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A13968	To the Kings most excellent Maiestie. The humble petition of two sisters the Church and Common-wealth: for the restoring of their ancient commons and liberties, which late inclosure with depopulation, vncharitably hath taken away: containing seuen reasons as euidences for the same.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1604 (1604)	STC 24280; ESTC S119477	42,513	118

of Ashur that is as the dead Paganes condemne thee so shall the blind Egyptians and Papists condemne thee also And héere first did the Paganes deale so hardly with their tenants Pharaoh the Egyptian may teach all Inclosers and Landlords christian charitie and the communicating of their lands and commodities to their tenants Behold saith Ioseph I haue bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh and foure parts shall be yours for the seede of your field and for your meate and for them of your household for your children to eate Here first we may note that this Egyptiā king would haue tillage maintained Then that although he had purchased their land yet he dealt courteously with his tenants and had a care both of the seede of their land and of their families and shall not Christians much more haue this care of their brethren whose land comes by inheritance He gaue them seede and yet he required but a fift part for his rent Oh easie rent this shall condemne one day our couetous rents and cruell exactions at our brethrens hands This mercifull Pharaoh was blessed of God but his couetous successor that laid heauie burdens on Gods people and said as Inclosers say now The people are too much idle they must haue more worke imposed vpon them was drowned in the Sea let them chuse now whether of these they will followe Such a good landlord also was Iob not in Iewrie but in the land of Hus. If my land rise against mee saith hee and the furrowes thereof weepe and waile and if that I haue eaten of the heart thereof without money or haue made the soules of the masters thereof pant Then let thistles growe in stead of wheate and cockle in stead of barly Héere wée may first note that Iob neuer eate the strength or heart of his land but hée paied for the plowing of it contrarie to many Landlords amongst us who will let their lands at great rents and will make their tenants plow with them gratis and for nothing Secondly that he cals his tenants masters of his land but many amongst us make their tenants by their excessiue payments as good as bondslaues They did not so much as once pant or blow in the tilling of it they plowed it ioyfully and at their ease But many tenants now adaies doe not onely pant at their plowes but sigh caring how they may pay their rents Iob also did neuer eate his morsell alone if he had but one dish the poore had euer some part thereof and shall Inclosers thinke much to yeeld unto them some part of their grasse shall they shut them out of their fields whom hee admitted daily to his table And if perchance they thinke that this was uery much and that euery one is not bound to doe so let them marke well that Saint Iohn in his epistle doth charge euery Christian to doe more than this If that thou hast the worlds good and see thy brother want saith hée and shuttest vp thy verie entrals or bowels from him how dwelleth the loue of God in thee If thy brother beg of thée wilt thou denie him Nay by this place thou art plainely commaunded if thou seest him want though hée holde his peace and craue nothing of thée to help him and that not in opening thy purse to giue him money but in opening thy verie bowels vnto him and in doing to him as thou wouldest haue done to thine owne selfe Then if so be that his ●owe lacke grasse wilt thou not let her common in thy pastures If he lacke an house wilt thou not prouide one for him Nay Saint Iohn teacheth thée plainley héere to doe more for him then all these euen to receiue him not into thy fields or house but if it were possible into thine owne bowels and this was that common salutation among the Jewes like unto our good morrow your soule liueth in me as appeareth by the salutation of Anna to Elie and the salutation of Gedeon to the Angell which is as much as to say I wish to you euen as to my owne soule For so it is in the Hebrew tert Oh that this salutation were pronounced dayly not in mouth onely but in our dealings practised amongst vs Christians which no doubt ought to be as both Saint Paul and Peter doe commaund all Christians Fulfill my ioy saith Saint Paul that ye be like minded or of one minde together And Saint Peter finally be yee all of one minde Such a mercifull man was Mordoche the Jew of whom we reade thus And Mordoche the Iew was second to Ahashuerus and great amongst the Iewes and accepted Ratsu such a one as his brethren would haue wished who procured the wealth of his people and spake peaceably to all his seede who though háe were lately aduanced to dignitie and worship yet vsed not these meanes to maintaine his estate Oh that Inclosers who professe the name of the Gospell would imitate this Jew As for the blinde Egyptians that is the Papists how they haue excelled Inclosers in the workes of charitie euery towne almost tells thée which townes they haue left to their successors like the winges of a doue which is couered with siluer and Inclosers plucke away these golden fethers from them and leaue them not so good as they found them Thus Inclosers may plainely sée how that not only dead Assur but blinde Egypt also doth confound them But these Inclosers alledge that saying of the gospell Is it not lawfull for me to doe with mine owne as I list They must remember that parable represents vnto vs that great Landlord of all Landlords the king of heauen he may say so only and none else They must also remember that saying of the Psalme And he gaue them the lands of the heathen and they tooke the labour of the people in possession that they might keepe his statutes and obserue his lawes God hath giuen them the earth in deed but vpon this condition that they should kéepe his lawes and his lawe is Christian charitie The third reason is that this Inclosure is against the common wealth of the Iewes GOd said to Abraham Get thee out of thy Countrey and from thy kindred from thy Fathers house vnto the land that I will shew thee and I will make thee a great nation and will blesse thee and will make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing All Christians must be Abrahams sonnes and account this commaundement of God spoken vnto them and goe out by their loues affections studies cares of their father Adams house that is the wor●● and liue héere in this world as their father Abraham did like poore pilgrims and trauailers and then shall God blesse them and make them a blessing euen the very members of Jesus Christ who also when as he was in this world followed those very steps of Abraham

