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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00758	A supplication of the poore commons Whereunto is added the supplication of beggers.	Fish, Simon, d. 1531. Supplicacyon for the beggers. aut; Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546, attributed name.; Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588, attributed name.	1546 (1546)	STC 10884; ESTC S102081	30,801	66

pleasure as neuer man dyd for hee woulde wythin the space of xiiii yeres teach him an ase to daunce where vpon he had his lyfe 〈◊〉 him vpon condition that yf he dyd not per forme his promessed enterprise that then he shoulde neuer the lesse suffer deathe Thy●… done he was demaūded of one of his familiers why he was so madde to take vppon him such an enterprise so farre beyonde all reason and possibilytie He answered my frend hold the cōtent I haue wrought wysly for wyth in these xiiii yeares other the kynge I or the asse shal be dead so that by thys meanes I shall escape thys reprochfull and shamfull death So your byshopes most victoriouse prince if they might haue gotten in the bible for vii yeres they wolde haue trusted that by that tyme ether youre highnes shoulde haue ben dead or the bible forgotten or els they thē selues out of your highnes reache so that you should not haue had like power ouer thē as you haue nowe Wel go to we trust ere the. vii yeres be past God shall reua●…e vnto your highnes much more of theyr subtyll imaginations then we are worthy to know of Moreouer wil your highnes se howe faythfully they dyd youre commaundemēt when you appoynted two of them to ouer loke the translation of the bible They sayd they had done youre highnes cōmaundement therin yea they set their names there vnto but when they sawe the worlde som what lyke to wrynge on the other syde they denyed it and said they neuer medeled therewith causyng the Prynter t●… take out theyr names which were erst set be fore the Bible to certifie all mē that th●…i had diligently perused it according as your high nes had commaunded One other poynt of theyr diligēce your highnes may note in the settyng forth and vsyng of youre hyghnes Primer both in Englysh and Latin And in the diligent readyng vnto the people the exhortatiō to prayer which you ordeyned and commaunded to be redde alwaies before the Prossession in Englysh We thynk no man can blameles say that euer he heard one of them reade it twyse ouer Yea when your highnes was returned from youre victory done at Bullyn they dyd what they coulde to haue called it in agayne In so much that they caused all such parishes as they myght commaunde to vse theyr olde Kyre eleyson agayne And yet to this daye thei vse on solempne feastes to folow theyr olde ordinary not withstandyng your highnes commaundement But whē thei katch any thyng that soundeth to the contrary it shall not escape so we warrant you It shal be swynged in euery pulpyt wyth this is the kynges gratious wyll and yet these heretickes wylbe styll doyng in the Scriptures A shomaker a cobbler a tayler a boy not yet xx yeres of age shal not stycke to reproue that a lerned manne of xl yeares studye shall affyrme in the declaration of Gods word O how god ly wer the people disposed when thei knew nothyng of the Scripture but as thei were taught by profound clerkes and well lerned men Thē were there hospitals buylded for the poore Then wer there Coleges buylded for the maintenaūce of lernyng Yea if they durst they would say then were Abbayes Chauntries founded for the realyfe of the pore soules in the bitter payns of Purgato ry Then were our purses filled with the of ferynges of the deuout people that vsed to seke the blessed Images and relickes of our sauior Christ of his blessed mother Mary with the residue of his saints If your high nes would rayse vp but one Abbe Chauntry or pilgremage you shuld easely perceiue which way thei are bent We dout not but for these vii yeres folowyng Masōs occupation with other belongyng to buyldyng would be the best handy craftes within this your royalme We praye God their subtill imaginations maye alwaies come to lyghte before thei preua●… to the hinderāce of Gods veritie And that it may please hym alwaies to assist your highnes in the defendyng and settyng furth of the same ●…o hys glory and the soul helth of vs your highnes most faith ful obedient subiectes And that you leaue not of tyll you haue roted out al these sturdy beggers that the pore members