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A80410	Unum necessarium: or, The poore mans case: being an expedient to make provision of all poore people in the Kingdome. Humbly presented to the higher powers : begging some angelicall ordinance, for the speedy abating of the prises of corne, without which, the ruine of many thousands (in humane judgment) is inevitable. In all humility propounding, that the readiest way is a suppression or regulation of innes and ale-houses, where halfe the barley is wasted in excesse : proving them by law to be all in a præmunire, and the grand concernment, that none which have been notoriously disaffected, and enemies to common honesty and civility, should sell any wine, strong ale, or beere, but others to be licensed by a committee in every county, upon recommendation of the minister, and such of the inhabitants in every parish, where need requires, that have been faithfull to the publike. Wherein there is a hue-and-cry against drunkards, as the most dangerous antinomians : and against ingrossers, to make a dearth, and cruell misers, which are the caterpillars and bane of this kingdome. / By John Cooke, of Graies Inne, barrester.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6027; Thomason E425_1; ESTC R204550	75,106	79

his suppression But though by one Statute He may be greived I hope by another Statute he will be releeved for truly when a Clyent has an honest just cause and delights in doing good we ought to lay his sufferings to heart as if it were in our owne Cases The Statute of 34. H. 8. is to this effect That it is well knowne that some will doe no cure to any person but where they are sure to be rewarded with a greater summe or reward then the Cure extendeth unto 34. H. 88. for in Case they would minister their cunning to poore people unrewarded there should not so many rot and perish to death for lack of Surgery as daily doe for though the most part have small Cunning yet they will take great summes of money and do little therefore and by reason thereof doe often Impaire and hurt their Patients rather then do them good Therefore for ease comfort succour help releife and health of the Kings poore Subjects that shall be pained or diseased be it ordained and enacted that every person having knowledge and experience of the nature of Hearbs Roots and Waters or of the opperation of the same by speculation or practise may lawfully practise Surgerie or Administer any Drinks for the Stone Strangerie or Agues which by a former Statute they were prohibited to do by certaine persons whom this Statute brands with a noat of Infamy that they minded only their owne Lucres and nothing the profit or ease of the diseased or Patient therefore sued troubled and vexed divers honest persons whom God had endued with the knowledge of the nature kind and opperation of Hearbs Rootes and Waters I shall not make any application but hope that the Learned Doctors will upon mature consultation surcease all further prosecution against my Clyent and either undertake the care and charge of all sick poore people in and about this City or else quietly permit and suffer others to practise who as lesser lights may doe much good in their stations and places to poore People though they be not such good Linguists and great Schollars as themselves for certainely it was never the intent of any English Parliamentary Worthies to punish any man for doing good to the poore And here I would make but some few quaeries 1. What shall I poore people do in time of great mortality and sicknes when most of the Colledge Doctors having houses in the Countrey have left the Citty as in the late great sicknesse if none may be permitted to Practise but themselves for it pleases God that the Plague most commonly inflicts and visits the poorer sort of people such as live in Close Allyes and out places of the City 2. The Doctors not making their owne Medicines but sending poore people to the Apothycaryes where no penny no Pater Noster no money no Medicine though I speak not against the profession every man must live by his Trade I beleeve many of them to be very honest and a most necessary Profession and consequently have no Medicines by them for the speedy releife of the poore whether in probability those that compound their owne Medicines are not more Charitable and helpfull to poore people then such as keep no Medicines by them it being seldome seene that he that buyeth all his meat at the Cookes serves many Beggars at the Dore. 3. Whether it be for the health and welfare of this Kingdome which is the supreame Law that the Doctors Recepts and Art of Physick should be practised in such an unknowne tongue that no man knowes what he buyes or what he payes for it being wholly upon the Doctors and Appothycaries Consciences what name and price they please to give the Physick so that