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A90167	Orders and rules appointed by the last will and testament of Sir Thomas Holt, knight and baronet to be observed in the electing, and after the election, of the ten poore persons inhabiting in his almshouse at Aston Juxta Birmingham in the county of Warwick, with the assent and assistance of Dame Anne Holt, the relict of the said Sir Thomas Holt, and of Sir Robert Holt baronet, his grand-son, and his heires males.	Holt, Thomas, Sir, 1570 or 71-1654.; Holt, Robert, Sir.; Holt, Anne.	1656 (1656)	Wing O396aA; ESTC R42531	10,608	24

ORDERS AND RVLES Appointed by the Last Will and Testament Of S ir THOMAS HOLT Knight and Baronet To be Observed in the Electing and after the Election of the Ten Poore Persons Inhabiting in his ALMSHOUSE at Aston Juxta Birmingham in the County of WARWICK With the Assent and Assistance of D ame ANNE HOLT The Relict of the said S ir THOMAS HOLT And of S ir ROBERT HOLT Baronet his Grand-son and his Heires Males PSAL. 112.9 He hath dispersed he hath given to the Poore his Righteousnesse endureth for ever London Printed in the Year 1656. THE ORDERS AND RULES Appointed to be Observed in the Electing and after the Election of the Ten Poore Persons inhabiting in this Almshouse at ASTON FIRST THe Number of the Persons that are to be Relieved there shall be Ten viz. Five Men and five Women SECONDLY The Places from which they shall be chosen are out of the two Hydes within the Parish of Aston viz. Aston Hyde and Nechells or Duddeston Hyde In the Election The Inhabitants of the Lordship of Aston shall be admitted in the first place of Nechels in the second of Duddeston in the third of Witton in the fourth of Saltley in the fifth of Erdington in the sixth of Little Bromwich in the seventh of Bordsley in the eighth of Derritend in the ninth and last all lying within the Parish of Aston THIRDLY The Conditions of the Persons shall be such They shall be all single Persons and shall continue single They shall be Pious Sober well reported of or such as shall promise and endeavour so to be They shall be such as are become Old Decrepit Lame Blind Impotent or likely to be a burthen to the Parish of Aston And no Witch Wizzard Sorcerer or one that is acquainted with any Familiar Spirit No Blasphemer of Gods Name or Common Swearer no Fornicator No Felon No Common Drunkard shall be chosen or admitted FOURTHLY After Election these shall all duly and orderly repaire to the Church every Morning and Evening to hear Divine Service and Sermons aswell on working-Working-dayes as on the Lords Day and Holy-Dayes whensoever Holy Exercises shall be performed there And in their Repair to the Church as also in their return from it they shall goe all in Decent and Comely manner that is to say First Two Men Secondly Two Men Thirdly One Man and one Woman Fourthly two Women Fifthly two Women together In the same Manner and Form to witt Two and Two shall accompany every Corps to be buried in the Church or Churchyard of Aston except the Person deceased be thought to have died of the Plague or some such contagious disease They shall every day Morning and Evening meet together at some convenient Hour in some one Room of the Almes-house Then and there to confesse their sinnes to God to pray for a blessing upon themselves and others and to give thanks for Gods mercies and more particularly for the liberall Maintenance allowed them in that Place If no one of the Almes People can read the Parish Clerke or some other shall be procured to performe Prayers for them FIFTHLY They shall be Helping Aiding and Assisting one to another in time of Sicknesse and in all Needs and Necessities They shall avoid all those Enormities aforesaid which made them uncapable of Election viz. Witchcraft or Sorcery Blaspheming of Gods Name or common Swearing Fornication Felony and common Drunkennesse None of them shall Marry None of them shall Begge after they be chosen into the Place SIXTHLY The causes for which any of them shall be expelled shall be the same for which at first they should not be admitted viz. For Witchcraft or Sorcery for Blaspheming or incorrigible Swearing for Fornication for Felony for common Drunkennesse Or If any of them shall Marry or Begge Lesser punishments to be inflicted upon them For every neglect of going to Church For every disorderly going For every times absence from Private Prayers Morning or Evening for every Oath or notorious Lye For every the least distemper by Drink When they are in health and able to performe these Duties aforesaid they shall be lovingly admonished for the first time For the second time they shall lose foure pence out of their weeks allowance For the third and fourth time and so forwards if they shall double and treble their fault the Penaltie shall likewise be doubled and trebled upon them by the discretion of those that are designed for that purpose according as the qualitie of the Fault and the disposition of the Partie Delinquent shall require And in case no amendment appear upon so Moderate a course held but the Parties offending shew themselves desperately incorrigible then shall they be expelled out of the Societie All the Penalties which shall be inflicted or imposed upon any of the said Ten Poor Almes people for neglecting any of the duties aforesaid or for committing any of the faults aforesaid shall by that Person which hath or by those Persons which have power to punish them for the same be given or distributed to the rest of the ten poor Alms-people which shall be no Delinquents if they shall deserve it or else shall be bestowed upon or to some other Charitable Use or Uses as the said Person or Persons who shall impose the said Penalties upon them shall in his or their discretion appoint or think fitting The Morning Prayer It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing Praises unto thy Name O most High To shew forth thy loving kindnesse in the Morning and thy faithfulnesse every Night Our voice shalt thou therefore hear in the Morning O Lord in the Morning will we direct our Prayers unto Thee and will look up ALmighty and most mercifull Lord God who Createdst all things by thy Great Power and who sustainest all Creatures by thy Gracious providence without whom we have nothing and from whom we have all things which we do enjoy or the Hopes whereof we can Ioy in because thou givest unto All liberally and upbraidest none We acknowledge Lord that Thou mightest most justly upbraid us for our unworthinesse of the least and our unthankfulnesse for the greatest of thy Mercies and that for both Thou mightest lay upon us the forest heaviest of thy judgements Even by the offence of One Iudgement came upon All to Condemnation and yet besides that we have added Rebellion unto Sinne and aggravated out Guiltinesse by our long continued Wickednesse so that our Sinnes are become exceeding sinfull We have sinned O Lord against the light of Reason as we are Men oft doing that which even Nature teacheth us that it is a shame to do and against the Light of Religion as we are Christians holding the Truth in unrighteousnesse and sinning wilfully even after we had received the Knowledge of the Truth We have not only loved Evill more then Good but have too long been unto every good Work Reprobate or too apt to say or think of every commanded

