, of all his receipts, to a shilling, or a penny, without concealement or enstaulement of any; according to his oath at his first admission. Wherein he plainely sets downe, as well the motiues and occasions, as the method and style of all his former writings ...	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1627 (1627)	STC 17935; ESTC S123346	67,239	64

me say Grace and giue God harty thanks so Goodnesse bad mee pray for the blessed State and happinesse of my SOVERAIGNE first by Name King IAMES and for his Priuy COVNSELL for his ISIS for the Prince and all the Royall Issue for the CLEARGY for the NOBLES COMMONS of the Land In a word for the Church and Common-wealth And for Traffique at the last though my Faith seemd fraile and my credit almost gone yet not to despaire but by conning still my Creede and those very Ten Commaundements mine Alphabet doth teach to remember but mine Oath and do my best Endeuour and hope withall That Vnus Homo Nobis cunctando restituet Rem So closing vp mine Alphabet with a publique confession and with a daily Prayer for Per se and Con per se and all the rest together I prostrately presented and encluded a Petition to the KING our sacred SOVERAIGNE for his Sonne the Princes sake in the Name of all the Customers of the Out-Ports of this Land to be read at his best leysure within those sanctified wordes and effectuall forme of Prayer which the Son GOD of himselfe commanded and taught that as his is the KINGDOME the POVVER and the GLORY for euer and euer So be it Amen So our Soueraignes treble Title with Est and Amen might perfect all our happinesse saying lastly for my selfe Nil sum nulla miser noui solatia Massam Humanam nisi quod tu quoque CHRISTE geris Tu me sustenta fragilem tu CHRISTE guberna Fac vt sim Massae surculus Ipse tuae I nothing am and in my selfe no comfort finde but this That CHBISY the Masse of humane flesh hath tane and ioynd to his Then saue me CHRIST and grant withall that this fraile flesh of mine A twig at least may bud and branch from that great Masse of thine And Magna Magnus perficit DEVS Now that I seeme not thus by spellinge to Cabalize in iest or think to construe Hieroglifiques by Common sence and reason Hauing found by mine Alphabet those Consonants of Letters wherewith the very Wisedome of the Bible is exprest and hearing by my Vowels the same sound of Goodnesse the New Testament doth teach and the very selfe-same Truth for Doctrine at the least let personall defects still aunswere for themselues that CHRIST and his APOSTLES yea S. PETER with the rest did leaue vnto the World for Soueraignes to protect and Subiects to obey If Religion and Iustice may be helde sufficient to help vs to happines what Kingdome in the world nay what Citty Port or Towne eyther publique or priuate for Temples and Courtes and Free-Schooles besides may compare with GREAT-BRITTAINE where for Matter Places Persons Order and Endes all Learning now Tryumphes and AL-BOVNTY commaunds For our Reuerend Byshops and Learned Diuines worke obedience in Subiects by the rules of conscience and both by life and Doctrine directing the way how to win Heauen teach Faith and Good-workes and Preach in all our Churches that Faith onely and alone in the Action of sauing is the cause of Saluation in regard of the freedome of sanctifying Grace but in the Party saued both must concurre together to iustifie the calling And not as those Cardinals doe and Destructiue Iesuites that to builde vp their Popery would blow vp Common-weales and by loosenesse of Life and Traditions of Men being Subiects themselues contemne their owne Soueraignes kill sacred Kinges contest with Gods annointed and rob CHRIST of his honour Nor as these Distractiue Teachers would doe that preposterously propounding such fancies of Perfection as no Reason can reach to nor themselues expresse preferre Sacrifice before obedience and obtrude vpon GOD more then he requires assuring vs withal out of warrant from the WORD that to all whom his SPIRIT makes truely repentant GOD by IESVS CHRIST both is and will be a most gracious and a most louing GOD but GOD without CHRIST is a consuming Fire ¶ And our Worthy-Graue Iudges sit vpright in all our Courts of fundamentall Iustice and both by Lawe and Conscience maintaine the perpetuities of all our Landes and Goods by the Name of Liuings all our Liberties all our Liues all our Honour and the Peace of all our Land distributiuely discerning and decyding by Meum and Tuum as well in Tythes as in Tributes the Cases and Questions of speciall Right and generall Reason as wel betweene 1. 1 The Court of COMMON-PLEAS and Staples Subiect and Subiect as the 2. 