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A01627	The regiment of the pouertie. Compiled by a learned diuine of our time D. Andreas Hyperius. And now seruing very fitly for the present state of this realme. Translated into Englishe by H.T. minister	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1572 (1572)	STC 11759; ESTC S103064	57,526	158

furniture and can teache the Cittizens daughters the same arts These and many other not vnlike they are able to do by whiche meanes surely if they will they may shift for themselues and their children competently Let there be gotten husbandes for the yonger widdowes and let them help after wards as they are able euery one in their occupation and so let them ioyntly earne their mayntenance So Clemens in the epistle before mencioned sayth Be you in stead of husbands to the widowes haue a care for them after an honest sorte ministring those things whiche are necessarie yet couple the yonger wyddowes in marriage Therfore if thus the widowes be restrained from filthie idlenesse to honest labour or if they be maryed to artificers it will come to passe that eyther they shall be competently maynteynes by theyr ownewoorke or shall néede but very smal allowance to help out or certainly very fewe will desyre anye of the publike liberalitie The Churches and congregations in tymes paste with greate faythe and diligence tooke vpon them a fatherlye care for orphans bycause GOD had so commaunded whyche Clemens in the same Epistle dothe witnesse Therefore all Orphans to whom it shall be found that their parentes or néere kinsmen for pouertie coulde not assigne tutours ought to be commended to the ouerséers of the poore who if they be infantes shall put them to nursso to huswiues that are thought méet and haue no great charge of children themselues who shall receyue their wages out of the collection The lyke regarde shall be had of infants that are layd foorth in the streates if none will receyue them For euen these also were norished and preserued by the Church of old tyme whyche wée maye marke in the seconde counsell at Arelas holden about the yeare of our Lord. 320. out of the which Cannon 32. it is alledged dist 87. Canon Si expositus where an erroure is passed in the superscription which hath Ex concilio Toletano Item out of the councell at Faseu which was celebrate whē Leo the first gouerned the church of Rome anno 450. Can. 8. Out of the whiche we may also perceiue that there were in many cities certain houses in which such childrē wer honestly broght vp and where suche prouision is made for outcast children there the stewards of the pouertie are deliuered of this care Neither is this to be let slippe that sometyme the riche men especially whiche haue no chyldren if they be gently intreated of some good men will not grudge to take some fatherlesse chylde and bring hym vp as many in tymes past were woont to adopte certain as testifieth often the Ciuile law Now those which do remaine whether they be orphans or outcast childrē if they haue no hope of comforte eyther oute of some common Orphanotrophie or some ryche mans benignitie those muste bée so long maynteyned oute of the publike treasurie till they haue learned some trade to liue by Now of strangers or pilgrims whiche are of two sortes Some stay long in the Citie and haue as it were gotten a dwellyng there other doe but come as wayfarers and iourney with spéede to some other place Of these former it is méete that searche shall bée made vppon what occasyon they came fyrst to the citie what they doe or howe they are presently occupyed wherof they liue of their maners what good vertues or notorious vyces they are noted to haue Nowe yf necessitie of warre or casualtie by fyre or water haue forced them to change their abyding and that they be commended to be of vpright lyfe and besides are found willing to labour and trade some occupation then will we accompte them worthy to be pittied and so farre foorth to be fusteined and borne withall till they can earne some thing againe to liue by but if they be not founde suche as we haue now saide nothing doth prohibite whiche we knowe the old deuises of commō welthes haue also prescribed that they may not be thrust out of the cittie and be sent backe into their owne Countrey for it is méete that the deuotion be bestowed elsewhere And to the end it may for hereafter be auoyded that the Cittie be not burthened with forrein pouertie the Senate or parliament shall forbid by an expresse law that no Cittizen shall héereafter lette out any dwelling house or harbour any stranger of a forein nation without knowlege giuen first to the