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A14577	A pamphlet of the offices, and duties of euerie particular sworne officer, of the citie of Excester: collected by Iohn Vowell alias Hoker, Gentleman & chamberlaine of the same	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.	1584 (1584)	STC 24889; ESTC S119346	28,806	38

therefore manie be the deuises to stoppe so good a course Some altogither being like to the Aspis who stoppeth both hir eares against the voice of the enchanter alleging that there is too much preaching And of their opinion am I that preaching is to much but to no other than too the lost sheepe of Israel and to the children of condemnation for as S. Paul saith If our Gospell be hid Iis qui pereunt est absconditum it is hid to them that are lost The bread of the Angels was vnsauerie but to those onelie who were to perish whiles the flesh which they lusted was in their teeth Some doo like verie well to haue the catechizing so that they might be no contributors and so would shift it ouer vnto the church men as though it were their onelie duetie to doo it and these shew themselues to be the children of the corrupted Adam who being reprooued for his transgression chargeth his wife with it and she shuffleth it ouer to the diuell and so in this euery man so thrusteth it one from another that nothing is doone And what wilbe the end thereof it is easilie to be knowen if men would either beleeue the booke of God or consider call to remembrance what hath befallen in the like in times past The Poets among their manie goddes haue deuised imagined that one of them hath two faces the one before looking foreward the other behind looking backwards this god they call Ianus of whom the moneth of Ianuarie taketh his name and the first daie of the same is called Newyeeres day By this is means moralized a man of great wisedome knowledge and experience and who looking to the times past and obseruing the euents thereof doth forecast the sequele of the like to come If you then as euerie wise Magistrate ought to do would as a Ianus looke backe into the old world and read the bookes and histories of that age shall find that Noah the preacher of righteousnes did teach and persuade the people to repentance almost one hundreth yeeres togither but bicause they were werie of his preaching would no more thereof God sendeth the great deluge and drowned the whole world Sodoma would not listen to the counsell of Loth wherefore God with fire and brimstone from heauen consumed them to ashes The foolish Israelites not contented with such incenses and manner of religion as God by Moses had ordeined would needs haue another of their own deuise in offering the same the earth opened and swallowed them vp all aliue The same people were fed with Manna the foode of Angels which God from heauen prouided for them and they waxed werie thereof and would needes haue chaunge of meates as we of religion but the meate was no sooner in their mouthes than was Gods vengeance vpon them and stroke them with a great plague The foolish Israelite neglecting the obseruing of the Lords Sabboth would needes folow his worldlie causes and gather wood had his reward and was stoned to death The whole nation of the Iewes were called by the Lord Iesus to the doctrine of the Gospell but they would not vnderstand nor accept the time of their visitation wherefore they felt the heauie hand of God and were vtterlie consumed with famine pestilence and the sword and the citie temple wherof they made a great aduante was not one stone thereof left vpon an other The cities of Capernaum which reached vp euen vnto the heauens Ephesus Corinth Antiochia and sundrie others among whom the Apostles had planted the Gospell when they lothed it and waxed wearie thereof the Lord lothed and waxed wearie of them and all they some by earthquakes some by fire and manie by the enimies were vtterlie wasted and consumed And as he hath thus doone with cities townes and countries so hath he shewed the like power vpon mightie Princes and Monarches which haue not harkened vnto his voice nor obeied his commandements Nabuchadnezer Pharo Herod Nero Caligula Domitianus Traianus Hadrianus and a number of other Atheistes who denied the Lord God his Christ and his Gospell he tormented them with such plagues torments and troubles that of their miserable liues they made most miserable ends If then the Lord God hath thus dealed with all the nations of the world and with his owne peculiar people if he haue not spared the children of his owne familie nor fauoured the vineyard of his owne planting nor yet regarded his owne countrie nor accompted of his owne citie what shall it be thought he will doo with this ingratefull citie of Excester which haue tasted of infinite his blessings and haue a long time beene fedde with his heauenlie Manna and yet haue and doo dailie contemne his lawes cast awaie his commandements and be wearie of his doctrine what is it that we can iustlie claime or chalenge for ourselues why the Lord should not shorten his hand and be no longer fauorable vnto vs Is it our antiquitie Be it that this citie is verie ancient and was builded at the first comming of Brutus into this land about two thousand fiue hundred yeeres past before or when London was yet the cities of Enoch Nineue Babylon Corinth Athens Troia and Carthage were long before it Is it for religion I grant that the Gospell is truelie preached and the Sacraments sincerely ministred And so was it at Hierusalem Antiochia Corinth Ephesus and manie other places Is it bicause it is pleasantly seated and standeth vpon the top of a hill in the open prospect of the world neere the seas So was Hierusalem Capernaum Tyrus and sundrie other cities Is it bicause it is rich and inhabited with rich marchants and occupiers So was Tyrus and Sydon and others Is it for the fertilitie of the soile and the abundance of all things wherewith God hath blessed it So was the whole land of Palestina who for the great blessings of God in nature was said to be a land to flow with milke and honie And yet all these peoples nations and countries lothing his word for their vnthankfulnes and not seruing God in true religion were vtterlie destroied by the mightie hand of God and now remaineth scarse anie signe or memoriall of them And shall this citie of Excester which is but a sower grape a wild Oliue is of his good mercie ingrafted in the place of the naturall branch and yet hath doone the like or woorse transgressions shall shee I saie be free from the like punishments No no although God in mercie haue long oftentimes borne and winked at the sinnes of this citie yet he will not so doo foreuer It is an old saieng Go the pot neuer so often to the water yet at length it commeth home broken Sundrie and manie times like vnto the citie of Hierusalem hath it beene in great perils by the Brytons Romanes Saxons and Danes and manie times hard assailed with intestine warres and the Lord hath alwaies from time to

