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A00939	A memoriall of the famous monuments and charitable almesdeedes of the right worshipfull Maister William Lambe esquire somtime gentleman of the chappell, in the reigne of the most renowmed [sic] King Henrie the eight, &c. and late citizen of London, and free of the right worshipfull companie of clothworkers: deceased the 21. of April. An. 1580. Recorded in print, according to the various and trueth of his last will and testament by Abraham Fleming.	Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 11047; ESTC S116008	33,600	92

others both strong and lustie went away As for the time that was to spare before the Sermon began he spent the same in reading some part of the holie Bible And séene at little Saint Bartholomewes deuoutly following that godly exercise he hath not had his eies occupied in gazing about the Church but his minde meditating vpon heauenlie mysteries he hath béene noted zealous and earnest in praier Againe if the quiet and peaceable departing of a man out of this life be a blessing of God and an argument of his loue and that the course of a mans cōuersation be tried by the day of his death if a quiet conscience if desire to forsake this world if stedfast beliefe in Christ Iesus and other fruites of Christianitie may be taken for the testimonials of a mans religion then not mine but the report of reuerend learned graue and wife Preachers shall be sufficient confirmations in this behalfe and to their iudgement and knowledge I appeale Touching his departure out of this worlde it was godlie euen as his conuersation was honest and as he fell to the Lorde so no doubt hée shall rise to the Lord at the last day and receiue his rewarde with the faithfull and trustie seruant in the Gospell to whom it was said Come and enter into thy Maisters ioy c. He made no reckoning of his merits he harped not vppon the good déedes which he had done he pleaded not his owne iustification by works but by faith in the bloud of Christ he excluded all such extraordinarie meanes to come vnto God and dieng in hope to inherite heauen and heauenly ioyes nay assured in spirit that his portion was there reposed he surrendred his soule to the Lord that gaue it and so ended the daies of his pilgrimage here on earth in the yere of his age fourescore and fiue Of whose last will and Testament Sir William Cordell Maister of the Rolles and Sir Rowland Hayward Iustice of Peace and Quorum two verie wise wealthie ●ight worshipfull in all respectes sufficient Gentlemen are Executours Hauing thus runne his race and fought a good fight to his no small commendation his soule I hope reposed in Abrahams bosome a place of peace rest quietnes tranquillitie his bodie intumbed laid asléepe in a faire large vawte in S. Faithes vnder Powles I will drawe to an ende of this discourse recording neuerthelesse vnto you an Epitaph which I finde grauen in Brasse or Copper vpon the stone of his Sepulchre which bearing no date I cannot directly set downe how long it hath continued but by probable coniectures it may be thought that it hath béene there any day this fourtéene or fiftéene yeares for so long at least his almes hath béene giuen in that parish Church in maner and forme aforesaide But first you shall heare a remembrance of his person grauen also in metall and fastened in the wall the tenour whereof followeth in thrée seuens William Lambe so sometime was my name Whiles I aliue did runne my mortall race Seruing a Prince of most immortall fame The eight Henrie who of his princelie grace In his Chappell allowed me a place By whose fauour from Gentleman t' Esquire I was preferd with worship for mine hire With wiues three I ioyned wedlocke bande Which all aliue true louers were to mee Ione Alce and Ione for so they came to hande What needeth praise regarding their degree In wi●elie truth none stedfast more could bee Who● though in earth deaths force did once disseuer Heauen yet I trust shall ioyne vs all for euer O Lamb of God which sinne didst take away And as a Lamb wast offered vp for sinne Where I poore Lamb went from thy flocke astray Yet thou good Lord vouchsafe thy Lamb to winne Home to thy fold and hold thy Lamb therein That at the day when Lambs and Goates shal seuer Of thy choice Lambs Lamb may be one for euer Vnder which remembrance I find two verses more added conteining a petition with an iniunction of dutie to the poore who wéekely receiued their allowance at the handes of the worshipful Stationers to whom he bearing great affection and hauing also no small affiance made them his disposers or stewardes in that behalfe The verses are these I pray you all that receiue breade and pence To say the Lordes praier before ye go hence The Epitaph enigmaticall which I find grauen vpon the stone of his Tumbe are short swéete pithie and worthie to be considered For they conteine a lesson which the wisest may learne and a meaning for most men to marke It is a spéech Prosopopoicall as if he personally spake vnto vs aliue to put vs in mind by his example of our transitorie state The verses are these As I was so are ye As I am you shall be That I had that I gaue That I gaue that I haue Thus I end all my cost That I left that I lost And thus hauing said what I can but not so much as I might I leaue this right worshipfull Gentleman as I found him a Lambe of the Lords fold his soule féeding I doubt not vpon the Manna of immortalitie wherof our good shepherd Christ make vs all partakers and send vs more such louing Lambes not in name but in qualitie and lessen the number of rauening wolues for with such the world doth swarme To knit all vp therfore in a short conclusion I commend to the rich of this world this Gentlemans