at the best it is but a Pig in a Poak as we say proverbially contrary to the practise of all other Callings where every man knowes what he buyes and if they pleased they might as well set down in plaine English words what they prescribe and what they pay for Lastly what shall we think of denying to teach ordinary Medicines to poore people as good Drinks and Possits made of Hearbs whereby the end for which God made Medicinable H●arbs and Roots is frustrated and made void and the Common knowne use of Hearbs growne out of use and knowledge of poore people in this Kingdome specially in this City of London which if we knew how to make use of Gods good Creatures we might prevent many diseases and maintaine our selves in bodily health and strength much better then now we doe specially in such places where there are neither Physitians nor Appothicaries 12. But that I may be just and impartiall let me speak a word to my owne Profession I would humbly beseech the Reverend Judges before they condemne any man for stealing a Horse a Cow or a Sheep from him that has 100. or 1000. that they inquire whether the Prisoner was not necessitated to do it to buy bread for his family or for milk or Clo●ths for his poore Wife and Children or whether it were possible for him by his best Industry and labour to keep himselfe alive and familie without stealing for if so then hee 's a presumptious theefe that steales not for want but for wantonnesse and by the Law of the Land the Gallowes is his just guerdon but if the man be extreamely necessitated and cannot live without a miracle then that he may not suffer but be put into such away and condition that if he will take paines he might live and then if he steale any more he is to be proceeded against as Incorrigible this is a sweet temper both of Iustice and mercy those that have acquired Honours and great Estates by the Law should be an Honour to the Law which cannot better shew it selfe then by dispatching poore mens Causes first and speedy executing all Lawes and Statutes which give any provisionall releefe to the poore in point of penalty and as I do earnestly intreat every man that has the substance of this world and see 's his brother to be in want not to shoot his bowells of Compassion but to releeve his necessities or else the love of God cannot abide in him so in a more especiall manner I would intreat all that have got any considerable Estates by the Law to adorne their Professions this deere Yeare by their good works for my part I shall count him the Flower Ornament and Garland of his profession that shall most advantage the poore mans Cause both by his Pen by his Tongue and by his Purse and the rather for that I think the great Practisers get much monie as easilie as any men do in the Kingdome but my designe is that every 10th Fee should be given to the poore I find in some of our Hystorians that in times of Popery the Priests challenged every tenth Fee as a personall Tith and since some have continued the payment of it and when men went to Confession they durst

not deceive the Priest nor give him a light peece of Gold and not long since it was attempted to make us pay personall Tithes I wish all men were more fearefull to displease God then the Papists are to offend their spirituall Fathers which have no Wives but many Children In France the Advocates have a Palmary Fee in token of Victorie after the Judgement pronounced for their Client and that is given to the poore All Fees which have been taken from the poore men that could not spare them ought in reason to be restored and no more to be taken and certainly reason is the root of our profession and whatsoever is against the Law of true reason let it be disclaimed by all Ingenious men My learned Masters and all yee that live by the Law whom I may without presumption call Brothers I have a word concerns us all pray marke it well the Kingdome is drawing up an Impeachment against us for the Errors and corruptions that are in the Law and Lawyers every man complaines of the horrible delaies in matters of Iustice that we have an Action to our Clients purses and spin out Causes to an unreasonable length as Covetous Surgeons keep the wounds raw for their owne profit that there is so much expence of Coine and time that the remidie is worse then the disease that a man had better loose his right then go to Law for it and that deles in Courts of Iustice are the greatest Nusance and grievance to this Kingdome They think it the greatest misterie in the world that a man cannot get a Causs ended in two or three yeares and yet Iustice not delayed that a man must spend above 10. l. to recover 5. l. and yet Justice not sold they think Magna Carta is extremely violated you may please to remember what occasioned me to write our Vindication so far forth as Scripture and reason would plead for us and if we