at the Master's Table allowed it in kind at the rate of xiiii d. a man  ix iiii Five Attendants allowed it in kind at the same rate  v. x. Forty Scholars one Butler and one Groom allowed it in kind at six to a Mess with iiii d. allowance  xvi iiii Fourscore Brothers are allowed it in money by the Establishment vii   Ten at the Manciples Table two of the Kitchin and one Porter allowed it in mony iii.   In all Dyets and Beavors viz. weekly  xxxiii l. vi s. i d. ob In all Dyets and Beavors viz. yearly M. viic xxxi l. xviii s. vi d. ob For exceeding days  l. s. d. Twenty three Exceeding days namely christmas-Christmas-day St. Stephen St. John Innocents New years Epiphany Candlemas shrove-Shrove-sunday and Tuesday kings-Kings-day queens-Queens-day lady-Lady-day easter-Easter-day Munday and Tuesday Ascension Whitsunday Munday and Tuesday Midsummer Michaelmas All Saints Fifth of November and Twelfth of December xliiii ix iiii In all Dyets Beavors and exceeding days yearly Mt. viic. lxxvil. viis. xd. ob For Liveries  l. s. d. Fourscore poor men for Gowns at xls. a piece yearly Clx.   Forty Scholars for Gowns finished and made up at xxxvi s. ii d. a piece which makes yearly lxxii vi viii Summer Suits for forty Scholars at xxix s. vi d. a piece ix   Winter Suits like number at xvii s. x d. a piece xxxv xiii iiii For every Scholar yearly six pair of Shoos at xxd. the pair four pair of Stockings at xx d. the pair Hatt and Band iiii s. Garters Points and Gloves at xvi d. in all yearly xliiii   For every Scholar two Shirts at iii s. apiece and six Bands at x. d. apiece in all yearly xxii   For Books Paper Ink Quills and teaching them to Write and Cipher yearly xiiii   Four Gowns for the Chappel-Clerk Organist Manciple and Matron at xl s. apiece yearly viii   Sixteen Gowns for Sixteen Grooms and other inferior Officers at xx s. a man xvi   In all Liveries and other Necessaries yearly iiiic. xxxil. For Wages  l. s. d. For the Master of the Hospital yearly l.   The Council of the Hospital xv   The Steward of Courts for Cambridge and Essex x.   The Steward of Elcombe  xl  The Preacher xl   The Register and Solicitor xxx   The Receiver xxx   The Auditor without Dyet xl   The Schoolmaster xxx   The Chappel Clerk viii   The Usher xv   The Organist xiii vi viii The Manciple viii   The Pantler with xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors viii   The Physician and Physick xl   The Butler for the House with xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors viii   The Butler for the Scholars vi xiii iiii The Bailiff of Elcombe  xl  Other Bailiffs x.   Fourscore poor men at C s. for wages and xxvi s. viii d. a piece for Beavors vc vi.xiii. iiii The Sexton attending in the Hall and Chappel with xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors vii vi viii The Scholars Groom iiii   Other five Grooms at iiii l. wages and xxvi s. viii d. for Beavors xxvi xiii iiii The Gardner xx   The two Scullions viii vi viii The Porter for Wages and Beavors viii   The Matron xvi   The Landress xxx   The Cook besides his accustomed Kitchin Fees xvi   The Plummer for his time xx   The Barber for the Scholars  xl  The two Out-porters iiii   The Clock keeper  xl  The Surveyor of the Hall  lii  The Keeper of the great Chamber  xl  The Scholars Butler and Groom to make their Dyet equal to others  ciiii  The Scavenger vi   The Scrape Trencher  xl  Portage of Meat from Market vi x.  In all Fees and Wages yearly Mt. lxvil. vi Other Ordinary Allowances  l. s. d. The Masters Fuel x.   The Preachers  c.  The Register and Solicitor  c.  The Receiver  c.  The Schoolmaster iiii   Chappel Clerk  xl  The Usher iiii   The Organist  xl  The Manciple  xl  Law Charges xl   Fuel for the Hospital and allowance for weak and sick clii   Reparations lx   Renewing of Houshold-stuff l.   Washing and Starching Scholars Linnen vi   Candles xlv   Burials x.   Communions  xl  Quit Rents ix xvi  Surplus allowed for the Master and Strangers in the Hall viii   Loss in cutting out Beef xi    C. l. s. In all the other ordinary allowances yearly iiii xxxii xvi  l. l. l. C. l. s. d. Sum total of the yearly Expence of the Hospital for Dyets Liveries Wages and other ordinary allowances M. M. M. vii vi ix x. ob Besides Extraordinaries for Pary x l. Palmer ciiii s. This Establishment was made Nine and forty years ago since which time there have been considerable alterations chiefly upon the account of the increase of the Revenue which I shall set down in a fit place hereafter The next thing to be considered is the consummation of the Settlement to put it beyond all question which cannot be effected without a new Act of Parliament particularly designed to confirm this new Foundation in distinction from that at Hallingbury