pleasures for evermore To sweeten our reposes say unto our soules I am your Salvation say Lord your God hath not appointed you to wrath but to obtain Salvation by your Lord Iesus Christ who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him so shall we ever be with the Lord. In whose Name and with whose words we ask all saying Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evill For Thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen For the Sick WIthout the Law you cannot know sin sinne being the Transgression of the Law and without knowledge of sin you cannot have either Contrition for sin or reformation from sin or any manner or measure of repentance unto life First therefore let us hear the voyce of the Law God spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of Bondage I. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likenesse of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the Water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandements III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vain IV. Remember the sabbath-Sabbath-day to keep it holy Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy work But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work Thou nor thy Sonne nor thy Daughter thy Man-servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thy Cattell nor thy Stranger that is within thy gates For in six dayes the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seveth day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy dayes may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill VII Thou shalt not commit adulterie VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy Neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid-servant nor his Oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is thy Neighbours Now what man is he that liveth and sinneth not Yea who knoweth how oft he offendeth against this Law And so this truly is as it is called a fiery Law both as given with fire at first and as to its effect signified thereby the consuming of Transgressors at the last Only by Christ Iesus cometh life and by Faith in him all our help and hope of life John 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life Now therefore let us hear a summary of necessary Belief I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only Sonne our Lord which was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I beleeve in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the communion of Saints the forgivenesse of sinnes the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Job 19.25 26 27. I know that my Redeemer liveth and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my Reins be consumed within me Psal 116.15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints 1 Sam. 2.6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up The Prayer for the Sick O LORD our GOD with whom is the Fountaine of Life and to whom belong the issues of Death We confesse our selves to be by nature sinfull and by sinne abhominable and therefore unworthy to speak unto Thee or to bespeak a mercy from Thee even for our selves Yet in obedience to thine own command that Supplications and Prayers and Intercessions be made for all we here desire to intercede unto Thee in the behalf of this our Languishing and Pained * or Sister Brother we know O Lord that it was for sin only that thou at first threatnedst great plagues of long continuance and sore sicknesses and of long Continuance And we acknowledge our demerits by sinne even of all thy threatned judgements but we know too that thine own Sonne our Saviour himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses and that thou hast said concerning my servants command ye Me and that many a time turnedst thou thine anger away from them and didst not stirre up all thy Wrath For that thou remembrest they were but flesh For thy Well-beloved Sons sake therefore let us begge of thee for this thy Servant that thou wouldest remove Thy heavie hand from him * or Her and extend thy pitty to * or Her him for thou knowest * or She his Frame Remember that * or Her he is but dust and therefore plead not against him with thy great power Can it O Lord magnifie thy Might to break a Bubble or crush a Moth or to kill a Worme oh then magnifie thy mercie rather remembring thine own promise also that thou wilt not contend for ever neither be alway wroth because otherwise the Spirit would fail before thee and the Souls which thou haft made And therefore unto * or Her his dayes amongst us on earth that He * or She may be the better fitted for Thee and Heaven That by this neernesse unto death * or She he may the better learn to live and by that addition to his life * or She he may the better learn to dye or She Or if in thy secret wisdome thou hast determined this to be * or Her his last visitation send down thy holy Spirit to strengthen guide and comfort † or Her him before and in the hour of death to strengthen † her his Faith that † her he may without any detracting or distempering fears or doubts believe and rest upon thy Love to guide † or sher his affections that † or she he may without any worldly sorrowes or snares freely resigne * Her self himself unto thy Fatherly disposing and to comfort * his soule in the anguish of † or Her his body with a gracious tender of the joyes of Heaven both unto Body and Soul That so the enemie who daily waits for every advantage for we are not ignorant of his devices may not gain by this † or Her his weakenesse Say Lord to † or Her him therefore now thy sinnes are forgiven thee that so † or Her he may with all assurance of thy love † or She throw * Her self himself into thine Arms of mercy and into thy hands commend * or Her his spirit Thus Lord hear our Prayers for him and hear * or Her his groanings for * himself and hear our us all The Lord hath said that whatsoever we ask the Father in his Name He will doe it In his only Name therefore and with his own words we thus farther aske all saying Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evill For Thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The All-sufficient Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the all-satisfying Love of God the Father and the all sanctifying fellowship of God the Holy Ghost be with this our † or Sister Brother and with us all now and evermore Amen