THE
●VMBLE
ADDRESSE
both
of
Church
,
and
Poore
,
to
the
Sacred
Majestie
of
their
dread
Soveraigne
,
CHARLES
,
Great
Britannes
Monarch
,
&c.
For
a
just
redresse
of
the
Vniting
of
Churches
,
and
the
Ruine
of
Hospitalls
.
WHen
olde
Israel
(
most
Sacred
Soveraigne
)
Propheticallie
pronounced
this
Doome
concerning
his
sonne
Issach●r
,
hee
should
co●ch
downe
betweene
two
burdens
,
he
likened
him
to
a
strong
Asse●s
needing
much
strength
to
beare
so
great
a
burden
.
And
it
was
thought
of
old
,
that
the
burden
of
the
Ministerie
,
Vni
praeesse
Ecclesiae
,
〈◊〉
haue
the
charge
of
one
Church
,
&
was
d●●bus
subesse
Ecclesus
,
and
not
〈◊〉
be
over-charged
with
vnder-going
two
,
was
such
,
that
in
the
bal●nce
of
the
Sanctuarie
,
weigh
the
burden
with
the
strength
,
the
one
●●rpassed
the
other
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
and
who
is
of
suffi●●encie
for
discharge
of
that
Calling
?
But
now-a-dayes
the
cure
of
Soules
,
Daniel
,
5.
Iudg.
16.
is
either
weighed
in
Belshaz●●rs
ballance
,
and
found
too
light
:
or
mens
backes
are
thought
like
●●mpsons
sholders
,
strong
anough
to
beare
two
Churches
at
once
,
as
he
●●rried
the
two
Postes
of
the
gates
of
Azzab
,
to
the
top
of
the
Mount
●hich
is
before
Hebron
.
A
strange
thing
,
that
mens
policie
should
so
meete
a
Princes
pietie
,
〈◊〉
where
he
intended
the
bettering
of
the
Churches
impoverished
●●ate
,
by
some
competent
provision
,
at
least
,
to
each
one
:
If
Patrons
can
〈◊〉
evite
the
necessitie
of
obedience
to
that
law
of
his
Royall
Parlia●ent
,
and
Decreet
of
his
honourable
Commission
,
they
shall
finde
out
●●ch
a
politicke
course
,
as
in
effect
the
same
shall
be
but
frustrate
,
how●●-ever
:
for
where
two
Churches
are
to
be
provided
severallie
,
getting
〈◊〉
charges
vnited
,
and
making
one
sing
dumb
,
they
haue
made
the
●oore
pettie
portions
,
vnited
together
likewise
,
to
equall
that
measu●ed
meane
competencie
of
provision
appointed
in
the
Act
:
as
if
bette●●ng
of
provisions
for
severall
Churches
had
not
beene
meant
;
but
that
〈◊〉
the
Kingdome
the
impairing
of
the
few
number
,
both
of
Churches
〈◊〉
Pastors
,
had
beene
intended
.
And
making
thereby
some
Ministers
that
it
may
be
saide
of
them
,
as
of
Hercules
Pillars
,
Nil
ultra
,
beei●●
lyfe-renters
onlie
to
weare
off
,
and
none
there-after
in
those
places
and
more
to
succeede
them
.
Because
(
forsooth
)
men
are
so
loath
to
parte
with
the
Churches
Patrimonie
,
should
therefore
be
made
such
an
illicite
matrimonie
&
conjunction
,
as
is
much
lesse
tollerable
than
with
the
Iewes
vnder
the
Law
,
Or
should
such
a
monstrous
metamorphosis
bee
made
,
that
so
manie
Churches
,
and
Congregations
,
which
before
were
Substantiues
,
&
stood
by
themselues
,
shall
be
now
so
wofull
and
variable
Adjectiues
,
as
a
sound
agreement
and
happie
consolidation
is
never
to
be
expected
,
and
as
their
ruinate
Cases
shall
here-after
declare
?
Wee
detested
before
Idoles
in
Churches
,
but
wee
are
making
now
Idole-Churches
,
hence-foorth
not
to
be
ob
solatia
vivorum
,
but
to
be
ca●●teria
mortuorum
,
the
sound
of
Gods
Word
no
more
to
bee
heard
in
their
Pulpits
,
but
of
the
dead
tolling
of
the
Bell
at
Burials
in
their
Steeples
.
Psalm
.
23.
and
incroaching
vpon
the
limits
of
that
greene
Pasture
wherein
the
Lords
Sheepe
were
duelie
made
to
feede
.
