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A76492
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The ladies milk-house: or, the oppressed man's complaint
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W. B.
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1684
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Wing B215; ESTC R230840
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IT is with all Lowliness imaginable hereby most humbly hinted to the Right Reverend Right Honorable much Honored Reverend and Worshipful Persons all which we have presumed to nominate in the other side of this Paper as Referrees of the Ladies intended Hospital That on the 3 and 4th of this Instant a Messenger was sent with great Care to the several houses of the four Gentlemen herein mention'd Sr. F. Pemberton and the other three in manner and form of this Letter following Right Worshipful Sir YOu know I have too much Matter and Backwardness publickly to complain of tho' in part I yet do in these two printed sheets which is the same that I am this 3 and 4 of April sending to the Right Honorable Right Reverend Reverend and Worshipful Persons many whose great Prudence may be equal and most of them better able to judg of true Charity and Christian Duties than you Sr. Francis who was pleased to promise August 27. 1683. in the presence of five Gentlemen You would incourage any thing towards upholding the Hospital The Lord Berkly the Lord of London the Dean of Canterbury the Dean of Norwich Dr Haiscard Dr Horneck with others should think worthy and did then further say If you should do any thing to hinder true Charity you hoped God would never prosper you in it as may be attested yet I say You all have And leave you with the other three Gentlemen to give your Reasons above board or in print as I have done who intend nothing but good to all and am your humble Servant W B The Copy of this Letter to Sr. Fr. Pemberton was sent to Fr. Blake Esq Henry Cornish Esq late Alderman and to Mr. Ashurst with two sheets to each of the Ladies Referees papers And now not certainly knowing whether this short modest and humble Complaint in Behalf of the Nobility's and Gentry's Hospital all which the Word Ladies do's include might safely come to the hands of all those honorable reverend and worshipful persons to whom they were really intended and directed for a great and publick good It is presumed to offer over again the same papers and number with this little Addition whereby it may easily be perceived in the persons complain'd of That they are too conscious to themselves of some guilt at least which they much rather desire may be past over hush'd up and buried in Silence then in the least brought into debate Wherefore this cause being the virtuous Ladies the way cheap green plain pleasant for carrying it on it is hoped and confidently presumed the right Reverend noble Lords Bishops Knights Barronets Reverend Clergy and other worthy Persons will consider what more is in their great prudence yet further to be done it being no waies fitting so inferiour person should presume to stir one hairs breadth in any way whatever without leave But he does yet presume or beg leave to think this one time only that if the Noble Lords Right Reverend Bishops or the Right worshipful Knights Barronets with the Reverend Deans Doctors and Worshipful Esquires would by their Gentlemen Stewards or Servants as they shall think fit commend one two or three of these papers on the Ladies behalf they might mightily oblige them and immediately gain an hundred times more than he who with sincerity and long Labour hath still fish'd caught nothing but good Approbation Promises and Subscriptions as is mentioned in the Close in comparison of what one quarter of a word of the above mentioned eminent worthy and prudent may easily prevail and do Wherefore it is humbly and most earnestly prayed by the chearful yet much unworthy sufferer who has had a hard Winter needless politick Imprisonment He not being bound for or owing to any in the World one groat but what the Marquesses house would more than pay would he sell it from this Design but will dy a hundred Deaths rather than betray this publick Good That you would not for your own and the Noble Ladies sake let this present Spring be lost which presents them with all their bosom flowers you their Lords and Masters and every Ey a a hundred green and fresh delights W. B. The LADIES Milk-House OR The Oppressed Man's COMPLAINT WITH an humble Offer of a REFERENCE in the behalf of their Hospital Charity-School or Milk-house now at HIGH-GATE for the good of Numberless poor Children nigh and in the Suburbs of Westminster and County of Middlesex especially these six Parishes St. Martin's in the Fields St. Giles's in the Fields St. Clement's Danes St. Paul's Covent Garden St. Mary Savoy and part of St. Andrews Holborn Whereas an Opposition hath been made and a great Endeavour still is to Martyr and share this Eminently good DESIGN by these four otherwise worthy Persons viz. Sir Francis Pemberton late Lord Chief Justice of England Francis Blake of High-gate Esq Henry Cornish Esq late Alderman of London William Ashurst of London Draper To which Persons it is hereby Offered by him who hath been all-along too much discouraged wronged and oppressed to be discoursed in this single sheet by the aforesaid Gentlemen to whom he makes this large Offer for a friendly Reference viz. THat if they can get it under the Hands and Seals of any three Persons out of the Thirty one here under-nominated as they stand mentioned Then the said concerned Person so much injured will sit down satisfied under the great Damages and Losses he hath hitherto patiently sustained during this great Undertaking for the good of many yet unborn The Referrees The Honorable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London the right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Lincoln the right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Rochester The reverend Dean of Canterbury the Dean of St. Paul's