Therefore you find it propounded in the beginning of the Establishment which was in the first year of King Charles his Reign and in the third this following Act of Parliament was obtained which I have been told was never before printed and therefore proper for this place The Exemplification under the Great Seal of England of the Act of Parliament for confirmation of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof CAROLUS Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie Hibernie Rex Fidei Defensor ' c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Litere pervenerint Salutem Inspeximus quoddam breve nostrum de Cerciorand ' è Curia Cancellarie nostre nuper emanand unacum quoddam retorn in dorso ejusdem brevis fact in Filaciis dicte Cancellarie nostre de recordo residend in haec verba carolus Dei gratia Anglie The Writ of Certiorari Scotie Francie Hibernie Rex Fidei Defensor c dilecto nobis Henrico Elsyinge Armiger ' Clerico Parliamentorum nostrorum Salutem Volentes certis de causis Certiorari super tenore cujusdam Actus Parliamenti nostri apud Civitatem nostram Westm ' Decimo septimo die Martii ultimo praeterito inchoat ' ibidem usque vicesimum Sextum diem instan Mensis Junii
Element yields Gold The Savage Indian gets it the Servile Apprentice works it the very Midianitish Camel may wear it the miserable worldling admires it the covetous Jew swallows it the unthrifty Ruffian spends it what are all these the better for it only good use gives praise to Earthly Possessions hearing therefore you owe more to God that he hath given you an heart to do good a will to be as rich in good Works as great in Riches to be a Friend to this Mammon is to be an enemy to God but to make Friends with it is Royal and Christian His Enemies may be wealthy none but his Friends can either be good or do good Da accâ—pe saith the Wise man The Christian who must imitate the high pattern of his Creator knows his best Riches to be Bounty God who hath all gives all reserves nothing and for himself he well considers that God hath not made him an owner but a servant and a servant of servants not of his goods but of the giver Not a Treasurer but a Steward whose praise is more to have laid out well than to have received much The greatest gain therefore that he affects is an even reckoning a clear discharge which since it is obtained by disposing not by keeping he counts reservation loss and just expence his trade and joy He knows that well done faithful Servant is a thousand times more sweet a Note than Soul take thine ease for that is the voice of the Master recompensing this of the servant presuming and what follows to the one but his Master's joy and what to the other but the loss of his Soul Blessed be that God which hath given you an heart to fore-think this and in this dry and dead Age a will to honour him with his own and to credit his Gospel with your Beneficence Lo we are upbraided with barrenness your name hath been publickly opposed to these challenges as in whom it shall be seen that the truth hath friends that can give I neither distrust nor perswade you whose Resolutions are happily fixed on purposes of good only give me leave to hasten your pace a little and to excite your Christian forwardness to begin speedily what you have long and constantly vowed You would not but do good why not now I speak boldly the more speed the more comfort neither are the times in our disposal nor our selves If God had set us a Day and made our Wealth inseparable there were no danger in delaying now our uncertainty either must quicken us or may deceive us How many have meant well and done nothing and lost the Crown with lingring whose destinies have prevented their desires and have their good motions the wards of their Executors not without miserable success to whom that they would have done good is not so great a praise as it is dishonour that they might have done it then Wrecks are our Warnings we are equally mortal equally fickle Why have you this respite of living but to prevent the Imperious necessity of Death It is a woful and remediless complaint the end of our days hath overrun the beginning of our good Works Early beneficence hath no danger many joys for the conscience of good done the Prayers and Blessings of the Relieved and the Gratulations of Saints are as so many perpetual Comforters which can make our life pleasant and our death happy our evil days good our good better all these are but lost with delay few and cold are the Prayers for him that may give and in lieu our good purposes foreslow'd are become our tormentors upon our Death-bed little difference is betwixt good deferr'd and evil done good was meant who hindred it will our Conscience say There was time enough means enough