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A65241 A short narrative of the late dreadful fire in London together vvith certain considerations remarkable therein, and deducible therefrom : not unseasonable for the perusal of this age written by way of letter to a person of honour and virtue. Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670. 1667 (1667) Wing W1050; ESTC R8112 75,226 194

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Intreaty and Motion to become the Patron and Refounder of the Colledge God having concentred in his Lordship those arguments of Motive for him to do this which he has not now in many no less willing as that his Lordship was a Native of London the Son of a wealthy Citizen in the same That he was a Church-man in the City many years That he had been a Governour of Syon Colledge That he had long published himself an intender of Publique charity by way of a Colledge to be built or some Hospital or both if this added to his Fatherly ability in point of Estate and his non-avocation by Provision for Children which many mens Intentions this way are pestered with and rendred ineffectual by These I say all amassed together did portray him probable enough to expect such an address and to be by God prepared not to brow-beat it especially when the Eminency of this Charity had furtherance by the cheapness of it the restoration of which Edifice to its splendor would not with the Materials when the Motion was made already there have amounted to above 3000l which was far less than either our first Founder Reverend Dr. White or our second Founder worthy Mr. Simpson though but a playne Rector of a Church in London and having a charge of Children bestowed upon their respective parts of Foundation therein But this Motion which no man can deny to have been then not impossible to have gain'd accomplishment to those honest ends ceased under the conclusion He was an angry old Man and would not relish such an Application and so it dyed and two moneths after his Lordship too but I wish it be not the hopefullest opportunity that the Colledge will ever have And I pray God that future diligence may supply what herein may be feared wanting and that the Library may be fitted to use Since as the Lord Coventry once said The Colledge had never been or continued if it had not been for the Library and Alms-houses This I thought here good to publish it being my nature and custome to promote all pious and learned Interests by any opportunities I have or can seasonably take and to Gratulate the Kindness Convenience and Favour I have had from any person or thing with frequency of acknowledgment and wherein I can with fluency of requital Yea so great a confidence had I of the feasibility of this Motion had it been currantly followed that I dare say and I would have none displeased with me but if they be I will be pleased with my self for believing it That if the meanest Society in London had conceived such hopes of any man so related to them and so enabled for them as the prementioned Prelate was to the Corporation of London Ministers at Syon Colledge they would have not been so Modest as to have made to themselves a difficulty to approach him and a denyal from him before they had attempted the one and received the other But would have made as much of it as their diligence furthered by Gods blessing would have prospered their application to And I the rather Sir move the Nobles and Gentry to this because God in the words of Mordecay to Esther perhaps has brought them to and preserved them in riches and plenty for such a time as this Esther 4. 14. And how can they do more to denominate them Noble and Great ●inded then this of building somewhat of publique Use and State Thus God when he declares his Mercy and Greatness to his is said to Build the Cities of Iudah Psal. 69. 35. And when the Lord builds up Zyon he is said to Appear in his Glory Psal. 102. 16. Thus God saies to his Peoples comfort The Heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate Ezech. 36. 36. And when God threatned the deriders of his destroyed people whom he calls sinners of his people that shall die by the sword which say the evil shall not overtake nor prevent us Amos 9. 10. In the 11th v. he adds In that day to wit of their ruine will I raise up the Tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof and I will raise up his ruines and I will build it as in the dayes of old And as God himself shews his Greatness by this so does he stir up great Mindes thus to do Thus he stirred up Solomon to build a House to him 1 Chron. 28. 10. Thus God moved Cyrus to build the Temple Ezra 5●13 Thus Cain Nimrod Ashur and all men else of Might are excited to build Cities and Houses and to call them after their own Names which was not onely the Fashion of elder times and Eastern Countries but has ever been the Custome of England Most Halls and Lordship Houses takeing Denomination from the Primitive or most remarkable Owner of them Which perpetuation of any mans Name and Memory is more probable and certainly continuous than that of a Child who may die or leave no Heir or but an Heir Female or may by unthriftiness waste an Estate and so extinguish the Ancestor when as a publique Bounty fixed on the Basis of a notable Structure imployed to a general Use can undergo no such change for its Corporation never dies and its Alienation is secured against Which is verified in that Magnanimous and liberal hearted Benefactor to London and that Glory of Englands Traders in his time Sir Thomas Gresham Knight and Mercer of London the wealthy and serviceable Merchant of Queen Elizabeth of ever blessed Memory who dying childless is buryed in the alienation of Asterly and other great parcels of his Lands now out of the Name of Gresham but yet he lives in the Colledge of his Foundation and in the City House he lived in which is by the Mercy of God preserved from Fire and become the Chamber The Guild-hall The Common-hall The Exchange of the remaining City The Royal Exchange in Cornhil of his Foundation Anno 1571. being wholly burnt down and all the Stately and Kingly Effigies of it demolished except his the Founders which yet stands in its Arch undefaced which president of Gods Custody of a charitable mans Statue in that place and posture which to his Memory it was first placed in insinuates to me a very cogent Argument of invitation to some of the descendants from Citizens to set apart some share of their spare Estate to restore waste places of Use and Notability wherein they will more display the Piety Gratitude and bravery of their Natures than by any Paradoe of Pompe or any affectation of Grandeur which is Personal It was a rare Testimony given of the Centurion That he loved the Iewish Nation because he built the Iewes a Synagogue And 't will be a sure Evidence of Love to the Ancestor that in London rose and enriched a Family in London when the Descendants from it so enriched shall