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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54295	Mr. Pepys to the Lord Mayor upon the present state of Christ-Hospital. To the Right Honourable Sir Humphry Edwin, Lord Mayor	Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.; Edwin, Humphrey, Sir, 1642-1707, recipient.	1698 (1698)	Wing P1451A; ESTC R222471	2,807	6

upon the State of Christ-Hospital 〈…〉 per 1 Mr. PEPYS to the Lord Mayor Upon the Present State of CHRIST-HOSPITAL To the Right Honourable Sir Humphry Edwin Lord Mayor Tuesday Octob. 25. 1698. York-Buildings My Lord ANother Three Months are now run-out and the whole twelve of your Lordship's Great Office at the Eve of their Expiring while our poor Orphans remain in the same reliefless State I left them in with your Lordship in my Letter of the 5th of April last Wherein nothing more was propos'd of Trouble to your Lordship towards the remedying it and that too of your Lordship 's own seeking than the accompanying with your Authority my Report thereof to the Gentlemen of Christ-Hospital to whom it was specially directed and to the Body-Corporate of the City which as I have heretofore noted stands originally answerable for the same to the Crown In neither of which though abundantly apply'd-to in both has your Lordship thought fit to express any regard to your Vndertaking to me But so much the contrary as to have arraign'd my late Memorial to you concerning it even after your Own and the Court of Aldermen's solemn Thanks to me for it as a Libel and the only Occasion of the No-Voice given your Lordship at the late Parliament-Election for the City And this deliver'd me from your Lordship and my Lady Mayoress too as your Joint-Message by the same Worthy Citizen and Member both of your Common Council and Hospital whom your self was first pleased to employ to me on those Pious Errands I was misled by to the submitting the Execution of this Matter singly to your Lordship My Lord I shall not offer at the asking-after or even aiming at the Ground of this your so extraordinary Dealing in a Cause of so Religious an Import as leaving that to God the City and your Self to be reckon'd-for It shall suffice me My Lord to observe That it has arisen from neither of those Causes whereto the Court of Aldermen were led to joyn with your Lordship in the assigning it and in the yet unperform'd Undertaking for its Recovery your Sickness I mean My Lord and Sir Tho. Stamp's Absence Give me leave only to bewail the Consequences of it to the Poor whatever it may end-in to the City Namely the Continuance hereby occasion'd to the Imposure upon the Gentlemen of the Hospital whose better Information could not but e're this have produc'd some good Effects towards its Relief Next the more confirm'd Admission of their Methods whose Interest and therefore Business it seems to be to suppress that Information And lastly the rend'ring the Poverty Disorders and Impieties of the Place so much less superable than they appear'd to me when first laid before your Lordship as to put me beyond all Hopes of their Redress from any lower Hand than that of a Royal Visitation The Power of which after so glorious a Proof of it as I have lately seen to the lasting Honour of his Lordship the present Lord Chancellor in the Case of St. Katherines I cannot on behalf of our distress'd Orphans and in right to their Holy Benefactors but bless Almighty God for and henceforward direct my self wholly to without offering either your Lordship my Lord Elect your Honourable Successor his Brethren the Court of Aldermen the Gentlemen of the Hospital or my Self the Interruptions I have been so long driven at the end of every Three Months fruitlesly to repeat on this Subject But apply my self to the speedy bringing-up to this Day what is now behind of my Report for the Six Months your Lordship has thus unhappily added to the Time I had last adjusted it to relating to the Moral Part of this House's Misery In order to such Vse to be made thereof as a like Royal Inspection may I trust find it convertible to It remains That in taking my Leave of your Lordship which I would do with all the Respect due to your Lordship's Just Character I beg you to consider Whether what I either have done am now doing or may have further to do in Exposing my Observations and Sentiments in this Matter be either more or other than what my Cha●ge as a Governour obliges me to and what my self alone through my closer Applications to the Service of the House am inlighten'd to do or otherwhere than by my immediate Duty I am bound or which is yet more in any other manner than what is alone left me to do it in Especially after the Miscarriage of all other Methods Personal and Written employ'd by me with those I thought most concern'd to improve them whether at their Committees and Courts or separately as Private Governours and Superior Ministers viz. the Treasurer President and last of all your Lordship both alone and in Conjunction with your Brethren the Aldermen For preventing if possible the obvious Consequences of my being compell'd to the carrying them elsewhere And even this too with such a degree of Tenderness as after all that has been said of its being made the Entertainment of Coffee-houses to the Offence I find of my Lady Mayoress as well as your Self and not a little to my own too for the sake of the Poor to stand ready with a Reward of Five Pounds to whoever shall shew me any one of my Printed Copies other than what were strictly deliver'd by Mr. Town-Clerk to Your Self the Aldermen and the Assistants of that Court and those severally indors'd by a Hand of my own with the Name of each Person intitled to the same And if this My Lord be a Libel I shall not undertake for its being my last where nothing gentler will be hearken'd to rather than be conscious of an approaching Ruin to a Foundation like this I 'm concern'd for and be Dumb. Next My Lord for avoiding any unnecessary Repetition of Trouble to the Court now sitting where Your Lordship has yet the Honour of Presiding permit me to pray That in the Notice you may see reasonable to take there of this Paper You will please to be its Remenbrancer in what for the Considerations assign'd in my last I then bespoke its Favour in reference to the disburthening me of a Charge in which I am at the end of any Hopes of seeing my self further serviceable Lastly let it be no Offence to Your Lordship that I end with an Observation impossible for me to over-look Namely That while I am here lamenting the Misfortune of our Poor from the Suppression of this Report of mine calculated for their Relief I find so much of it and so much only as seemed to me the properest Introduction to it in Advancement of Charity transferr'd in terminis to the Head of a Sermon and made the Text of it preach'd before your Lordship and published by Your Command in express Diminution thereof And not that only but to the doing violence to the Memory of One scarce yet Cold in his Grave whose Good Works have been too many and too conspicuous not to have covered Errors of a much greater Magnitude for no Man thought him Infallible than any I hear him charg'd with Especially in a Point of Faith wherein 't is hard to say which raised the greater Dust and most to the offence of Weaker Eyes His single Departure from the Doctrine of Our Church towards the Wrong or that of our own Doctors from One another in their Determinations touching the Right So far only I shall adventure to interpose in the particular Doctrine advanced in this Sermon by Your Lordship's Chaplain whom I take to be the first that ever raised it from that Text as with all deference to recommend it back to Your Lordship with this only Improvement for the rendring it more apposite and edifying in the present Case Viz. That the Neglect of the Poor is as little an Evidence of a True Faith in any Body else as the Care of them is a Justification of a Mistaken one in Mr. Fermin I am most respectfully My LORD Your Lordship 's most obedient Servant S. Pepys