As
if
there
were
no
meanes
how
the
Churches
of
this
Kingdome
here
,
could
bee
other-wise
to
such
a
meane
competencie
of
mayntenance
provided
,
out
of
their
large
and
sacrilegiouslie
detayned
Patrimonies
,
that
by
making
the
Israelite
and
Aegyptian
,
Ephraemites
,
who
could
not
so
grosselie
pronounce
Shibboleth
▪
but
Siboleth
,
with
a
smaller
voyce
,
were
all
slaine
by
the
Gileadites
,
at
the
passages
of
Iordane
:
Even
so
,
that
al
such
Churches
that
are
not
excessiue
in
burden
and
bounds
,
and
of
the
grossest
and
greatest
in
the
Land
;
but
of
〈◊〉
meaner
and
lesser
sorte
or
syze
,
should
be
so
extinguished
,
swallowed
vp
▪
and
devoured
,
That
to
him
that
hath
,
more
shall
bee
given
:
and
from
him
who
hath
〈◊〉
even
that
which
hee
hath
shall
bee
taken
from
him
.
David
,
when
he
sate
in
his
house
,
and
had
rest
given
him
round
about
from
all
his
enemies
,
did
advise
to
build
Gods
House
:
So
his
peace
〈◊〉
him
pietie
;
and
his
rest
,
religion
.
But
it
is
contrarie
with
vs
:
our
peace
〈◊〉
such
policie
,
and
the
fruit
of
our
rest
,
is
the
robberie
first
,
and
next
,
the
●uine
of
GODS
House
,
Micah
.
7.3
And
thus
(
as
the
Prophet
Micah
sayeth
)
the
great
man
spake
out
of
the
corruption
of
his
soule
,
and
so
they
wrapt
it
up
.
But
assuredlie
,
such
Appendices
as
they
have
made
manie
Kirkes
of
,
will
bee
seene
at
length
,
never
to
have
proceeded
of
a
good
T●esis
:
neither
will
ever
such
a
perilous
Copulative
Conjunction
,
doe
what
they
lift
,
admit
of
,
nor
take
places
in
a
good
Construction
.
Before
Pastors
were
impoverished
,
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1
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1
Pastors
made
fewer
.
and
nowe
shall
their
number
thus
●ee
diminished
?
The
Kirke
first
stript
(
like
Ioseph
)
of
her
Coate
,
which
should
warme
her
:
[
2
](A02351-e940-b)
2
Advantage
to
seducers
.
And
how
agreeable
this
Syncope
,
or
Contraction
,
is
now
to
Pietie
,
or
Reason
,
may
bee
clearlie
discerned
,
that
when
not
onelie
the
Sheepe
of
the
LORDES
Pasture
are
increased
,
It
was
the
Precept
of
our
Saviour
,
It
was
Pharaoh's
working-wiselie
(
in-deede
)
to
augment
the
Israelites
Taske
,
And
as
the
Kirke
,
to
the
great
advantage
of
her
enemies
,
receiveth
(
as
is
sayde
)
heere-by
a
notable
injurie
,
what
wrong
is
like-wise
done
to
Learning
and
Vniversities
,
anie
one
may
easilie
perceive
.
Colledges
and
Schooles
,
[
3
](A02351-e1120-b)
3
Colledges
hurt
.
the
Seminaries
of
Sciences
,
and
Nurseries
of
Religion
,
(
like
Goshen
in
Aegypt
,
where
the
light
of
the
Land
is
)
they
shall
carefullie
trayne
up
,
and
yearlie
sende
foorth
,
a
more
and
more
numerous
Off-spring
,
Iaacob
,
to
teach
the
LORDES
judgementes
,
and
to
bee
scattered
in
Israel
,
to
teach
the
people
His
Law
;
and
yet
the
places
which
they
should
fill
,
and
live
by
,
by
a
new
practise
of
Annexation
of
Kirks
,
next
unto
Kirke-Rents
,
shall
be
occupied
Titulo
oneroso
onelie
,
for
the
most
parte
,
and
taken
up
by
others
.
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4
](A02351-e1230-b)
4
Parents
discouraged
.
If
this
then
bee
a
way
,
eyther
to
encourage
Parentes
,
and
hearten
Youth
;
or
a
practise
to
replenish
the
Schooles
of
the
Prophets
heere-after
:
and
so
consequentlie
bee
profitable
eyther
to
Kirke
or
Policie
:
or
rather
be
not
a
meane
to
effectuate
the
contrarie
,
and
make
Bethel
a
Babel
,
let
anie
indifferent
or
pious
mynde
judge
.
[
5
](A02351-e1280-b)
5
The
Countrey
harmed
.
