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A07548	The custumers alphabet and primer Conteining, their creede or beliefe in the true doctrine of Christian religion. Their ten commandementes, or rules of ciuill life and conuersation, daily grace, generall confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such, as eyther in iest or in earnest, seeming doubtfull themselues, would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping. All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties customes, without possibility of fraude or couyn. Alwaies prouided, in reading read all, or nothing at al.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1608 (1608)	STC 17927; ESTC S114606	45,944	46

and those Places that first affoord them According to these grounds of the three things in Trafficke before layd downe as Money for the Matter a Weight of greatest worth and for the Forme a worke of royall esteeme So Exchange a Measure of rarest perfection and Mystery of heauenlie skill fitting none but Soueraigne States and Kings must stint the values and guide the proportions of Goodnes in all Materialls besides But all Goodnes is needfull Exchange therefore as the Spirit in the Soule to perfect our Trafficke by the Fountaines of 1 Staples Bullion and store of Princes 2 Mynts Coyne in respect of the vse thereof ought to be generall Forasmuch as the good intended thereby is so due to all as cannot be disturbed or restrained to anie without disorder and confusion for Omne Bonum est sui diffusinum This I say then is that treble-twisted thred twyned by louing and loyall Ariadne to guide our fatall THESEVS by thorowe all the Muces and Mazes of that Labyrinth of Errors Marchandizing Exchange to free and redeeme the Bodies of Men and Soules of Christians from the yeerely monthly and daily deuouring Iawes of that Monster of Creete and Bawde of Bankers Vsury to the raysing againe and perfect vniting of Religion Iustice that Mercy and Truth among Men may sit kindly together and Righteousnes and Peace may kisse each other Thus all things in Nature doe tend to perfection by the Rules of Order and degrees of Goodnes but the vse makes all For Quò mihi Fortuna si non conceditur vti The vse of Mettalls both Gold and Siluer as cheefest materialls for Princes Coyne is in this respect so vrgently needfull that where Nature fayles Art must make good in which regard the want of Mynes in this Kingdome hath beene euer supplyed by forraine Bullion and auncient Customes The want of Coyne in the Princes Treasurie shewes defect of Naturall Mynes or neglect of artificiall Supplyes whereof Bullion is chiefest Neither is it enough fit nor conuenient that beeing prouided or brought to the Mynt Cudendae monetae Ius proprium est Principis et inde publicae fiunt the publicke pulse and hart of Trafficke priuate Subiects presume to coyne it for themselues least thereby Kings become seruaunts to their owne Vassalls and constrained to borrow that should be apt to lend A course in Nature both miserable and preposterous For what harder condition then to see Clothiers compeld to worke out other mens Wooll for a shred in the end of the selfe-same cloth Yet this is worse For where all Trades are valued by and vented for Money this makes Coyne both disvalue sell it selfe O hysteron proteron ground of all Disorder If KINGS aboue themselues haue none but GOD that only makes homage ioyne honor to their Crownes and seeing their seruice doth yeelde them reward all others below them beeing prostrate at their feete the names of Wages and Fees is too base for Soueraignes from beneath them to receiue and for Subiects to offer preposterous persumptuous and euery way prophane Constantinus Magnus ne aliter quam sanctè et legitimè hoc regale vterctur effigiem suam nummu sic inseulpi voluit vt hominis Deū flexis genibus invocantis prae se ferret Moneta autē dicta quod moneat ne quid frandis in Materia signo vel pondere fiat If then the Type of Princes be their Thrones and Dignitie if the Obiect of their Actions next the glory of that Deitie whom they represent be their owne greatnes honour if Marchants buy and sell Goodnes but for theyr owne auaile what greater gaine then for Subiects to attaine to their Soueraignes Dignitie And what harder estate then to see Kings set a worke and waged by their Seruants If the Law pronounce it death and that most worthilie to counterfet Princes Coynes by what meanes soeuer vvhat can expiat that sinne of Presumption that as it were with their owne Hands and Stampes vsurpe their Preheminence and disturbe their Exchange In a word let the hart by the lyuer receiue his tinctured Chylus by his owne mouth and stomacke and the blood with the Spirits shall fill all the vaines And if Nature haue taught all men to affect the generall Good by particular Trades and appoynted each Trade his proper Materialls by the helpe and vse of Money leaue Bullion for Princes and the World can vvant no Coyne the easie course and recourse of whose Exchange shall set all things in tune and serue all Mens turnes But to compare things by contraries will best illustrate either Wee all cry out of Couetyse and Priuate-gaine as good