Cōsul or Maior or chief officer howe soeuer he be termed whome it behoueth to enquire diligently of the estate and conditions of them which come so that this way it will proue that the cōmon welth shal haue fewer pouertie But vnto the later sort I meane poore straungers that iourney any whether both lodging and victuals shal be courteously graūted lodging in the Hospitals suche as almost in euery place we sée our auncesters haue builded whereof mencion is often made both in the Ecclesiasticall histories and in diuers councels they shall receyue victuals eyther in the same Hospitall or of some appoynted for the same purpose It shall not be lawful for them to begge frō dore to dore For the which purpose the senate or counsel shal enioyn som that dwel néere euery gate of the Cittie to salute the poore wayfarers that come by to aske them courteously from whence they come and whether they go Thē by and by they shall signifie vnto thē that begging is forbidden and therwithal shall shewe them the way to the Hospitals or to his house that prouideth for the necessities of straungers Let vs procéede to diseased persons Amōg these bycause some are gréeued with curable diseases some with vncurable whē they are searched you must take the counsell and aduise of phisitians and chirurgians and wisely prouide that as many as may be healed maye bée cured as soone as may be conueniently But such as haue not any hope to recouer their health they shall goe to the spittle house if there be any suche in the citie If there be none it is méete to bethynke howe they may bée holpen The rest which were ioyned with these diseased people the blynd the lame the deafe the dumbe c. doe not all foorthwith if they be sound in other membres néede the publyke liberalitie For oftentymes as much of their strength as is diminished in one member so muche we sée is recompenced in an other membre Therfore in wel gouerned common welthes we oftē sée that both the deaf and the dombe hauing lerned honest occupations haue wife and children and bring them vp honestly They which lacke the vse of their féet with their handes did carue spoones saltes little images and other such things they sewe garments with the néedle pen and pensyll they did paynte and draw pictures what could they not do with their hands They which lackt or had luxatiōs in their arms we haue séene them able to work with their féet to blow black smiths bellows or the triers of mettals

out that this care for the reléefe of the poore muste be caste aside agayne therefore we will shewe howe sufficient exhibition may be leuied for to beare the charges Chapter 7. Hovve the money and necessarie charges may be collected vvithout any great burthen to the Citizens WE vnderstand that the holy fathers of the first church yea of all ages haue bene very careful to inuēt how to increase the allowance which was by them to be distributed to the poore In the law of Moses god cōmanded euery one that possessed lands vineyards or oliue trées that he shuld not reape downe euery corner of his field nor gather the scattred eares of corne nor the fallen clusters of grapes nor the oliues lefte on the boughes after the gathering but what soener hereof remayned shoulde be frée for the poore the widdowe and straungers to gleane vp Leui. 19 23. Deuter. 24. He charged the riche men also to lend vnto the poore as often as their néede required without oppressing or delaying them and yet in the meane time they mighte take no pledge of them neither aske agayne that which they had lent importunately or rigorously Deu. 24.25 Leut. 23. Many other lawes to the same effecte were ordeyned by almightie God for the reléefe of the poore which it were to long to recite In the Actes Apost euery one that beléeued the Gospell broughte their money which either before they had gotten or then had receyued for thinges which they solde vnto the Apostles féete to be distributed to ech man for his dayly reléefe Acts. 4. But we haue shewed before that example not to serue for euery place and tyme That whiche I will nowe vtter is rather to be approued and followed At suche tyme as Chryste taughte in the temple at Ierusalem and in the Sinagoges of other Cities there was placed a cheste Marke 12. Luke 21. named Gazophylatium into the whiche all men were exhorted to caste some money by the which money as reporteth Theophilactus the officers of the churche the widowes and pouerty were refreshed Which Chrisost séemeth also to affirme expounding those words Mar. 24. Nōlicet mittere in corbonam quia precium sanguinis est It may not be put into the treasurie bicause it is the price of bloud The