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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

¶ 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