2 The Court of KINGS-BENCH and of Wards and Liueries Soueraigne and his Vassals by the Common-Lawes Statutes and peculiar Customes cast in the Mould and fitted to the 3. 3 The High Court of PARLEMENT Wisedome of our owne State and Land moderating Extreamities by 4. 4 The High Court of CHANCERY and Court of Requests Conscience among Men and maintaining still the Good by censuring the Euill 5. 5 The Court STAR-CHAMBER and Counsell-Table Sic Irascuntur vt vitia tantum perimant seruatis hominibus atque ita tractatis vt viri Boni necessariò fiant quantumque damni autea dederint in reliqua vita resarcire queant And being honorably ennobled by APOLLO themselues to decide both the doubts 6 The Court of CHEVALRY and Mareschals Verge and determine the questions of reputation and worth in all Rankes and Degrees of Natiue Ingenuity and Datiue Honour so maintaine our Credits Vt per Titulos numerantur Aui semperqùe renata Nobilitate virent Prolem Fata sequuntur Continuum propria seruantia lege tenorem And our learned Ciuilians so belay the publike Peace of our 7. 7 The Court of ADMIRALTY Seas and our 8. 8 The Court of ARCHES Land that by doing vs Iustice our Neighbours take no wrong And lastly our SOVERAIGNE likewise hath his owne Courts apart 9 The Court of EXCHEQVER for his publike 9 Reuenewes and priuate 10 Expences 10 The Court of GREENE-CLOTH where Accōptants are heard discharg'd dispacht by Court-Rowles and Court-Rules grounded on Presidents of Wisedomes owne Examples without partiall respects or priuate Discretion Now if it be a happinesse for men to haue the freedome to come to such Churches to frequent such Temples and to dwel within Houses whose Foundations are laide on such assured grounds what reason haue Catholiques if they be not bewitcht to fly from their Countrey or be wedded so to Rome For Customers want wordes to expresse their inward ioyes and shew their best conceits of the blessings of God in these our daies and times for the stayes of Religion and Distributiue Iustice only our Court of CHEVALRY wants but her Iudges to decide points of Honour and preuent thereby our Cumbats and our Traffique wants her Staples for were those two 1. 1 The High Conestable and Earle Mareschall of England Patrones of Honor 2 The Heralds on whom 2 Mercury should serue by APOLLO but found out and the Roofes of our Schooles made but Winde-tight

AN OVT-PORT-CVSTOMERS ACCOMPT Of all his Receipts to a Shilling or a Penny without concealement or enstaulement of any according to his Oath at his first Admission Wherein he plainely sets downe as well the Motiues and Occasions as the Method and Style of all his former writings namely his first APOLOGY for CVSTOMERS against Informers of all sorts His REPLY or second APOLOGY for publike Traffique against Priuate Societies His CAVTION for Subsidies vnder the Name of Customes against Extreamity by Farmers His ALPHABET and PRYMER for orderly Commerce His ACROAMATA for Bullion and Staples Besides his late MYSTERY of INIQVITIE ¶ All which howsoeuer heeretofore held hard and obscure are heere out of Rules of Diuinity and Humanity together by way of Illustration fitted to Capacity of Common Sense and Reason for the fuller satisfaction of all vnpartiall Readers fearing GOD sincerely and vprightly seruing KINGS and such as are not desperately wilfull to make Shipwracke of their Consciences and dispise their owne Happinesse With an open Declaration of the MYSTERY itselfe to perfect this Accompt Summa Totalis The CVSTOMERS Resolution Summa Summarum His daily Confession Harty Prayer with Thankesgiuing and QVIETVS-EST ¶ And a short Memorandum in Perpetuam Rei Memoriam for the KINGS speciall Honor his Loyall Subiects Good and his CVSTOMERS discharge from all Imputations both past and to come against Ignorance and her Fellowes ¶ PSALME 37. Keepe Innocency and take heede vnto the Thing that is Right for that shall bring a Man PEACE at the last ¶ OR THVS Marke the Perfect Man and behold the vpright for the End of that Man is PEACE Dilige quae Bona sunt Rectum cole Iusta require Haec faciens alma PACE beatus eris THE CVSTOMERS ACCOMPT THE number is but small at least not very great of Men that are so sencelesse and weake of Iudgement but general Inconueniences they readely see and can easily discerne Notwithstanding to finde out the Groundes of publike harmes and the means how to cure them is a study so intricat and a practise so dangerous that wary men hold it safer to prouide for priuate ease in regard of the Times then to busie their wits for any Common-Good But how aduised soeuer and respectiuely wise