their owne commodities and therefore it is against charitie It was the voyce of Cain and not of Sheth nor of Gods Church am I my brothers keeper And euen at this day they are of Cains petegrée and not of Gods familie that haue no care of the wealth and welfare of their brethren This Inclosure is also against the loue which Jesus Christ commaunded and shewed towards vs Yee know the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ saith Saint Paul that he being rich for your sakes became poore that you through his pouertie might be made rich And I giue you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my counsell and mine aduise herein This is also that law of our Sauiour Christ which he so straitely commaunds all his To loue one another as he hath loued them and that with a repetition This is Saint Pauls aduise for our brethrens sakes euen to become poore to doe them good But Inclosers doe not thus they séeke their owne wealth and riches therefore they contradict both our Sauiours law and Saint Pauls aduise The most comfortable words of our blessed Sauiour euen the first and most ioyfull message that he sent to his Apostles after his resurrection were these Goe to my brethren and say vnto them I ascend vnto my Father and to your Father to my God and to your God Oh ioyfull newes Shall we not beleeue this And if we doe shall we not account indéede all Christians now our brethren euen our most néere and déere brethren which brotherhoode our Sa-Sauiour Jesus so dearely bought euen by his most precious death and shall we not deale with them as with our brethren But Dauid in the person of our Sauiour Christ complaines that he is become a stranger to his brethren and an aliant to his mothers children And is not Jesus Christ in his members amongst vs in this state euen now and may he not séeme to make the same complaint Whosoeuer lets a farme or sels any thing to his brother doth he not deale with him as with a stranger doth he not make him pay for it to the vttermost Nay sometimes more then it is worth A Turke might haue it as cheape at our hands as a Christian And may not Jesus Christ then iustly say that he is become a stranger to his brethren surely as great a stranger in his members to Christians as he was in his owne person to the Jewes For as they gaue him vineger and gall to drinke so many now giue to their brethren and especially Inclosers giue this drinke to their poore tenants And here we may note that excellent propertie of true charitie that she is alwaies hard to her selfe that she may be bountifull to others So was the widow of Sareptah that she might féede Elias and so was that widow in the Gospell which our Sauiour so highly commends That she might giue some thing into the Treasurie of God she gaue all her liuing and punished her selfe So was that Samaritan and that stranger amongst the Jewes whose example all that will be accounted neighbours our Sauiour commaunds to follow to that wounded man He set him on his owne beast he went a foote himselfe and tooke paines that he might ride So were all the Church of Macedonia as Saint Paul sheweth in their extreame pouertie rich in liberalitie to the poore They pinched themselues that they might be liberall to them Doe Inclosers follow these examples doe they pinch themselues that they may doe their brethren good Shall not all these examples of Jewes widowes strangers and Macedonians mooue them They doe quite contrarie and they thinke that they may doe it lawfully that is they may seeke their owne commoditie howsoeuer that their brethren fare surely this is not charitie All Gods creatures may seeme to teach vs this lesson as Virgils verses auouch The sheepe beareth not his fleece nor the oxe his yoake for himselfe nor the Bées hord vp their honey but all for our vse Nay those exceilent creatures the Sunne the Moone and stars how continually doe they runne their courses for our commoditie And shall not we take paines and pinch our selues to doe our brethren good And will not Inclosers learne this lesson being taught it by so many schoole-masters I am verely perswaded that God hath sent of late vnseasonable weather especially in the hay-haruest to teach Inclosers what an acre of their inclosed pasture ground which they doe make so great a reckoning of is worth For the hay-haruest which yeeldes meate for their sheepe hath beene lately vnseasonable and wet but the corne haruests which yéeldes meate for his sheepe the poore the Lord hath blessed Or else no doubt if the corne haruest had bin as wet as the hay haruest was there would haue béen a great dearth of corne to the vndooing of the poore But our most louing God to declare the loue that he beares to his owne shéepe the small care in comparison that he hath of their shéepe hath as it were plagued the hay-haruest of their sheep and blessed the corne-haruest of his own sheepe for nothing chanceth in vaine And therefore whereas Inclosers doe vrge the goodnesse of the ground and the benefit of Inclosure and that an acre of their inclosed medow and pasture is worth thus much they must consider y t vnles God send seasonable weather it may prooue almost worth nothing they must learne to let God haue a chief part of their rents reserued to him Vnlesse he keepe for vs the appointed weekes of the haruest as Ieremic teacheth what is all our land and labour taken about it worth No doubt our ancestors had consideration hereof in letting their lands which were so easily rented that the tenant might haue the rent what weather soeuer God sent and this was Christian charitie But this charitie is now vanished out of the world The Incloser will haue his great rent hée will not abate one penie what weather soeuer come One writes that the poore hus●andman is more cruelly dealt withall than the as●e whom his master if that the weather or the way proue not conuenient and good will ease of his burden But Husbandmen come faire come foule weather are nothing pitied they must beare still their accustomed burdens be they neuer so great This practise of Christian charitie was vsed in the Primitiue church And the multitude of them which beleeued saith S. Luke were of one heart and of one soule neither any of them said or accompted that that which he possessed was his own but they had all things common Common like Christians not like Anabaptists common in vse not in propertie For Ananias possession was his owne to haue either kept or sold it as Peter told him So was also all other mens possessions and goods but no man accompted it as his owne Lodouicus Viues a very learned man thus describes Christian charitie To loue saith hée is the