reason for GOD himselfe hath pronounced it the roote of all Euill and the loue of Money to be flat Idolatry Which being bad in Subiects must needes be worst in Kings How great then must our happines appeare to haue Bounty it selfe come dwell among vs And what hartie remorse ought it to moue to some him and his abridged or depriued of the principall meanes to practise theyr vertues Great therefore greater and greatest of all must theyr Accounts be to GOD and Nature that preposterously peruerting his proper Materialls turne his best helps for Bullion to their priuate aduantage to the intollerable disturbance both of Court Country and almost vnrecouerable wrong to the King and his Crowne Wherein Customers wanting wordes to set out theyr griefes haue made signes with their * The second Reply or Treatise of Exchange c. pennes And yet cease not by Prayer to groane in this manner O that our Tongues or Pennes could but expresse Or had the gist to make Men vnderstand Th●●● great Effects of sacred happines Exchange alone would worke by Prince and Counsells hand Religious Iustice should then so blesse our Land That Men on Earth might see by this Idea made What Heauen it selfe doth boade in this our Kingly Trade So farre off are Customers from guilt in this behalfe Now see but what is past so put all together to heare what words they spell That Goodnes whose Standerd is DEITIE Kaloca ' gathia id est Aequum et Bonum Honestum et Vtile Beauty and Bountie Profit Pleasure applyed to the actiue perfections of Commutaliue Right by the rules of our Booke and scope of our Lesson is a beautifull aspect and beneficiall influence of Heauenly Beatitude in the operations of Nature Art which in Greeke is vnderstoode by Calocagathia Sanctifying and assuring the formall Essence of all happy Beings And GOD sawe that all hee had made was exceeding Good For Bono suo consta●● Omnia That Bullion or Billion is a worde of Art giuen to the elementall perfections of purenes and finenes in the solide Commodities of Gold and Siluer Deprehensum a peritioribus est in Mundi creatione principē Deum Arithmetica esse vsum Geometria 〈…〉 Musica siquidē Arithmetica ratio●●●●●●pacta connexaqu● creduntur Elementa Geometria vero Figuras effinxit

THE CVSTVMERS ALPHABET and Primer Conteining Their CREEDE or Beliefe in the true Doctrine of Christian Religion Their TEN COMMANDEMENTES or Rules of Ciuill life and Conuersation daily Grace generall Confession speciall Supplication and Forme of Prayers Togither With a pertinent Answere to All such as eyther in iest or in earnest seeming doubtfull themselues would faine perswade others that the bringing home of Traffique must needes decay our Shipping All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties Customes without possibility of fraude or Couyn Alwaies prouided In reading Read all or nothing at al. ADSIT REGVLA 1608. A A a. e. i. o. u. ✚ b. c. d. f. g. h. k. l. m. n. p. q. r. s t. w. x. z. perse Con perse title title Est Amen 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY SPECIAL GOOD LLL THOMAS BARON OF BVCKHVRST Earle of Dorset and Lord-Treasurer of England Henrie Lord Howard of Marnehill Earle of Northampton Lord-Warden of the Cinq-Ports And Robert Baron of Essenden Vicount Cranbourne Earle of Salisbury and Principall Secretarie of State to the KINGS Maiestie All Knights of the most Noble Order of the GARTER and Lords of his Highnesse most Honourable Preuy-Counsell MY Dutie and Seruice to you honorable L.L.L. euery way humbly premised I haue thought it good to present the same with the loyall Endeuours of a willing mind though feeble wit and weaker brayne the Argument I confesse being of a higher pitch and greater compasse then I did imagine whē I tooke it in hand Hazard at the first did much discourage me in the mids by Friendes I had been disswaded in regard of the paines but for th' Enthousiasme still sounding in mine eares Ton Ame ne doibt ta flamme est si diuine c. Thy Soule is so beset by vowes that are deuine Thou shalt not tread amisse why should thy hart decline By whose perswasion whē I had but begun my Conscience thrust me forward and thus preuailed at last Ie veulx qu'un bel oser c. Then dangers stand aside t is GOODNES calls me to it If ought doe put me by t' is WISDOMS hand shall do it My stayes besides were these That TRVTH was all my Ground which as Time did suggest Experience still supplyd My Pen OPORTET made and was euer apt to mend But ORDER gaue the Forme which I most of all suspected and saw some cause to doubt till PRAYER in conclusion did vndertake to perfect or perswade the best So that if the Forme for the plainenesse may passe without offence the Matter for importance may perhaps deserue a double and treble reading The Matter indeed is TRAFFICK I meane our freeborne Traffick that Nurse of IVSTICE which feedes vs all and heere handled ab Effectis containes those very CVSTVMS for which the Schollers in all the Free-schooles of our SOVERAIGNES daily Tributes haue so long beene subiect to bayting and beating and for which my selfe of late so graciously chidden was forst by speciall commaund to spell againe my Letters and con this PRIMER Now be it what