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A07548	The custumers alphabet and primer Conteining, their creede or beliefe in the true doctrine of Christian religion. Their ten commandementes, or rules of ciuill life and conuersation, daily grace, generall confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such, as eyther in iest or in earnest, seeming doubtfull themselues, would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping. All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties customes, without possibility of fraude or couyn. Alwaies prouided, in reading read all, or nothing at al.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1608 (1608)	STC 17927; ESTC S114606	45,944	46

THE CVSTVMERS ALPHABET and Primer Conteining Their CREEDE or Beliefe in the true Doctrine of Christian Religion Their TEN COMMANDEMENTES or Rules of Ciuill life and Conuersation daily Grace generall Confession speciall Supplication and Forme of Prayers Togither With a pertinent Answere to All such as eyther in iest or in earnest seeming doubtfull themselues would faine perswade others that the bringing home of Traffique must needes decay our Shipping All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties Customes without possibility of fraude or Couyn Alwaies prouided In reading Read all or nothing at al. ADSIT REGVLA 1608. A A a. e. i. o. u. ✚ b. c. d. f. g. h. k. l. m. n. p. q. r. s t. w. x. z. perse Con perse title title Est Amen 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY SPECIAL GOOD LLL THOMAS BARON OF BVCKHVRST Earle of Dorset and Lord-Treasurer of England Henrie Lord Howard of Marnehill Earle of Northampton Lord-Warden of the Cinq-Ports And Robert Baron of Essenden Vicount Cranbourne Earle of Salisbury and Principall Secretarie of State to the KINGS Maiestie All Knights of the most Noble Order of the GARTER and Lords of his Highnesse most Honourable Preuy-Counsell MY Dutie and Seruice to you honorable L.L.L. euery way humbly premised I haue thought it good to present the same with the loyall Endeuours of a willing mind though feeble wit and weaker brayne the Argument I confesse being of a higher pitch and greater compasse then I did imagine whē I tooke it in hand Hazard at the first did much discourage me in the mids by Friendes I had been disswaded in regard of the paines but for th' Enthousiasme still sounding in mine eares Ton Ame ne doibt ta flamme est si diuine c. Thy Soule is so beset by vowes that are deuine Thou shalt not tread amisse why should thy hart decline By whose perswasion whē I had but begun my Conscience thrust me forward and thus preuailed at last Ie veulx qu'un bel oser c. Then dangers stand aside t is GOODNES calls me to it If ought doe put me by t' is WISDOMS hand shall do it My stayes besides were these That TRVTH was all my Ground which as Time did suggest Experience still supplyd My Pen OPORTET made and was euer apt to mend But ORDER gaue the Forme which I most of all suspected and saw some cause to doubt till PRAYER in conclusion did vndertake to perfect or perswade the best So that if the Forme for the plainenesse may passe without offence the Matter for importance may perhaps deserue a double and treble reading The Matter indeed is TRAFFICK I meane our freeborne Traffick that Nurse of IVSTICE which feedes vs all and heere handled ab Effectis containes those very CVSTVMS for which the Schollers in all the Free-schooles of our SOVERAIGNES daily Tributes haue so long beene subiect to bayting and beating and for which my selfe of late so graciously chidden was forst by speciall commaund to spell againe my Letters and con this PRIMER Now be it what it may be as your WISDOMS shall esteeme and as GOD shall giue successe to whom the Glorie of All in All is due three principall reasons haue moou'd me to present it to your LLL view in the names of All the rest The FIRST besides his knowledge and sufficiencie of skill by eminencie and Place hath speciall Experience to iudge of what I write The SECOND keepes the Keyes of all those verie Ports that lymits out my Charge for whose sakes indeede reciproke Loue did instant me to write And the THIRD was the meanes to make me first a Custumer when I had giuen it ouer and little thought vppon it For these regards I say and treble respects mine Ends beeing no wayes priuat myne Intentions alwaies Loyall disclayming no mans Person but Sinne and Dishonestie I held it meetest and safest to present my Selfe and the Fruites of all my Vowes to your LLL mylde Censures and Protections By whose speciall Fauours as I am but what I am so I desire but to be knowne Your LLL by seuerall Duties deuotedly bound Tho Milles. To