The
Countrey
in
like-manner
,
howe
with
Kirke
and
Schooles
it
may
manie
wayes
crye
out
,
the
apparent
scarres
of
her
deepe
in-flicted
woundes
shall
heere-after
offer
them-selves
conspicuous
,
&
make
the
trueth
here-of
more
than
cleare
and
manifest
.
At
the
time
of
that
Reformation
of
our
Countrey
,
where
rather
a
Deformation
was
in
many
parts
,
through
populare
and
unruelie
confusion
,
(
Greede
,
and
not
Godlinesse
,
possessing
the
mindes
of
many
)
it
was
not
anough
then
,
to
the
griefe
of
the
godlie
,
to
levell
with
the
ground
,
deface
,
and
cast
downe
Kirks
thorow
the
Land
,
and
other
Religious
places
,
which
might
have
served
(
beside
the
Ornament
of
the
Countrey
)
for
other
better
uses
crying
onlie
in
the
language
of
Edom
,
&
seges
ubi
Troia
fuit
:
But
also
men
now-a-dayes
,
and
goodlie
Professors
(
forsooth
)
thinking
that
there
are
too
manie
Religious
places
as
yet
in
the
Land
,
and
Houses
of
GODS
Worship
,
have
redacted
two
till
one
:
and
made
there-by
a
second
Defalcation
,
to
abridge
the
summe
.
Cic.
de
divi.
Lib.
1.
It
is
reported
of
Hannibal
,
a
Captaine
of
subtile
policie
,
that
hee
saw
in
a
dreame
,
being
in
Italie
,
which
hee
intended
to
subdue
to
him-selfe
,
a
monstrous
Image
appearing
before
him
:
at
the
sight
where-of
being
amazed
,
asked
what
it
was
that
so
ghastlie
appeared
?
The
Image
aunswered
,
Vastitas
Italiae
.
But
this
Image
deceived
Hannibal
:
for
after
the
sight
of
his
Brothers
head
,
sent
unto
him
by
the
Romanes
,
hee
was
forced
to
flee
from
Italie
to
Carthage
:
and
so
frustrate
of
his
expectation
.
It
shall
proove
lyke-wyse
but
an
unluckie
prodigie
to
them
,
the
devastation
of
their
Countrey
:
who
by
laying
waste
so
many
Kirkes
of
goodlie
and
godlie
Ornamentes
,
shall
make
the
same
,
in
short
time
,
to
become
like
Achan
or
Absolons
Burials
:
Ioshua
,
7.
2.
Sam.
18.
heapes
of
Stones
,
heere
and
there
through
the
whole
Kingdome
.
Our
Saviour
was
much
mooved
,
and
as
a
great
motive
it
was
also
used
by
the
Elders
of
the
Iewes
,
to
perswade
and
induce
CHRIST
to
grant
the
Centurions
petition
,
Luke
,
7.
and
heale
his
Servaunt
,
Because
he
loved
their
Nation
(
sayde
they
)
and
had
built
to
them
a
Synagogue
.
Where
they
make
there
this
outward
action
a
sure
testimonie
of
his
sincere
and
in-ward
affection
towardes
their
Religion
.
Then
what
can
bee
the
affection
or
zeale
that
manie
Professors
nowe
beare
to
the
Wo●ship
of
GOD
which
they
professe
,
when
in
place
of
building
Synagogues
,
or
Temples
,
and
multiplying
their
number
,
where-of
this
Kingdome
standeth
so
much
in
neede
;
they
rather
by
such
Vniting
have
impaired
the
number
,
&
exposed
the
edifices
to
ruine
and
contempt
?
Thus
(
as
the
Prophet
sayeth
)
while
everie
one
of
them
runneth
to
builde
up
his
owne
house
,
Civilitie
hath
ever
also
beene
seene
to
have
beene
the
Daughter
of
Religion
:
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6
](A02351-e1600-b)
6
Civilitie
hindred
.
which
as
shee
pointed
out
,
Quae
DEI
sunt
,
so
lyke-wyse
Quae
Caesaris
:
teaching
to
bee
holie
towardes
GOD
,
and
righteous
towardes
Man
:
and
so
to
give
each
one
their
due
,
and
observe
both
Tables
.
And
Experience
hath
taught
,
where
Pietie
hath
bid
Fare-well
,
there
Civilitie
and
comelie
Policie
hath
,
Ruth
,
1.16
.
1.
Pet.
2.17
.
lyke
Ruth
,
inseparablie
followed
Naomi
,
and
godlesse
Barbaritie
taken
up
their
rowme
.
