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A68601	Tom of all trades. Or The plaine path-vvay to preferment Being a discovery of a passage to promotion in all professions, trades, arts, and mysteries. Found out by an old travailer in the sea of experience, amongst the inchanted islands of ill fortune. Now published for common good. By Thomas Povvell.	Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?	1631 (1631)	STC 20168; ESTC S114992	23,102	81

value in the first Fruits Bookes For attayning of any which I can advice you of no better course than to learne the way to the backe stayres The Lord Keeper presents for the King to all such benefices as belong to his Majestie and are under twenty pounds value in the bookes Now to know which of these are full and who are Incumbents in any of these Search The first Fruits Office The Clarke who hath the writing of the Presentations The Lord Keepers Secretarie being Where note that the King hath used very seldome to grant any such living in Reversion And the Lord Keeper now being His care is so great in this as in all cases of common good to provide for mans merit and cherish industrie in the growing plants that no one can offer unto him a repuest of this kinde without trespasse to his good disposition In the next place concerning Benefices in the Presentation of any of the Lords Bishops Note that most Bishopricks in England have presentation to divers Benefices belonging to their Seas For the number and present estate of these Search Their owne Leidgers Their Registers Enquire of Their Auditors Their Stewards of their Courts And sometimes you shall light upon some of theyr bookes of this kind in the hands of the heyres or Executors of such as have borne such offices under them He that is Chaplaine to such a Lord Bishop hath for the most part the best meanes accesse and opportunity to ataine to such a Benefice The commendations of such a great personage as to whom this Patron oweth greatest respect especially for his affairing in Court may doe some good in the matter The like wayes of discovery and the like meanes of attaining any Benefice in the Presentation of any Deane and Chapter are to be used with them respectively as with the Bishops With every Deane and Chapter are likewise divers Prebendaries to be obtained of their gift after the same manner and by the same meanes also The other bodies Incorporate besides those of Colledges and Deanes and Chapters have many of them especially of London and some subordinate Societies thereof right of the presentation to divers Benefices Also some Parishes by prescription doe present to their owne perochiall Benefices And many Patrons are content to present according to the approbation of the Parishioners upon their hearing and allowing and due exclamation of the integrity of the life of such suitors and no otherwise divers governors and gradations of the lands of divers Hospitals and Mesons de dien have like right of presentation to Benefices as have other bodies Incorporate And the meanes of discovery and attaining are likewise the like In Parishes and Companies of Tradesmen Incorporate some very few rule the roast Your Alderman of the Ward his Deputie your Common Councell-man Yea sometime that petty Epitomie of Wardemote Enquerst that little busie morsell of Iustice the Beadle of the Ward will make a strong partie in the election if he be put to it The Probotory Sermon that must be made upon such tryall before such an Auditorie would be according to the capacitie in generall But more esespecially according to the humor and addiction of those whose wits the rest have in singular reverence As Mr. Francis Fiat a good vnderstanding Fishmonger I assure you you may give the stile of right worshipfull to them though the best man of the company be but a Wine Cooper and his iudgement better in Claret then in Contioclerum a great deale If your sonne vpon his tryall can but fit their pallats smoothly which is hard to doe In regard that they are so hallow mouthed let him be sure though he misse the Benefice for want of preperation yet tenne to one but they will straine themselues to bring him in as a Lecturer which is a thing they reverence farre beyond the Parson of the Parish by many degrees Lastly for private Patrons and the Benefices in their guifts Search The Bishops Register for Iustitution and Presentation The Archdeacons Register for the Induction The Archbishops Register if it be a Peculiar It was my chaunce lately to see a booke of all the Benefices within the Diocesse of Canterbury with the manner of their tything in every each one respectiuely In which I find that there are or should be with the Register of every Lord Bishop seaven Bookes kept for Entrie of the matters and busines of their Diocesse of which this of Benefices is the cheife The like I saw formerly of the Diocesse of St. Davids which confirmes mee in the institution and custome of keeping the said bookes also in other Diocesse And seeing that severall privare Patrons are of severall dispositions some more Lucrative and Covetous Others more charitable and religious I can give you no other rule of attaining the Benefice than this viz. That your sonne bring with him abilitie of learning Integritie of life and conformitie of behaviour according to the order of the Church establisht amongst vs and these shall make his way with the good and generous Patron But for the other patron it makes no matter at all for learning and a very little for manners or whether he be a man conformable or no. Truely he is indifferent for his part very indifferent To such a patron your sonne must present himselfe thus if he meane to be presented according to present necessitie He must both speake and prove himselfe a man indued with good gifts For he shall have to deale with a Patron of a quicke Capacitie more dexterous in apprehension than your sonne or you can be in deliverie Be this Patron what he will your comfortis the Benefice must be filld and that within a limited time howsoever it is dangerous to attend the ending of the day in this case For seldome doth the Clarke of the market get any thing by their standing too long and above their accostomed houre Lapse by reason of Simony and Lapse for not presenting in due time Both offer advancement to learning But the first is at hand to discover as a witch And the second as rare to find out as a faithfull fiduciarie or a fast Freind The degrees of rising in the Ministrie are not easier knowne then practized by the industrious man Breifly if all Church livings in England were equally distributed There is noe one of the Ministry if he want not learning or good manners needs want maintenance or good Livelyhood Here I could wish to God That it might please the right reuerend Fathers of the Church the Lord Bishops That they would once in every of their times cause a true Catalogue of all the Benefices within their severall Diocesse with the names of the Patrons thereof according to the last presentation to be sent into the office of the first fruits for the better information of all such as deserue and would gladly attaine to some meanes of maintenance which they may the better doe by hauing recourse thither there to take notice of