in this kind the most sort seeme to be as wishing onely that all might goe well though not long of themselues yet few or none are found of so still a temper as not to complaine when publique greefes worke their owne sensible smarts Such then as by long and extraordinary patience supping vp their priuate wrongs haue endeuoured to giue way to the streame of publique Contumelies in hope of better dayes must needs be excused if compeld at the last by lawlesse necessity to referre euents to GODS Prouidence in discharge of their Duties to HIM their PRINCE and COVNTREY they vndertake the Defence of their owne Reputations in a Cause publike and generall The rather when as without purpose of offending any their intentions appeare to yeelde onely a reason of such and such Disorders in their owne present Functions as for want of serious inspection or true information haue hitherto by Ielousie and misconceit onely yeelded matter and occasions of their speciall Disgraces and Obloquy Euen such and none other haue the Drifts and Scopes been of all my former Writings about Traffique and her Tributes by the generall Name of Customes For hauing spent and consumed the best part of my youth about publique Employments as well at home as abroad in FRANCE FLANDERS and SCOTLAND for sixteene years together after the TREATY that was ended at Barwicke 1586. betweene the late Queen ELIZABETH of most happy Memory and our now dread Soueraigne IAMES cal'd Foedus arctioris Amicitiae inter Potentissimos c. The RECORD whereof in Scotland remains of my hand which by the Goodnesse of God the truth of his Title and his owne Patience together was a speciall meanes that at last brought his Maiesty so happily among vs and so quietly hither desirous to betake me to some staid course of life I was by Friendes perswaded to become CVSTOMER of Sandwich with the Member-Ports belonging within the shire of KENT where I was both bred and born assuring me withall that I might thereby do GOD my SOVERAIGNE and my COVNTRY speciall seruice and so become Happy Now Happinesse indeede being that estate of life which all at least wish for and by all meanes belay and the obiects of all Happinesse being fixt in GOD and KINGS by seruing KINGS Loyallie Men hope to be happy and so did I. Vpon which Motiue therefore being vrged so by Friends I vndertooke the charge Simply and doubted no harme But GOD becomes abused and KINGS may be deceiued and so was I and so become many that seeke after Happinesse by collecting Customes in the Out-Ports at least as the case now stands For the seruice being pretended and attended on by many each values himselfe aboue other and his Place and standing to be of most importance But Multa sunt quae non videntur Multa videntur quae non sunt omnino For Customes indeed and properly taken like the Tithes of a Church and Quitrents of a Mannor being naturall Effects of that weighty Cause TRAFFIQVE whose Actions are conuersant about no meaner Obiectes then Soueraignes Honour and Subiects Wealth and as due to Kings as the Crowne on their heades imply a seruice both of speciall respect and absolute trust wherein foure things there are or ought to be concurrent to enable the Customer and iustifie his calling First the Institution that giues power to receiue the Duties of that kind Secondly the Ports and Places laide out and allotted for the bounds of his Function Thirdly Faithfull performance according to the exigence and importance of his charge And fourthly Countenance and Maintenance fit for such a calling All this notwithstanding I was no sooner entred but I found my selfe surprisde my former Liberty turn'd into Thraldome like the Bondage of Aegipt and my Life become subiect to the Inquisition of Spaine For Ielousie and Suspition first bound me hand and foote and swearing mee withall To do my best endeuor to deale iustly and vprightly between the Prince and the People sent mee to my charge in those Deserts and Plaines next the Wildernesse of Sin and great FORREST OF SHIFTS Namely to SANDVVICH with the Members as Douer Feuersham Milton and Rochester within the Shire of Kent Where for my comfort I found and might discerne which I could not see before how Trafficke on whom our work depends hang'd awry went backward forward as one that were bewitcht and depriu'd of all her Cordials Cata-Pantos Cat'auto and Cath'olou-proton was subiect to swooning and often in a trance her Face pale and wan her Pulses dull and dead and all for want of Staples Her Ports either abandond like places infected or haunted with Spirits or else beset with Harpies by Sea and by Land to worry her from thence