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The most humble remonstrances presented to the Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons, in Parliament assembled
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Chabbert, John.
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1696
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Wing C1784A; ESTC R205737
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the said Poor Refuges hereafter will be no more obliged to spare any thing for them when the said Fund shall be discovered whereof the product undoubtedly will be sufficient continually to maintain all the said Poor Refuges 3. That the Discovery of the aforesaid Fund which is in the French Commissioners Hands concerns very much the Church of the aforesaid State in general and particular 1. In general because 't is certain by the Discovery of the said Fund the whole Body of the Church of England will be partaker of the Prerogatives Conveniencies and Benefits which without doubt will be granted to the Inhabitants of some Hamlets Villages and little Towns in the said State of England which said Inhabitants have no means to keep a Minister Resident in their Hamlet c. when some French Ministers Refuges who are already or may be in time very well acquainted with the English Tongue shall be granted to the said Inhabitants of the said Hamlets c. which said French Ministers all their Life time will be maintained with the product of the aforesaid Fund in exercising their Ministry in the said Hamlets Villages and Little Towns under the aforesaid Church of England Discipline 2. In particular because the aforesaid Inhabitants of the Hamlets c. the Church of England's Members which have no means to keep a Minister Resident in the said Hamlets c. by the aforesaid Discovery of the great Fund will take possession of one of the greatest Advantages in this World if some French Ministers Refuges maintained by the product of the aforesaid Fund are granted to the Inhabitants of the said Hamlets c. by the Discovery of the said Fund and the conveniency to enjoy the Ministry of some French Ministers making their Residence in the said Hamlets c. and being maintained with the product of the said Fund will have no more the trouble to be exposed to many grievous mischances 1. Often to be exposed to be a long while without they can make their Children be Christened and sometimes to see them dye before they can be Baptized for want of convenient time of doing it 2. Upon many occasions to be exposed to the having no comfort when they are lying Sick sometimes when they are dying and at a great many other opportunities whereof the Comforts and Prayers said by a Minister are of great importance 3. To be exposed to a great many fatigues especially in the Winter time when publickly to call upon God and be instructed about their Religion or to make their Children be Christened or to desire the Prayers of the holy Congregations for their sick Persons the said Inhabitants of the aforesaid Hamlets Villages and little Towns must go to other Towns and Places from their Habitations one two three nay and sometimes four Miles and sometimes farther when it rains snows freezeth and the wind bloweth very hard which said Toils may dishearten oftentimes the said Inhabitants of the said Hamlets c. and keep them from their publick Christian Duty 4. That the aforesaid Discovery of the aforesaid Fund particularly concerns very much many French Ministers Refuges which were not in Orders in France but which have received Holy Orders from the Hands of the Right Reverend Fathers in God and Lords Bishops of the Holy Church of England because the said Ministers having now no settlement at all or having but an inconstant one shall have one or one durable upon the account of the said Discovery of the said Fund a part of the product whereof must according to the Rules of Justice be bestowed upon the said Ministers as well as upon all other Ministers Refuges maintainance which were admitted into Orders in France seeing that the said French Ministers Refuges who have received Holy Orders from the Hands of the said Right Reverend Fathers in God and Lords Bishops of the said Holy Church of England at least are Ministers and Refuges by as good a Title as all the said other French Ministers admitted into Orders in France can have especially when the said Ministers admitted into Holy Orders in England by God's Assistance and that of the supreme Powers of this Kingdom and Heads of the said Holy Church of England approbation will be settled in the said Hamlets Villages and little Towns whereof the Inhabitants cannot maintain a Minister to exercise their Holy Ministry and reside there all their life-Life-time 5. That the aforesaid Discovery of the aforesaid Fund concerns very much many particular English Ministers and that upon two Accounts 1. Because hereafter when all the French Ministers Refuges shall be no longer in this World or in England the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Hamlets Villages and Little Towns who cannot maintain a Minister wherein the aforesaid Minister's Refuges and exercised their Ministry for a yearly allowance taken out of the said Fund hereafter for ever may enjoy the privilege of having either an English Minister or a Minister come from French Parents born in England to whom allowance taken out of the product of the aforesaid Fund being granted because there is not any part of a Civil Law more just than that which prescribes that if the Done deceaseth before his giver the Gift must be given again to the said giver So that then the aforesaid French Ministers and all other French People fled for Refuge into England who are here the