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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

What 's the cause many fall to cheating turne robbers rebells common Villaines and Women cutpurses curtizans prostitutes attempt and commit almost any thing make their children poore abortives or strangle them as soone as they are borne and others make away themselves is it not poverty as Gasper the Jesuite reportes of the Women of Iapon if poore they would stifle their children because they should not suffer irkesome poverty and Riccius affirmes as much of the women of China and dayly examples may testify as much a mongst us To conclude what 's the generall complaint of all sorts of people Beggers Prisoners the confession of condemned men at the Gallowes they could get no work and is it not great pitty to see thousands of people able bodies and dejected spirits cloathed in ragges ready to be starved when imployment may amend and cure all The fourth thing is the cure and remedy thereof NOw if the cause of all this evill be idlenesse want of imployment the cure and remedy is by applying the contrary which is industry setting of the poore aworke and although Aristotle defines riches to be either naturall or artificiall naturall riches are fertill Lands rich mines artificiall riches are Coynes Trades and manufactures yet what avayles all or any of these without art and industry for fertil Lands wil bring weeds rich mines or good trades no profit without Art and Industry Art to invent contrive and regular and Industry to undergoe and indure the coyle trouble and labour of it as Josephus reports of the sons of Seth that they were ingenions to invent many pretty things which shewed their Art and then engraved them upon pillars of Stone and marble that neither inundations of water nor consumings of fire might deface them that they might remaine to after Ages which shewed their Industry so that Art and Industry is said to bee more durable then riches for what causeth Countries Cities and Townes that are very barren and populous to grow rich but Art and Industry For Countries both the Chinaes populous places yet grow Rich and flourish by their industry there is not an idle person nor Begger amongst them Zeland and Holland flourishing Countries and in generall have almost three Cities to one of ours full of Inhabitants and those Rich Industrious Ingenious and politick For Cities the Low-Countries have them Faire Rich and populous and all caused by their great industry and skilfulnesse in Trades and Manufactures by which they maintaine Wars continue and increase comerce and traffique And Florance in Italy by making cloath of Gold and Silver Arras for faire and dainty hangings Corinth in Greece for its riches and industry that is called the glory of that Country and Norrembridge in Germany a City seted in a barren soyle yet Rich Wealthy and flourishing and all caused by Art and Industry as one notes of them they are so ingenious and laborious as if faith he their soule or intellectus agens was placed in their fingers ends many other places might be named and all flourish by their industry But if wee looke here in England we shall finde our Cities few ruinous and most of the Inhabitants very poore and many of our Townes depopulated and destroyed for what Towne almost throughout the Kingdome that can produce at this day so many substantiall and able men as hath been 30 or 40 yeares since yet every Towne much increased with a number of poore and miserable creatures whereby our Trades are much decayed which causes our importations to be great and our exportations small to the impovershing of the land Now if any demand wherefore England that is so rich a Country both in fertill Grounds good Mines and excellent materialls yet notwithstanding very poore and full of Beggers Boterius gives the reason and saith that fertilty and good meterialls is not enough unlesse Art and industry be joyned with it but chiefly industry which undergoes the work for as it increases or decreases ebs or flowes so is the strength power and ability of a Kingdome increased or abated If then the matter of Industry be so weighty of such great importance it most necessarily behoves all Nations Princes Councells of State Judges Majestrates Cities Townes Corporate bodies politick all sorts of people of all estates and conditions whatsoever to advance and further so great a worke which supports and supplies all And such was the care of King Solomon in building the house of God he sent to Hyram King of Tyrus for stusse and workmen So Selym the first Turkish Emperour as Valerius notes procured a thousand good Artificers to be brought to Constantionople And Iames the first of Scotland as Buchanan relates sent for the best Artificers he could get in all Europ and gave them great rewards to instruct his people And Edward the third a most renowned Prince amongst his Kingly Acts is memorized for bringing that great Trade of cloathing first unto this Land by sending over such Tradesmen from Gaunt hither And the ancient Massilians and many other places held a course not to admit any man unto their Cities that had not some trade or profession And Plato made a Law not to have a begger not an idle person amongst them all which do most evidently shew the necessity of industry and imployment of the subject It is a work of Piety of Charity of Justice of Honour of Health of Wealth of Strength of Peace and Safety and of the flowrishing a Kingdome It will be a meanes to save the soules and lives of many thousand 1. Of Piety which otherwise through a lawlesse necessity are constrained to commit almost any villany to the danger of both It will relieve many thousand hunger-bitten 2. Of Charity almost starved families that would work but cannot get it are ashamed to beg and afraid to steale and so languish under the burthen of intollerable wants and poore children idly bred which through want of imployment fal to lewdnesse For there is a cheating lewd insolentidle sturdy sort of poore 3. Of Iustice that can worke but will not infected with the same disease as one reports of a Begger that came to some Gentlemen at Bruges with shew of weeping and pretending himselfe a miserable creature troubled with a terrible secret disease they pittied him and gave him money but one of them seeing the begger fat and well coloured caused his servant to make after him and know his malady To whom the Begger replied my disease is spread all over my body ransa●ks my very bones so that I can stir never a limbe to do any work and I have heard that this disease is called lasinesse which is a shamefull thing to discover And multitudes of people there are in this City miserably afflicted with this disease and nothing but the authority of justice can cure it And so it is of all the rest imployment is an honour a health a wealth a peace a safety to a Kingdome the particulars whereof for brevity I will omit Thus having in short remonstrated the sufferings of the Kingdome especially of this City and the miseries of the poore and the cause idlenesse and want of imployment together with the cure by art and industry And how it hath caused Kingdomes Countries and Cities to flourish and what great care Princes States all of all sorts have alwaies had and ought to have to suppresse idlenesse and support imployment which supplies and supports all The fift and last thing is how this cure is to be applyed THe applying of this cure is by imploying of the poore by setting them to worke wherein these three things are carefully to be done in every Parish Town Hamlet Precinct Prison and House of correction 1. To raise a stocke 2. To provide materials 3. How to order the worke But before we fall upon the applying of the cure it is requisite to cleare some objections which may be cast in 1. Object If the number of the poore be so great as is suggested it is almost impossible that any course can be taken to imploy and relieve them all Answ If the disease be now almost past cure few yeeres more will make it altogether incurable therefore the longer defer'd the more difficult troublesome and chargable and more behooveful speedily to be prevented 2. Obj. That a stocke of an hundred thousand pounds will scarce serve to set all these poore upon imployment to provide magazines materials working-instruments c. And in regard of the great troubles and taxations upon this City at this time and the want of trading so great stocke will not be raised Ans If the power of Majestracy and the great Councell of the City approve the work and resolve the prosecution thereof and a Committee be selected for that end some whereof of this City some of Westminster Middlesex Southwarke c. whose ayd will be very usefull in regard in those parts most of the poore doe live Then it shal be made appeare that the raising of a stock for imployment of the poore will be an advantage to the City and no dammage besides such a ground-worke may be laid 1. The stocke may be raised with little charge to the City 2. The materials may be provided at easie rates 3. The worke regulated with much facility To conclude this businesse is of such consequence that it requires great care to lay a sure foundation at the first lest all miscarry for if after the stocke be raised materials provided and the worke set on foot that it once fall to the ground then farewell imployment of the poore for ever FINIS