repeate the Conceipt thou madest in my name which thou gauest to the Lord Mayor of London when thou didst present my Complaint vnto him a little after Christmas 1615. Pa. I will giue you the effect as well as I can remember viz. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sir Iohn Iolles Knight Lord Mayor c. It was in his time c. The Humble Petition of H. F. for S. Paules Church in London WHereas it is a laudable Custome in this Honourable Citie that about this time in euery yeare the Alderman of euery Ward doth present vnto the Lord Mayor for the time being all abuses misdemeanours annoyances and decayes to the end they should be reformed auoyded and amended It may please your good Lordship in regard that no Ward-mote Inquest hath as yet taken notice of my decayes and annoyances to accept of this my Presentment made by my Friend and to doe to mee His answer was Honorable and worthy at that time what honorable fauour and respect you can towards my redresse And I shall pray c. S. Pa. Set downe likewise the Letter which you deuised in my name to the Reuerend Preachers that come to my Crosse for it will not bee impertinent to be inserted F. I shall gladly doe it as followeth viz. MY very Reuerend Friends you are the Lords Ambassadors whom therfore should you feare You see before your eyes my miserable estate how of the fairest Caedar in Lebanon I am become the least respected in London Like a great withering Oake in a greene flourishing Forrest and of the most remarkeable See-farre a forlorne and a forsaken Cypher your Wisedomes know I haue raised and maintained many O then let me not be forgotten in mine old age you know likewise that Briefe vpon Briefe goes currant for the restauration of the prophane houses of men which haue been ruined by misfortune of fire as I was and how they are new builded and made better then before I hope therefore you will do somewhat for Gods house You giue thanks for the benefits that are bestowed on them that come with the Lords Ambassage to my Crosse And pray for the increase of such benefactors I desire that you would pray likewise for such Benefactors as will contribute to my good that so the Church and Churchmen may thriue together For the houses of men there are prouisoes and Couenants to tie the Tenants to reparation or to forfeit their Leases are there no such Prouisoes and Couenants for Gods Tenants If there be not then sure it is because hee holds them so worthy that they need not be bound I say no more because I doubt not of your loue and care And so I commend you to the heauenly protection of the Almighty and rest in silence euer hereafter as your louing Mother-Church S. Paules S. Pa. Now set downe what other things you thinke fit and let vs draw to conclusion F. Then first I will write the Carroll which I gaue to his Maiestie on Christmas day before his going into Scotland viz. IN Paradise was Adam borne Iesus Christ but in a Stall By the first we were forlorne by the second saued all Glory be to God on High Ioy at Christs Natiuitie God preserue your Maiestie Euah out of Adam came Christ of Mary tooke his birth By the first came woe and shame by the second ioy on earth Glory be to God on High c. Peace be still within thy wals Plenty to all needy soules So good King remember Paules This following I gaue to his Maiesty when he tooke Coach at Theobalds in his Highnesse Progresse to Scotland aforesaid as my faithfull Farewell or faire wish to the good successe of his Sacred Maiestie and of all his Noble Reuerend and Worthy followers c. viz. RIde on with honor mighty King With Princely high Renowne From London vnto * It may well be called â—â—dâ—n or a place of Ioy where so gracious a Peacemaker was borne Edenburgh Thy natiue Seate and Towne And blessed be thy Maiestie In euery place thou goest Vnto the ioy of Man and Boy From highest to the lowest Ride on yee Noble Lords also God blesse you and our Master And in the Progresse as yee passe Defend you from disaster And Trinity in Vnitie Be still your guide and glory That of this time each penne may rime A pleasant Progresse story And ride yee on yee Reu'rend ones For you are for our soules And when you are at Edenburgh I pray remember Paules For shee will pray both night and day For your prosperitie Because your words much helpe affords In her necessitie Ride on likewise yee worthy Knights With Iovialty and pleasure And see you haue a noble eare To bring againe our * No nation can haue a greater Treasure in a Prudent and a gracious King then we haue if wee were so thankfull to God as we ought to be Treasure Your fealty and loyalty The Lord will euer blesse And for the same you shall get fame And heauenly happinesse So ride yee on his Officers And Yeomen strong and trusty Some guard before and some behinde Be valiant bold and lusty Yet see you be for Courtisie In Scotland well commended That loue and peace