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

to our KING all his due homages in the Rights of his Customes and loyall Supplyes Deale I say iustly betweene the Prince and the People HOC OPVS HIC LABOR EST. This is the Dyapazon of all our Musicke and full compasse of that Song wherein each must hold apart heere therefore pause a while that all may sing together For great hath beene the care from time to time the inuentions sundry that haue beene vndertaken for the aduauncing collecting true aunswering of all such duties as grow in this kind But as in the State of a naturall Body those diseases proue of most dangerous consequence that are of longest breeding furthest from cure whose pulse is neuer felt nor Symptoma knowne so hath it long fared with this Argument of Customes Wherein sometimes about the Cause it selfe Trafficke vvhether free-borne or no then about the Matter without difference or distinction of Art or Nature Outward or Inward Abundance or Want Dutie or Free-will And lastly about the Forme of theyr orderly directing collecting and true answering how to stoppe the course of Errors and currant of Abuses is become the greatest pretended care at least and most serious Question For information and Reformation whereof how-soeuer the Conscience of my Calling vnder his sacred Maiestie speciall dutie besides as his Highnesse sworne Seruaunt haue singled me forth and prest me still forward by one occasion or other Quo fato nescio sed non sine Numine as my hope and comfort is first by 1 Against Informers of all sorts A Generall Apollogie thē a second 2 Against priuate Societies Replyes 3 A Treatise worth the reading The true vse of Port Bands lastly A Priuate 4 The Satisfaction of the offence conceiued against that Caution was the occasion of casting all the rest into this new Mowld called 5 The Customers ALPHABET PRIMER Caution against the Farming out of Subsidies vnder the name of Customes to presume thus with my penne but to wish and further I euer concluded that none but the Grauest and Wisest in highest Authoritie might promise and performe it Before whom now beeing so lately commaunded to speake I may not I cannot I dare not hold my peace All humble respect of Dutie therefore prostrate Reuerence premised I proceede with my Lesson and build on our Defence vpon my first Religious and reasonable grounds RELIGION and IVSTICE are the fundamentall stayes of all States and Kingdoms the one by sanctifying the other by assuring the perpetuities of all tranquilitie of Minds and earthly Honours Iustice beeing Distributiue and Commutatiue the Commutatiue part includeth Trafficke There was a time when the Christian world was all set on fire deuided by Disputes and distracted in Opinions The true Catholick and Christian Religion as soundly taught as freely professed in England Scotland and Ireland at this day as in any priuate or publicke part of the World about the catholicke-Catholicke-Church and some poynts of Truth in the doctrine of Religion But the GOD of Heauen be praised it hath found the best footing in these our dayes Kingdoms that the world doth affoord and his hand in our Soueraigne and his foreuer vphold it Vppon the compounding of the Discordes in the Netherlands The like seemes now I say euen now to offer it selfe about the Vse Ends of our free-borne Trafficke that Nurse of Iustice which feedes vs All. The priuate peruerting of whose generall Intention to publicke Good hath much disturbed our speciall Blisse and giues occasion of this ALPHABETOR PRIMER Trafficke then beeing the hand that layes out all men theyr Worke prouides all men theyr Foode and payes all men theyr Fees ought at all handes to be seriously supported that so supports vs all and her willing Disturbers and witting Peruerters held as Enemies to Order that is to say to God and Nature And since in all Actions the safest path to walke in and surest rule to guide our selues by is to follow Nature the patterne layd out by the GOD of Order the way from Error to Truth from Confusion to Perfection must be by proportions vntill we come to that End which is able and sufficient to perfect and preserue all our worldly happines Measure therefore must sit at the Sterne and by steddy proportions cunne and steere this our Shippe of Trafficke thorow all the stormes of Extremities and dangers of Shyfts to our long-desired Port. As the beauty of Nature is Order so the way to Order is Number more or lesse to auoyde the Rocks and Sands of Excesse and Defect Exchange therefore