heresie or doo not resort to his church at or vpon the sabaoth daies he is to punish him or to take order with him according to the lawes Also he is vpon sundaies and holie daies to send abroad his officers to sée if anie be sitting vpon the stalles walking the streates or sitting in tauernes or vsing anie gaming at the time of preaching and praiers and to compell them either to go to the church or commit them to ward or to take further order with them as shall be thought good Also he must vpon the first fridaie after he hath taken his oth cause to be proclamed his generall proclamation for and concerning the gouernment of the citie Also when anie proclamation is to be made for hir Maiestie or otherwise it is to be doone in decent maner namelie in the open market and assemblie of the people the sword-bearer with the sword and the sargeants with their maces standing before him his brethren Also he is with the bailiffes vpon euerie mondaie through the whole yeare to kéepe the Quéenes court in the open Guildhall and then and there vprightlie to minister iustice and to giue true iudgements in all matters depending before them and to sée true records to be kept Also he is to sée the peace and common tranquillitie to be kept and obserued and the offenders punished Also he and his officers is to attend wéekelie the markets for all maner corne and victuals that the same be wholesome and good and at reasonable prices Also that no victuals nor wares be forestalled ingrossed or regrated contrarie to the lawes Also that he doo from time to time as occasion shall serue take the view and search of all maner of measures weights and vessels whether they be according to the statute and being defectiue to reforme the same Also vpon euerie mondaie to giue to the bakers the assise of bread and wéekelie to examine and weigh their bread whether the same be according to the assise giuen or not Also that he giue to the brewers the assise of their drinke and to set reasonable prices for and vpon the same Also he shall command his stewards constables and other his officers to make search euerie moneth once in all euerie suspect place for plaiers at games vnlawfull kéepers of ill rule night-watchers vagarant naughtie and suspect persons and such strangers as who cannot giue account for their honest life and them to commit to ward to be kept or be punished according to their offense and by order of the lawes Also he shall take bonds and sufficient suerties of euerie innekéeper tipler and for kéeping of good rule in their houses Also he is yearelie to kéepe lawe courts and cause inquisition to be taken of all things concerning the state of the citie and liberties of the same Also he is to sée the nightwatches in the times appointed to be kept Also he shall yearelie make his perambulations round about the citie and about the limits bounds of the same and shall also cause the like perambulations to be made euerie rogation wéeke about the limits and bounds of the countie Also he shall twise in the yeare at Michelmas and Easter visit the almeshouses of the cities and examine whether the same be ordered as it apperteineth Also he shall yearelie call to account all the collectors for the poore in euerie parish and to sée that the poore be prouided for according to the statute Also the Maior being the eschetor of the citie and warden in socage is from time to time to cause at euerie mondais court presentment to be made of the death of euerie citizen and inhabitant what heires and orphanes he left behind him and that there vpon he doo take order for the preseruation of the orphanes and of all such goods and rents as doo growe vnto them as also not to admit anie person to the fréedome of the citie but that he be sworne vnto the order of the orphanes Also he is at all time and times conuenient to call and assemble the common counsell of the xxiiij vnto the counsell chamber when matter and occasion shall require and then and there to determine what by their deuise and counsell is to be determined Also he is then and there to sée and command euerie one of the said xxiiij and all other persons comming there to behaue and vse themselues modestlie soberlie and in all good maner according to the orders of the said house and whoso shall offend therein to be punished accordinglie Also he is to appoint six of the forsaid xxiiij to be auditours as well of the account of the generall receiuer as of all other accounts for and concerning anie of the cities rents receipts or reuenewes Also he may not be absent from out of the citie anie night except it be for some necessarie and vrgent cause and in his absence he is to appoint his lieutenant in writing vnder his hand seale Diuers other things doo belong to his office which more at large are to be séene in the great lieger booke The office of the Stewards THe Stewards are verie ancient officers of this citie and were in the time of the Saxons named in Latine Praepositi in the Saxon tong Portegreues that is to saie The wise graue gouernours of the citie or towne after the conquest they were named Praefecti which in the Normand French toong are called Prouorstes the name of the person is worne out but the court of their iurisdiction reteineth his former name being called the prouorst court after this in respect of the courts kept before them they were called Senescalli that is to saie stewards and not long after bicause they or some one of them was put in trust for collecting of the cities reuenewes they were called Balliui bailiffes These two latter names are still reteined and indifferently vsed at these presents Their offices consist in manie points whereof some in particular as followeth FIrst they al or two at the least of them are to be attendant present and sitting as well with the Maior vpon euerie mondaie in the court of the Guildhall as also in their own court called the Prouorst court which they may adiourne and kéepe from daie to daie at their owne will and pleasure Also they are to sée true records to be kept true iustice to be ministred and true iudgements to be giuen in all causes depending in either of the courts before them Also they are to attend the Maior at his going to the sermons at S. Peters vpon the sondaies at the forenoone and at his going and returning at the Guildhall court vpon euerie mondaie and at the markets and proclamations and vpon euerie saturdaie at the shambles and at all other times whensoeuer they shall be called and required Also forasmuch as they are clarkes of the market they are to execute and doo what dooth apperteine to the clarke of the market that is to saie That corne and