memoriall as a mirror or looking glasse of a right bountifull almoner Hée made not his monie his God but some part thereof in his life some after his death he appointed to be distributed in such sort as you haue heard reported for the maintenance of learning for the profite of trades and occupations for the benefite of the Commonwealth for the reléefe of the distressed for the comfort of poore prisoners c. which almesdéeds of his are put vp together in a pursse and shal be repaid him with millians of increase To God therfore let vs giue glory who of his goodnes hath wrought so many good works by the hands of his seruant and we beséech him of his mercie to reforme the hearts of the wealthie that they séeing a patterne before their eies may endeuor to doe as he hath done knowing that they haue not in this life a continuing citie but that there is an houre set and limitted they knowe not how soone when they shal be sent for vpon a souden and so of necessitie carieng nothing away with them must leaue all that they are worth to the possession of others Godlines is great riches if a man can be content with that he hath I say no more but the Lord make vs poore in spirit so shall we be sure to die rich at our departure and to rise rich at our resurrection which hée grant for his sonnes sake the price of our

¶ A MEMORIALL of the famous monuments and charitable almesdeedes of the Right worshipfull Maister William Lambe Esquire somtime Gentleman of the Chappell in the reigne of the most renowmed King Henrie the eight c. And late Citizen of London and free of the Right worshipfull companie of Clothworkers deceased the 21. of April An. 1580. Recorded in print according to the tenour and trueth of his last will and Testament by Abraham Fleming SACRIFIZIO AGNELLO SALVAZIONE MVNDO Tobit 4 1● G 〈…〉 of thy bread to the hungrie and of thy garments to them that are na●ed and of all thine abundance giue 〈…〉 VIRTVTE * ⁎ * DVCE W L COMITE * ⁎ * FORTVNA A memoriall of the famous monumentes and charitable almesdeedes of the Right worshipfull Maister William Lambe Esquire c. GIue me leaue good Christians to commend to memorie the notable actes and famous monuments of a right Gentleman loued in his life and lamented at his death whose praises to suppresse with silence sithence they are deserued and not sought it were a wrong as I iudge in conscience which the verie Heathen would not once conceiue much lesse commit if they had béene as we are eie and eare witnesses of his meritorious déedes Giue me leaue I say for the glorie of God and the memorie of the Gentleman to report vnto the world or at least to the people of this land not the visions of a vaine head not the sudden deuises of an vnstaied braine not the rashe rimes of a running penne not the bolde babling of an imagined lie not the cunning conueiance of a wanton toy c. but the determinations of a deuout minde the precise purposes of a settled heart the commendable workes of a liberall hand the verie certeintie of an vndoubted trueth which is worthie not to be printed in white and blacke but to be grauen in Marble with letters of golde in the memoriall of him after death whose déedes did sufficiently aduaunce him in his life A great matter of more importance than the cōmon sort of people can conceiue to vndertake the blasoning of so vertuous a mans manifold benefits wherin as I want wit to write as he is worthie so I lacke skill to dispose and order the sundrie circumstances which offer themselues to my barren inuention touching his last will and testament There are missing in me the méetest meanes in this matter quickenesse of capacitie smoothnesse of spéeche ripenesse of iudgement I am a stranger or rather a nouesse in affaires of the worlde vnacquainted with the trades of men as called to a more solitarie life which besides other vnremembred are impediments wherby I shal séeme so much the more insufficient to accomplishe this enterprise by how much I am to complaine of the want of knowledge and experience Againe my methode will be more marked for his sake concerning whom it is purposely penned and in some thing wherein I thinke my selfe not to haue offended I may do amisse and so incurre controlment For where manie eies are fixed manie faultes may be found and manie mindes may soone iudge where a thing may be amended But I though not cunning yet carefull to deliuer in due order the trueth of this Gentlemans almesdéedes beséech all such as shall pervse this pamphlet not so much to descant vpon the writers rude and vnpolished report as looking for some deintie deuise to tickle their itching eares but to behold with earnest eies the Testatours bountifull bequests which as they cannot being so charitable but smell swéete in the Lords sight euen so they deserue a pithie commemoration which I woulde to God I were able to compasse and if it could be an effectuall imitation which the Lord God worke in the hearts of all them that are wealthie To come therfore to our purpose a custome it hath béene both ancient and famous not onely among Pagans with whome in déedes of deuotion I intende not to deale but also among people fearing God and addicted to the extolling of his name that the notable actes of such persons as were singular shoulde not sléepe in obliuion but by one monument or other made immortall Herevpon some by one solemne ceremonie some by another had that honour and renowme done vnto them after death by some notable deuise of man were it either workmanship of the hande or inuention of the heade which did as it were reuiue restore them againe to life Among all the rest passing ouer a multitude we shall sée euen in the sacred Scriptures that the holie Ghost hath vouchsafed some such speciall and