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A69462	Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, or, A faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the cities of Rome and Paris the one taken out of the book written by Theodorus Amydenus ; the other out of that by Mr. Carr.; De pietate Romana. English	Ameyden, Dirk, 1586-1656.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674. Pietas Parisiensis.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1687 (1687)	Wing A3033; Wing W3450; ESTC R10919	86,950	204

Tou the See being vacant do certify and attest that the Priests of the Congregation of the Mission who reside in this town continued any time these two years to comfort to cloth to feed and give Physick to the poor with much edification and charity First of all they have taken into their own house a matter of sixty sick persons and have lodged about twenty more in the Suburbs Secondly They give Alms to a number of other bashful poor reduced to extream necessity who betake themselves hither for refuge Thirdly They receive a many poor naked and lame Soldiers which return from the King's Army into their own house and care In which charitable actions and other their pious comportments all good people are wonderfully edified In witness whereof I have signed and sealed these presents Toul Dec. 1639. The Coppy of another Letter SIR Since a great many years that this poor town hath been afflicted with Plague War and Famine which hath reduced it to this excess of misery wherein now it is in lieu of consolations we have only met with rigorous dealings from our Creditors cruelty from the Soldiers who forceably robbed us of the small quantity of bread which we had So that it seemed that the heavens had nothing but rigours for us when behold one of your children in Jesus Christ came loaden with Alms which hugely tempered the excess of our misery and raised our hopes in God's mercy Sir Since our offences have provoked his wrath we humbly kiss the hand which doth punish them as also we receive the effects of his divine mercy with the resentments of an extraordinary acknowledgment We bless the instruments of his infinite Clemency as well these who relieve us with these seasonable Charities as those who procure them and distribute them amongst us and you in particular Dear Sir whom we look upon after God as the principal Author of so singular a blessing To tell you how well it is applyed to this poor place where the chief persons are reduced to nothing the Missionaries you have sent will relate it with less interest than our selves They have been eye-witnesses of desolation and you will find in the sight of God the eternal obligations we owe you for having succoured us in this our miserable condition From the Officers and Council of Luneville 1642. A Coppy of another Letter SIR YOU have so singularly obliged us in the assistance you have afforded to our poor beggers to our bashful indigent and to our sick persons and more particularly to our religious houses that we should prove ungrateful if we deferred any longer to testify our sensible acknowledgments we being able to assure you that the charity which you have sent hither could never be better distributed and employed than upon our poor people who are very many in number and especially upon the religious women who are destitute of all humane assistance some of them not enjoying any part of their small revenues since the wars and others not receiving any thing from the richer sort of the town who formerly gave them Alms they being now deprived of their own means Whence we find our selves humbly obliged to beseech you Dear Sir as by these presents we do to continue the same charitable assistances as well to the poor as to the Monasteries of this place which hitherto you have done It is a subject of a great merit for those that do these good works and for you who have the conduct thereof which you perform with so much prudence and dexterity to the gaining a great Crown in heaven From the Magistrates of Mets 1664. This Information also concerning the calamitous State of Lorraine was sent to Mr. Vincent by one of his Missionaries BEing arrived at St. Michell I find so great a number of poor people that I am not able to give to all there are above three hundred in very great necessity and three hundred more reduced to extremity Sir I tell you no more than the bare truth there are above a hundred of them who appear only Skelletons covered with skin and are so ghastly that unless God did strengthen me I should even dread to look upon them their skins are like tawny Marble and are so dryed up that their teeth seem to be dry and discovered c. At our last distribution of bread there were one thousand fifty two poor people besides the sick who are in great numbers which we assist with food and convenient medicines c. O Sir what a number of Souls go to heaven through poverty Since I came first into Lorrain I have assisted above a thousand poor people at their death who shewed all of them that they were perfectly well disposed to dye c. The same Father also excited by the fresh Informations of his pious Missioners who were labouring every where in the middle of desolations concerning the great calamity and misery of the nearer Neighbours of Picardy and Campaine devoured and wasted with war and famine and consequently with sickness applyed himself again for their relief to the compassionate bowels of the good Ladies of the Charity which pious Dames he assembled once or twice a week to such purposes and communicated to them his Intelligence In which one writes thus to him There are abundance who are afflicted with Fluxes and Feavers others covered with Scabs and purple spots tumors and imposthumes many swelled some in their heads some in their belly and some all their body over These infirmities were caused by eating wild roots and bread of bran Our ears are filled with pitiful lamentations and outcries for bread and howsoever sick they are they dragg themselves through rain and mire two or three leagues off for a few pottage Many dye without confession and the other Sacraments and even burial it self the poor dead body being left in their homely cottages till they are eaten up with wild beasts Another writes thus We are newly returned from visiting thirty five Villages in the Deanery of Guise where we found near upon five hundred people so excessively miserable that they seise upon dead dogs and horses which are the Wolves leavings And in the very town of Guise there are above five hundred sick persons who are lodged in Caves and Dens Some of them have eaten no bread in six or seven weeks not so much as that which they make of barly bran which is the diet of those which fare best but their meat is lizards froggs and wild-herbs c. By these Ladies accordingly a provision of all things was presently made at Paris necessary for body and Soul and that too in such abundance such a number of suits of apparel shirts smocks shoes stockings coverlets sheets and other linnen necessary for the sick as also druggs for physick confectures c together with Chalices and other ornaments for the Church c. and with Corn to sow the neglected fields which lay fallow and what was sent in dry money that it