be cast at either of these Barres I am sure no Court of Equity can releive us and now I suppose you have met with the Lawyers bane written by 〈…〉 Nicholson who falls upon us with a Scriptury weapon VVoe unto you Lawyers for yee load men with burdens greivious to be borne and yee your selves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers Truly though the man discover a weak Iudgement yet he manifests strong affections to the publick for all this smoak is not without some fire he that knowes any thing in politiques may easily foresee that there is a great storme arising in this Kingdome against us now what must we do to prevent it the only way is to keep close to the principles of right reason and we are out of Gun-shot to dispatch poore mens Causes gratis this hard yeare In doubtfull matters let us disswade our Clyents from going to Law and tell them the danger of it advising them to doe as they would be done unto let us contend earnestly for the truth more then for victorie and so soone as we discover the injustice of the Cause let us leave it and advise our Clyents to make their peace never speaking any thing but what we beleeve to be true if they tell us they have no money let us do their businesse for thanks and I warrant you we are Parliament proofe and Kingdome proofe the people will quickly find the usefullnesse of us and an honest Lawyer will be a necessary member in a Kingdome for the wisdome of the Common Law is highly to be admired and honored of all understending men without some Competent understanding wherein no man can possibly be a Polititianist being the best Iudge and Arbiter of life and death and all things that are for the maintenance thereof but if we make the disquiet and trouble of poore people the basis and fuondation of our Grandor and Renowne beleeve it the Kingdome will be as wearie of us as ever they were of the Bishops or any Arbitrary Court In a word for I know your Iudgements are so mature you love not many that which can only prevent the ruine of our profession is That the Reverend Iudges Learned Lawyers and experienced Officers and Clarkes of all Courts speedily consult and agree together to propound some proper expedient to the High Court of Parliament f●r cheap and summary Iustice throughout the Kingdome for the best policie is to prevent an accusation better the Fees of some Courts should be reduced and regulated then the Court it selfe to be suppressed It were better for the 6. Clarkes that poore men might pay but 4. d. a sheet then 8. d. for moderate gainns last long we see the moderate estates of Widdowes last longer and prove better then some vast superfluous Estates which make them but a prey for some young Gallant what a shame is it that Irregularities and obstructions in the Administration of publique Iustice should not be discovered and presented to the highest Court for speedy redresse by the Professors of the Law who should stand as Sentinells for the security of mens persons and Estates to discover the least approaching danger and all delayes or rubs in Iustice but that the Army should be inforced to make it one of their proposalls for the Kingdomes good And you my worthy Masters that under your good favours are so many Ingrossers of all the Practise within the Statutes of pluralities and Ingrosment of Corne and Cattell for the reason of all such Statutes is that one man may live by another that one should not feast and another fast The Harvest of great Causes much good may it do you Is yours we are content to gleane after you with a motion now and then which comming like Summer fruits should not be rejected for variety sake pray let us be heard when we have any thing to say I profes it is an intollerable injury that you daily offer to young Practisers and heavier then the shoulders of rationall men can long beare 10. or 20. of you to move every morning before or after the causes and there is no time for us though one of your motions spends more time then six of ours to be heard If the Custome of the Court were as auncient as Adams time yet reason must be preferred before it I assure you there is all the policy and selfe love in it as you can imagine to let us be heard when we have any thing to move for if the practise be do not not distributed into more hands that every man may live by his profession if you fal by your own waite I dare burn my Books King James said it was a great cheat put upon the Kingdome for Gentlemen to maintaine their Sons at the Inns of Court at a great rate And being called to the Barre may expect 7.10 or it may be 20. yeares before they be known in a Court of Justice or can be heard to move above twice or thrice in a Tearme which will not quit the cost nor pay

