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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07549	The custumers apology That is to say, a generall answere to informers of all sortes, and their iniurious complaints, against the honest reputation of the collectors of her Maiesties custumes, specially in the out-portes of this realme. Written onely for vnderstanding readers and wise in highest authoritie, to reade and discerne by. Alwaies prouided, in reading reade all, or nothing at all.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1599 (1599)	STC 17928; ESTC S100765	23,308	30

absolutely credited And that that being done all cautions besides are but bootelesse effects of Ielousie and Suspition iniurious to the Reputation of that Officer and hurtfull to the seruice 2. And that where the pledge is once giuen and taken which is the vttermost of all securities in vse amongst Christians Of consequence if that Officer bee dishonest he is ill chosen and so fit to be remooued or the Function in matter or forme defectiue and so fit to be reformed But truth is called the daughter of Time and Practize and Experience the Midwiues that bring her to light for the weakenesse of this third Prouision or Caution in time gaue easie way to a fourth kind of Officer and so may doe to the fift and a sixt in infinitum so long as the grounds and causes of offences are mistaken or vnknowne ¶ Ignorance is called the mother of Error Of Errors come Mischiefes Truth best found out by knowledge of Error and priuate Mischiefes proue publike Inconueniences which breeding Confusion point out Order and Perfection as Causes grow known So that Faelix qui poterit rerum cognoscere Causas CVSTVMES paid by Merchants are subiect to TRAFFICK as the Effect to the Cause Trafficke subiect to Occasions and Times TRAFFICK ryseth and falleth with occasions and Times the obseruing whereof requireth Experience and Iudgement to direct and Freedome with Judustrie to manage the same Examples wherof are all Owners of lands that by distinguishing Soyles and obseruing of Seasons make vse of their grounds But as if a Lord of a Mannour that intending to make the best of his own by his immediate Seruants though the groūds be excellent fertile and good giues charge notwithstanding and expresly forbids them both the vse of the Plough Custumers forbidden all Trades and Trafficke and all means besids of manuring their soiles wherby their wils wanting freedome to approue their endeuours they reape none other yeelde then as nature affordes and so at the ende of haruest falling out with his Seruants farmes the Land vnto Strangers who neerest themselues first serue their own turnes The farming of Custumes vnnaturall and not so good to the Prince as iniurious to the Subiect and in raysing their rents for the most part make spoyle of the grounds So fares it with the Seruants and lands of this great Feeld of reuenues And no meruaile at al for where things are past ouer without distinction of Times Persons and Place the Error in iudgement makes the Actor next hand suspected and blamde Thus first grew the occasion that the CVSTVME of sundrie things became farmed out to sundrie Persons for yearely rents certaine and set termes of yeares But with what vncertaine successe the times haue declared and the persons haue found For witnesse whereof omitting times past to begin neerer hand about the xij of the Queene M. Smith tooke the Custumes of some PORTS to farme M. Smith whose industrie made his gaines so enuied that all was resumde at the end of his yeares After him Sir Frauncis Walsingham was wonne to the like for some PORTS else where S. Fra. Walsingham but missing the methode how euer he thriued after his death the remainder of his terme was by composition surrendred vp into her Maiesties hands Then grew it a question things so meeting together how the same might be best husbanded to her Maiesties owne and immediate vse that had beene so good to some others at a second hand And because the Custumers at al hands were holden for Publicans Sinners a new fourth sort of Officers became created who at the cost of Sir Francis hauing wonne their experience before vndertooke by themselues and Deputies To reforme all abuses and aduance the Queenes Custumes in al PORTS of this Realme LONDON excepted To these therfore being fower in number a Commission is graunted ioyntly 4. SVPERVISORS by the name of SVPERVISORS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. Occultatio truly describing the state of the seruice Drawen from concord in Musique and Order in building To reforme all abuses and aduance the Queenes Custumes Bid such men wel-come bee they neuer so many for that 's the Dyapason of all our Musicke so the more the merier And the base of that building so many haue vndertaken and so fewe haue set forward therefore the more hands the lighter worke Prouided alwaies they sing with the Companie and worke in Gods name Hoc opus hic labor est committed to none but Men of the best sort only Religious and honest indeede as these pretend to be Yet since in this in al things Virtutis laus actio and Carpenters are alwaies best knowne by their chippes first heare their voices and examine their cunning for so their consent and harmonie will shewe their skill in Musicke and their Disposition and Order in raysing their worke will commend their building For if into a Consort ordained to sing or sound Any or Many should obtrude themselues and taking vp Instruments pretending to tune them regard neither Rests nor giue eare to any Time nor sound the Instruments to find out what compasse of Musique they are ablest to maintaine but sing to themselues and stand winding vp Strings till all breake in sunder would yee not catch the Instruments from the hands of such Tuners and as Personnes either ignorant or impudent desire such Musitians of lesse acquaintance Likewise in the framing and rearing some ●ta●●ly peece of building such as might be the Steeple for Paules a worke faire and farre seene and faisible enough for fit and skilfull workemen if Any or Many vndertaking to aduance it should begin at the height and so build downeward or pitching the Weathercocke beneath striue to raise the base end vpward would any well aduised stand neere such builders for feare of danger or at least Spectatum admissi risum teneatis Amici Euen such and no better proues the skill and proceedings of these forward Reformers of abuses and aduancers of Custumes For whilst the Custumers set vp as it were and opposed with the a Extremitie Discant of their lesson enioynd them to learne and finding their * Marchants Instruments not able to maintaine such a Compasse in Musike were applying themselues to the b The equitie of the Law Plaine-song prickt out to the plesingest Ditty that euer was endited beginning thus “ Est Modus in rebus sunt certi denique Fines There is a Mids betwene Extreames much like a mark or white “ Quos vltra citraque nequit consistere Rectum Whereat who leuels short or gon can neuer shoote aright Which fitting all a Raates Strings the Searchers withall at euery Close singing Then Measure is the mery Meane for Prince and People Makes a song in it selfe of Good rime and Good reason being perfectly learned and sung with good Time and Tunable voyces Spo●daeum melos 〈◊〉 nisi Sua●e sonans farre fuller of daintie streines

