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A08134	Newnams nightcrowe A bird that breedeth braules in many families and housholdes. Wherein is remembred that kindely and prouident regard which fathers ought to haue towards their sonnes. Together with a diciphring of the iniurious dealinges of some younger sorte of stepdames.	Newnham, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 18498; ESTC S121837	38,495	66

vnkinde practise of disheriting séemeth both absurde and vngodly among the people of Christes flocke séeing we are all called to claime our owne birthright and do desire to attaine vnto that inheritance of the kingdome of heauen which is but one If one brother disherite an other contrarie to the will of the father may not the father by common equitie thereupon pretend cause of disheriting the disheritor We are all brothers and the sonnes of one heauenly father We are all so fraile and giuen to offende that we are not fit to disherite but rather should feare to be disherited Neither néede we to bring foorth any written examples aunswerable in this place sith wee haue eye testimonie in manner of common experience in many who haue disherited vndermined or defrauded others and thereby haue giuen an example howe other men should deale towardes them or theirs and so at length haue bought with the same measure they solde vnto others A learned Doctor of this age writing vpon the matter of Testamentes or Willes making hath these wordes worthie recitall Prudentia bonorum virorum consilia aliquando suadebunt liberos malos non omnino exheredes scribendos esse sed in eis honorandum esse naturam legittima portione a iure prescripta Illi vero parentes non digni sunt aut parentum nomine aut qui hac luce fruantur qui partes suas a se proijcere exponere audent Wisedome and the counsaile of good men sayth he will at one time or other perswade that euill children are not at all to bee disherited but that nature be honored in them by letting them haue their lawefull portion appointed by the lawe But those Parents who cast off their children from them are not worthy the name of Parentes nor scarse to haue the fruition of this life If this iudgement be such according to laws ecclesiasticall and diuine towards sonnes lewdly enclined or of ill behauiour how impious and vniust doth he thinke to be the disheriting of such as be honestly giuen or rather make testimonie of some vertue and valure Yee haue heard before that by someout of Imperiall lawe asses and dogges were not to be cast out of the doores and shall christen men cast out their owne sons to the reproch and scorning of the worlde Asses may beare the waight and griefe of such burdens and dogges may away to digest such bones but with the most sorte of men they are eyther taken as heauie at the heart as mil-stones or as venomous in the intrailes as poison some haue yéelded themselues vnto desparation of minde and therevppon haue runne madde Others haue addicted themselues vnto damnable trades as of robbery piracie coniuration treason and others in hatred of that bad vnkinde mind of their parents haue forsaken true Religion and fallen into Mahometisme or other peruerse reprobate sence of doctrine Others that haue béene of more credite or power haue entred into most bloody facts of warre and conspiracies wherof haue ensued vncharitable broiles and more then vnchristian contentions all procéeding from the roote of stomaching the like iniurie or more rather from the Iustice of GOD who would not leaue so high an example of iniustice and wrong dooing vnpunished And although the acte of Disherison is rare and monstrous among good men yet such as put it in practise will thinke they may the rather doe it because others haue done it before them Vnto whome Seneca answereth saying There is no wickednes which a man may not finde taught by example if he be so ready to followe it Some other fathers there be who being caried away into partiality and wrong iudgement by the perswasion of women of whose partes and practise you haue sufficiently heard will pretende and lay vnto their sonnes charge the accusation of ill Religion Let such Parents take héed least bearing the name of Christians they be found persecuters of the same It is a more then fault to render euill for good or to reward vertue with punishment Therefore it is not safetie for any father of meane knowledge him selfe to condemne his sonne to disherison in a difficult cause so much he may be deceiued and blinded by the wrong perswasions of a woman and by other fine flatterie of supposed friends But if it would please such a father as is enclined by anie manner of meanes to disherite his sonne to looke vnto him selfe and setting apart affection in matters of controuersie to weigh his owne euill with his owne good no doubt hée would confesse and say with the Poet Peccantem damnare caue nam labimur omnes Condemne not him that offendeth for we al do offend He might sée that in his life he hath done but little good as he should do No works of vertue none of charitie none of true godlinesse little of kindenesse none of chastitie litle of trueth none of true faith but rather all to the contrary laying aside mercie and refusing to vouchsafe and performe the effectes of forgiuenesse vnto his owne sonne so much is his vnderstanding peruerted and his heart hardened which I feare me may boade vnto anie father little good sith it is the saying of Saint Bernard Nemo vnquam cordis duri bonum habuit nisi forte commiserans Deus abstulit cor lapideum contulit carneum that is Neuer any man gotte any good by his hard heart vnles peraduenture when it pleaseth GOD of his infinite mercie to take from him his stonie heart and giue vnto him a heart of flesh then well hée sée his owne ouersight in omitting to giue good examples of naturall loue and affection to his children therwithal perceiue what had fruits he hath reapt by his examples of vnkindees hard dealing and peruerting of order in his family Then will be find what ghostly comfort a peaceable charitable mind haue in auoiding the dangerous flames of wrath inward disquietnes Then it will appéere howe beneficiall and happie it had beene for his children and how godly and séemely for him selfe if hee had followed sound counsaile and the prompting of grace in disobeying those his lusts and wilfull liking the seruing and pleasing whereof hath heaped vpon him those euils which he findedeth now so hardly to be remembred And further that gay-shew of a womans loue which first was founded either vpon the hope and opinion of his wealth or of purpose to defraude and depriue his first children of inwarde affection or outward possibility now will séeme vading and vanishing like the moone before her change Now wil tourne to his remembrance those causes of sorrow and griefe which were giuen to his own children by her malignity in bringing t●ē out of his fauour into hatred and displeasure then will remorse of wrong doing specially in supplanting and disheriting if any be compas him on euery side On the right hād to see how hée hath continued and cast from him the due regard and worthinesse of the first mariage On the left hand