Dones being deceased or being no more look'd upon as surviving all his Dones after that they may bestow their Beneficence upon whomsoever they please 2. Because it being possible that the aforesaid Fund every day might be increas'd if the said Fund was put into the hands of some laborious diligent and ingenious Persons who besides may be very zealous for the Protestant Religion in general and in particular for the Holy Church of England's Interests In time God willing some English Ministers maintained with some part of the aforesaid product taken from the said increased Fund may be granted to the Inhabitants of all the Hamlets Villages and little Towns of the aforesaid State of England who for want of competent means to maintain a Minister Resident in their said Hamlets c. may have one and in all likelyhood could never have had any but by the aforesaid ways 6. That the aforesaid Discovery of the aforesaid Fund concerns very much all the Poor amongst the French Refuges but especially all the Poor maimed Soldiers all the Old Poor Persons all the Grave Modest Widows all the Poor Orphans all the Infirm and Weak Persons and all the Poor Persons of whatsoever Age Degree and Rank they may be off if by their own means they cannot maintain themselves neither their Families and that upon five Arguments 1. Because by the Discovery of the aforesaid Fund More Revenue than is requisite for all the said Poor amongst the Refuges will be found out 2. Because without doubt to some of the said Poor Refuges a durable instead of an inconstant allowance will be granted and to some others a competent one too 3. Because those of the said Refuges who never can obtain either any allowance at all or but a competent one from the aforesaid French Commissioners which being inexorable upon every occasion have protested sometimes they had no Fund at all and sometimes that they had one but very small and scanty scarce capable to supply all the said Poor Refuges with any relief or but even with a competent relief And all that very ambiguously and by way of amphilology 4. Because by the said Discovery of the said Fund it will appear that the said French Commissioners have allowed and do allow great Pensions to many of the aforesaid Refuges of both Sexes which will come to be either utterly or partly deprived of the said great Pensions They will come to be deprived of them 1. Utterly if the said Refuges are convinced to have other competent Revenues besides for their Maintenance or some means whereby it is clearly demonstrated that they may supply all their own wants or especially if it appears that the said Refuges of both Sexes have spent or doth still spend a good part of their Pensions in Luxury both of Cloths and Diet in Playing and in any excess or if it appears that the said great Pensions cause the said Refuges to live in Idleness and mis-spending their time and they become unprofitable Members to the Publick and to the Private The said Refuges will come but in part to be deprived of the said great Pensions if they can prove they want relief So that the said Refuges being utterly or in part deprived of the great Pensions as occasion serves and as it shall be thought fit the aforesaid Poor Refuges may be more relieved than they were before the said Discovery of the said Fund 5. Because by the Discovery of the aforesaid Fund well managed and improved many Poor Persons of both Sexes who want imployment and look for some to maintain themselves and their distressed Families may be put upon Business and in a way of living with their Families 6. That the Discovery of the aforesaid great Fund concerns very much the English Poor Because the aforesaid French Poor Refuges Living upon the product of the aforesaid Fund found out and so being no more relieved by the Persons of Quality and Rich People of this Kingdom the said English Poor will Receive some Charities a great deal more from the said Persons of Quality and Rich People And moreover that all English as well as French Poor may be put upon Business and live with their Families upon the account of the said great Fund well managed and several ways increased Is what the aforesaid John Chabbert heartily wisheth to the said English and French Poor and continually offers up his Vows to the Omnipotent God that it may please His Wise Providence to prosper his undertaking for His Eternal Glory For the Furtherance and Strengthening of the Kingdom of His beloved Son Jesus Christ For the Immortal Memory of the Honourable House of Commons For all good Peoples Edification And for all the aforesaid French Commissioners c. Conviction Shame and Confusion So be it Hîc opus hîc Labor est sed Labyrinthus non est FINIS
they know off There is no doubt but the aforesaid Discovery of the aforesaid great Fund will be made very speedily by this ninth means 10. That if it may please you the Honourable House of Commons to order all the Bankers and Merchants both English and French which are in the City of London or in the Suburbs thereof and in all other Trading Towns of this Kingdom to reveal before the aforesaid Honourable Commissioners all the Summs of Money given to them or others that they know off by the said French Commissioners or by the said Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches or by their Agents This tenth means certainly will produce a wonderful good Effect in Relation to the aforesaid Discovery of the aforesaid Fund 11. That if it may please you the Honourable House of Commons to publish that every Person or Persons who will Discover and Reveal any Summs either great or small of the aforesaid Fund arising from the aforesaid Charities and Legacies bestowed upon the aforesaid Poor amongst the Refuges and put into the said