Apostle Paule desiring to haue the brethren which dwelt at Hierusalem relieued appoynted in the Church of the Corinthians that euery first day of the wéeke or some one day in the wéeke euery man shoulde put aside by him selfe and lay vp as God had prospered him some portion to be afterwards dealt to she poore 1. Corinth 16. Tertullianus Apolog. cap. 39. telling the custome of the Churches of his time in collecting the almes saythe When we méete in our holy assemblies euery man layeth downe a small portion on the monthly day or when he will and if he be able for no man is compelled but bestoweth what he is willing of his owne accorde Haec quasi deposit a pietatis sunt These are as it were the pledges of deuotiou Moreouer in the same chapter he testifieth that the supper called Agape that is loue was wont on set and appoynted dayes to be celebrated at the holy méetinges and certaynly as he sayth to helpe the poore with that refreshing which maner of feasting togither was common in all congregations But when the Corinthians did soone degenerate vnto riottous feasting it is in that place abrogate by the Apost 1. Corinth 11. In processe of tyme vessels and precious ornaments of golde and siluer were giuen to the Church whiche if any great necessitie grewe or inuaded were brought foorth by the byshops and liberally bestowed on the poore moreouer and aboue their ordinarie alowance For so Cyrillus byshop of Ierusalem as reporteth Sozemenus Tripart hist 5 c. 27 when a dearth was in the Prouince and the néedie people for necessitie of meate looked for succour of him as of their byshop and money there was none to ease their penurie he tooke the vessels and sacred veyles to reléeue the peoples necessitie Moreouer in those times wherin the Princes themselues began to professe the Christian religion the Churche receyued landes inclosures vineyardes tithes c. of the franke liberalitie of noble and welthie men as witnesse the Ecclesiasticall bistories Item Chrysostome Hierome Augustine and other in diuers places For she riche men noting the fayth and readinesse of the byshops and other churche rulers in helping the poore dyd willingly commit vnto them the disposing of all the treasure And when they had he aped gret riches togither they then buylte publike Almes houses hospitals spittles nourseries orphanhouses houses for the aged frée scholes and whatsoeuer suche first in the great and populous cities and then in the lesse At length whether bicause peraduenture the Ministers of the churches began in some places to be slack in the office of stewardship for the poore or that in some places the number of pouerty incresed and houses of reléefe coulde not eche where be built for them Cannons were made in diners places seueral times for the diuiston of the church goods into foure portions wherof the first should remayne to the Byshoppes and elders the seconde to the Clerkes and Ministers the third to buylde and repayre the Churche edifices the fourthe to the publike reliefe of the poore I haue made mention of these Cannons before Finally in suche places as the goodes woulde not reache to foster the poore many citirens béeing admonished intreated persuaded by the Ministers of the churches haue bequeathed something by their testaments many also haue assigned rentes and yerely pensions out of their landes gardens or houses as is to bée séene in the writinges Instrumentes and Euidence which are kepte for the same purpose in the Archiues and Treasuries of the sayde Churches and almes houses By these meanes chiefly the holy and prudent men assuredly thought that in euery citie or parishe sufficient mighte be prouided for the poore and the same trade many ages after was happily obserued as long as the dignitie of the Churche stoode in safetie Nowe therefore let vs sée among the examples of the olde fathers mentioned what deuises may honestlie bée vsed in thys oure tyme for to rayse a sufficiente collection for necessarie charges 1 According to the maner which was vsual among the Iewes as reporteth Theophilactus ther might wel be set in euery church certayn chestes or boxes with an inscription or note declaring that it is appointed for the treasurie of the poore into which chestes euery one may priuily caste as muche money as he will and when he will béeing persuaded that it is muche better to lay vp priuily there for the poore without desire of vayne glory and so that the lefte hande shall not knowe what the righte hande doeth two mytes of copper or neuer so small a péece of money than to bestowe certayne groates on them that begge commonly and at euery doore 2 Moreouer nothing letteth