parents if they should néede yet by lawe and order they are appointed rather to receiue benefites of their Parents than to giue vpwardes For well you wot that loue benefites and all other good thinges are woont to descende Lawe will not that the father bee the sonnes heyre but willeth rather that the father should restore that to his posteritie which himselfe receiued from his auncestors Wherefore sith no guift or token of beneuolence is more fitter for children to bestowe or for the parentes and benefactors to receiue than the benefite of heartie and daily prayer it shall not be much amisse for all dutifull children to remember their debt in that point after the forme of the Grammer case rule Nominatino First to pray for your selfe that you may be so ghostly strengthened that you fall ●ot into mortall sinne by frailtie and that you may haue right knowledge of God by fayth Genitiuo For your Progenitors as Parentes brothers sisters and kinsfolke Datiuo For your benefactors Accusatiuo For your enemies Vocatiuo For them that be in errour or infidelitie that they may come to the right way of their saluation Ablatiuo For them that be absent Saint Paule vnto Timoth. sayth If any man haue not a care for them of his owne familie hee is an infidell And therefore he sayth in an other place Si quid patitur vnum membrum compatiuntur omnia membra If one member be in paine all the rest be not without anguish or griefe O good God who is so harde hearted that will not haue compassion or christian regarde on his parent kinseman or friend if he thought him in the case of straight imprisonment or if he wist he were in any miserable or daungerous state where prayer or friendship might helpe or doe him good The state of a man in misbeléefe infidelitie or securitie in sinning without tokens of repentance and amendment is daungerous God wot and not without néede of assistance by hearty and earnest praier of faithfull friends and naturall children For we must beléeue that God will punish sinne and all other impietie else why doth he threaten sinners so sharpely by that example in the 5. of Matth. Amen dico vobis non exies inde donec solueris nouissimum quadrantem that is Verely I say vnto you thou shalt not depart thence vntill thou hast payd the vttermost farthing I sée not how you can pertake with parents brothers or kinsfolke in nature and haue no féeling of their sinefull life erronious condition or other their pitifull state in your compassion and commiseration But euen as you deale towards them vnto whom ye owe any charitable or naturall dutie so shall they serue you at whose ●euotion you shall happen to stande Then with the same measure ye meate vnto others it is to be doubted will be measured to you againe somewhat according to the wordes of Naomie to Ruth saying cap. 1. Faciat vobiscum Deus misericordiam suam sicut fecistis cum mortuis The seconde part bewrayeth the malignitie of a Stepdame the monstrous transfourming of the Father and the often calamitie of the first children CHAP. VI. Of the vngentle dealing of some stepmothers towards their husbandes first children WHen a Father so little remembreth or regardeth the bond of nature and faithfull dealing of a kinde parent that hée forbeareth not to bring into his family a Stepdame he can not doe a thing of better liking to his foes if he haue any such that foresée it and wish ill betiding vnto him and his For what may bring vnto a Citie or house more harme or inconuenience than discord which diuideth a house and maketh of one Cittie two Intestine diuision is euer counted worse than the malignitie of outwarde foes as warre is accounted worse than peace In discord no man prayseth the Lorde As witnesseth Saint Ambrose What blessing then doe they depriue vs of that take away peace and good agréement Well may some children complaine with the Poet in this case who sayth in his pleasant méeter Sunt tria gaudia pax sapientia copia rerum Haec tria diluit haec tria destruit ars mulierum This Stepmother by the pretence and name of mariage is called in Latine Vxor quasi vnxor a Wife as it were an Annoynter for that the new married Spowse in olde time at her first comming home was wont to annoynt the poastes and principall partes of the house in token that she came to heale and cure all faultes or to remooue sorrow and to plant and encrease gladnesse in the place But I frowe this our Stepdame at this day annoynteth not with the oyle of gladnesse nor with the vnction of the holy spirite by whom so much sorrowe is many times brought in and so many vngodly effectes wrought and encreased Call yée this annoynting she annoynteth in déede but vnhappie be those postes parts of the house where she laieth her vnluckie handes as Euripides sayth Stepdames seeldome with and wo●ke any good to their hu●bands children and too much experience teacheth they be their vtter ouerthrowe and cause of confusion For what be their ordinary practises in manner as principles of then partment pollicy For sooth first and chiefely to bring their husbandes children out of conceipt fauour to frame the matter so that they may be counted disobedient by that meanes to wipe from thē all good will They thinke they must not suffer so much a let and blocke in their way to their husbandes wealth as the bulworke of loue and concord This is a great eye sore and hardly tollerable with them This they imagine they must assault and assay to batter and beat downe by the best engine they haue they can bend against it Cannon shot of great displeasure they are sufficiently furnished with powder of a malicious and wicked spirite nor want they any shot of quarrelous deuises to perce shake this poore remnant of kindly good will with kindled strife and contention Of this kind they can sharpe them new supplies from time to time specially if they haue their husbandes well tempered to their humour and appetite then may it be sayd of the poore enchanted men as we find it in the Psalme Os habent non l●quuntur aures non audiunt oculos non vident They haue mouthes and speake not cares and may not heare eyes and will not see They stande in dread and awe they wot who must be foothed in all thinges or else will followe but colde kissing she claimeth all the loue and goodwill to her selfe and if she vnderstoode Latine she would chuse this good verse for her husbande to measure his loue by it Est tibi plus catus quam Papae Pontificatus She may beare no partaker of her husbands honest loue where she ruleth as Quéene She is to be counted very fauourable if she procure them no hatred or vouchsafe it not her selfe These Stepmothers be against their wils great teachers of