need enough what hinder'd did fear of envy distrust of want alas what Buggs are these to fright men from Heaven as if the envy of keeping were less than bestowing as if God were not as good a Debtor as a Giver He that gives to the Poor lends to the Lord says Solomon If he freely give us what we may lend and grace to give will he not much more pay us what we have lent and give us because we have given that is his bounty this is his justice O happy is the man that may be a Creditor to his Maker Heaven and Earth shall empty before he want a Royal Payment if we dare not trust God while we live how dare we trust men when we are dead Men that are still deceitful and light upon the Balance light of truth and heavy of self-love how many Executors have proved the Executioners of honest Wills how many have our eyes seen that after most careful choice of Trusty Guardians have had their Children and Goods so disposed as if the Parents Soul could return to see it I doubt whether it would be happy How rare is that man who prefers not himself to his dead Friend profit to truth who will take no advantage of the Impossibility of the account Whatever therefore men either shew or promise happy is that man that may be his own Auditor Supervisor Executor as you love God and your Self be not aefraid of being happy too soon I am not worthy to give so bold advice let the Wiseman Syrach speak for me Do good before thou dye and according to thine ability stretch out thine hand and give defraud not thy self of thy good day and let not the Portion of thy good desires pass over thee Shalt thou not leave thy travels to another and thy labours to them that will divide thy Heritage Or let a wiser than he speak viz. Solomon Say not to morrow I will give if thou now have it for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth It hath been an old Rule of Liberality He gives twice who gives quickly whereas slow benefits argue uncheerfulness and lose their worth who lingers his receipts is condemned as unthrifty he who knoweth both saith It is better to give than to receive If we are of the same spirit why are we hasly in the worst and slack in the better Suffer you your self therefore Good Sir for God's sake for the Gospel's sake for the Church's sake for your Soul's sake to be stirred up by these poor lines to a resolute and speedy performing of your worthy intentions And take this as a loving Invitation sent from Heaven by an unworthy Messenger you cannot deliberate long of fit Objects for your Beneficence except it be more for multitude than want the Streets yea the World is full How doth Lazarus lye at every door how many Sons of the Prophets in their meanly provided Colledges may say not mors in ollâ but fames how many Churches may justly plead that which our Saviour bad his Disciples The Lord hath need and if this infinite store hath made your choice doubtful how easie were it to shew you wherein you might oblige the whole Church of God to you and make
obtain when time shall be swallowed up in Eternity when Faith shall be turn'd into Vision bare hopes into actual Enjoyment O Lord hear and graciously accept of these my Prayers through Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Preparatory Prayer before the Sacrament O Thou Searcher of hearts who knowest the secrets and most silent passages of the mind assist me in the survey and examination of my Soul that I may draw up a true Inventory of all the furniture of sin which is lodged in my breast I dare not approach thy Table before I have entred into my self and laid open all my sins and iniquities before thee which I have been contracting so long that I am become an aged sinner I have no other Sanctuary to repair to but thy mercy therefore O Lord pardon the sins of my whole life and pity the Infirmities of age and though I am of small esteem and no reputation among men though this trembling and wither'd Body of mine is become unwelcome to the eye of the World yet grant that thy holy Spirit would vouchsafe to dwell in this Ancient Temple that I may daily magnifie thy holy Name I dare not presume to draw near thy Table without making my addresses to the Throne of Grace for he that confesses his sins shall obtain a covering for them O Lord cleanse my hands and purifie my heart and make me conformable to thy Will and thy Image that I may not pollute thy heavenly food nor prophane the most blessed body and blood of my dearest Saviour To this end sanctifie my body and soul that no unclean thing may come out of my mouth that I may detest and abhor covetousness lying and injurious dealing all cursing blasphemy and unreasonable anger that I may be chaste virtuous meek and religious that I never offer to put that heavenly Food into a mouth used to