spoken Virg. Tristius haud illis Monstrum nec saeuior vlla Pestis ira Deum Stygiis sese extulit vndis No monsters like to these might hap nor curse from God befal Nor from the pit of Hell arise to plague a Realme withall VNWORTHIE the very superfluities of that Citties aboundance to their manifest decay for want of free Trafficke in their Inhabitants Mariners and Shipping And that all things being drawne into Priuate societies are there so ingrossed that ENGLAND is but LONDON and LONDON also seemes abridged in it selfe In which distresse the PORT-TOVVNES appealing in all humilitie to the PRINCE their onely comfort is that albeit her Maiestie as a Mother of all her Children in her a Sacred Loue and b Royall Affection as well may beseeme Her stand gracious to some more then the rest A naturall liuely Similitude of the Princes PREROGATIVE yet that her Storge and naturall inclination to Iustice affords bread to the meanest and intendeth at least that all should enioy their birth-rights in the generall treatise of Entercourse abroad and Common Lawes at home to growe vp thereby to liue to her Seruice and the Common-wealth Let not LONDON therefore enuie her fellow Subiects to breath common ayre any longer liuing vnder one and shee so good a SOVERAIGNE nor disgrace her fellow seruants of equall place and function for the reasons afore laide downe And in LONDON more specially the Societie of MARCHANTS b The Argument of this Discourse being the Aduancement of Custumes and the drift thereof Honour and Peace to the Prince and her Kingdome was resolud at the first to depend efficiently on Trafficke That Trafficke consisted of fower essentiall Parts or Pillers Matter Persons Place and Order That to maintaine Trafficke and so consequently Custumes c. Was to procure and cherish in all Matter Goodnesse in all Persons Loyaltie and Friendship in all Places Conueniencie and Freedome and in all Order generall Equitie the best Rules whereof were onely to be found in the Certaintie and Indifferencie of the positiue Lawes Treaties and Contracts of mutuall Commerce But the Marchants Aduenturers not knowing or not regarding these fower essentiall grounds together run away with Trafficke as if it stood onely in the choise of Persons and by their vneuen vncertaine and violent proceedings holde all men vnder to keepe themselues aboue Terming all Enterlopers that would liue by the direct and set Lawes of Trafficke as if all were bastards and scarce good Christians at least no Loyal Merchants nor Friends but they and their Societie And by a bare and idle pretence of the word Order and orderly transporting the Credit and Creame of the Land Cloth haue brought the Trade there of to a kind of confusion and themselues to such a Laborynth that besides the distresse of the Clothiers withall their Dependants and generall complaints at home to their Ho. Lordships endlesse offence and trouble at the Councell Table the Commoditie it selfe is impayred abased and in a sort despised and the State withal dangerously deuided vnkindly at Iarre with her auncient Allyes and best forraine Friends ADVENTVRERS that sometime haue beene as curious to keepe and debarre men from their MART-TOWNS as now they seeme violent to force all men thither Least by their vnquiet and vncertaine Instruments and forme of proceedings they make good at home amongs themselues and within themselues against thēselues that Straungers haue feared written and forespoken terming them a Priuate Particular and Preuenting companie ¶ This is the state of the CVSTVMES as they are at this present fit for the GRAVE and WISE to knowe and consider The reformation whereof though none but Authoritie may promise and performe yet common Dutie makes it lawfull in all to wishe and further Vnto whome therefore in all Submission the PORT-TOVVNES for themselues and their * Cities Inland Townes of this Realm FRIENDS by way of remembrance doe make this Petition QVi Reipub. praesunt Cic. Offic. li. 1. vt duo praecepta teneant Vuum vt vtilitatem Ciuium sic tueantur vt quicquid agant ad cam referant obliti commodorum suorum Alterum vt totum corpus Reipub. curent ne dum partem aliquam tueantur reliquas deserant Qui autem parti consulunt partemque negligunt seditiones discordias inducunt Ex quo fit vt alij Populares alij Optimi cuiusque studiosi videantur pauci vniuersorum An abstract or part of a Letter written by Master Roger Askham of most honest and learned memorie from Auspurge the xj of August 1551. vnto Master Leauer A fit lesson for London and all Citties and incorporations in Englande to preuent a Dearth by MAgdeburge passeth the siege of Troy c. The prouision of Corne at Norenberge is notable I wrote it to M. Cheeke and so I will to you for I saw it They haue eightéene store houses full of Wheate whereof one flower was not taken vpon these _____ yeares as doth appeare in their Recordes and writings yet the Wheate is good it is so well kept This prouision of Wheate maketh that Corne doth neuer fall nor rise aboue twelue pence in a Quarter about Norenberge For when a hard yéere commeth that Corne should be déere among the Poore then the Senate of Norenberge doe sell to all that lacke plentifully at the olde price and when Corne is so plentifull that the Poore men can get no money for it then the Senate buyeth all that comes and payes as much as the olde price was Thus their Wheat except certain flowers is so renewed that the people neither want Corne when it is deere nor money when it is good cheape They haue Lawes and Statutes for this good order Such a Senate be Veri Patres Reipub. God maintaine them and giue others grace to follow them c.