may still increase vntill the world be ended And as in Progresse so in Regresse O let vs euer pray That God will blesse his Maiestie And Queene and Prince alway That North and West and South and East His glory wee may sing And nights and dayes giue thanks and praise For IAMES our Sacred King Now followeth a Welcome to his MAIESTIE as I intended to present the same at Windsor but was hindered of my purpose viz. VVElcome Dread Soueraigne from that Paradise Where Nature gaue thee Birth Grace Edifice Welcome Great Britaines Treasure and best Iemme From Edenburgh to our Ierusalem Welcome Peace-maker Louer of Vnitie Europes admired King for Maiestie And for all Vertues that good Kings befit As Mercy Iustice Learning Wisedome Wit Welcome tenne thousand times and blessed be All those that with true hearts doe welcome Thee And all thy Noble and thy faithfull Traine That went with Thee and brought Thee safe againe Such ioy succeed thy trauels to the North That thereby peace and concord may spring forth And spread it selfe throughout great Britany To the perfecting of true Amitie That so from East to West from North to South Gods praise and Thine may be in euery mouth And to thy meeting with thy Turtle Royall Thy sacred second selfe thy Queene most Loyall Thy Princely Son our High and Mighty CHARLES Thy Noble Councellors Lords Ladies Earles Bishops Clergy Knights Gentry Commons All That long haue wish'd thy presence at Whitehall And thy true Citizens of famous London That for thy absence thought themselues vndon Such ioy succeed as neuer was before And God increase that ioy for euermore And as I pray so pray all loyall people Neuer forgetting S. Paules Church and Steeple This following is another Christmas Caroll
beautifie the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem c. 2. Chron. 24. 8. 9. 10. c. And at the Kings commandement they made a Penny Royall or the Kings Royall Penny or gift Chest and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord and made a Proclamation through Iuda and Ierusalem c. And the Lords and all the People reioyced and This may be called Angelica when Angels are so offered brought in vntill there was sufficient c. 2. Kings 12. 9. 10. 11. 12. But Iehoiadah the high Priest tooke a Chest This is as I take it Bursa Pastoris or Shepheards purse or the Clergies Chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the Altar on the right side as euery man cometh into the Temple of the Lord c. And when they saw there was much money in the Chest the Kings Scribe and the high priest came vp and told the money c. and gaue it sealed into the hands of them that executed the worke and such as had the ouersight of the house of the Lord. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance And so the workmen wrought and the worke amended through their hands and they made the house of God as it ought to be and strengthned it So Iehoiadah Thus farre extends the pious branches of the good herbe called the Shepheards Purse waxed old and died full of dayes c. And they buried him in the City of Dauid among the Kings because he dealt well with Israel and with God and his House Here followeth Mother-Time gathered by the good King of our time and sent to the Reuerend Kingly Bishop Physitian or Father of this Mother-Church as an Herbe of most excellent vertue to cure all her diseases viz. Psalme 102. verses 13. 14. THou shalt arise and haue mercy vpon Sion for the * This sweet Mother or Mountaine Time may also be called the precious ointment vpon the head that ran downe vnto our Aarons beard yea euen to the skirts of his Clothing or yet more properly like the Dew of Hermon which by a diuine Sermon fell vpon our sacred hill of Sion Time to fauour her yea the set time is come For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones and fauour the dust thereof A Parallel of present time with time past Or of a good King liuing with a faithfull good King long since deceased IN the 18. yeare of the reigne of our good King Iames a Ouer England France and Ireland it pleased his sacred Maiestie to visit me poore Church and soone after to send the Gouernor of his City with diuers of his Nobles Reuerend Fathers and Elders to suruey my wants and to returne vnto his Highnesse all my diseases and corruptions and their causes that so he might like a most excellent b Supreame head gouernor in Church and Common-wealth within his Maiesties Dominions Physitian next vnder God take course for my cure And so in the same yere he called a Parliament intending first to purge the land and the Temple and then I hope to send his Nobles c. againe that shall neuer cease till I bee totally cured and most beautifully repayred This may then be worthily paralleld with the noble acts of that famous and faithfull King Iosiah recorded and renowned in the second Booke of the Kings the 22. Chapter and in the second Verses 