which has one Letter more in it then the name of God his beloved Gold This poore man to keep his Family alive finding an opportunity takes away some corne from one of these misers Rickes or stackes of corne for his Barnes will not hold halfe his Provisions and hee will not build greater Barnes as Gods foole but the worldlings wise man did who thereby set the poore on work the Question is whether this be Felony by the Law of God Luk 12.20 for which this poore man ought to suffer death by any just positive Law of man Certainely Christians ought to be more mercifull then the Jews and therefore the judgement of the best Christian polititians ha's ever beene that no offence ought to be death under the Gospell which was not death by Moses Law but many offences which were death by that Law ought not to be death under the Gospell because Christians ought to be more mercifull then the Iewes who being by nature a cruell people God gave them Lawes accordingly as the Adulterer Sabboth breaker and the disobedient child were to be stoned certainly our Fore-fathers were either very covetous or cruell to make it fellony to steale a Lambe or a Pig which by the Law of God was onely punisht by restitution but the Scripture puts a difference between a theef who steales for necessity men doe not despise him that steales to satisfie his hunger sayes Solomon and a presumptious Theefe who has no neede to steal that does it not for want but for wantonnes such a one was to dye our law is exceeding seveere and never Inquires after the motive and impulsive cause if a man that is ready to starve or famish take away from his Neighbour a suit of Clothes or a strike of Corn this man must dye the death as if he had killed a man I know there is a culpable necessity as my Lord Bacon calls it if a man shall wast his estate and then pretend want he deserves the les pity and there is alight necessity a great necessity and an extreame necessity If a poore man farre from any Towne that is almost famisht for want of foode meets with a Baker who will not be intreated to give him a loafe and he takes away by force so much bread from him as in the Judgement of wise men is necessary to keepe him alive In this case I conceive he hath not offended the Law of God and therefore ought not to be punisht by any Law of man because the Law of property must not derogate from the Law of nature much lesse abrogate it I am not of opinion that all things were at any time in Common by the Law of nature for then the eighth Commandement would not have been morrall and the very dictates of nature and right reason as Sir Walter Rawley most learnedly evinces them to be 2 Acts 44. but those Authors which speake of all things being in common are to be understood in the same sense as the Apostles are said to have all things in common viz they lived so lovingly and contributed so freely to the necessities one of another as if all things had been in common howbeit there was a law of property yet every man dispenst with his owne right to preserve his brother the rich mans superfluities gave place to anothers convenience his conveniences to another mans necessities his Necessities to another mans extremities one mans les Extremities to his Neighbours greater Extremities and so Mecanicall poore must releeve Mendicant poore rather then they should perish out the true reason of State is this In the begining of all Kingdomes States and societies It was mutually a greed that so long as there was sufficient to preserve all men alive in that Kingdome one man should not feast and another man fast and be starved If thy barnes be full of Corn and thy neighbour almost starved and famished It is his bread which thou unjustly detainest from him in thy barnes Math. 13. Math 21. and his cloathes that lye a molding and moth eating in thy Trunkes we see the disciples being hungry pluckt the eares of Corn upon the Sabboth day and the question was not about the Corn which was none of theirs but beeing upon the Sabboth day Christ saies I will have mercy and not sacrifice and his sending for the Asse though that example argues him to be Lord of all yet that reason For the Lord hath need of him is Emphaticall For necessity passengers might enter into a Vineyard and refresh themselves so as they carried none away with them I would Christians were so mercifull to part with their superfluities without question that which is excessively spent in apparrell and Dyet would comfortably releeve all the poor in the Kingdom Consider you that be rich God might have made you the tayle and the poore the head when you have feasted at the upper end of the Table t is but good manners to send downe the dishes that the Master of the Feast may be praised Now for a good Gains and a Marie to power forth ointments and liberalities which will not onely cause thankes to be given to Almighty God but procure blessings upon the Donors and Benefactors for God is the poore mans surety He that hath Pity on the poore lendeth