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A13506 Taylors pastorall being both historicall and satyricall: or the noble antiquitie of shepheards, with the profitable vse of sheepe: with a small touch of a scabbed sheepe, and a caueat against that infection. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1624 (1624) STC 23801; ESTC S118298 18,203 40

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his part To be the valiant ruler of the heart From whence such men may gather this reliefe That though a Ramhead may be cause of griefe Yet Nature hath this remedie found out They should haue Lions hearts to beare it stout And to defend and keepe the head from harme The Anagram of Ram I finde is Arm. Thus is a Ramhead arm'd against all feare He needs no helmet or no head-piece weare To speake more in the plurall number Rams It yeelds signifique warre like Anagrams For Rams is Mars Mars is the god of warre And Rams is Arms Arms warres munitions are And from the fierce encounters which they make Strange mysteries in the words Ram or Rams the Rams the first runners at tilt and first teachers of warlike battel Iosephus Bella. lib. 3. cap. 9. Rams hornes the first trumpets Our Tilts and Tourneys did beginnings take For as the Rams retire and meet with rage So men doe in their warre-like equipage And long e're powder from hells damned den Was monstrously produc'd to murder men The Ram an Engine call'd a Ram did teach To batter downe a wall or make a breach And now some places of defence ' gainst shot Haue from the Ram the name of Rampiers got First warlike Trumpets that I e're heard nam'd At Iericho were all of Rams hornes fram'd For at the Ramshorne Trumpets fearefull blast Their cursed walls were suddenly downe cast Thus is the Ram with many vertues stor'd And was in Egypt for a god ador'd And like a Captaine he the flocke doth leade As fits their Generall their Prince or head Thus haue I prou'd a Sheepe a beast of price Cleane and reputed fit for sacrifice And sleeping waking early or else late It still doth chew the cud and ruminate Of all beasts in the worlds circumference For meeknesse profit and for innocence I haue approu'd a sheepe most excellent That with least cost doth giue man most content There 's such instinct of Nature in the Lambe By bleating It mongst thousands knowes the dam Agnus Great knowledge in the Lambe For which the name of Agnoscendo knowing Is giuen to a Lambe it 's knowledge showing But to consider more seriously the wonderfull blessing that the whole world hath had and hath by sheepe at this present I thinke it not amisse to vse the words of an ingenious and well affected Poet of our time Master T. M. where he truly saith No Ram no Lambe no Lambe no Sheepe no Sheepe no Wooll no Wooll no Woolman no Woolman no Spinner no Spinner no Weauer no Weauer no Cloth no Cloth no Clothier no Clothier no Clothworker Fuller Tucker Shearman Draper or scarcely a rich Dier And what infinite numbers of people rich and poore haue liued and doe liue hauing their whole dependance from the poore sheepes backe all men of iudgement will acknowledge besides I thinke it not amisse to set downe the names of many worthy men who haue beene free of London of such trades and mysteries whereof the sheepe is the originall vnder God And first to begin with the Right Worshipfull Company of Drapers with the names of such as haue borne the honourable Office and Dignitie of Lord Maior of London with their pious deeds and diuers other persons of the said Company their names and memorable charities with the like remembrance of the Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers And first I begin with the first Anno 1189. In the beginning of the raigne of King Richard the first Sir Henrie Fitz Allen Draper was the first Lord Maior of London who continued in that dignitie twentie foure yeares together till the fourteenth yeare of King Iohn 1212. when he died he was a worthy Benefactor to his Company and gaue houses to the vse of the poore in the parish of Saint Marie Bothaw in Walbrooke ward Anno 1252. Iohn Talason Draper Maior 1253. Richard Hardell Draper sixe yeares Maior 1330. Sir Iohn Pultney Draper two yeares Maior 1332. Iohn Preston Draper Maior 1333. Sir Iohn Pultney Maior 1336. Many of these men did good and charitable deeds but they did them secretly in their liues time Sir Iohn Pultney the fourth time Lord Maior he built a Chappell in Pauls where he lies buried he also built Saint Laurence Pultney Church and the Church of little Alhalowes and the Church called the Friers in Couentrie he gaue to the poore of Saint Giles in the fields to the poore prisoners in the Fleet and Newgate ten shillings to each yearely for euer besides many other deeds of charitie which he did Anno 1363. Stephen Candish Draper Maior 1367. Iames Andrew Draper Maior 1381. Iohn Northampton Draper two yeares Maior 1391. Iohn Hinde Draper Maior Anno 1402. Iohn Walcot Draper Maior 1404. Iohn Hinde the second time Maior he newly built the Church of Saint Swithin neere London stone 1413. Sir William Cromer Draper Maior 1415. Sir Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1423. William Cromer Draper Maior 1427. Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1430. Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1433. Iohn Brockle Draper Maior 1441. Robert Clopton Draper Maior 1445. Sir Simon Eyre Draper Maior he built Leaden Hall for a Garnerie for the Citie and gaue fiue thousand Markes to charitable vses 1447. Sir Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1453. Sir Iohn Norman Draper Maior 1458. Sir Thomas Scot Draper Maior 1462. Sir Thomas Cooke Draper Maior 1464. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper Maior 1474. Sir Robert Drope Draper Maior he lieth buried in Saint Michaels Church in Cornhill London he gaue towards poore maides marriages of that parish twentie pound and to the poore of that ward ten pound and three hundred shirts and smockes and a hundred gownes of Broadcloth 1476. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper the second time Maior 1479. Sir Bartholomew Iames Draper Maior 1481. Sir William Harriot Draper Maior 1484. Sir William Stocker Draper Maior 1489. Sir William White Draper Maior 1503. Sir William Capell Draper Maior 1507. Laurence Aylmer Draper Maior 1509. Sir William Capell the second time Maior 1511. Sir Roger Achley Draper Maior 1514. Sir George Monox Draper Maior he repaired the ruinated Church at Walthamstow in Essex and erected a Free Schoole there and thirteene Almeshouses for aged people also he built a long Timber Cawsway ouer the Marshes from Walthamstow to Locke Bridge 1520. Sir Iohn Bruges Draper Maior 1521. Sir Iohn Milbourne Draper Maior he built 14. Almeshouses for 14. aged poore people neere the Lord Lumleys house in the crossed or crooched Friers allowing to each two shillings foure pence monthly for euer 1524. Sir William Bailie Draper Maior 1528. Sir Iohn Rudston Draper Maior 1533. Sir Christopher Askew Draper Maior he paied largely to the building of eight Almeshouses in Beech-lane London for eight poore Widowes of his company 1540. Sir William Roch Draper Maior 1560. Sir William Chester Draper Maior 1565. Sir Richard Champion Draper Maior a good Benefactor to the poore of Saint Dunstans in the East and to the poore in Saint Edmunds in Lumbard street he gaue