PIETAS ROMANA ET PARISIENSIS OR A Faithful Relation of the several sorts of Charitable and Pious WORKS eminent in the Cities of ROME and PARIS The one taken out of the Book written By Theodorus Amydenus The other out of that by Mr. Carr. Printed at OXFORD An. Dom. 1687. Licet omnem Ecclesiam quae in toto est orbe terrarum cunctis oporteat florere virtutibus Vos tamen praecipus inter caeteros populos decet meritis Pietatis excellere quos in ipsâ Apostolicae Petrae arce fundatos Dominus noster Jesus Christus cum omnibus redemit beatus Apostolus Petrus prae omnibus crudivit S. Leo Serm. 2. Annivers Assumpt Christian Reader HERE are published for thy benefit two compendious Extracts one out of Theodorus Amydenus's Pietas Romana written Anno Domini 1624. The other out of Mr. Carr's Piety of Paris Anno Domini 1666 these being Collections of several sorts of charitable and pious works eminently flourishing in the two Cities of Rome and Paris which may serve as an Auctary to be added to the many famous Works of our Forefathers here at home and especially in the Royal City of London which are omitted here because better known to us and by others diligently recorded for Posterity The Publisher hopes that of such a great variety of patterns of wisely-disbursed wealth as are here presented some one or other may take the Reader and invite an imitation of them so often as these relations may happily fall into the hands of persons that as they are piously disposed so also are either wealthy and single or having children and made a competent provision for them have also reserved a part of their estate for themselves to be expended for their own more happy living and subsistance in the next world and especially so often as this Manual may come to the perusal of such who have had beforehand some serious thoughts of our Lord's directions and counsels given to them in the Gospel viz. of their laying up whilst here some treasure in heaven Mat. 6.20 21. because such will not fail them as all treasure here will and because their hearts and affections will surely follow and be where their treasure is and woe be to those whose affections here are not Celestial Again Of their making themselves some freinds whilst here with the Mammon of unrighteousness for so our Lord stiles wealth Luke 16.9 That these friends relieved here by them may afterward receive them i. e. when here by death they shall be turned out of doors into everlasting habitations so as the poor ejected Steward was received by his Lord's debtors whom he had before so prudently obliged such distribution of their wealth being as the Apostle also saith a laying up in store or treasuring for themselves a good foundation for laying hold on or purchasing therewith hereafter eternal life 1. Tim. 6.19 And lastly our Lord's counsel of their taking warning betimes from the unfortunate Builder here on earth of new barns Luke 12.18 for his increased goods for whose Soul the Divine Sergeants came the same night whilst he saith the text abounding here in wealth did not take care to be rich also towards God and so all these and his Soul too lost at once or warning also from the miserable rich man Luke 16.19 who having wealth and plenty given him wherewith to relieve such as poor Lazarus rather chose to feast himself with them and so had provided in the next world not so much as a drop of cold water to allay his thirst I say such meditations may happily prepare some Readers at least welcomely to entertain such proposals as this little Book suggests to them wherein they may see what various devices many others have used for saving their Souls with the good management of their Estates and may imitate them in such a Charity among this great choice as they judge more necessary or their means can best extend to Nor hath the Publisher any jealousy though this hath been suggested to him That the Scene of such publick Pieties being made here Rome and Paris will therefore give any just offence For thus he argues That the abounding in any Religion of such works as are in all allowed good and praise-worthy will rather provoke the rest to a pious emulation and that those who think themselves to enjoy more light of truth will hence endeavour not to be inferiour in the true fruits thereof Good Works And again That tho our own Country and the chief City thereof is very rich in variety of publick Monuments of the great Munificence of our Fore-fathers yet perhaps some inventions of forreign Charity may be discovered so beneficial as to be thought worthy to be transplanted also hither and some new succours to our necessitous neighbours here be happily derived from them Or that such as are also found here yet now but few and rare may be much more multiplied by occasion of the forreign patterns thereof seen much more frequent or being now more private Charities may become more publick And some publick Charities also here attempted and begun but not hitherto brought to such perfection as is desired or designed may by being compared with the same works more compleated abroad have their defects rectified and so the work be consummated For true love to God or our Neighbour knows no limits and useth to be very ingenious in multiplying new devices of serving them both to the uttermost And here to name some of those publick Charities abroad which seem either not to be at all or not so frequent here at home Such seem to be That Charity of providing convenient Receptacles and Hospitals for poor helpless exposed Infants here I am afraid too hastily committed with a small allowance to the nursing of some poor women some of them of no good reputation where partly by their negligence partly their wants many of these little ones come to a suddain end and are as little inquired after because the parish hereby is eased of a charge Again such are the frequent Sodalities or a company of pious persons united together in the prosecution of some or other charitable designs As the Sodalities in several trades for the relieving the necessities of those inculpably more indigent amongst them Sodalities for the succouring the necessities of formerly wealthy-families casually impoverished and bashful to publish their wants For easing poor housholders when burthened with many Children taking these from them and giving them education till they come to certain years or are also fitted for an honest imployment Founding Schools only for poor mens children for teaching them their Catechisme and to write and read and so dismissing them Sodalities For freeing and releasing Prisoners for debt at least when it is no very great summe and the persons not scandalous For visiting comforting and instructing Criminals condemned and endeavouring to bring them to a godly end of their life Setting up Apothecaries shops and supplying the