of Christ may haue that porsion to lyue vpon which was frō the beginnynge apointed for them We meane the. x. part of euery mās yerly in ●…ease For though at the cōmyng of Christ and long before these tenthes were geuen t●… the Pristes of the lawe yet was it not so from the beginnynge for at the fyrste be cause the world was not so replenished with people but that euery man was a great pos sessioner it was thought good to take of the best of their increase and to offer it to the liuyng God in sacrifice as it appereth by the storie of Abel and ●…ain But whan the people grewe to so greate a numbre that euerye man coulde not haue a sufficient porsion to lyue vpon vnlesse he were able to laboure and tyll the grounde Then was it prouided that euery possessioner shoulde set the tenth of his yearely increase in the porche of hys house that the lame blinde sycke and dise●… sed myght be there releued This order continued tyl the time that Moyses by the com maundement of God gaue a lawe to the Is raelites and appoynted that a certayne kyn ●…ed amongest thē that is the Leuites shuld be alwayes theyr priestes and mynisters of the Tabernacle vnto whom he appoynted certayne partes of euery sacrifice that they myght lyue therby For as yet there was no tēthes to be paied for thē they were in their iorney frō Egypt which iorny cōtinued ful xl yeres but after that they wer once settled in the lande of promesse and gathered the fruytes of the grounde they thought good to geue the tenthes of theyr increase to the priestes that ministred in the tabernacle that they myght lyue ther vpon accordyng to the wordes of the prophet mal ii●… Bring in eueri tenth into my barn that ther may be meat in my house But thē ther was an other pro uysion for the poore Leui. xxiii For no man myght lease rake or gleane his grounde after he had gathered of his croppe Noo they mighte not gather their grapes nor frutes twyse but must leue the latward fruit with the scateryng of theyr corne for the poore to gather that they inyghte haue some relyefe therby this order cōtinued to the commyng of Chryst. After whose commyng the christian sort had all thynges commune so that no man knewe of any increase for as much as no man toke anye thynge for hys owne Actes iiii But when the numbre of christians encreased so muche that they possessed hole cyties coūtreys kyngdomes it was thought good that euery mā should knowe hys owne to the intent that such as other wyse woulde haue lyued ydly shoulde ther by be prouoked to laboure as apeareth by

ben cast into the sea but if the peo ple haue taken it of them selues and be not punished of the rulers but be permitted fre lye to vse it the blud of thē that perish shal be requered at the watchmās hand Ezechi xxxiii Thus princes are punished when the people offende But now most deare souerayne your highnes may in this matter try your prelates whether they be of god or not for yf they were of God they woulde accor dinge to the wordes of the prophet neuer sease but openly and with a criynge voyce declare vnto the people theyr faultes Esai lviii and not be hus●…ed wyth an acte in par liament for that declareth them to be the set ters for the of mans tradicyons and not of Godes lawes so that this saying of our sa uiour Christ is verifyed in them this people honoreth me with theyr lyppes but their herte is fare from me they teache the doctri nes and commaundementes of men Math. xv But here they thynke to stop oure mouthes wyth the feare of youre highnesse displeasure they say youre highnes lawes are godes lawes that we are as moch bounde to obserue them as the lawe of God geuen by Moyses Trueth it is most deare lorde that we are bounde by the commaundemēt of God to obey your hyghnesse all youre lawes set forth by your hygh court of parliament but yf they dissent frō or be cōtrary to anye one iote of the scripture we muste with Ihon Peter say Actu iiii Iudge you whether it be better for vs to obeye God or man We speake not this because we think by this that we may rebel agaynst you our naturall prince But that yf youre hyghnes would enforce vs by a law to do any thing cōtrary to that god hath cōmaūded vs that thē we ought māfully to cleaue to the truth of Godes word boldly confessing the truth therof fearing nothing the death of this bo dy and yet moost humble submittinge oure selues vnto you redy to abyde and pacient lye to suffer what kynde of torment so euer should be leyd vpon vs knowing for certēty that we are