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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30697	The poor mans friend, or A narrative of what progresse many worthy citi- [sic] of London have made in that godly work of providing for the poor With an Ordinance of Parliament for the better carrying on of the work. Published for the information and encouragement of those, both in city and countrey, that wish well to so pious a work.	Bush, Rice.; England and Wales. Parliament. Proceedings. 1647-12-17.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6231A; ESTC R214161	19,460	30

THE POOR MANS Friend OR A NARRATIVE of what progresse many worthy Citi of London have made in that Godly Work of providing for the POOR WITH An Ordinance of PARLIAMENT for the better carrying on of the Work Published for the information and encouragement of those both in City and Countrey that wish well to so Pious a Work MATTH. 5.7 Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtain mercy LONDON Printed by A.M. for Tho. Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1649. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL Alderman Andrewes Alderman Witham Lieut Coll. Lee Mr Rich. Floyd Capt. Coish Dr Odeling Mr Loaues Mr Hartlipp Mr Fisher Mr Jenner Mr Edmonds and the rest of the active Gentlemen whose endeavours in behalf of the Poor have been sufficiently manifested for these five years last past Gentlemen YOur labour of love to the poor is had in remembrance before God and ought not to be forgotten with men I make bold to mention Your Names minding You of what You have well begun beseeching You to go on ti'l You have perfected the work else this will stand as a blot upon Your Names Not having time and opportunity to prosecute the businesse as formerly I held it convenient to publish what is done that some of those now acting may reap the benefit thereof Your Friend R.B. TO MY LOVING BRETHREN Henry Hurle William Legg and Rich Millard Gent. Sirs A Short Epistle best sutes a short discourse you may remember I gave to you a hint formerly that some Citizens were endeavouring a reformation of and provision for the necessitous poor in our City which would be an example and inducement to all the Kingdom to doe the like It is now in some probability of effecting An Ordinance is past both Houses creating a Corporation for that purpose which Ordinance being as is conceived not full enough some additions thereto are by the Corporation desired which is the present obstruction and will doubtlesse be removed as soon as the emergent businesse of State will admit In the meantime I thought good to give you this account it being one of the most probable waies to promote it with You in my own native County and after through the whole Kingdom and being effectually and conscionably performed will doubtlesse remove from us many evils disorders clamours and tumults and procure upon us the blessings promised to them that consider the poor The Lord will deliver them in the day of trouble Despair not because it hath been long preparing great bodies move slowly and good designes take not effect as could be desired I had thought to have given you the summe of the discourse but on second thoughts I conceived it better to refer you to the relation at large the which if you shall approve doe your endeavour to doe your County that service to promote so good a work which will be a blessing to the poor and a comfort to the rich The Lord direct and assist You. So praieth Your loving Brother RICH BUSH London March 16 1649. To the READER Reader THis Account was intended long since to be published but for some reasons that then offered themselves to consideration it was forborn then to be printed but is now thought convenient and usefull to be communicated to others not only for the ends herein mentioned and much lesse for any worth or excellency that is in it self save only that it may fitly serve to revive and stir up the Corporation already appointed who might long since have set this work on foot in this County yea I am confident have setled it to the relief of the poor in generall house-keeper or other had not some few men judged a lion to be in their way who I hope will be convinced either by this plain method chalked out to them or by the multitude of petitioners their way and propositions pressing the necessity to undertake it with the facility of the work if once begun and of what consequence it will be to poor and rich tending to peace and prosperity in this nation particularly and especially the Proposals drawn up by that ingenuous lover of his Country Dr Chamberlain both excellent and methodicall with sound reason to convince the doubtfull and satisfie the ingenuous lovers of their Country so also it may fitly serve to unite the severall streams that run this way bringing them all into one channell for the more effectuall carrying on this Pious Just and Honourable design all which with such other helps as are hinted in this discourse with their Authors here mentioned conjoined and committed to honest active men who affect this businesse it may through Gods blessing make this flourish with outward prosperity and may be a means to draw down a blessing upon all our affairs considering that promise If our waies please God he will make our enemies to be at peace with us For which blessing praieth Yours R.B. March 16. 1649. THE POOR MANS FRIEND OR A Narrative of what progresse many worthy Citizens of London have made in that Godly Work of providing for the POOR THE great God that in his wisdom made all things very good did so order all things by his all-seeing providence that every creature hath some quality and property to defend it self from injury and preserve its well being and likewise did provide in a most excellent manner all things fit and necessary for the well being of those creatures he hath created But to man in particular God had more respect then to any other of his creatures for he made him after his own Image and next to himself indued him with reason and understanding and made him Lord over the rest of his creatures that he might be more servisable to his Creator and provided all things for the being and well being of man before he was made viz. a Paradise to dwell in fruit for food and all other things that might conduce to mans happinesse and put him in possession of that which he had thus prepared for him and gave him laws to try whether he would obey serve and honour his Creator But man being in honour continued not but was like the beast that perisheth for man transgressed the command of his Maker and by his sin cast himself at once out of Gods favour and of that Paradise wherein he was placed and brought himself and his posterity under that curse viz. Gen. 3.17 Cursed is the earth for thy sake and cursed art thou in the sweat of thy brows shalt thou eat thy bread so that man is appointed to labour and he that will not work neither shall he eat saith the Apostle but God in judgement remembring mercy provided for man a Saviour with laws and rules by which the well being of man might be preserved and maintained and injoins us to shew mercy and doe good to all men and not to hide our selves from our own flesh and condemns Cain for killing his brother not accepting of his excuse Am I my brothers keeper To shew