French Commissioners Hands c. shall Receive such a Summ of Money as your Honours shall please to allot to such a Person or Persons for his or for their Discovery and Revealing of such a Summ of the aforesaid Fund This eleventh means will be one of the most Effectual ones whereby the said great Fund will be found out 12. That if it may please you the Honourable House of Commons to Reward every Person or Persons who through his or their great Care and strict search shall have discovered and evidently proved that that said French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches have upon the said great Fund settled in the aforesaid City of London or in some other Towns of this Kingdom any Manufactures or given some part of the said Fund to any Shop-keepers to make the best of it or made any other use of it This twelfth means also seems a very fit expedient to make appear that the said French Commissioners and the said Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches have still the said great Fund in their own Hands or in the Hands of other Men. 13. That if it may please you the Honourable House of Commons to Force the said French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches presently to give to the aforesaid Honourable Commissioners an exact Catalogue of all the French Refuges who have received something of the said Charities which said Refuges went from England or are Dead or imployed in the said England precisely telling when the said Poor Refuges went from England or when they Dyed or where imployed in the said Kingdom or at least telling how long it is since the said Poor Refuges were not Relieved at all You the Honourable House of Commons by this thirteenth means will be sure that the said French Commissioners c. have not always well discharged their Duty nor their Commission And besides they have in their Hands a considerable Fund coming from the aforesaid Charities bestowed upon the Poor French Refuges 14. That if it may please you the Honourable House of Commons to Order some French Refuges that came from several parts of France of whatever Degree and Character they may be presently to appear before the aforesaid Honourable Commissioners and candidly Declare that they Know or do not Know all the aforesaid French Refuges to whom the said French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches say they have given something of the aforesaid Charities To Order again all the said French Refuges that came from several parts of France of whatever Degree and Character freely to Declare they Know or do not Know the said Poor Refuges to whom the said French Commissioners pretend to be sure they have given some Relief are gone out of England or are Dead or have been imployed in the said Kingdom at the same time told by the said French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches And to Order moreover that the said French Refuges who came from several parts of France of whatever Degree and character they may be to make with all speed a more strict inquiry about the said Poor Refuges departed out of England or Dead or imployed in the said Kingdom and about what time when they departed from England and when they Dyed or where imployed in the said Kingdom And to make also a strict inquiry about the said Fund and all things that concerns it And to Order them to make a true Relation of all those premises to the aforesaid Honourable Commissioners This fourteenth means will be a Touch-Stone to try Truth or Untruth that hath been or shall be told by the said French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens in their Answer and will shew as all other means before-mentioned may do a great Fund come from the aforesaid Charities into the Hands of the said French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches 15. That if it may please you the Honourable House of Commons to let the Publick understand it is a very material Thing that every Person or Persons of what Degree or Character soever he or they may be who bestowed any private Charities and payed any Legacies to the said French Commissioners or to the said Ministers and Church-wardens of the said two Churches should declare some ways or other what Summs of Money their said private Charities and Legacies did amount to when and to whom the same were bestowed and payed That this fifteenth means wonderfully will Force the said French Commissioners Ministers c. to give an account of a good part of the aforesaid great Summs And to convince even the same French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens c. to have in their Hands a greater Fund than is necessary for the aforesaid Poor Refuges Maintainance 16. That if it may please You the Honourable House of Commons to know who are the Tellers of all the Summs gathered upon the aforesaid three Briefs and received by the aforesaid French Commissioners and to command the said Tellers of the said Summs of Money to declare and shew by all necessary circumstances how many Summs they have told and when and to whom of the said French Commissioners they have told the said Summs Again if it may please You the Honourable House of Commons to understand more particularly all the Summs of Money gathered upon the said three Briefs and call the chief Receivers to an account for the same That this sixteenth means will wonderfully serve for the discovery of the aforesaid Fund and will sorce the said French Commissioners to give a more strict account of it 17. That if it may please You the Honourable House of Commons to order all the aforesaid French Commissioners to give up an exact account of the Fifteen Thousand Pounds lately granted by your Honours to the aforesaid Poor which are amongst the