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. c. Verses 8 9 10. c. Booke of Chron. the 34. Chapter For in the 18. yeare of his Reigne when hee had purged the Land and the Temple of Heresie This is heauenly Hysope and Corruption c It should seem this was at the end of a Parliament which was a heauenly conclusion of one good worke and a most sacred beginning of another Nota quaeso c. he sent Saphan the sonne of Azaliah and Maasiah the Gouernor of the City and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the Recorder to repaire the House of the Lord his God c. And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest they deliuered the money that was brought into the house of God which the Leuites that kept the Entries had gathered of the hands of Manasseh Ephraim and of all that yet remained in Israel and of all Iudah and Beniamin and they returned to Ierusalem and they put it in the hands of them Men did not then come like Beares to a stake to such a businesse but like poore beggers to a xijd. dole Happy was hee that could doe any thing which might dignifie and set forward the worke that had the ouersight of the house of the Lord and they gaue it to the Laborers that wrought in the house of the Lord to repaire and mend the House euen to Masons and Carpenters gaue they it to get hewed stone and timber for Couples and for Beames c. And the men did worke c. And the Ouerseers of them to courage them forward were Iahath and Obadiah Leuits of the Children of Merari and Zechariah and Meshullam of the Children of the Kohathites which all could skill of Instruments of musicke And ouer the bearers of burthens and ouer all that wrought in whatsoeuer workmanship were there Scribes Officers and Porters of the Leuites c. Thus farre the Posie of heauenly Herbs and Flowers gathered out of the Garden where millions more might haue beene culled for my purpose but I hope this is enough to him that delighteth in sweet Odours of piety and good workes And to that end I will pray as followeth This Prayer or Petition is for the King Prince c. and directed to the King of Kings O King of Kings and Lord Omnipotent Direct protect King Iames in Parliament Make all those wholesome Lawes he treats vpon T' approue him still a second Salomon A blessed Peacemaker Churches Amender And in Great Britaine long true Faiths Defender That euery Pen may write a sacred Story Of all his Noble Acts done to thy Glory And Sinne corrupt and base may out of hand Be purged quite and cleane out of the Land His Sonne likewise thy Sonne O God so guide him That all good hopes and haps may still betide him And as he is a Prince of prudent carriage So blesse him Lord in Single life and Marriage Make him thy Iem of Iems thy Pearle of Pearles Next to his Maiesty our Princely Charles Thy conqu'ring Champion when he goes to Warres As he is Conqu'rer at the Tilting-barres And thy strong Sampson valiant in the Field That he may fight and kill and ne're be kild Blesse also all his noble Lords and Peeres His Bishops Burgesses and Knights of Shires And giue them Ioy Prosperity and Health That doe their best for Church and Common-Wealth O let not any man be so vnholy From henceforth for to beg a * I meane such as are helpfull to one Subiect and hurtfull to all
could reade it as many things had beene so taken before to the great hindrance and griefe of the poore Author To the KINGS most Sacred MAIESTIE VVHereas to the exeeeding great ioy of all my deare Friends there is certaine intelligence giuen that your Highnesse will visit me on Sunday next And the rather I beleeue it for that I haue had more sweeping brushing and cleansing then in 40. yeares before My workmen lookt like him they call Muld-Sacke after sweeping of a Chimney May it please your most Excellent Maiestie among your royall Intendments to be celebrated in me vpon that Holy day to manifest withall your pious Affection towards Repayre of my Decayes and I shall daily pray c. The Authors Conceipt written vnder my PETITION St. PAVLES O King since I her suite began This for 500. li. my Author can approue by oath that it came to me by my Complaint which he made that put Mr. Parker a Benefactor in mind to do me good as handsell to bring on more good Customers hath gain'd by fiue almost eight hundred pound Grace thou her Suite and I 'me assured than each hundred will a thousand pounds be found Each thousand ten and euery ten a score Till she breake forth in thankes and craue no more A Petition to the PRINCE ONe onely Aduocate with God we haue Christ Iesus our sweet Sauiour his deare Sonne By whom alone we get all things we craue in humblenesse and iust petition Great Prince you are my Soueraignes onely Sonne Resemble then the Course twixt God and man And grace my humble suite the best you can And as I 'me bound so will I euer pray That God will blesse your Highnesse night and day A Petition