the GRAVEST and GODLIEVVISE in Highest Authority A Gentleman a friend and a louer of learning comming into a Free-Schoole where diuers young Schollers were learning their Grammers desirous to feele how they thryude at their Bookes by some familiar Question demaunded their Huishers standing by VVhen an English is giuen to be made into Latine what 's first to be done The aunswer is easie namelie To seeke out the Principall Verbe yet all stoode silent and halfe amazed till * The writer hereof hauing spent the best of his youth in publique seruices at home and abroade and desirous at last to settle himselfe in some stayd course of liuing after the Treaty at Barwick 1586. caled Foedus arctioris amicitiae inter potentissimos c. which with the grace of God the truth of his Title and his owne patience was a meanes that brought his Maiestie so quietly and happily hether was by his Friendes perswaded to take the charge vpon him of Custumer of Sandwich and the Member-Ports in Kent where he was borne assuring him that thereby he● might doe God and his Country good seruice vpon which motiue hee vndertooke the same simply and doubting no harme one at the last the Question repeated and he vrged to say VVhat was to be done replyed No harme sir I hope at least that I wote of Which the Gentleman taking in very good part suspecting rather ignorance in the Huishers then want of wit in the Scholler departed smyling Most Reuerend and Right Honourable This Question and Aunswere includeth the state of all the Students in the Free-Schooles of our Soueraignes Custumes where such as the Teachers be such are the Schollers There is a reason for all thinges And the reason heereof is not so much for want of wit in the Learners To deale iustly betweene the Prince and the people which in this kinde of Doctrine is the Principall Verbe as in their angry and hastie Huishers who while the Graue-Maisters and Moderators of the Schooles were distracted and busied in the study and practise of highest poynts of Learning haue vsed no Method but beating the Schollers Qui paria esse volunt peccata Ipsique laborant Cum ventum ad verum est Sensus moresque repugnant Atque ipsa VTILITAS Iusti prope mater Aequi. That make all faults alike yet they themselues are dome When Truth in question falls each finger seemes a thome And Profits-selfe empaird whence Iust Right should come Which kinde of Discipline discouraging all men and driuing many good wits from the Schoole to the secrete iniury of the whole Common-wealth forcde me to my Booke and as well as I could to Analise my lesson meaning therby with the fore-said playne Scholler No harme at all Such therefore as it was I did briefely set forth in a * The CVSTOMERS

Syncope or great swounding which heere is described and the remedies her pulse is weake her Spirits fayle her face is pale and wan at the name and sound of Staples the want wherof so wounds her Soule that her hart is set on bleeding yet cōfort her still hold her vpright to keepe her from deadly swouning and speake her fayre that she doe not despayre of the Cordialls in your onely keeping Tell her kindly withall Priuatio praesupponit habitum for neuer man yet was so continually sicke whose health hath not had a Beeing and the disproportioned disposition of Confusion it selfe dooth argue an intention and possibilite of Order Therefore speake my good Lords to reuiue all her spirits for your wordes are full of power yea speake aloude I say assure her you will belay all her Staples KINGE PRINCE Yea speake you and you SIRS for your Bullion sake for that is your right and no mans but yours by the Rules of all Truth and fixed Goodnes For your Mynts sake for that is your Honor and no mans but yours by the Rules of Iustice For your Exchange sake for that is your Glory and no mans but yours by the Rules of Equality and for your Customes sake for that is your profit and no mans but yours by the Rules of Iustice and Equitie Quiquid enim Iustum id etiam vtile censent sumini Philosophi itemque quod honestu id esse Iustum Ex quo essicitur vt quicquid honestū sit idem sit vtile Cice offic lib 2. so shall Honestum and Vtile concurre both together Honestie beeing euermore the height and type of Honour publicke Vtilitie the Mother of Iust and Right for each mans good and gaine Say not you can restore them for that shee knowes already but say you will doe it and then she will beleeue you And wee your poore Schollers loyall Subiects and Seruaunts wil euery way attend you with all our best endeuours Or els farwell sweet Trafficke and so farewell Customes yea farewell Iustice nay farewell Religion and then farewell All. So farre off are Customers from guilt