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war_n	high_a	king_n	treason_n	3,672	5	9.5249	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01627	The regiment of the pouertie. Compiled by a learned diuine of our time D. Andreas Hyperius. And now seruing very fitly for the present state of this realme. Translated into Englishe by H.T. minister	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1572 (1572)	STC 11759; ESTC S103064	57,526	158

peace or warre of the counsels deuises of kings and princes to carrie letters of treason and sometime to play the treators them selues to shew the enimies the hie wayes and ports to set on fyre cities boroughes stréetes and villages to burne vp the ripe corns fieldes and woodes to infecte the springs and welles with poyson to committe rapes murthers and rebberies in woods and thickes and through the whole countreys They accompanie one while with one woman and an other time with an other and care not for stable matrimonie the moste of the women do prostitute them selues to who so euer wyll and infecte many with the French pocks or other more noysome diseases They thinke they may without controlemente steale clothes meate or drinke out of gardens and houses and to the ende they may the sooner mone to pitie honest and simple matrons with hauing children at their tayle they steale other folkes children and cast thē off againe at their pleasure Their owne children they lay foorth and it hath bene hearde that some haue drowned them some haue lefte them in the woods for wilde beasts they mingle poysons to make barēnesse teach others to do the like they play the baudes betwene citizens children and adulterers they carrie letters tokens and gifts betweene louers I am ashamed to reckē these things and yet they are knowne to be true and I haue not hitherto spoken all So farfoorth is it too true that is said cōmonly Paupertas turpia cogit pouertie forceth much wickednesse Eurip. sayth the pouertie lack teacheth a man much euil Therfore if we desire to hinder so many enormities to stay in time so many outrages to driue out of the common wealth this swarme of hopelesse men thē it is necessarie that the magistrates begin some trade whereby the whole pouertie may at once be brought in order I haue spoken hitherto of the valiaunt beggers Nowe it remayneth that we intreat of such as are not valiant but may of good right be called the pouertie Amōg these some are brokē with age beréeued of all strength other are tormented with sicknesse vlcers continuall maladies lye lurking in some homely cottage and in the meane time none attende on them so that they weare away by little little with bunger penury of all things while none come at them You may sée poore wsmen beset with a flock of little childrē euē perish béeing tyred with the daily houlings and teares of them while they aske bread or ther things whiche they haue not to giue cōsumed with continual griefs day and night To these this miserie aboue the rest may be ioyned Certain euē as it wer born to calamitie wretchednes altho by the liberality of other somtime they get som thing yet they can not vse it rightly they haue no forecast no knowledge to guyde their substaunce they neuer thinke of sparing or frugalitie they are vnskilful in ordering of euery thing they go about what so euer vnaduisedly proposterously they haue no regarde of health or time or any thing else to be short they are such as tho they had gret welth yet in short time they will perishe with penurie So that it is néedful that tutours and ouerséers should be appoynted for these aswell as for Orphanes But howe many are there which yet remayne vnknowns and obscure which deserue right wel to be reléeued by the common almes For oftentimes it falleth out that some which occupying honest handie crafts or marchaundise were in good case to liue may contrary bothe to their owne and other mens expectation of them be brought to extreme pouertie not through their owne default but béeting circumuented by subtill creditours or deceyued by slack detters or oppressed with vsuries or spoyled of their wares in iorneying or thrust out of their heritage by the force of their aduersarie and iniquitie of corrupt iudges or exhaust with many exactions or consumed with sodayne fyre shipwracke or other casualties These men whereas before they were had in estimation and now fearing to come in contempt they dare not open their case but cloke it as much as they are able and beūde béeing of a bashfull nature they complayne to none nor craue nothing of any Therefore at home they pyne with famine and for very gréefe of minde they can not tell what is best to be done but surely to liue and with other men to beholde the light is tedious to them Whose necessitie except it be relieued in time it can not be but that they muste néedes weare away by little and little with miserie and mourning Lastly there remaine innumerable children créeping and running in the poore cottahes which are to be looked vnto But the parents slouth ignorance or beggerie or all these togither do let them from learning in their tender yeres the elements of Christian religion from accustoming honest and ciuill maners and from applying their mindes to learne some art and labour as yeres come on What then shall we suffer these innocent children among whome doubtles some are borne to good destinies mighte in time to come sitte to gouerne the common wealth with good successe to be corrupted while they are but blades and to growe vp as brute beastes without all knowledge of godlynesse or honestie That may not be Therefore the Magistrates which are the general tutors and and ouersoers and I may wel say parēts for they are called patres patrie of al that dwell in their citie must know that thess are especially committed to them by almightie God they must prouide by some meanes that these may be well nourtured in godlynesse in good maners in honest artes whereby they may get their liuing in time to come And thus hitherto I doubt least in too many words I haue she wed howe néedefull it is to take wholsome aduise for the reléefe of the necessities of the poore It resteth that we shewe howe many commodities shall ensue to al estates when that which we propound shall be accomplished For not onely the poore but all and singular the Citizens yea and the Magistrates them selues shall féele no small commodities by this godly ordinaunce For truely the Mastistrates may well counte it a great gayne to acthieue this glorie to them selues for euer that they by furthering the pouerties cause haue deliuered the common wealth from greate and daungerous discommodities and encombrances that they haue purged it of that sinke of desperate men I meane valiant beggers that they haue bene the meane that many forlorne men doe liue honesily godly and quietly vndoubted and immorfall prayse resteth for al suche as declare them selues relous in this behalfe It is also most certayne that whatsoeuer trauell the Magistrates shal bestowe and employ in fauor of the pouertie they shall perceyue it at length largely recompensed aswel by god him selfe as by men Thus shall it be recompensed of men when as many as shal vnderstande them selues to be holpen