Proverbs the 19.17 unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again but let not him that is poore say how liberall he would be if he had an estate we little know the temptation of that condition we see by wofull experience that riches are of a dropsie nature but say thus there is a rich man how rich might he be in good Works what meanes has he to do good he might reach out his hands 20 wayes to the poore he that has made 100. poore why should not he releeve 20. In humane probability nothing but Gods blessing upon the sublime wisdome of State can prevent this growing evill and epidemicall disease and starving and famishing the poore which I had rather dye then then live to see and I hope every mercifull man is of my oppinion by taking speedily and instantly some such effectuall opperative Course as in their peircing Judgments and deepest apprehensions in whom resides the publique Judgement and reason of State to bring downe the price of Barley and consequently of all other graine and commodities in the Kingdome for if Gods good creatures be not abused and wastfully expended there will be more plenty and things must needs be cheaper for the poore have not much money to keep up the price of any thing whereof there is store And because I know it is the generall desire of all honest men that the poore should be every where provided for and I think there has been severall meetings in the City to restraine the Beggers by providing for such as are impotent and not able to work and forceing such as can take paines to get their owne bread

12. d. for every time that they sweare or curse as if they had given Bond for it for a debt by statute Is the highest Bond of record that can bee the mad Roister that was convicted of 3. oathes threw down a twentie shillings peece and said he would sweare it out before he was much elder I wish heartily that all swearers and Curfers would break of such prodigious sins by repentance and their past Iniquities not by shewing mercy but doing Justice to the poore paying them but what they owe them for how many profane people curse and sweare continually and being lovingly admonisht of it Friend what hurt hath God ever done you that you should thus dishonour him either sweare that they did not sweare for they void their excrements without taking notice of it or else they rage at him who askes them when they came from Hell for one man knowes another by his language and say their lips are their owne who is Lord over them however I would have them pay their Debts to the poore and so satisfie the Law of man though not the Lawes of God for they are but the poore mans Pursbearers and this is the first expedient to bring money into the poore mans Box. Onely I could heartily with that Commissions were freely granted and speedily executed upon the statutes of Charitable uses for I am confident there is a masse of many thousand pounds due to the poore by gifts and Legacyes most unconscionably detayned from them 2ly My second proposition for the benifit of poore people is that some way may be devised to send poore people small summes of money upon security without paying any interest untill this Kingdome shall be so strong in Faith as to trust God with it's safety and preservation in his owne way without the help of usury sending that packing after the Bishops who suffered it to take such deepe rooting in this Kingdome since the time of Reformation for in times of Popery it was an odious thing and a Vsurer as much detested as one that had the French Pocks or a Leprosie hee was excommunicated as a Haeretique and by the Civill Law a notorious Vsurer can make no will in the interim I wish that a poore man that would borrow 5. s. upon any houshold stuffe or pledge might have it freely without such horrible extortion as the poore in this Kingdome specially about London undergoe for put case a poore labouring man hath got 20. or 30. l. in houshold stuffe and some small Commodities in his trade if this man fall sick what a sad condition is he in he knowes not where to borrow 20. s. without a pledge and to the Broker hee must goe the Broker will have 12 d. a moneth for the 20. s. and 6. d. for the Bill which comes to 18. s. a yeare for 20. s. which is 9. l. a yeare for 100. l. a poore Creature for 12 d. must pay 2. d. a week which is 800. l. a yeare for 100. l. to prevent such like cruelties they have in many places banks of piety that the poore may bring a pledge or good security and have 5. or 10. l. to begin a trade Montes Pietatis and by that meanes comes to get a stock for what 's the reason that so many young tradsmen in this City and other plac●s miscarry and are undone before they understand themselves they take up money at 8 per Cent. and if they come to a bad market they must sel though if be to losse or the Interest will eat them out there is a great