without all exceptions must lay the foundation and absolute ground of all our Endeuours to this intended Redresse The Writer heereof alluding to his owne trouble for the Caution hee wrote against the Farming out of Subsidies vnder the name of Custome sets forth withall a true Idea of Trafficke by fayning a Shyppe called the Harry-Bonaduenture fraught with pitch tarre mastes salt and oyle and good store of Bullion that after a long voyage in her returne homewards to the Iland of Exchange meetes with a dangerous storme in the Narrow-Seas and doubting the Geodyn-sands falls in with the Forelands casts Ankor in the Downes and there ryding all Windes to death puts in at last to Sandwich-Hauen Where finding neither Staple nor Staple-wares sometimes held there and sithence at Canterbury adioyning of Fleece-wooll Broad-clothes Tyn Lead nor Leather c barters her Commodities for Bayes Sayes and other Duch newe Drapery there And in Exchange for her Bullion bespeakes Kentish Broade-clothes against her next returne Prouided they be made warranted by the Rules of Sandwich Bayes and Seale of that Towne onely and none other Exchange haue we spyde out Exchange Then haile Maisters Marriners and Mates at all hands Call vp our loyall Marchants true Patriots Enterlopers and all and be of good cheere Belay well the Bowlyne keepe your tacklins tight and sure Aloofe aloofe with the Maine for feare of the Goodwines I seeme to see our Ilande for the Fore-lands appeare CASTOR and POLLVX cōming both together did boade vs good-lucke Our Barke is strong enough to beare out her leakes Our Loade-stone proues good and our Compasse is true therefore aloofe I say with the Maine by this Cape of Good-hope to the Harbor of Safetie and Hauen of all our Rest For Reliquis tantum Sinus est et Statio malefida Carinis Now all thinges consist of Matter and Forme et Forma dat esse rei the Matter beeing Weight and Measure the Forme are fitted and esteemed by their End and Obiect GOODNES All Goodnes is eyther by Nature or by Art And as in Goodnes there is a proportion to fit with the Matter wherein it consisteth Omnis Forma infunditur secundum meritum Materiae So in Trades the blessing of GOD by Nature and the benefit of Industry by Art is more or lesse admired to the speciall reputation profit of those Persons

third time though ONCE for all Whom onelie to know is euerlasting Life and Ioy but to heare and make mention of his Name beeing a law to himselfe of his owne Perfection doth likewise perfect all he wills or doth His Goodnes beeing the Forme of all thinges from which to swarue is to returne to Nothing and which in him as the Fountaine we must admire most affect and desire in our selues GOODNES then is the glorious center of DEITIE it selfe frō whence all Circumferences both in Heauen and Earth deriue not onely Essence but happines in Beeing From hence it is that out of Learning and Zeale to Religious Rights some godly-disposed haue seemed to obserue a kind of Trafficke and free Commerce betweene the Throne of Heauen and the Church vpon Earth by Doctrine Prayer for the vse of Goodnes All heauenly Inspirings downeward and all holie Desires vpwards beeing as Angels or Marchants betweene GOD and vs. That as his Doctrine doth teach vs our supreame Truth so our Prayers might confesse him our soueraigne Good But this height and depth of Goodnes we leaue to Diuines The length breadth thereof must lay forth our Lesson by giuing GOD his Honour and our Soueraigne KING his Right For Caelum Caelorum sibi ipsi assumens Terram dedit silijs hominum As therefore at first we prayde God for our speede So now in Goodnes God graunt we proceede Tu mihi summe Opifex rerum Cor fingitio purum Et Recti inspira renouatum pectore amorem Os mihi tute aperi Tu dirige labra loquentis Vt Tibi promeritae persoluant laudis honores ¶ We haue speld already how our Customes and Subsidies liue die with Trafficke as Effects that follow theyr Efficient Cause In which respect first Trades and Tradesmen must be sought for made of and at all hands nourisht Then Marchants of all sorts must be kindly entreated and by freedome encouraged in euery Common-wealth All Trafficke is either Outward and Inward of Things bredde at home or set from abroad and three things there are that by the Spirit of Goodnes giues it three degrees of lyfe and thrice-happy beeing Viz. Commodities Money and Exchange The first as the BODY vphelde the World in the infancie of Trafficke by bartering Good-things for Good-things Commodities to supply