London the Dean of Norwich the reverend Doctor Tennison Minister of St. Martins Doctor Haiscard minister of St. Clement's Danes Doctor Horneck Minister of St. Mary Savoy Doctor More Doctor Wiggons Doctor Turner at the Lord of London's Doctor Meriton Lecturer of St. Martin's Mr. Leech Lecturer of St. Giles's Mr. Hopkins Lecturer of St. Paul's Covent-Garden And if to none of all these Reverend Divines Then to any Three of these Four most Honorable Lords or right worshipful Worshipful Knights Baronets and Esquires The Right Honorable the Earl of Kent the Right Honorable the Earl of Bedford the Right Honorable the Earl of Berkly the Right Honorable the Lord Falconbridge Or the right Woshipful Sir Walter St. Johns Sir James Langham Serjeant Maynard Sir Charles Cottrel Sir Richard Mason Sir Christopher Wren Sir William Turner Sir Robert Clayton Sir John Shorter The Worshipful Alderman Arnold Robert Bartlet Esq John Nichols Esquire Counsellor of the Temple So that if any three of these right Honorable Reverend or Worshipful Persons as they stand shall give it under their hands and Seals That they Believe or think this DESIGN is not Good Much or at all Wanted in these Parts well Fixt and placed for which it
is endeavoured petitioned and intended and that the late Lord Marquess of Dorchester's House is not a Noble Graceful Cheap and Convenient Building for this DESIGN where the Children may be more Healthfully kept and less diverted from their Learning than else where it being much in the View of the Gentry Or else that the right Worshipful Sir Francis and the three other Gentlemen have done kindly or neighbourly according to Law or as they should or ought to have done by the Petitioner yea if they have not done unkindly and unneighbourly in what they have done against him he will be bound in a great measure to sit down satisfied in what they have already done against him with the Loss of all his Expenses although they have been very great and considerable and purely occasioned by them besides his Pains Abuses and Sufferings even to this day which hath been almost unspeakable also But if Sir Francis P. and the three Gentlemen or Esquires cannot procure thtee of the four Noble mens hands nor the three right Reverend Bishops nor the three reverend Deans nor three of the six Doctors nor the three Lecturers nor any three of the nine right worshipful Knights and Baronets or the three Esquires to give it under their hands and Seals as above mentioned within the space of one Fortnights time or else to knock under board and for ever cease their Opposition against the LADIES HOSPITAL and think on that great Wrong with some part of Amends for what they have done to their harmless Friend and Neighbour his VVife and good Children Son and Daughters which he loves next GOD and his Soul by inciting and stirring them up against this Publick GOOD tending to the Advantage of the Poor the Nobilities Gentries Clergy's yea RELIGION's Praise to the VVorlds End All which this DESIGN VVas Is and Ever will be for And Three or Four Hundred Pounds will set it immediately going against all Opposition towards which it is hoped and verily believed several pious and charitable minded Persons will forthwith send their Kindness Many having formerly promised and subscribed to some one of these Reverend Divines making them as so many Treasurers in their own Parishes till they shall think on some other that their High Calling and great Studies may not be too much interrupted by this truly Good and Charitable VVork who will doubtless see it well managed to their perpetual Honour and the present pleasure of the Ey by seeing many Children in their Habit before next Quarter or this Summer come about or else their Money to be all restored And he who has been labouring at it will Refer every thing into their own or others hands as they shall think best without any thing of his own Name to the World's End And give in his Accounts if desired very considerably towards it besides all his Labour and Pains And settle every thing by a Surrender Leaving such VVorthy Persons as shall assist or manage it as Governours by his most Gracious Majesty's Favour and Patent to re-imburse him in such manner and time as they themselves shall think fit And now can it be imagined but that some nay many will do as the wise in heart did in another Case about the Rearing of the Tabernacle this being in a little measure towards such a VVork VVisely considering they do but lay up for themselves 1 Tim. 6. 17. And how the Night comes when no man can work the Silver Cord and Golden Bowl will soon be broken like the Pitcher at the Fountain head and then VANITY of VANITIES ALL IS VANITY Except CHRIST and Good VVorks Exodus 35. 22 29. John 9. 4. Eccles 12. 6 7 8. Dan. 12. 13. So that without Repentance the great Opposers of Charity will be in danger to go where it shall never avail to weep Matt. 8. 12. 25. 46 when they come to step upon the dark Mountains of Eternity Jer. 13. 16. which they would do well to Consider And this particular Prayer and Epistle as well as our daily ones for poor and Fatherless Children ordered and appointed for all Churches the first week in Lent O Lord who hath taught us that all our doings without Charity are nothing worth send thy Holy Ghost and pour into our Hearts that most excellent Gift of Charity the very Bond of Peace and of all Virtues without which whosoever liveth is accounted dead before Thee Grant this for thy only Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 13. 1. Though I speak with the Tongues of Men and Angels and have not Charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling Cimball Though I have the gift of Prophecy and understand all Mysteries and knowledge and have all Faith to remove mountains and have no Charity it profiteth me nothing And now abideth Faith Hope and Charity but the greatest of these is Charity It is rationally guessed that the Promises already given and made will amount to 4 or 500 l. per annum which may appear by their own Subsciptions and Promises Dated April 2. 1684. W. B.