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house_n	black_a	king_n	queen_n	549,465	5	13.5341	5	true
house_n	black_a	king_n	queen_n	549,465	5	13.5341	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09899	The art of thriving. Or, The plaine path-way to preferment. Together with The mysterie and misery of lending and borrowing. As also a table of the expence of time and money. Published for the common good of all sorts, &c.; Tom of all trades	Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?; Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635? Wheresoever you see mee, trust unto your selfe. aut	1636 (1636)	STC 20162; ESTC S114990	49,954	274

the Constable His extraordinary strong Beer will be too headstrong in office of Church-Warden And his well mouthed dogges will make him out-mouth all the Vestry But if the clowne be predominant he will smell all browne bread and garlicke Besides he must be of a hardier temper than the rest of his brethren because the unhealthfullest corners of the Kingdome are the most profitable for Farmers He must especially ayme at a Tenancy under the Crowne or some Bishops Sea Deane and Chapter some Colledge some Company some Hospitall or some other body incorporate Wherein the Auditor or Receiver must be his best Intelligencer and Director Young unthrifts acquaintance when they first arrive at the age of one and twenty And good old conscionable Landlords that hold it a deadly sinne to raise the rents of their Grandfathers or hope to be delivered out of Purgatory by their Tenants prayers will doe well These professions before mentioned be as it were the orbs to receive all fixed stars and such dispositions as may be put into any certaine frame But for a more libertine disposition Fit it with the profession of a Courtier For an overflowing and Ranker disposition make him a Souldier But beyond this he is a lost man not worthy a fathers remembrance or providence The Courtiers wayes of advancement be these BY the generall and most antient rule of Court if you would have him to be preferred unto the Kings service in the end And in the meane time to have sufficient meanes of maintenance Place him with one of the White Staves of the Houshold By the more particular rule if you can put him unto the Lord High Steward his Service who amōgst the white Staves hath the chiefest hand in preferring to any office beneath stayrs If the High Steward be full seek to the Lord Chamberlain who hath the chiefe power to prefer to the places above stayrs and to the Wardrobe And if there be no entrance there then seeke to the Treasurer of the Houshold and next to the Controller The Master of the Houshold The Coferer the rest of the greene Cloth The Master of the Horse prefers the Avenanarie and other Clarkeships offices and places about the Stable The principall Secretary hath heretofore had a great hand in preferring to the Clarkeships in the office of the Signet and the Lord privie Seale into the privy Seale office The Master of the great Wardrobe into the Clarkships offices there The Master of the Robes The Master of the Iewell-house the Keeper of the privy Purse The Master of the Toyles and Tents with some other the like have whilome bin the meanes of preferring divers their followers into the service of the King in divers beneficial places and Clarkeships in their severall offices respectively The Lord Treasurer without the house prefers to his Majesties service in most places in or about the Custome-houses in all the parts of England And besides these I finde no meanes used of old for preferment into the Kings service for these kinde of places The yeomen of the Guard were wont to come in for their personage and activity by their Captaines allowance And the Bed-chamber mens fervants ever were in way to be preferred for Pages of the privy Chamber or Groomes or placed at the backe staires not of right but of custome For the Clarkes of the Houshold they were wont anciently to rise by certaine degrees according to the prescription of the Blacke Booke but how it is now I know not For your better satisfaction of Court Offices their order and Fee Search the Blacke Booke in the Exchequer in the Court. And for all Offices whatsoever under the King throughout the whole Kingdome Either in Castle Parke Chase Court or house of the Kings royalty or place soever with the then Fees of the same I referre you to a booke Whereof many hundred Copies are extant which was collected by the Lord Treasurer Burleigh and by him delivered to the late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory And so much for the Courtier The Souldier followes ANd the question is first Whether the better way of thriving is to be a Sea Soldier or a Land Soldier Questionlesse the better way of thriving is to be a Sea Soldier In this Kingdome of England being an Island for that he is more usefull to his Country More learning is required to be a Sea Soldier than to be a Land Soldier A Sea Soldier is certaine of victuals and wages where the Land Soldiers pay will hardly finde him sustenance A Sea Soldier may now and then chance to have a snap at a booty or a prize which may in an instant make him a fortune for ever where the Land Soldier may in an age come to the ransacking of a poore fisher Towne at the most More valour is required in a Sea Soldier than in a Land Soldier because the extremity of the place requires it The Sea Captaine is exposed to as much danger during the whole fight as the poorest man in the Ship where the land Captaine useth but to offer his men to the face of the enemy then retreateth The way to rise to preferment at Sea is by the Admirals countenance and the Vice Admirals in the Kings service or in other service by the favour of great traded Merchants and especially of your bodies incorporate and their chiefe Officers and more especially their President Treasurer for the time being His breeding is a matter of more moment than his age regardeth If he be true bred he should be first made a perfect Navigator able to direct the Sterage of their course able to know the tackle and appoint every Saylor to his charge He should know what number of Saylors what Ordinance and what munition should be requisite for a Ship of such a burden He should be a skilfull Caneere and able to direct the Gunner to say what quantity of powder a Peece of such bore and depth requireth and of what weight the bullet should be where such a quantity of powder is used whether the Peece be sound or hony-combed He should be able to know and direct what quantity of victuall should be required for so many men for such a voyage And what quantity of powder and shot Also to oversee and direct the Purser and Steward in the expence of their victuall without profusenesse or too much parsimony Likewise skilfull in all manner of Fire-workes and fitting Engines for sea fight Briefly he should be so compleat as that none should be able to teach him in his place and he skilfull to controle every other in their places He should be courteous and loving to his men Above all things he should be zealous of the honour of God See that the divine service be duely read on board Evening and Morning and that swearing be severely punished A Sea Captaine is not a place for a young man to leape into instantly and immediately out of a Ladies Vshership a Great mans