it may be as your WISDOMS shall esteeme and as GOD shall giue successe to whom the Glorie of All in All is due three principall reasons haue moou'd me to present it to your LLL view in the names of All the rest The FIRST besides his knowledge and sufficiencie of skill by eminencie and Place hath speciall Experience to iudge of what I write The SECOND keepes the Keyes of all those verie Ports that lymits out my Charge for whose sakes indeede reciproke Loue did instant me to write And the THIRD was the meanes to make me first a Custumer when I had giuen it ouer and little thought vppon it For these regards I say and treble respects mine Ends beeing no wayes priuat myne Intentions alwaies Loyall disclayming no mans Person but Sinne and Dishonestie I held it meetest and safest to present my Selfe and the Fruites of all my Vowes to your LLL mylde Censures and Protections By whose speciall Fauours as I am but what I am so I desire but to be knowne Your LLL by seuerall Duties deuotedly bound Tho Milles. To the GRAVEST and GODLIEVVISE in Highest Authority A Gentleman a friend and a louer of learning comming into a Free-Schoole where diuers young Schollers were learning their Grammers desirous to feele how they thryude at their Bookes by some familiar Question demaunded their Huishers standing by VVhen an English is giuen to be made into Latine what 's first to be done The aunswer is easie namelie To seeke out the Principall Verbe yet all stoode silent and halfe amazed till * The writer hereof hauing spent the best of his youth in publique seruices at home and abroade and desirous at last to settle himselfe in some stayd course of liuing after the Treaty at Barwick 1586. caled Foedus arctioris amicitiae inter potentissimos c. which with the grace of God the truth of his Title and his owne patience was a meanes that brought his Maiestie so quietly and happily hether was by his Friendes perswaded to take the charge vpon him of Custumer of Sandwich and the Member-Ports in Kent where he was borne assuring him that thereby he● might doe God and his Country good seruice vpon which motiue hee vndertooke the same simply and doubting no harme one at the last the Question repeated and he vrged to say VVhat was to be done replyed No harme sir I hope at least that I wote of Which the Gentleman taking in very good part suspecting rather ignorance in the Huishers then want of wit in the Scholler departed smyling Most Reuerend and Right Honourable This Question and Aunswere includeth the state of all the Students in the Free-Schooles of our Soueraignes Custumes where such as the Teachers be such are the Schollers There is a reason for all thinges And the reason heereof is not so much for want of wit in the Learners To deale iustly betweene the Prince and the people which in this kinde of Doctrine is the Principall Verbe as in their angry and hastie Huishers who while the Graue-Maisters and Moderators of the Schooles were distracted and busied in the study and practise of highest poynts of Learning haue vsed no Method but beating the Schollers Qui paria esse volunt peccata Ipsique laborant Cum ventum ad verum est Sensus moresque repugnant Atque ipsa VTILITAS Iusti prope mater Aequi. That make all faults alike yet they themselues are dome When Truth in question falls each finger seemes a thome And Profits-selfe empaird whence Iust Right should come Which kinde of Discipline discouraging all men and driuing many good wits from the Schoole to the secrete iniury of the whole Common-wealth forcde me to my Booke and as well as I could to Analise my lesson meaning therby with the fore-said playne Scholler No harme at all Such therefore as it was I did briefely set forth in a * The CVSTOMERS

each other Qui per alium facit per semetipsum facit Gods immediat 1 Prayers Thanksgiuin Rents God himselfe expects and receiues at our hands such is our Tenure the 2 Tythes and Tributes rest he accepts being faithfully payd to his Stewards and Vicegerents In which respect we stand also bound to reuerence and admire the transcendent respects of Soueraigne sublumitie in earthly States by theyr Attributes Tributes as GODS among men Preheminence PReRoGaTiue The Attributes of power in earthly Princes are their PREHEMINENCE and their PREROGATIVE Iustice and Mercie the two sacred Titles of Diuine Soueraigntie the one sets forth the Dignities of their Persons and Places the other transcends to the motions of their mindes The first is that Storge and naturall inclination to Equitie and Iustice that distributing bread to the meanest of their Subiects entendeth at least that all should enioy their Birthrights to the generall Treaties of Entercouse abroade and Common Lavves at home to grow vp thereby to liue to theyr seruice the Common-wealth By the other out of meere Loue and Affection it may well beseeme them to stande gracious to some more then all the rest euen beyond the boundes of Iustice and yet doe no wrong The first shewes them but from their Seates of Iustice height of Diguities aboue other men The latter beyond the Thrones of Kings extolls their Persons higher then themselues as more then the sonnes of mortall men These then are no