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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

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-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

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

Dutie What a wearinesse it is Even to Will well hath not been present with us and how then to perform that which is good O Lord we know not being only wise to do evill and doing that with both hands earnestly Thus have we provoked Thee to anger most bitterly therefore maist thou justly leave our blood upon us for who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry though we know not the Power of thy Wrath Thou maist justly make us feel it But remember O Lord thy tender Mercies and thy Loving kindnesses for they have been ever of Did and hath the Lord forgotten to be Gracious hath He in anger shut up his tender Mercies For thy Names sake O Lord pardon our iniquities though they are great Is any thing too hard for the Lord and the Power of his Goodnesse Oh let thy Mercy then so rejoyce against Iudgement that our Soules may ever rejoyce in thy Mercy Hast thou not said O Lord that where Sinne aboundeth Grace may much more abound Magnifie then Thine own abounding Grace in being Gracious to us of Sinners chiefe as we know more in Our selves then we do or can know of Others And if our own Hearts condemne us Thou art greater then our hearts and knowest all things Yea thou hast set our iniquities before thee and our secret sins in the light of Thy Countenance But remember thy words unto thy Servants wherein thou hast made us to hope that Thou wilt forgive our Iniquitie and remember our Sinne no more And hath the Lord said and shall he not do it or hath he spoken and shall He not make it good Remember Him also and His precious Merits in whom thou sayst thou art well pleased that for this End was he born and for this cause came He into the World that He might bear our Griefes and carry our Sorrows that He might make his Soul an offering for Sinne and did not thy Wisdome provide satisfaction to thy Iustice therein didst not Thou lay help upon One that was Mightie and able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him Yea was not he made unto us Wisdome and Righteousnesse and Sanctification as well as Redemption Oh then as thou madest Him to be Sinne for us who knew no Sinne so let us be made the Righteousnesse of God in Him And as thou sparedst not thine own Sonne but deliverest Him up for us all how shalt thou not with Him also freely give us all things How shall not our God also supply all our Needs according to his Riches We were cast upon thee from the Wombe and have ever since lived only on thy Goodnesse and thy good things as the Earth is full of thy Riches Now therefore when we are Old and Gray-headed O God forsake us not but as thou art good and dost good so be not thou thy self weary in well-doing remember thou hast said the goodnesse of God endureth continually And do Good in thy good pleasure unto Sion our Hearts desire and Prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved But be more peculiarly gracious unto this Nation this Land of our Nativitie And for his sake whom thou gavest to be a healing of the Nations heal our breaches let all those that rule over Men be just ruling in the feare of God And be so with thine owne immediate servants that do thy worke in thy House that it may prosper in their hands And shew Lord that thou art a God of the Valleyes as well as of the Mountains that though the Lord be high yet He hath respect unto the Lowly and Lowest in Condition Right the Wronged comfort the Sadded supply the Impoverished support the Weakned heal the Diseased Thus Lord be thou All to All that thou mayest be faithfully owned and thankfull acknowledged to be All in All. And being thou Lord condemnest all unthankfulnesse placing the unthankfull amongst the most unholy We give thee thanks for the Founder of this Place the nourisher of our persons Sir Thomas Holt Knt. and Baronet Blessed be the Lord God who did put such a thing as this into his noble Heart and did turn it as a river of water to refresh us Blessed be the Lord who remembred us in our low estate who as thou workest in all both to will and to doe of thy good pleasure didst work in him to Will so Charitably and to Doe so bountifully And blesse we pray thee all his surviving and succeeding Relations those especially whose Pietie hath so imployed his Charitie and improved his good Intentions into great Actions for our good As thy Mercy is from everlasting to everlasting and thy Righteousnesse unto Childrens Children so Lord whilst the name of the Wicked doth rott let His name live in Them and let their Names stand written in the Book of life for ever after him And now we praise thy Name O Lord for the refreshment and ensafement of us the night past and for the enlargement of thy goodnesse towards us so far of this present day Remember still thine own good word that the Lord will command his loving kindnesse in the day time as thou art graciously pleased to adde another day unto our lives so adde other mercies unto our dayes especially putting such Grace into our hearts that we may seek first the Kingdome of God and his Righteousnesse that so all other things may be added unto us And then put thy fear in our hearts that we may never depart from from thee but rather be so in the feare of the Lord all the day long that by it we may depart from all evill And that we may not fall from thee by any impatience under thy just Hand by any unbeliefe in thy Mercy or by any temptation from the enemie of our soules to any evill or from any Duty uphold us Lord with thy free Spirit And being we know not what to pray for as we ought let the same Holy Spirit help our infirmities in praying for all as thy deer Sonne our Saviour in whom thou art a God that hearest Prayer hath himself taught us to pray saying Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done on 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 Evening Prayer Give ear unto our Prayers O God and hide not thy Self from our Supplications Hear thou in Heaven thy Dwelling Place and when Thou hearest forgive Let our Prayers be set before thee as Incense and the lifting up of our hands as the Evening Sacrifice MOst Holy and most Dreadfull Lord God with whom is terrible Majesty so that even the purest of the Heavenly Angels tremble before it and cover their faces as even them thou