brought to the Vniversitie by Election or as Pensioner THe first thing you must take to your care is In case he come not by election but as a Pensioner to live for the present upon your owne charge how to procure him a Schollership in the Colledge where you bestow him Or in case he come elected into one how to procure a farther addition of maintenance to him To bring him into a Schollership place him with a Senior fellow of the house as Tutor though you allow to some Iunior fellow somewhat yearely for reading unto him This Senior fellow if the number of places voide will beare it may nominate your sonne for one in his owne right if it will not beare it he may call to his ayd some and so many suffrages of the rest as with the speaking merit of your sonne may worke your desire Then how to procure a pension for addytament of meanes The chiefe skill is to finde it out being eyther in the gift of some body Incorporate Or of some private person Wherein the discovery is to bee made as aforesaid If you sue to a Company consisting of many persons Tradesmen you must enquire who bee the most potent Patritians and best reputed Vestrie wits amongst them such as carry their gloves in their hands not on their hands Amongst an Assistance of many onely two or three strike the stroke and hold the rest in a wonderfull admiration of their extraordinary endowments And how to speake sensibly to these two or three is no Mysterie You know they are faithfull fiduciaries in the election And therefore you must not presume to offer any thing by any meanes Onely you may desire them to accept this poore peece of plate with your name and Armes upon it and binde you unto their love in keeping the memory of you hereafter Doe but try them in this kinde and attend the successe I tell you this with a Bucke at the Renter Wardens feast may come somewhat neere to the matter But for the pension to be obtained of a private person the way is not the same It proceedeth of the givers meere charity and must be taken by the hand of a desertfull receiver Though withall it may sometimes fall out that merit is made by mediation especially of some such reverend Divine as he doth most respect and frequent For other letters can little prevaile with such persons The best note to discover a man inclinable to allow such a pension is to examine how wealth and charitie are equally and temporately mingled in him And be sure withall that he be a man of some reasonable understanding in what he doth in this kinde For a Fooles pension is like a new fashion eagerly pursued at the beginning but as scurvily left off in the proceeding Your next care is in his due time to put on a fellowship when he shall put off his Schollership seeing the Schollership keepes him company no farther than to the degree of Master of Arts and a quarter of a yeare after in those Colledges where Schollerships are longest lived And in some not so long In some Colledges The Fellowship followes the Schollership of course and as the one leaveth him the other entertaines him But in the most it is not so but comes by Election Which Election passeth by the Master and Senior Fellowes whereof every one doth name one if the number to be Elected will beare it or if not then they passe by most voyces Where note that the Master hath a double voyce and in some places hee hath the nomination of one if there be two places voyd yea if there be but one at sometimes In Colledges the letters of great persons especiof the Lords grace of Canterburie and the Vniversitie Chancellor have beene of great prevailance But it is not so now in these dayes There bee beneficiall gradations of preferment likewise for Fellowes in their Colledges as Lecturer Deane Bowser Vice-master and Master But for my part I better like and commend those who when they find themselves fit to put forth into the world take the first preferment that is offered unto them rather than such who live cloystered like Votaries who have Sacraments to fill up their places be it but to keepe out others such as use no exercise but wiping the dust off their bookes and have an excellent activity in handling the fox tayle such as hold no honour like to Supplicat reverentijs vestris And to be head Bowsier of the Colledge as good as to be Chiefe Butler of England These preferments of the Colledge all but that of the Master comes of course by order and antiquity Therefore no meanes but patient abiding needs for the acquiring of them in their due time I hasten to send your sonne out of the Cloyster into the Common-wealth and to shew you how many wayes of Advancement are open unto him abroad with the meanes to discover and attaine And first for the Ministrie First for his ease let him looke no farther then next to hand and enquire what benefices belong to their owne Colledge and are in the guift of their Master and Senior fellowes as most Colledges have divers such and amongst them which are void at the present or whose Incumbent is not like to live long And if he find out any such than if he know not after so long cotinuance among them to speake in his Seniors owne Dilect let him never travaile beyond Trumpington for me More indigitly For attaining of such a Benefice let him enquire where the Mattens are read with Spectacles or where the good old man is lifted vp into the pulpit or the like and make a way for Succession accordingly Where note that many times a fellow of the house may hold such a Benefice together with his fellowship or a Pension for increment of livelyhood And such tyes as these are commonly the bond of matrimony whereby they are so wedded to the Colledge Next he must clime vp to the maine top of Speculation and there looke about him to discover what Benefices are emptie abroad where the Incumbent lives only vpon the Almes of Confectio Alchermis Or where one is ready to take his rise out of Sierge into Sattin out of Parsonage and a Prebendarie into a Deanarie and a Donative let him not be slow of footmanship in that case by any meanes For Benefices abroad Benefices a broad are in the gift of The King imediately Or the Lord Keeper for the King Some Lord Bishop Some Deane and Chapter Some Bodie incorporate Some Parish Some Private Patron You shall find in the Tower a collection of the Patent Rolls gathered of all Presentations made by the King in those dayes to any Church Prebendarie or Chappell In right of the Crowne or otherwayes from 1. of Edward the first till the midst of Edward the third The King himselfe only and immediately presenteth in his owne right to such Benefices as belong to him and are aboue twenty pounds