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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36777	An humble remonstrance presented to the right worshipfull Company of Merchant-Tailors Maii 15. 1661. By William Du-gard.	Dugard, William, 1606-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing D2466A; ESTC R216365	6,567	13

been dammage to the Master and Ushers at least 100 ● and yet neither profit nor honor to the Company We cannot compell Parents to com to the Company when they can have them at other places for their money nor will they suffer their children to lose their time in waiting somtimes a month somtimes six weeks before there be an ordinary Court to admit them unless they be such poor people that expect benefit from the Companie 's Charity Som have answered that they will not pay and pray too 〈◊〉 others that they expect not to have their children gratis and therefore if the Master cannot admit them they will go to other places that wil● and so they carry them away and never return again 'T is the Companie 's honor that they are the Found●rs Patrons Go●ernors of the School But yet the Company cannot make a Scholar As the Parent is the natural cause of the Child's Beeing the Company the providential Political cause of good education so Scholars that are skilfull in Arts and Sciences are the instrumental cause of their learning and yet the credit of the whole Art and work redound's to the honor of the principal efficient True it is that an hundred years ago when it was an hard matter to get a Scholar to read Greek there was such an Order made That no Scholar should be taught in the School unless first admitted by the Company But afterward there was found a necessity to dispense with that Order and so it was with my Predecessors which I can prove for above threescore years by-gone They and my self too from them untill the last year had such an Indulgence that did not limit nor restrain them to admit quarteridg-Scholars who did not immediately depend on the Charity of the Company and the Motto engraven on the School speak's as much Nulli pracludor Tibi pat●o Since the Company have been so strict and severe with mee as to urge and press the Observation of that Order I have obey'd though to the great prejudice of the School in general the dammage of the Master and Ushers in particular and discouragement of all I am not so void of reason but that I know if the Company will have it so I must obey nor can I contradict Yet I cannot but deplore the sad condition the Master is cast into For by this means the School must decay the Master cannot remedy it and yet the blame must be laid upon the Master for negligence when as in truth the Masters hand 's are tied and be he never so industrious and obedient he cannot help it It is an easie matter to fi●de a staff to beat a dog 'T is said of Draco the Athenian Law-giver that he wrote his Lawes not with Ink but Blood because he made the least offence capital 'T is said of som penal Statutes that they are like Statute lace make a fair show afarr off but look near upon them they are but cruel In point of Divinity if God should mark what we do amiss who could abide In Political conversation if the extreamest rigor in every thing be exacted no man could live by his Neighbor In Scholastick discipline if every punctilio should be punished the School would be no better than a Bridewell I know nothing by my self I thank God but for the substance I have been a faithfull Servant and observed your Orders Allow me but common and humane infirmities which Christian charitie will allow for there is no Angelical perfection in this life and I bless God for it I know the Divel himself cannot justly accuse me of any notorious or scandalous Crime But if you will be so extremely rigorous as to make every conceived punctilio capital and upon suggestions without hearing discharge your Servant pro arbitrio I do not know any man living of any part● fit for the place that either can or will serve you on that condition My Comfort is That I have faithfully discharged my conscience in my place That I have mainteined the School in honor and credit for my time notwithstanding the sinister prejudice of some men That I have as really and truly honoured the Company as ever any man did in the place That I have not onely bestowed pains but cost in a Scholastick way the better to furnish my self for my employment That I have don that for the School in som particulars that few men in England could have don besides whereof I shall leave lasting monuments behinde me and I know there be not many that can follow mee even in that which som men count negligence And I hope I have don God good service in training up many that are now excellent and eminent instruments of God's glory both in Church and Common-wealth Howbeit I count it som unhappiness that after seventeen years service to such a noble Company I should be condemn'd for negligence that I was never guilty off and to have so hard measure as to be discharged from my place and livelyhood indictâ causâ and not to be suffered to answer for my self Yet I must lay my hand upon my mouth and look up unto God without whose providence an hair fall's not from our heads nor a Sparrow to the ground and conclude That If I cannot longer with love and encouragement serve the Company I must humbly take my leave and pray for them and wish that my Successor whatever he be that is design'd to my place may be more painfull more diligent and do more for the honor of the Company than I have don My former experience of God's mercifull providence assure's me that whatever befall's me in my pilgrimage here is for my eternal good That he can turn the emnitie of men to my advantage that still he will accept of my service in my generation having fitted me in some sort for my calling and I doubt not with God's blessing still to be as formerly a successfull instrument in training up of Youth to his glory both for Church and Common-wealth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quicquid patimur mortale gen●●s Quicquid facimus venit ab alto This former Remonstrance was enclosed in this Letter following Maii 15. 1661. To the Worshipfull the Masters Wardens and Assistants of the right Worshipfull Company of Merchant-Tailors Right Worshipfull I Make bold to present to your Worships my humble Remonstrance touching my Discharge and I humbly crave this favor That if I may not longer continue with your love and encouragement as formerly yet that I may be dismissed fairly with your favor and therefore may it please you to consider 1. That I left a good livelihood in another place when I entred upon your service and brought with me many Scholars to the School 2. That I have continued seventeen years in your service and till of late with much encouragement 3. That I had the Companie 's leave to set up my Press 4. That when the Company were displeased with it I sould it with as