also in this behalfe But alas poore Customers who doth harken to your cryes or beleeue your Reports Who shall weigh your zeale to our Soneraignes Honour and his Peoples Good or care for your Endeuors Yet be not dismaid In magnis voluisse sat est sint caetera Dinū Stand still but awhile and let GOD himselfe alone What though inveterate Errors of ages that are past haue multiplyed themselues and now seeme to muster against our happy dayes our DAYSTARRE that is risen and DAVVNING in our eyes KING PRINCE will in good time disperse them or amend them as they may and take but thus much onwards That Ignorance hath beene euery way the Mother but of Errors of whom came Mischiefes and of such our Inconveniences which though they threat Confusion yet tell vs notwithstanding there is a way to Order that leades vs to perfection as Truth by the Causes of Truth shal come but to be knowne Now Truth indeede lyes deepe and the danger such in diging that no man hath the patience to delue vntill they find her I am to too weake * The Wryter almost tyred out of hart referres the Truth of all to the Records of the K Treasury in his Exchequer for Weights Measures Staple Accounts Orders alas to worke her out alone O that WISDOME therfore which onely can disclose thē would make men admire those glorious Titles of Iustice and Mercy Emblemes of Truth that the Volumes in her Cabinet and Treasurie containes Then should wee learne the Rules and proportions of Numbers Weights and Measures The vse of Staples in former times how they were kept and whether they be gone Then should wee see those wonderfull effects of our Loadstones at home that haue wrought such miracles in other forraino Lands and Nations from abroade bringing Bullion in amaine make our * Myntes Pulses to beat in moe places thē one And we poore Schollers made confident in our Customes without possibilitie of fraude cause of distrust or feare of blame Customes in England or in English Trafficke alwayes presuppose our Staples and liue and dye or follow thē as Effects their proper Causes In the meane time sith no men can pipe well that want their vpper lyps consequence concludes it and Truth makes it good that as no Church hath no Tythes and no Court no Quit-rents so no Staples no Customes Whereby Necessity ouertaken beeing put to her shyfts makes bold with Free-will and to ayde PREHEMINENCE transcending to PREROGATIVE The blending or mistaking of Prerogatine for Preheminence a dangerous meanes to prophane the Soueraine effects and reuerence of Mercy in Kings turnes Customes into Subsidies of Tonnage and Pondage as if PREHEMINENCE and PREROGATIVE were meerely Synonimas and meant but one thing and bounded Iustice that layes out all our Rights were that boundlesse Mercy that makes vs all to liue and Mercy it selfe but a word of prophanenes or some ordinarie thing Marchants by Societies monopolizing our Staple Commodities and Royall wares haue found the way to Staple them still beyond Seas so confounding both our Customes diverting all our Bullion fill the Realme with baser or more needlesse matter in their returnes Thus whilst our Graue Maisters Moderators of our Schooles haue been busied and distracted in the studie and practise of the higher poynts of learning our Staples beeing stolne transmuted and transplanted our Customes are confounded and wee poore Schollers still tyde to our Stakes seeme fitte for nothing but beating and bayting Hence grew the grounds of all our Disorders the breaches of our Schooles and our * Trafficke Nurses deadly sicknesse that threatned all our Ruines had not Wisedome frō aboue out of loue and affection so belayde our falls that the power of that WORD which made vs first of nothing became the meanes to redeeme vs all from nothing and * KING BOVNTIE it selfe hath laid the foundation and begun at the least to become the MAN whereby our ioyes may be great The comfort that Customers cōceiue of the King and Prince and by so much the greater by how much our greatest losse as all men thought is like to become our greatest gaine Our comforts then growing from our Soueraignes owne PERSON and our hopes aboue hopes from the power of his WORD whose naturall storge to Iustice and Right beeing euery vvay good their affections also free and loue without end Le ts heere rest awhile and setling our selues both thinke and thanke God and learne to say Grace that Grace in disgrace may pitty our cases among the rest and raise our poore credites from impudent Ignorance insolent Pride and shamelesse Disdaine saying The Customers daily Grace As God by his Goodnes and Truth did direct vs whose mercy endures for euer So his Grace and his fauour vouchsafe to protect vs