happy when we suffer persecution for the truthes sake and that he is faythfull that hath promessed to be reuēged of oure iniuries But these dombe dogges haue lerned to faine vpon them that vse to bringe them bread and to bee wonderful ha sty when they be mantayned and cherished but yf they be but ones byde cowche they know their li●…ipope so well that they draw the tayle betwine the legges and gette them selues streyght to the kennell And thē come who so wyll and do what they wyll these dogges wyll stere no more tyll they heare theyr maister saye hye cut and longe tayle So frayd they are of stripes and leste they shoulde be tyde vp so short that they myght not raynge a brode and wory now and than a simple lambe or two Before it was passed by acte of parliament that men myghte take x. li. by yeare for an hōdreth poūd lone how vehement were they in the matter All theyr sermons were lytle other then inuecti ues agaynst vsery Thē they could allenge both Christ and the Psalmist to proue that Christē men ought to lende what they may spare to loke for no gaynes therof But nowe they do not onlye holde them selues styll as concernynge thys matter but also they endeuoure to imitat yea and to passe the example of the extorsyoners and vserers For euen the laste yeare they obteyned by theyr importune sute a graunte whych yf it be not reuoked wyll in continuaunce of tyme be the greateste impouirishmēt of vs your poore commons and chyfly in the ●…itie of London that euer chanced sence the fyrst beginnyng therof they haue obtayn●… and it is enacted that euery mā wythin the sayd cytie shall yearly pay vnto them accor dynge to the rentes they are charged wyth xvi d ob of euery x. s. so that yf the lordes of the groundes do double triple the rentes as they do in deed thē most the pore tenātes paye also double triple tenthes as dwe encrease of their riches this is not vnlyke vnto that which is practised in the cōtry amongest vs your highnes poore cōmones For whē it hath pleased God to punish vs with the ro●… of our shepe so that perhap pes some one of vs hathe ●…ylded C. sheper then haue some of the persons constrayned vs to geue 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 for they cal it increase so lōge as we sell thē And therfore must they as Godes debities take the tēth therof Haue cōpessiō vpō vs most gracius soueraine ●…uffer not these vnsatiable dogges thus to eat vs out of al that we haue cō sidre that it is against al reasō conscience that we your pore cōmones should be thus oppressed that where the lādlorde taketh of vs duble triple rent that thē we shall pay also to the person duble or triple tenthes But see moost dere souerayne howe craftely they haue wroughte thys feate they requyre not the tenthes of the lande lordes that haue the increase but of the tenauntes whych of necessitye are constrayned to pay to the lordes theyr as kynge at●… elles to ●…e without dwellinge places they know right well that ys they shoulde haue matched thē selues with the landelordes they happelye shoulde haue bene to weake for them at the lengthe But they were in good hope that we your poore commons shoulde neuer be able to stande in they re handes as in verye deed we shall not onles your hyghnes wyll voultsafe to take our cause in hand for ys we haue not wherwith to pay thē they mai by the vertue of the acte distresse suche implementes as they shal fynde in our houses They know our cōditiōs of olde sence they toke they re mortuaries We had rather in maner famysh oure selues for lack of fode and to make right harde shyft besydes thē that we woulde be troubled for anye suche thyng And doutlesse most renomed prince yf the oppression were not to much beyond all reason and conscience we woulde neuer haue troubled youre highnes with all Yea yf there were any hope that they would be satisfied by this we woulde rather fast iii. dayes euery weake then we woulde scame to be slack in doyng all such thynges as the lawe byndethe vs to But we se daylye so great increase of they re vnsatiable desire that we fear lest in processe of time they wil make vs all begge an brynge to thē all that we can gette It is no rare thinge to se the poore impotēt creatures begge at Easter to pay for the sacramēt when they receaue it And it is no lesse cōmune to se mē begge for such dead corpses as haue nothinge to paye the pristes diuitie Yea it is not longe sence there was in your highnes cytie of Londō a dead corps brought to the church to be bury ed