to the Right Honourable the Lords of his MAIESTIES most Honorable Priuy Councell FOR his sake which for your sakes once did cry Eli Eli lamasabacthani For their sakes which for Gods sake did not spare Or paines or cost or ought for my welfare For all your Honors sakes I humbly craue That now if euer I your helpes may haue My Suite is honest iust and reasonable The Worke is good the End most honorable Wherefore if you shall please to speake for mee I le pray that heauen your dwelling place may be Your Honors now as aforesaid and also when you haue ended your labours if you please as some of your forefathers haue done to rest with me S. PAVLES St. PAVLES concludeth in an Extasie alluded to the sense of hearing being as it were rauished with ioy of her hopefull successe VVHat Wight is he in England-Isra-el That knowes my wants loues me and can speake well Let him stand vp with Zeale and sound intent And speake for me now in this Parliament Is he a Leuite Priest Samaritan Hath he the voice of Angell or of man Who should he be sweete sense doe not thou erre Which doth in that high Court my Bill preferre O now I know hearke how the people sing Glory to God and honor to the King I' st He indeed is it that peerelesse Iemme BEST OF BEST SPEAKERS IN IERVSALEM I' st He that holds me still in Reuerence I' st He that gets me a Beneuolence I' st He that for my good lifts vp his Voice And doe the people thus for me reioyce Blessed be such a King and blessed all That thus doe honor me their Church of Paul Thus much for the most part of what was giuen to the King on Midlent-Sunday last Here follow other things of the Author done long before and not impertinent to that which is herein intended that is to stirre vp good mindes to set forwards a good worke viz. Certaine Additions Voyces and Visions Speeches and Parley Twixt Paules and Farley As they haue beene giuen to the King at sundry times but not till now published S. PAVLES FIRST recite to mee in briefe the Dreame or Vision thou hadst after thou didst publish my Complaint which thou didst present to his Maiesty by a picture and which picture thou intendedst to haue giuen to his Maiestie if thy Petition had not failed thee FARLEY It was a Dreame in three parts 1 The first shewing the King * This was in the life time of our gracious Q. Anne and came to passe in some part the said 26. day of March 1619. Queene and Prince with all the Nobles Reuerend Bishops and Clergy Lord Mayor Aldermen Citizens and people comming as from the Tower in great state and solemnitie to offer for your good at a Chest standing at your great North-dore In this Dreame me thought I saw presents of Vide queso c. 1. Kings Chap. 5. vers 8. 9. 10. c. all the chapter stone and timber sent by forreigne Princes to congratulate with his Maiestie in that pious work intended for your reparation as * Hiram sent to King Salomon Also me thought I saw a Posie written in Capitall letters ouer your Gate next Cheapside to this effect viz. BEHOLD THE KING COMETH WITH GREAT IOY c. And me thought I saw a great glory in the Heauens and heard two voices sounding in my eares one towards the King thus For thy Temples sake c. I wish thee all prosperity The other voice sounding towards the midle of the city in these words Many good things are done in thee ô thou faire City 2. The second Dreame shewing the royall solemnities This part of my Dreame hath also proued true at the Offering and you in that ragged poore and smoaky case as now you are and the King c. sitting to heare a Sermon in the same very Window and place where his Maiestie did sit indeed when He came to visit you Me thought I saw among all your Grieuances that then were opened to his Maiesties sight and hearing one thing written in Capitall letters which was well obserued on all parts viz. VIEW O KING HOW MY WALL-CREEPERS HAVE MADE ME WORKE FOR CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS The Psalme that was sung before the Sermon was me thought the * Vide. 122. Psalme The Text was out of the 24. Chapter of the second Booke of Chron. the 10. verse viz. And all the Lords and all the people reioiced and brought in and cast into the Chest vntill there was sufficient The Preacher me thought was that Reuerend This approued true in part Bishop of this Diocesse whose lot was afterward to performe that taske in another Text appointed by his Sacred Maiestie Me thought he diuided the Text aforesaid thus The Lords and People reioiced and brought in and cast into the Chest They not onely brought in and cast into the Chest said he but they also reioyced for so indeed God is well pleased who accepteth and loueth a Cheerefull giuer and the cheerefulnesse of the Giuer doth much commend the Gift Then he obserued the readinesse of the People by the particle All. Not some of the Lords or some of the people offered but All the Lords and All the People euen the