error in this Kingdome that all charity is in giving and not in lending he that lends a poore man 〈…〉 to follow his trade does a more charitable deed in the fight of God and good men then he that gives him 20. Almes to keep him in a consumption of beggery neither dead nor a live as ●ias said of them that were at Sea There are three sorts of poore the Mendicant Beggar the poore that are maintained by Collections and receive Almes from the Parish which sort of poore are intended in all our Statutes that provide for the poore for the Law intend no Beggars and there is a needy labouring mecannicall man that is oppressed with a great charge and many times does not make his wants knowne wrastles with poverty but it comes like an armed man upon him he cannot resist it the tru●st charity is to releeve such a man to lend this man money to buy him a Cow a Sheep and a Hog or some such necessaryes I know if the Kingdome were in a gospell frame every man would quickly be provided for in conscience and right reason every man ought to have a Cow and 2. or 3. sheep to give milk for his poore Children and to cloath them And what a great matter was it if every poore man had a peece of Beefe every Sabbath day to rejoyce with his family that poore Creatures tasting how gracious the Lord is to them in temporall blessings might be thereby incouraged to looke after the Lord Iesus for eternall salvation and how cordiall would their obedience be to th● higher powers who might easily effect greater matters for honest poore people How ridiculous is it that one man should have 3. or 4000. sheep and sit Rent-free and his next Neighbour go all tattered and not a Coat to put on Is England famous for the Golden Fleece and must English men goe up and downe naked like beasts no cloathing but their bare skins has one man so many Ricks and Stacks and Barnes full of Corne this deere time and must his Neighbours be pyned for hunger and all this forsooth for feare of a paritie Hell is in some Misers certainely Pardon the expression when I speak any thing about releeving the poore what sayes one I see your ayme is to have all men a like because I intreat that man that has 1000 sheep and sits Rent-free to give his poore honest painefull thankfull and serviceable Neighbours as much Wooll as will apparell his Family once a yeare or to let him have it at an easie rate and work it out for him by degrees and because I earnestly desire all those men that have store of corne this yeare to let their poore Neighbours have it at a reasonable rate at 2. s. or rather then faile 2. s. 6. d. a Bushell is this to desire a parity how does pride and Covetousnesse fill Bedlam but till the poore mans cause can be better heard I wish no poore man might be destroyed by Vsury me thinks every honest man should lend freely that is sure to be repayed without troubling the supreame Justice to make any such provision 3. I propound on the Poores behalfe that all the earnest money in the Kingdome upon contracts may be given to the poore as it was originally for earnest money is Gods money the earnest is that which secures the bargain and the usage was that when the

11.19 and Solomans foole was wise in his owne conceit but there was pregnant proofe for the Doctor that since the Great Sicknesse at which time he first grew famous for many of the Doctors being out of Towne he did abundance of cures upon poore people which are yet living He hath cured every yeare many people of all sorts of Feavers Plague Palsies Agues Gout Consumptions Dropcies Collicks and all sorts of Diseases and his manner of practise is to take little or nothing from the poore and from the rich 2. s. or 2. s. 6. d. at the most for his advice and Phisick for he compounds all his Phisick himselfe which no ignorant man can do and buyes the best Drugg● he can get as the Drugster a man of credit testified Now the Case stands thus a man lyes desperatly sick and the Colledge Doctors give him over for a dead man a friend of his tells him that Doctor Trigg has cured many in his condition that have been as neare death as himselfe the man has a strong conceit that Doctor Trigg may help him and truly a good conceit of the Physitian is many times half the Cure if this man should recover by Gods blessing upon Doctor Triggs Phisick is it not a hard case that Doctor Trigg should pay 5. l. to the Colledge for curing this man without their Lycence will they neither give Phisick themselves nor suffer others to do it Worthy Gent. You know what offers we that were Doctor Triggs Counsell have severall times made you that if we do not prove that our Clyent hath done good to above 30000. Men Woemen and Children in and about this Citty since the yeare 1624. Hee will quit his practise without more a doe or if you can prove that ever he did hurt to any man Woman of Child by his Phisicks He will be