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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06880	The booke of marchauntes very profitable to all folkes to knowe of what wares they ought to be ware of, for the begilyng of them. Newly perused and augmented by the first authoure well practised in suche doynges. Reade and profite.; Livre des marchans. English	Marcourt, Antoine de, d. ca. 1560.; Farel, Guillaume, 1489-1565, attributed name.	1547 (1547)	STC 17313.7; ESTC S117723	19,535	96

lye of God but also by the authoryte of the decres and auncient cannos as pestilent people by whō the churche of God is robbed wasted and desolated y ● reformation of the church letted and the saluation of y ● people withdrawen O Lord God what a boke might be made of this mater if tym woulde suffer it but I remit it al to the Iugemēt of those persones whiche loue and dread the almighty lord What do you noble and vertuous Princes Lordes and Ladyes why haue ye no regarde ouer these marchants and notwythstandynge that by theyr pride they wyll not be visyred of you yet will thei or not ye haue authoritie ouer thē And to you and none other it belongeth to castyse to correct and represte the great excesse of suche theues Do it than to thende that it be not uerified of you that is voken in Esaye Suche princes are infidels companiōs of theues but rather that in y ● presence of the liuinge God of whom ye bere the name whiche hath giuen you the poure of the sworde for to vse it to hys honor defendynge innocentes punishing al male factors be ye foūd faithfull and veritable Consentynge to all godnes resystynge euylle wythe all your power for hys good wyll for by hym ye are commited ther to he alone may exalt you or put you down in this present lyfe and the life to come and herof ye maye be sure if ye seke his honor he wil honor you Yf ye exalt hym he wyll exalt you By hys wisdome kynges do reygne and Lordes do ordein ordinaunces of Iustice And the mysprision of the dyuine wyll wisdome is cause of al euyls ouer Kinges Princes Lordes coūtres and nations Which may be sen in Dauid Solomō Ezechi Achab Manasses and other And let no man take feare in forthering the honore of God as the simple Sedechie dyd Fearynge more the prynces of Iuda of Ierusalē thē y ● only God Not beleueyng y ● good coūsel of Ieremi The which Sedechie neuertheles afterwarde foūde tru that which the prophete had tolde him And was put fro the goodes y ● wer ordened for him For it is not in y ● power of men to put Kynges fro their crowes but it belongeth to y ● only god which trās ferreth kingdomes as it pleaseth hym The which if he be with you who cā be againste you Oh God if ye were as prompt and redy to procure the honor of God as these auaricyous marchāts are apt and diligent about theyr busines that nothing escape thē O Lorde howe euery thinge should be well It is no nede to speak of ther study and diligence for euery body seth it They haue a. C. eyes euer open to watch as the cat for the mous Argus sawe neuer clerer before and behynde nomore dyd Ianus wyth hys dowble face If the belles rynge in any place as thei say for an obit than oure gentyl gallants trudge apace but our Lord knoweth what a drage there is of them Yf the mayster or the dame of a hous be seke so that they be any thing riche for of the poore they pas not and that they haue any token of death oure marchants togo thether a pace a pace to put in theyr myndes to remember theyr shoppes theyr byldyng theyr church their brethen and for to haue some aniuersari foundacion or other testamentary gift Do what ye wyl out of the hous ye get them not tyll they haue some praye or elles they will saye that he or she be Lutherien heretykes God knoweth what wily wrinches what subtyll fallaces they do commit fro day to day Thinke who will on the houshold on the famuly on of the chyldren rent or detts al is one to them so they may haue theyr askynge they care not If any bridales be thyder rene oure marchants to fare well and to blysse y ● bride bed If any woman lye in childbed thei togo to say gospels ano to be at the syttyng vp and chirching To be short be it at lyfe or death our marchāts be euer practisyng some bribles they neuer make an end And the better to dyspose the matter after theyr sorte not one of them will mary because they maye the better vse theyr byt cheri at their ease to passe the tyme and to lyue wythout thought For to conclude it is to be noted that amonge so greate a felowshyppe of marchants there be two sorts yet none of them both do liue in purenes of chastite of the whiche some of them gouerne them selfe in course rude tyranie the other in fayre hypocrysy The fyrst be thei that opēly constraine the people to by theyr wares and there is no remedy but passe that wyae or els to be flayne and murdred of them or at the least excōmunicate in their sinagog The other that could not come to vsurpe the power to commaunde can by an other meane that is to wite in the apparence of pouertie bering walets all vpō their shulders full simply faining a lowting caūtenance selling them sellfe as the Essians Saducians or Pharisians dyd Sōtyme they would giue their owne habite to the pore pretendyng some holynes the which afterwarde was paied a. C. times dowble Thus can they worke subtylly in they marketes and fayres Than is there anothor sorte of fyne bestial frires lowtes lowting theyr heades bi the waye bearing great beades lyke father Robert of Islyngton Marchants of theyr owne workes and merytes as if they hade some in store to sell againe And openly thei haue made to beleue that all the benefactoures of theyr orders haue won heauen bi the merites of these holy beaupers quentchyng the fayth therby and putting the holy name of Iesus Christe in darcknes blasphemeynge openly the grace and mercy of the Lorde God the whyche is not wone by worke or merite or elles grace should not bee grace howebe i● by such dreamyng lyes and fayninge these arrogant supersticious fat trewāts haue sed theyr myserable bealyes wyth the labour of the simple people I maye say miserable west inoughe for there was neuer so manye vngracious sortes of people vpon the earth They do disfigure and fatten them selues they extermine theyr faces as hypocrits They torment punishe them sefes for to appere to the worlde suche as they bee not Truly thei tak great paynes to go to the Deuill And often tymes whan they se a yong child comē of a good stocke and riche kinred they wylle so entyce hym asmuche as they may to catch hym in limetwyges snare to make him lyke vnto them To such folkes Iesus Christe gyueth his curse when he saieth wo vnto you hypocrits that compas both sea lande to make one your nouice and whan he is made he shalbe dowble wors than you This is their ioy and consolacion to drawe any to their estate Wherby it is very veryt able that the delyte of a