Necessities till Fraude came in The second Money as the SOVLE in the Body Olim. Cum non esset Monetae vsus nec aliud Merx aliud pretium dicereter pro temporū rerumque ratione vtilia vtilibus permutabant bomines Sed ob difficultatem contrabentium electa est Materia cuius publica et perpetua estimatio premutationum difficultatibus aequabilitate quantitatis subueniret beeing a weight of supreame woorth to maintaine Equalitie and preuent Aduantage by cōsent or Nations first made Good-thinges vendible The third as the SPIRIT in the Soule Exchange is seated euery where in the Soueraignes owne bosome to direct and controll by iust proportions of length and breadth weight content the truth worth and vse of Goodnes both in Money and all Things els Kata panta Regula Veritatis The first whilst Goodnes in plaine dealing lay open to all like knew not the Titles of Kings nor Kingdomes Kat ' auto Regula Iustitiae The second is the right hand of Iustice which crowning Kings first layde the foundation of that preheminent Dignitie that shewes the difference and distinction of Soueraignes and Subiects Ius monetae proprium est Principis et inter Regalia Magna censetur Kath ' olou Proton Regula sapientiae vel ordinis The third is that forme of Maiestie and transcendent Power that of Mortall-Men makes Gods on Earth Thus in Trafficke Commodities both Barterable and Vendible by Trades and Mysteries are layd out for Subiects Post ipsam Legem nil aeque vtile est ac necessariū Reipub vt Nūmorū vsus Proinde Grecis Nomos merito appellatur Quasi dicas gubernandi Regula Vel gubernaculum Money as the weight to value the woorth and Exchange the Measure to sette forth the vse of Goodnes by belongs onely to PRINCES the sacred Ministers of heauenly Iustice Each supporting other by mutuall supplyes for Reciprocke Endes The PRINCE graciously beholding the prosperity and wealth of his loyall Subiects as the onely Mirror of his owne Greatnes and Honor. And the Subiects religiously admiring the Maiestie of their Soueraigne as the glorious Obiect of their Welfare and Good And thus it appeares by the course of our spelling set poynts of our Lesson lynes of this our Primer That our Kings Trade is Coyning and his Mysterie is Exchange His * The KINGS Proprium and peculiar Right Right therefore vni soli et semper By the rules of all Truth all Iustice and all Order must be Gold and Siluer Materialls of Bullion ¶ The motyue of this worke was a naturall defence of poore despised and contemned Customers The motyue of this ALPHABET and mayne dryft of this PRIMER by whose disgrace the King receiues such losse and the State more wrong But the mayne dryft Scope of all is an orderly aduancing of our Soueraignes Reuenewes in his duties of Customes that so many haue vndertaken and so few haue set forward Wherein all that hath beene said might passe but for conceit and contemplatiue discourse without the hand of some Ministeriall function Customes therefore beeing Effects of that great Cause vvhose Actions are conuersant about no meaner Obiects then the Soueraignes Honour and Subiects happinesse requires Collectors of choyse respect and absolute trust Men truly Religious and honest in deede as Customers are euery way entended to be And such were they some-times reputed till Neglect in theyr Choyce and Contempt of theyr Persons made Ielousie begin to suspect their endeuours whilst Ignorance and Impudencie in countenaunce and maintenaunce supplanted their Credites First by Controllers then Superuisors and lastly by Farmers and Vndertakers besides Searchers and Wayters God knowes how many I come therefore now to speake of that Function which vnderlying the charge of so great a trust none should obtrude on at aduenture or vndertake in iest but such as Nature hath fitted Authoritie admitted in lawfull manner For how-soeuer the Name of Customers seeme now out of fauour as the Obiects of Disgrace and publique Slaunder the curious eye of the Lawe still constant in his choyce The Customers onely knowne to the Lawe call them kindly by their Names and culls them all as curiously forth as Shriefes in their Shieres from among the best and most sufficient that Wisedome can find The intention of the Lawe in choosing Customers or choyce affoord as men most fit to attend vpon Trafficke and in collecting Customes most likely of all others To deals iustly betweene the Prince and People Giue therefore cheerefully collect vprightly and aunswere truly as vnto GOD himselfe all his due honour in Oblations and Tythes so