hast charged with folly With what Countenances with what confidences can we then sinfull and impure Creatures lift up so much as our eyes unto Heaven having so much and so long sinned against Heaven and in thy sight to provoke the eyes of thy Glory Rather therefore standing a far off may we smite upon our brests and the joynts of our Loynes being loosed and our Knees also smiting one against another may we here trembling and sorrowing say God be mercifull unto us sinners who have not been only alienated but even enemies in our mindes by wicked works as it were to augment yet more the fierce Anger of the Lord against us And yet seeing it hath pleased Thee O Father by thine own Sonne to reconcile all things unto thy self we have holdnesse and accesse with confidence by the faith of Him unto thy Throne of Grace Hoping and believing that in by Him we shall obtaine mercie and finde Grace to help in time of need And such O Lord is all our time even as to temporall things when could we truly say that we had need of nothing but as to Spirituall things when could we not truly say that we have need of every thing being by nature All of us wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked And yet O Lord there is hope in Israel concerning this thing even such have looked unto thee and were lightned and their faces were not ashamed the poor man cryed and the Lord heard him And thou art the Father of Lights with whom is no variablenesse neither shadow of turning And Iesus Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever more Why then should we be cast down poor souls or why should we be disquieted within us We hope still in God that we shall yet praise Him for the help of His Countenance Though thou art the High and Lofty One that inhabitest Eternitie yet hast thou regard of poore Mortals yea thou hast promised saying to this man will I look even to him that is Poor and of a contrite spirit that trembleth at thy Word to revive the spirit of the Humble and to revive the hearts of the Contrite ones to remember the Congregation of thy poore for ever But alas O Lord we finde and feele too much securitie and impenitencie in our hard hearts opposing weakning or depraving our Beleeving because thou gavest Christ to give repentance unto Israel aswell as remission of sins And we have too long made our hearts as an Adamant stone least we should hear thy Law and so be humbled and penitent But thou Lord smotest the rock it self that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed and ran in dry places like a River touch our hearts we shall relent to tears move our eyes and we shall then look up unto him whom we have pierced and so mourn and be in bitternesse for our sinnes for which he so suffered So let us be before thee here that when we come unto Thee hereafter thou mayst wipe away all tears from our eyes that there may then be no more sorrow nor crying nor any more paine for us as for the Impenitent and Unholy the smoke of whose Torment ascendeth up for ever where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth In the mean time O Lord because none can understand his errors as who knoweth how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from our secret sinnes but especially keep back us thy servants from presumptuous sinnes let not them have dominion over us Yea wash us throughly from all iniquities with the blood of Iesus Christ which cleanseth from all sinnes For if our Transgressions and our sinnes be upon us and we pute away in them already how should we then live for ever if our sinnes lye down with us in the Dust and how Iustly mightest thou cut us off here now with pining sicknesse and from day even to night make an end of us or make us to possesse only moneths of vanity and wearisome nights to be appointed to us But as thou hast said that by Christ all that believe are justified from all things even so most Gracious Lord be it unto us thy servants according to thy word enabling us to look up unto Iesus who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith yea Lord we believe help thou our unbeliefe And seal we pray Thee our pardons here and thy justifying of our persons by thy sanctifying of our Natures for hast Thou but one blessing O our Father wilt thou forgive only and not give also O give unto us those Sanctifying those saving Graces of thy Spirit whereby thou makest thine meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Light That we may be first partakers of the Divine Nature having escaped the corruption that is in this world and then partakers of the Divine Glory in that which is to come Perform O Lord thine own promise according to thy own Method in promising that the Lord will give Grace and Glory guide us with thy Counsel and afterwards receive us unto Glory And now Lord as we prase Thee for thy multiplied mercie all this day past so we pray thee for thy continued mercy all this night coming when the shadows of the Evening are stretched out keep us O Lord under the shadow of thy wings untill all callamities are overpast for thou Lord only canst make us dwell in safety We stand in Ieopardy every hour but most exposed unto dangers and with least helps in the night oh then let the Angells of the Lord encamp round about us and preserve us So shew that they are all Ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of Salvation But because as unto much longer life our Bones are dryed our hope is lost and we are already almost cut off for some of our parts Lord make us so wise as to consider our latter ends that as death is the end of all and after death judgement so whilst living we may lay it unto heart till death worketh in us so to live in thy feare that we may dye in thy love and in that thy loving kindnesse which is better then life Thou mayst say O Lord to any or all of us ye fools this night your Soules shall be required of you work in us therefore as thou also hast wrought all our works in us to remember thee on our beds and to meditate on Thee in the night watches because thou knowest our down-sitting and our up-rising and understandest our thoughts afar off when therefore we awake let us be still with Thee And as with long life thou hast in some measure satisfied us so now shew us thy Salvation Givens O Lord such a prospect of the Heavenly Canaan as may make us more willing to leave this wildernesse more desirous to be dissolved and to be with Christ in whose presence is the fulnesse of joy and at whose Right Hand there are