content to be your Bondslave I know there were above 100. witnesses more then those that gave evidence which hearing that Doctor Trigg had a Tryall about his Nonsufficiency flocked in readily to testifie what Cures he had wrought upon them but the Honorable Iudge thought it needlesse to heare any more for when a weight can be carryed by foure men to what purpose is it to imploy 10. but why will he not be admitted of the Colledge It may be he thinks it a Monopoly for by the Common-Law every man may Administer Phisick that hath any skill therein and if we hurt any through Ignorance or negligence an Action upon the Case lyes against him and why are not Country mens healths and lives as precious to them as Cittizens or why may not the Butchers Cookes Bakers and Brewers being Free-Tradesmen of the City of London compell the Citizens to buy all their Victualls of them and nor to dresse it in their Houses why will not some men have the lyne of Ordination stretched over them because they conceive themselves more free without i● He sayes that those old Receits which agreed with English bodyes 500. years agoe are not so proper for these times and therefore would make no further use of the Pharmatopia then he sees reason of it but he is of Age and Abilities to answer better for himselfe for my owne part I take him to be a rationall man and of Excellent parts but in Phisick I preferre experience before reason and Authority that is if there were but two Physitions extant the one counted an Ignoramus which yet had cured 1000. men of I●evers and such dangerous diseases the other a notable Scholler and of fluent discourse that never cured 20. of all diseases I would rather Intrust my selfe with the former he was a famous Practiser in Aleppo above 25. yeares since and purchased much skill beyond Sea and of great practise and experience with whom Sir Theodore Mayerne Doctor Moore have joyned in advise a man Hospitable and charitable to the poore therefore my subject leads me to commend him he gives away as much Phisick weekly to the poore people as costs him 30 or 40. s. and which some Appothycaries would sell it may be for five times as much for I know not how it comes to passe there is more gotten by Drugs Roots Weeds and Hearbs in this City yrarely then the Bakers Brewers Butchers and many others get by their substantiall Commodities let no man think I write this for my Fee 't is the poore mans Case that I plead should he be suppressed I professe for any thing I can imagine to the contrary thousands of poore people must perish for want of meanes to recover them for where is there a man that will give his advise and Physick for nothing as this man constantly doth If any Patient tell him that he is poore and wants money he takes not a penny from him nor let any man say that it is not usuall for Councell to print their Clyents Causes for my part I know no hurt in it but so far as it concerns the poore this hard yeare I would not gladly omit any thing for their advantage extraordinary diseases must have extraordinary cures for my owne part If I thought or credibly heard that the man did practise upon mens bodies and abuse poore people I would be the first that should him and pluck his flesh in peeces but so long as that man does good in his practise every honest man should take his part for why should not that be judged a good Tree that brings forth not yearely but daily good fruit his case stands thus The Colledge Doctors have obtained a Judgement of 115. l. against him and by the Law a writ of Error lyes before rhe Right Honourable the Lords in Parliament but the King being concerned in it the course was to procure his Majestyes hand for the writ of Error and it hath pleased their Good Lordships for a supply thereof as Aequavalent thereunto in Judgement of Law to grant an Order for a writ of Error which is now obtained besides he stands Indicted by the name of VVilliam Trigg Shoo maker al●as VVilliam Trigg Hee le maker alias VVilliam Trigg Last maker alias VVilliam Trigg Gent. and one sayes hee will take a Course with him for his short Cures another sayes this Trigg workes by the Devill or else he could never do such cures and there are so many Actions against him and such designes to ruine him that I feare whether there be not some Ingredient of malice or tincture of Emulation in the violent prosecution of it for though it be well knowne that the worthy President of the Colledge and many of the Doctors are Godly judicious and Learned men for which I honour and highly esteeme them yet whether the Prosecutors doe really sinceerely and entirely ayme at the health and welfare of poore people Mr. Dr. Clarke in putting him downe from practise as is pretended seemes to me very questionable for I conceive a greater displeasure and prejudice cannot be done to the poore people of this City then by