gluttony and drunkenness to falsifying the truth and speaking evil of my Brethren for this will be to make no difference yea to prophane the Lord's Body Teach me to put off the Old man and repair the breaches of my decay'd Nature prosper and direct my present purposes of communicating at thy Table that I may prove a true Disciple and know my Lord in breaking of bread This is the commemoration of my Saviours death may it prove instrumental to my eternal life strike an aw and reverence in my heart because of thy Presence and in consideration that it is thy holy Ordinance My soul mourns when I consider at what a great distance my sins have set me from thee but yet now I begin to revive and wax glad because of thy faithful promise of re-union O how I hunger and thirst for thy saving health to be united to that sacred Body whose Head is Christ Give me Faith to believe in him who by Faith and new Obedience is made mine Make me a welcome Guest at thy holy Table that all the days of my life I may bear a good Conscience both towards God and towards Man which will be a continual Feast O Lord this is a Feast of Love therefore expel out of my mind all disorderly and uncharitable thoughts that I may lovingly embrace all my aged Brethren who are fed within the walls of this Religious House that I may extend it to all men even my enemies and forgive the whole world for thou didst the same thing to us who were at variance with thy holiness and purity For he that comes to thy Table with the barbarous thoughts of Revenge does certainly crucifie his Saviour afresh If my Lord and Saviour descended from his glorious Palace in Heaven was so humble as to take our Nature upon him endured the contradiction of sinners and at last laid down his life for my sake truly I am ashamed to think that I should scruple acts of kindness and civility Instances of love and charity to those who are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh for so thy Prophet tells me by advising me not to turn away my face from my own flesh Seeing my God was made a Sacrifice for me what can I do less than make my solemn vows in the House of the Lord to serve him faithfully all the days of my life than to thank him for the pledges of his love and the seals of his Favour that while I carry about with me this frail and shattered body I may fit my self for the glorious Mansions above where there will be an Eternal Communion of Saints Who can tell how oft he offendeth therefore O Lord cleanse me from my secret faults Cast me not away in the time of my old age and forsake me not when my strength faileth me enable me to get the mastery of sin that I may perform holy duties with more ease and satisfaction and that I may have sweeter fellowship with thy Spirit I am eternally bound to thank thee for thy gracious instances of Providence in my own behalf that when I was a slave to sin and punishment thou gavest thy Son for a Ransom didst send thy holy Spirit for a pledge and comforter thy Word for a Guide and hast prepared a Kingdom for my inheritance I am now going about to renew thy Covenant to beg pardon for my failure in any of the conditions that I may not forfeit my right to Eternal Happiness Accept of my Prayers and Vows my imperfect offers of Duty and Obedience for the sake of the Son of thy Love the Holy Jesus my Mediator and Redeemer the Saviour of Mankind Grant that I may be a worthy Receiver that this holy action prescribed us by the great Attonement may prove efficacious and add to the life and refreshment of my Soul through Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer after the Receiving the holy Communion O Dearest Jesu the Head of the Church the Beginning and First-born from the Dead thou who gavest thy self a Sacrifice and Propitiation for my sins accept of my hearty Prayers and receive my Thanksgiving thou who upholdest all things by the word of thy Power sustain my weak and aged body thou who art the brightness of thy Fathers glory purifie and refine my Soul that it be not sullied with the filthiness of sin I humbly thank thee for the greatness of thy love in humbling thy self to the death of the Cross for thy institution of this Blessed Sacrament for thy gracious invitation to this holy Table and lastly for the unspeakable comfort and refreshment of my Soul Possess my Soul with a mighty sense of thy great goodness that I may declare to the sons of men the wonderful works that the Lord hath done unto me Let me clearly perceive the manifestation of thy wisdom and love who to inform and instruct my weakness are pleased by these Elements of Bread and Wine to figure out unto me the Body and Blood of my dearest Saviour may the Shadow lead me to the Substance and this Seal of thy gracious Covenant be an