omnibus and in the thrée other that folow And for this cause especially were the cells and consisteries in times past graūted to the byshops And fyrste for a certaintie they did heare in them the causes of the ministers of the churche if at any tyme any suche matter dyd rise among them as ought to be referred to the bishops next they discided matters as touching the Churche-goodes and possessions as letting of lands the accountes of the vintage haruest buying and fellying of fruites and prouision of the hospitals with the whiche manner of busynesse Chrysostome Homil. in Matth. 86. complayneth that he was greatly hindered Thirdly they vnderflode the causes and quarels of the poore whiche were fostred by the churche and tooke vpon them to maynteyne or ende them as they could But where as Saint Augustine and perhaps some other bishops did sometymes permit the controuersies of other menne which are called secular to be broughte before them to the ende that eyther they myght breake of the controuersies or be some meanes to take them awaye wée must thinke that was extraordinarie and that they did it rather to cutte off contentions quickely and lauingly than to prolong them after the maner of the courtes Whiche is euidently to bée gathered out of the verie woordes of Augustine Libr. de opere monachorum cap. 29. when hée sayeth That hée is not bounde to those troubles by the precepte of the Apostle 1. Corin. 6. but that hée tooke that paynes with the comforte of the Lorde with the hope of eternall lyfe and that he myghte bryng foorth fruite thoroughe pacience because there wanted some other to susteyn that labour Hereby I trust it may be known from whence wée haue borrowed the reasons and groundes of our counsell when wée persuade the viewers of the pouertie to sit togither once euerye wéeke in some open place to vnderstande the causes and quarels of the poore soothely herein wée would haue them to perfourme the worthie office of the auncient bishops 9 We haue spokē inough before of such as come as wayfarers Only it lyketh vs to note this that it is good somtimes to enquire whether they haue about them any letters to testifie of what behauior they be c. Which is especially expediēt to be done then when any publike danger eyther of warre or sedition or treason is feared 10 Those whom the vewers shal vnder stand to be very sick they shall prouide the they may be led or trāsserred forthwith to the publike spittles if there be any in the town or citie where such conuenient discrete lodgyng the attendance of women the counsel of Physitians shal be so redily prepared that euery one shall séele theyr present comforte and reléefe and shall beholde euery one about them very carefull for their health and recoucrie But being recouered lette him not tarie long there neyther let him colour his sleuth with a counterfait disease But in suche places as there is no spittle there the viewers shal prouide that the diseased lying in their owne houses may with al charitie be looked vnto eyther of their owne wyues or other women but especially widows wel stricken in age And that al things that the poore haue néed of may the better be prouided it behoueth especially in great cities that a stipend be appointed of the common boxe to a physition an apothecarie a chirurgian a barber a midwife and women to giue attendance c. 11 The vewers do vnderstand that it is a parte of their office to send the aged persons that haue néede to be cherished in the gerontocomies or houses appoynted for the aged or to procure otherwise that they may receyue in tyme all things necessarie for this life for they only do thoroughly vnderstande the state of euery of the pouertie 12 Wée may well vse the same rule towarde them which are from riches brought to pouertie if they come to vs from other places which we sayd was to be vsed towardes strangers wayfarers For it is expedient for many causes to exact of them publike letters by the whiche they maye be credited for the reporte of theyr mysfortune whiche did befall them But there néedeth a singular prudence to search out those citizens whiche being borne of honeste parentage dare not for shame bewraye their lacke suche as are often to be found in the citie and many of them deseruing no blame whom without great sin we may not let passe so long till either they perish with famine or for necessitis be prouoked to do some wicked act Therefore where any suche is suspected the viewers withoute delaye shall sende for their neyghbors or some that are nere in kinred to them or their creditoures of whom they haue marked that they dayly haue receyued some things but neuer paying any mony of whom they shall narowly enquire of all their whole estate And for these mens sakes the preachers shal otherwhiles signifie out of the pulpit that this is the godly desire of the vewers that if there be any shamefast or bashefull pouertie that they will not hencefoorthe doubt priuily to vtter their lacke to any of the worshipfull ministers of the Churche or to what trustie frend they please which may make report after to the viewers Moreouer the viewers hauyng intelligence of the matter shall endeuour that suche as are priuily oppressed with lacke may priuily be reléeued Neyther shall it gréeue the viewers themselues to visyte sometymes the houses of those Cyttyzens not as to distribute Almes but vnder pretence to doe some other busynesse For as muche as they blushe to aske any thyng openly so much ought the viewers blushe to giue any thing to them openly But who is able to comprehend in wordes al things which might be here heaped togither for good causes For there are many craftie and subtill pouertie who studie onely howe to deceyue and by all meanes to begyle other and to wrest an almes from eche man But when we set foorth these things suche as they be we are persuaded that plentifull occasion is giuen howe to inuent many other fitte for this businesse Neither can these to say the truthe be so exactly once discussed but that it is néedefull daily to meditate newe deuises according to the diuersitie of places times and persons Finally the very vse of things and the continuall practise of the businesse dothe teache by little and little these things which none is able before to prouide or explicate in words But none can iustly by any meanes disalowe this diligence in serching True it is that Chrysostome hath set foorth an Homilie de non scrutandis curios●… pauperibu● that the pouertie ought not curiously be searched But Chrysostome framed his Oration to mollifie the hearts of certayne couetous men which pretended a search to the end they might giue nothing at all we haue propounded a searche not that we might not giue any thing but the whatsoeuer we haue once decréed to giue we might