fourteen daies caused an Ordinance to be drawn up and the same soon after concluded and sent down unto the Commons which was likewise by them committed and perfected and sent down to the right Honourable John Warner then Lord Major of London and the Corporation appointed for that purpose to put in execution the afore-mentioned Ordinance which Ordinance I have here inserted Die Veneris 17. Decemb. 1647. An Ordinance for the Relief and Imployment of the Poor and the Punishment of Vagrants and other disorderly Persons VVHereas the Necessity Number and Increase of the Poor is very great within the City of London and Liberties thereof for want of the due execution of such wholesome Laws and Statutes as have been formerly made For remedy thereof and for other the purposes herein after specified Be it and it is Ordained by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That from henceforth there be and shall be a Corporation within the said City of London and Liberties thereof consisting of a President Deputy to the President a Treasurer and fourty Assistants whereof the Lord Major of the said City for the time being to be the President eight of the said Assistants to be of the Aldermen of the said City for the time being and the other thirty and two to be Free-men of and Inhabitants in the said City chosen out of the severall Wards of the said City equally and that John Warner Sir George Clarke John Foulke William Gibbs Samuel Avery John Bide George Witham Thomas Viner Aldermen of the said City shall be the first eight Aldermen of the present Assistants and that Francis Waterhouse shall be the present Deputy to the said President And that Maurice Gething shall be the present Treasurer and that John Offeild Richard Morrall James Russell Walter Pell Ralph Hough Robert Mainwaring Anthony Webster William Adams Richard Glide William Jesson Tempest Milner Thomas Arnold William Kendall Toby Lisle Nathaniel Hall Humphrey Hawley William Antrobus John Green Edmund Whitwell John Cooke Robert Meade Robert Dallison William Bromewich John Everet Thomas Clowes John Jones John Bellamy Abraham Chamberlaine John Babbington Richard Garsorth John Perryn and Stafford Clare shall be the other thirty two Assistants And that the Deputy and Treasurer from henceforth shall be Eligible by the Common Councell of the said City yearly on the 25th of June or at the next Common Councell following or within twenty eight daies next after the said 25th of June and that such two of the eight Aldermen being Assistants and eight of the other thirty two Assistants as the said Common Councell shall think fit shall fall off or be amoved yearly at the said day and time of election and that two other Aldermen and eight other Commoners Citizens of and Inhabitants in the said City shall be yearly elected by the said Common Councell on the day and time aforesaid to be Assistant in the place of such as shall so fall off or be amoved And it is further Ordained that the said President Deputy Treasurer and Assistants for the time being shall for ever hereafter in name and fact be one Body Politique and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetuall Succession and shall be called by the name of The President and Governours for the Poor of the City of London and Liberties thereof And by that name shall and may without Licence in Mortmeine purchase or receive any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not exceeding the yearly value of two thousand pounds of the Gift Alienation or Devise of any Person or Persons who are hereby without further Licence enabled to give the same and any Goods Chattels or Summes of Money whatsoever to the use intent and purpose hereafter limited and appointed And sue or plead and be sued or impleaded by the name aforesaid in all Courts and places of Judicature within this Realm And the said Corporation or any nine of them whereof the said President or any of the said Aldermen or the Deputy to the President or the said Treasurer to be one shall have hereby power and authority from time to time to meet and keep Court for the ends and purposes herein expressed at such time and place as the said President or his Deputy shall appoint And shall have hereby authority from time to time to make and appoint a common Seal for the use of the said Corporation and to chuse such Officers and them or any of them from time to time to remove as they shall see cause and upon the removall or death of them or any of them to chuse others in their places for the carrying on of this work and to make and give such reasonable allowance to them or any of them out of the Stock and Revenue belonging to the said Corporation as they shall think fit and shall have hereby full power and authority to doe and execute all such other Acts and things as are hereby ordained and appointed for the effecting the work hereby intended to be done and executed And be it ordained by the authority aforesaid for the further relief and employing of the said poor within the said City and liberties thereof that the said Corporation or any nine of them whereof the said President or any of the said Aldermen or the Deputy to the President or the said Treasurer to be one shall have power to Erect one or more Work-houses for receiving relieving and setting the poor on work and one or more houses of Correction for punishing of Rogues Vagabonds and Beggers as they shall think fit And be it further ordained by the Authority aforesaid that in regard of the great inequality in the ordering and relieving of the poor through the different abilities of the severall and respective Wards in the City of London and Liberties thereof the said Corporation or any Nine of them shall hereby be authorised with consent of the Common Councell of the said City to divide the severall Wards with the poor and stock to them belonging into four equall parts or proportions for the more effectuall and indifferent relief of the poor and the avoiding future differences and dissentions between the rich and the poor Parishes provided this division of the said City and Liberties thereof shall not be any prejudice to the relief of those parts of Parishes which lie without the Liberties of the City which Parishes lie part within the Liberties and part without but that those parts which lie without the Liberties of the City shall and may have such relief from Parishes within the City as formerly they have had And be it ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the further relief and imploying of the said poor within the said City and Liberties if the said Corporation shall finde that the Annuall Rates and Levies or other Stock come to their hands shall not be sufficient for the effecting the purposes aforesaid that then and from time to time it shall and may