gaue not that office to Saint Christophre whych had so great and long tethe that Cobrande was no thynge lyke Probacion In a certain place of Fraunc called Beaunoys is a lytell abbay of Sain Christopher where as the reuerends ther do shewe a to the whyche as they say is one of S. Christophres The whych to the is so bygg and long that if he had had but. xii in hys mouth it should haue ben wyder than the greatest ouens mouth in all parys what a felowe were he y ● had xxiiii or xxx suche in his mouth atones Truly thys goodly toth in brede is more than agreate halfe fote and byg accordyngly O intollerable irrisyon And yet it serueth a monge these good marchants And to come to our purpose Saynt Quintin healeth the Cough Many healeth the feuers but there is so many of thē that they let eche other S. Clare helpeth redde eien S. Aduertyn the head ache of women S. Mayn of the scab I leaue saynt Gyles in Cōstantin that often helpeth womē to haue childrē Such saints inow are found at the fryres and monkes S. Mor healeth the gowt whan he is at leyser S. Syeth fyndeth lost thinges another serueth to go Another to come One to begin an other to make an end Neuer was seen suche worke men Nor neuer was seen such afyre But aboue al other y ● can be deuised there is none Iolier S. Maturin that healeth all them wyth empty heades as mad and abstraught people which be thy der brought God knoweth Howe they be handled The measur of olde fathers cānot serue They shallbe rubbed horscomed and whipped that it is pyte and yet neuer the wyser but whan they haue done they muste haue money and wyne and so he is fayne to renne a way lustyly Were it not agreat almes by charyte to haue whypped and scourged a gallant naminge hym selfe an aulmosiner I wotte not frowhens whiche a whyle ago in the cite of Abeuile in Pycardy played aprety gewgaw And the better to vnderstand his gābawed whan the Quene made her enter there She beyng with her asistantes in the churche of S. ●oulfrāe this holi father after his masse sayd he made a supersault and willyngly as a tumbler fell downe as in a sown feining to be rauished or to se sōme heauenly vision And in dede the good gen tylman woulde haue persuaded the simple people that he had seen the virgen Mary accōpanied with certain saints As. S. Peter and. S. Paule whiche had shewed him some diuine secrets The whiche thinge anone was publyshed for certayne and true by the vpholders of his degre I meane valyaunt pillers of y e church although it was but a lye and deceyt As hymself syth hath confessed sayenge that he dyd it onely to be estemed the more holy man and by cause more credet should be giuen to his wordes This was the inuention of suche a worke man which had nofeare to lye and in his mockery offended God greueously for to accomplish hys knauery How be it S. Paul hath expressely writen that the verite of God hath no nede of oure dreaming lyes and that none ought to do ani euill to thend that goodnes may happen hym But what thought take such folkes for S. Paul or of hys wrytynges Wherfore such a Iacke aboue all other y t coulde bee thought or spoken of as a fole wyth hys lyke felowes ought to be led to the god S. Maturin and ther as a holi bodi to be reised vp and pleasantly haue hys head rubbed horscomed brushed handled tormoyled and whipped to make hym know what it is to bee folyshe or wyse speciallye in mattiers of greate weyght For aboue all y ● folyes that can be done sayd or thought the greatest is to counterfeit any thynge belonging to god O Lorde God how y e world by such minions and fals menes hath ben in tymes past and yet is enpoysoned wyth greate erroure and sedicion There be other saynts for artifycers or handy craftes euery one in hys occupation and faculte S. Crispian maketh shoes And saynt Rocke cobbleth them S. Cosme hea leth soores and wounds S. Iuy kepeth proces in y ● lawe S. honory maketh matches One goeth on fot another rideth one is naked another well clothed One is armed another with a single wepon It is wonderous to think on it And in good sothe if I would delate worke set forth and amplifie all y ● is hyd vnder thys fayned shadowe I had nede to make agreat boke by it selfe a lone Wherfore I differ this purpose tyll another tyme abydynge the helpe of the Lorde The whiche for euer b● praysed exalted and manyfied his onely best beloued sone oure Lorde Iesus Christ whyche wyth hys bloud hath purged vs who be blessed In the worlde of worldes ¶ Imprinted in Lōdon ar to be sold by Richard Iugge at the North doore of Pouls Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Thes● i. Luk. xi● ii Tim. ii Iohn x. i. Pet. ii iiii Re. ix Ier. iiii Luk xxi● i. P●● 1. Iohn ii ●a●h xiiii Apo. xviii probatū Stella clericorum Pauorm super pri ▪ prin●● ▪ de electione in glossa prima in fine The hat maker of Rome ●la 〈…〉 a. Questio pregnās Of fruterers Act .xx. i. Timo .iiii. Ezechiel xxxviii ii Pet. iii Iude. ii i. Tim. iii Of buriynges Prop 〈…〉 quar to modo Math. x. Cananea●s negotiator idē 〈…〉 ii Gen. xviii Corban Corban Mar. vii Vbi oues ibi pelles Act. viii Rom. xiii E●le i. E●o him Pro viii ii Regū xxiiii iii. Re xi Ieremie xxxii et xxxix Danie i. Rom. viii Mathei xxiii Consolacio mise●orum Mat. vii i. Pet. ii iii. Regū xx xviii et xix Lu● ii The translatour ii Cor. xi Deu●●r xxxiiii Iude. i. Rom. iii.