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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

respecte the case of the néedie ministring bountifully things necessarie to the poore brethren whiche receyued the fayth and pretermitting none of all those things which might be required for the mayntenance of the néedie wherby oftentimes the heathen aduersaries were moued both to receiue and embrace our religion Whervpon the wicked Iulianus vehemently enuying that good report of the christians willed as witnesseth Sozomemenus hist Tripertitae lib. 6. cap. 29. that his pagane Byshops should builde hospitals and almes houses and prouide for the néedie according as our Byshops had done before them Many Byshops are renoumed for selling the golden and siluer vessels and other riche ornamentes of the Churche to sustayne their pouertie when time required In which number are reckned by Socrates Constinopolitanis hi● Tripe li. 10. ca. 6. Acacius Bishop at Amidenum by Possidonius Calamensis Augustine by Hierome Exuperius bishop at Tolossa by many writers Ambrosius byshop of Millane and Germanus of Alciodeon and of other writers sundrie other In like maner the Bishops are reported euen to haue abridged them selues of many things and bestowed them on suche as were oppressed with scarcitie which we reade is noted by certayne writers of Ciprianus Epiphanius Lupus Senouensis c. But wherefore serue all these testimonies surely that it may appeare manifestly that all the heads of the churches haue professed alway that the care of the fostering of the poore dothe chiefly appertayne to them and that they truely were not constitute to be possessours and owners but onely stewards and disposers of the Churche goods Which selfe things in times paste induced the kings princes nobles ech rich man to conferre and bestowe yerely reuenewes landes and fermes vpon the Churche and to bequeath them in their written testaments For when they marked that the almes was faithfully distributed vnto the poore they chose rather to commit those things which they minded to deale in alines to the disposition of the trustie officers of the church who knew best the state of the poore than to do it by them selues So greatly did that vntyred diligence of the Churche in reléeuing the poore heape vp great riches to that same vse Neither is it obscure or vnknowne by how many meanes the kings princes and ciuill magistrates after they once began to reuerence the christian religion to be haptised in the name of Chryst did deelare that they would with like endeuour further the cause of fostering and cherishing the poore For very many of thē disbursed royall charges towards the buylding of hospitalles alines houses houses for aged people and spittles which Eusebius Hist Eccl. lib. 9. cap. 10. reporteth of Constantinus Theodosia and Valentinianus who were wonte as it appeareth Triper Histo lib. 12.2 to exercise an admirable liberalitie towards the poore by Atticus Bishop of Constantinople But the wyfe of Valentinianus as is declared Tripart hist lib. 9. cap. 31. went from hospital to hospitall to minister vnto the néedie taking as much paines as any hired seruant wold The writers haue not left in silence but haue with greate consente aduaunced Iustinianus the firste Tyberius the seconde Cōstantinus who was called Iconomacus Carolus surnamed Magnus Lodouicus Pi ' the first Otho the first second and thyrd Henricus the first and second Lotharius the seconde Sigismundus and other Emperoures for their readynesse in helping the poore and in building conseruing and vewtissying the common Hospitals of the néedie But the Frenche kings haue séemed to excell in this behalfe especially Childebertus the founder of the Hospital at Lions wherof mention is made in the councell of Aurelian the fifth Dagabertus Glotarius Robertus the son of Hugo Capetis Ludouicus who did féede daylye 120. néedie soules and besydes buylded a noble hospital at Paris Ludouicus Crassus and others The kings of England also did at lengthe not slackly seke renoume by liberalitis towards the poore Osvvaldus Alfredus Eccarus Guntho the Henries and Edvvards Among the Boemians Vuenzeslaus is extolled In Spayne Alfonsus the tenth among the Venetians Petrus Vrseolus and to bée short there is no kingdome no prouince no seigniorie no common wealth whiche doth not euen with glorie aduaunce their kings princes and magistrates carefully procuring decréeing things déemed profitable for the succoure of the needie For Christians haue alwayes acknowledged but especially the Magistrats the the charge of the whole ciuile societie and in it not only the riche but also the poore whiche is the greater parte of that societie is enioyned thē by almightie god Whervnto that apertaineth when we sée that renoumed princes haue added many decrées vnto the Roman lawes where they cōmand the al magistrates shold apply their mindes wholly to further the cause of the poore For so it is cōmaūded Codicis l●● de sacrosanctis eceles●s et earū priuilegus L. priuslegia L. generali L. sancim ei Again De episcopis et clericis L. oīa priuilegia L. si quis ad declinādū wher we may obserue many things wisely religiously ordeined for the cōmō vtilitie of the poore the maintenaunce of hospitals almes houses spittles and houses for aged people and the right disposing of the church goods Morcouer the law which is extāt Codicis l. ii de validis mēdicāticus was made for the sustenāce of the true pouertie In the Autentikes you may obserue certain things repeted inculcate to the like effect To conclude we may beholde throughout many colleges of the poore or almes houses endued not only with great riches but also singular priuileges aboue those which their charters haue giuen thē also defended by al strēgth of law right equitie by the magistrates in whose circuite they are situate Which things sith they are such it is an easie matter to iudge that it most of all behoueth such as do sit to gouerne the helme of the cōmon wealth with all studie and diligence to forsée how the pouertie whiche are dispersed in theyr Cities do liue whether they begge which might by other meanes prouide for themselues whether the true pouertie féeble people be neglected and whether the riches of the almes houses be faithfully disposed or not Finally all these tende to this end for this intent verily wée haue in this present place heaped them togyther that before we proceede farther and cōsult more plentifully of the maner of reléeuing the poore it maye be manifeste to whome chiefly all our whole Oration is directed and who be they whome would haue to regard that which wée will sette foorth For thys truly is a businesse very necessarie and pro fitable but yet harde and difficile and requirethe the furtheraunce not of one or fewe but of many neyther of eche man but of suche as are of power and authoritie wherof also it commeth that although it be of good intent propounded yet all men doe what they can vtterly to reiect it from themselues For things are grown to this poynt and alas all charitie is