souereigne dignitie as to haue their names registred euen in the Bible their vertues extolled their déedes aduaunced partly that the remembrance of them should neuer die and partly to be prouocations vnto vs to walke worthie of our calling This to be a truth the verie touchstone of trueth doeth testifie For there is none so ignorant but can quickly call to memorie where mention is made of Enoch Noe and Abraham Isaach Iacob and Ioseph Moses Aaron and Phinees Iosue Caleb and Samuel Nathan Dauid and Salomon Elias Elizeus and Ezekias Ieremie Ezechiel Zorobabel Neemias Sem and Seth c. holie and approued men in the eies of the highest commended in Scripture some for their faithfulnesse some for their méekenesse some for their wisedome some for their innocencie some for their valiantnesse some for their riches some for their glorie some for one blessing of God and some for another Wherein is to be obserued first the loue of God towardes his elect in that he vouchsafeth his seruants so notable a register Secondly the rare vertues wherewith they were indued deseruing immortall memorie Thirdly that the wicked are not recorded but for the reuiuing of their reproch And fourthly that the remembrance of both might bréede in vs a desire to doe well that good may growe thereby and a detesting of the contrarie which commonly bringeth shame The name of Cain or the report of his déedes are they written to his commendation Nothing lesse For as the offence which he committed was heinous so is his name odious As well then are the wicked recorded as the righteous that by a view of eithers life our election might be the better grounded Few fathers that loue their children will baptise them by the name of Absalon of Achitophel of Hamman of Iudas And why Because the course of these mens conuersation was so accurssed that they became abhominable whiles they liued and though their bodies in tract of time putrified waxed rotten yet the holie Ghost by committing their actes to memorie hath doubled their infamie So then the sequele of all is this that as well the wicked as the righteous haue their remembraunce in Gods booke but in contrarie respects the one to become more famous the other more infamous the one more beloued the other more hated the one more honoured the

and that no person doe vse the same vpon payne of death And in the performaunce of the same they did burne the sayd mony publique And by this my last sētence difinitiue I do pronounce commaund with costes El Liçenciado Mosquera de Figueroa * * Monuments of memorie were vsuall among the Heathen * * The Argument of this small pamphlet * * The memorie of whome shall neuer die * * Presupposed impediments concerning the writer * * According to the tenour of the Testators owne last will testament * * Two necessarie things wished * * Prophane writers verifie this matter * * The memorie of whome is euerlasting * * Eight triplicities of notable and famous men * * Obseruations to be noted * * The offence of Cain made his name odious * * Both good and bad registred in the Bible * * Not without the grace of God * * This night they shall fetch thy soule from thee * * A hard reckoning for rich men * * For they are neuer at quiet in themselues neither in soule nor bodie * * Riches an enimie to the saluation of the soule * * As proceeding from christ and his Apostles * * Good counsell for the rich * * Some riche men Gods seruants * * Maister William Lambe Esquier * * Learning a readie way to honour * * Master Lamb in fauor with King Henrie the eight * * The erection of a Grammar schoole and necessarie allowance to the Maister and Vsher. * * Almes houses built for the poore * * Allowance for poore mens children to be kept at schoole * * The Cōmonwelth remembred * * A reliefe to poore Clothiers in diuerse place * * London the better by Master Lamb. * * A remembrance of Holborne Conduit founded and finished in Anno 1577. * * The wast water at the bridge runing at the Standart * * Prouident considerations * * Poore women benefited by the Conduit * * He was very deuout and religious * * A praier booke called Lambs Conduit of Comfort * * The Right worshipfull Clothworkers remembre●d * * Allowance for foure yearely sermons * * Euerie poore man poore woman a shirt a smocke a gowne and a paire of shooes c. * * S. Giles without Criplegate benefited * * Reliefe for the poore people * * M. Lambes loue to the worshipfull Stationers * * Perpetuall prouision for the poore * * Reliefe for Christes Hospitall * * A purchase for the said Hospitall * * Reliefe for S. Thomas Sp●●tle * * The Chronicler notwithstanding is excuseable by reason * * Prisons for offenders * * Reliefe for poore prisoners * * A charitable worke in deede * * Marriage monie for poore maides * * His loue towardes his seruants * * His faith was fruitfull * * An Apologie or defence of Master Lamb his religion * * Reasons touching the sinceritie of his profession * * Master Lamb a hearer of Gods word read and preached * * Master Lamb giuen to deuout praier * * Master Nowell Deane of Powles Master Fox visited him in his sicknesse * * A Lamb he liued a Lamb he died * * Faith the ladder to life * * M. Lambs age and the Executors of his last will * * I exemplified the same my self so did I also the other memoriall * * Master Lamb aduanced to worship * * He was thrise maried as may appeare by the record * * He woulde haue the poore praise God for his prouision * * The verses vpon his Tumb-stone are not so well in my thinking That I haue that I gaue That I spent that I had It may be they were disordered for there is no rime though there be reason * * The conclusion commendatorie * * For he onlie is to be glorified * * An admonition to the rich * * A Christian wish or desire