An humble REMONSTRANCE Presented to the Right Worshipfull COMPANY OF Merchant-Tailors Maii 15. 1661. By WILLLIAM DV-GARD Qui non deliquit decet a●dace● esse audacter confidenter pro se loqui Plaut Vi opprimi in bona causa melius est q●à● malè cedere Cic. LONDON Printed in the Year of our Lord. 1661. To the worshipfull the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Right worshipful Company of Merchant-Tailors Maii 15 1661. The humble Remonstrance of William Du-Gard touching his Discharge from the place of Chief School-Master GENTLEMEN I Have received an Order from you Decemb. 27. 1660. whereby you are pleased to discharge mee from the place of chief School-Master of your School onely out of savor to mee you give mee time until Jun. 24. 1661. the better to provide for my self For that Favor though I humbly acknowledg my thankfulness yet I cannot but wonder at your proceedings with mee in my discharge from the place For 1. You have do● it indictâ caus● the innocentest man living may be condemned by this Course When Ter●●llu● the Orator in an eloquent Oration accused St Paul before Fel●● the Governor Act. ●4 yet Felix though an Heathen gave St Paul leave to answer for himself The Law gives a Felon or a Traitor leave to except against som of a Jury and to answer to his inditement before he be condemned 'T is a rational and just saying of Julian Si accusâsse sufficere● 〈◊〉 es●et innoceus And Seneca Qui statuit aliquid parte i●a●di●● alter● aqu●m licèt statuerit haud aequ●● est 2. You have don it som of my Capital adversaries being both my Accusers and Judges and how easy it is for men of parts and power upon specious pretences when there is no liberty for the Defendant to answer to draw others to their opinion and pronounce sentence an ordinary judgment may quickly understand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qui ad 〈◊〉 respi●iu●t de facili pronunciant But what is my Crime that must deserve so hard a Censure It is alleged in your Order That many Complaints have been frequently from time to time made to the Master and Wardens of the Company and to the Court by the parents and friends of the young Scholars of the neglect of the chief-Master's dutie in that School and of the breach of the Companie 's Orders and Ordinances thereof pudet hac opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli A shame 't would be reputed That such things should be said and not refuted The French have a Proverb That when a man would have his dog hanged he must first make folks beleev hee is mad Two things are here objected 1. Neglect of Dutie 2. Breach of the Companie 's Orders 1. To the first I answer That it is very strange to mee that so many Complaints should be made by the Parents of the Scholars and I never hear of any nor ever call'd to answer one complaint in seventeen years space D●lus est in generalibus Let any particular Parent appear that ever accused mee in particular as to any neglect on my part and I shall willingly be your bondslave But I may say as innocently as David Psalm 35.11 They laid to my charge things that I knew not I have been in the profession 33 years and in all places wherever I came I have had ample Testimonials of my faithfulness and diligence and my Scholar's proficiency Religion hath taught mee better than to be an eye-Servant Besides experience of my painfulness and diligence easily confute's this allegation for I have kept the School in as flourishing a condition as in any seventeen years from the foundation and might do so still if I might be permitted to have the ordering of it Formerly I have had many thanks from the Company for my care and diligence and no encouragement they thought too much for mee I am the same man still yet such is my unhappiness that I cannot give som men content do what I can Tempora mutantur It is alleged in the Order as an Aggravation of my Negligence and as an issue and consequence thereof That the School must Decay and that the Decay thereof will tend to the prejudice of the Common wealth in general and to the great dishonor and disgrace of the Company in particular if the same be not timely prevented To which I answer 1. THat if the premisses were true that indeed would be the Consequence but the premisses can never be proved and therefore that Conclusion cannot follow 2. It is to be considered what is to be understood by the Decay of the School which must thus tend to the prejudice of the Common wealth in general and the dishonor and disgrace of the Company in Particular The Decay of a School in common understanding is when Scholars cease to resort to it which may proceed from diverse causes viz. either for negligence of the Master unskilfulness in his teaching or exorbitancy in his life as the decay of a shop is when Customers forsake it for want of good wares or of an handicrafts-man for want of skill or ill husbandry when a man cannot get his work don in due time But it is obvious for any man to say that when he see 's a shop well custom'd There are good wares or a mechanick well imployed he is a good Ar●ist or an house well-furnisht there is a good husband What ever the Pretence is I bless God for it it cannot truly be said that the ●chool ever decayed under my hand The Records of the School will easily shew the contrary and when ever I leave it I may say as the Emperor said of Rome Lu●erit●am●●ccepi ma● more ●m re●iq●● When Sir Thomas More by commission from the King went down into Kent to enquire the cause of Goodwin sands he ●ound not that Te●ter●●n steeple was the cause of the decay of Sandwich Haven though that was alleged before him But under favor I will demonstrate unto you the true cause that now is and hereafter will be the decay of the School if not timely remedied wherein I shall give an answer to your second objection viz. the Breach of the Companies Orders II By your Order of Ma●●●i 16. 16●9 you have absolutely forbid the Schoolmaster to admit any Scholars but such as bring a warrant under the Master and Warden's hands which being rigorously observed and exacted must needs destroy the School as in part it hath been the decay of it already For to my knowledge within this twelve-month at least threescore Scholars that would have com'n to the School for want of the Master's power to admit them have gone to other Places to the great prejudice and decay of your own School and to the great advantage of other places I have no Scholar now in the School but what I have warrant for according to your Order But what inconveniences it hath already brought on the School we are too too sensible it hath