Synonimas in our dymme sights and vveake Conceits but words of distinct respects of Chiefest reuerence Cat ' exochen the blending whereof hath breadde in the World such dangerous Contempts and Capitall Errors as no Power but the Highest no Wisedome but the Grauest may or can reforme To whō therefore in all obedience wee prostrately referre them Onelie in the first wee spy the same forme of Caracters Preheminence PREROGATIUE Whereof reade more in the Description of Trafficke hereafter as in the Alphabet of our Letters But in the other beeing a Hyeroglificke aboue our reach or Learning wee heare the full sound of all those vovvels that giue life to our Mutes must direct our spelling in the Title of our Tributes the scope of Loyaltie and nowe our speciall Lesson ¶ Customers Creede Beleefe and Articles of Religion Leauing therfore the Rights of Religion to those learned Divines that both by life and doctrine directing the way by Fayth and Good-workes how to winne Heauen teach vs that Faith alone in the Action of sauing is the Cause of Saluation but in the Partie saued both must concur together And not to those destructiue Doctors Not Popish that to build vp theyr Church blow vp Common-weales and by Loosenes of lyfe and Traditions of Men to aduaunce themselues rob GOD of his honour Nor these distractiue Teachers Nor Precise that to Reforme our Church disturbe our Kingdome and preposterously propounding such fancies of Perfection as no reason can reach to nor themselues expresse preferring Sacrifice before Obedience dispence with Charitie to please selues But the Catholick Apostolick Christian Fayth now truely taught freely professed and constantly defended in the Churches of England Scotland Ireland obtrude vpon GOD more then he requires Assuring our selues that to all whō his Spirit doth make Repentant GOD by CHRIST is and will be a most gracious GOD and a louing Father But GOD without CHRIST is a consuming fire This I say we leaue to those sacred Diuines that worke obedience in Subiects by the rules of Conscience and admiring the blessednes of these our dayes pray for our Princes and Prelates all that vphold or haue but a will to further this our truly Catholicke and Christian Religion The Decalogue of our Courts of Iustice whereto Customers frame the Rules of their Ciuill lyfe and conuersation in England ¶ Leauing also the Duties of all our distributiue Iustice to those most Woorthy and most Honourable Persons that possessing our Courts by MEVM and TVVM discerne and decyde the Cases and Questions of speciall Right and of generall Reason as well betweene Subiect and b 1 Common-PLEAS Subiect as the Soueraigne and his c 2 Kings-BENCH and Court of Wardes Vassalls by the Lawes and Statutes or peculiar Customes cast in the d 3 PARLIAMENT Mould of Wisedome in our owne Land or moderate Extreames by f 4 CHAVNCERY Court of Requests Conscience among Men. And to the Grauest Wisest in g 5 STAR-CHAMBER Counsell-Table highest Authoritie that to maintaine the Good by censuring the Euill Sic irascuntur vt vitia tantū perimant seruatis hominibus atque ita tractatis vt veri boni necessariò fiant quantumque damni antea dederiut in reliqua vita resarcire queant And to those Heroicall h 6 The high Conestable and Censors of merit and valour that beeing most Noble themselues to decyde the Doubts and determine the Questions of reputation worth in all the Degrees of our Natiue Right and Datiue Honour so maintaine our Credits Vt quum Praedia Feuda et Possessiones pactis et transactionibus obnoxia Iuris-Communis et forensibus procellis agitentur NOBILITAS interea Earle-Marshalls Court of CHIVALRY solis Regibus beneficiaria Institutis heroicis et familiaribus ita acquiescit That Per proauos numerantur aui semperque renata Nobilitate virent et prolem Fata sequntur Continuum propria seruantia lege tenorem And to those learned Ciuilians that per Aequum et Bonum so belay the publique peace of our k 7 ADMIRALTIE Seas and our l 8 ARCHES Land that by dooing vs Iustice our Neighbours take no wrong These parts I say of distributiue Iustice we gladly referre to those worthy Iudges that sit in our Courts and by Law Conscience protecting our a Matter Liuings our c Place Liberties our i Persons Liues our o Order Honour our u End Peace doe iustly deserue all Grace frō our Soueraigne and all loue at his handes These are the GRAVEMAISTERS Moderators of our Schooles Our Maisters that by the Rules of our Bookes examine our Lessons The Prince hath his Courts apart for m 9 EXCHECKER Publique Reuenewes and n 10 GREENECLOTH Priuate Expences where Accountants are taught for the most part by Court-Rowles Court-Rules grounded on Presidents Examples or else Discretion Those first are our Huishers Our Hushiers The Comfort is great where Men dwell in houses whose foundation is layd on assured grounds In which regard wee poore p Customers Schollers want words to expresse our Ioyes and Conceites of the blessings of GOD in these our dayes for the stayes of Religion and distributiue Iustice Were those Patrons of Honour whom Mercury should serue by APOLLO but found out the roofes of our Schooles made wind-tight and water-tight in the breaches wants of