And
where
GOD
is
not
feared
,
the
King
can
not
bee
rightlie
honoured
:
for
these
two
,
lyke
Gemini
,
both
goe
together
:
and
the
strongest
In-forcer
is
knowne
to
be
the
Conscience
:
which
,
where
it
is
not
informed
,
no
marvell
that
deformitie
of
manners
,
and
breach
of
duetie
bee
both
to
GOD
and
Man
.
Now
,
where
it
was
requisite
then
,
moe
Kirkes
for
this
effect
in
sundry
partes
of
our
Countrey
to
have
bene
erected
,
should
such
a
concise
abridgement
of
the
number
of
these
beene
made
,
which
were
auncientlie
for
severall
Service
appointed
,
and
had
severall
maintenance
for
that
cause
allotted
,
as
now-a-dayes
,
(
necessitie
flat
contrarie
requiring
)
two
to
bee
redacted
to
one
,
especiallie
their
boundes
being
become
more
habitable
,
and
moe
people
now
in-dwelling
also
the
same
?
Poore
people
in
like-manner
in
many
places
,
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7
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7
Poore
people
and
Subjectes
,
both
miseased
,
&
scandalized
.
how
they
are
heere-by
wronged
,
their
grieved
hearts
furnishing
matter
of
regrate
to
their
plain
&
pleaning
tongues
,
and
their
sad
querimonies
powred
foorth
in-to
the
eares
of
every
man
,
indifferentlie
give
sufficient
proofe
:
when
by
the
toylesome
labour
of
the
sixe
dayes
commanded
,
their
bodies
beeing
worne
and
wearied
,
they
shall
be
made
,
up-on
the
Lords
Sabbath
,
with
grieved
hearts
,
and
grudging
speaches
,
to
passe
by
,
and
desert
their
owne
commodious
and
kindly
Parish
Kirks
,
where-in
so
frequentlie
they
had
received
the
comfort
of
the
Word
and
Sacraments
;
and
to
trudge
further
to
these
new
made
Mother
(
I
had
almost
said
Step-mother
)
Kirks
:
where
,
in
discontenting
amazement
,
after
they
have
heard
a
Stranger-seeming
voyce
,
returning
home-ward
,
and
backe-treading
their
tedious
and
uncouth
way
,
after
●●●tuall
regrating
,
they
may
justlie
say
,
That
they
have
gotten
both
Preaching
and
Pennance
together
.
And
what
scandal
and
offence
it
is
to
those
simple
ones
,
when
they
shal
see
Religion
thus
so
little
regarded
by
goodliest
Professors
,
and
great
men
of
the
Land
,
the
exercises
of
the
Worship
of
GOD
in
so
many
places
extinguished
,
so
many
Lamps
of
the
Candle-sticke
of
the
Sanctuarie
plainlie
put
out
,
Mammon
to
have
subjected
mens
hearts
so
to
her
slaverie
,
that
she
hath
made
their
hands
to
pull
downe
the
Lords
Houses
,
and
Manour-places
of
His
Divine
Worship
,
the
publishing
of
His
Gospell
so
to
be
confyned
,
the
number
of
His
Ministers
so
to
be
impared
,
the
Kirks
Patrimonie
,
still
to
be
retained
,
and
now
eternized
,
as
it
were
,
to
the
Posteritie
,
and
i●
place
of
Restitution
,
If
this
bee
not
matter
to
scandalize
weake
ones
:
(
and
woe
bee
un-to
him
,
who
giveth
offence
to
such
:
)
or
if
this
bee
an
examplare
perswasion
to
such
,
who
are
given
moste
to
followe
the
example
of
their
Superiours
,
to
respect
Religion
,
to
reverence
the
Worship
there-of
,
to
regarde
Pastor
or
Place
,
or
to
bee
un-fallen
away
,
eyther
in
Errour
,
or
in
meere
Atheisme
,
let
anie
one
of
judgement
discerne
.
Yea
,
I
dare
boldlie
and
confidentlie
,
with
conspicuousnesse
of
trueth
and
equitie
,
avouch
,
Where
two
Parishes
are
made
one
,
that
it
had
beene
more
urginglie
necessarie
,
of
such
Parishes
that
are
but
one
,
and
where-of
there
is
a
great
number
in
the
Land
,
a
division
there
of
to
have
bene
made
,
each
one
in
two
or
three
competent
&
sufficient
ample
parishes
at
least
:
the
most
of
such
great
parishes
,
rather
lyke
pettie
Shyres
,
〈◊〉
Countreyes
,
in
their
severall
Circuites
,
beeing
in
the
Inne-Countrey
,
and
most
populous
,
and
best
in-habited
partes
of
the
Land
.
In
which
hudge
parishes
of
so
manie
thousandes
of
Communicantes
,
and
of
such
farre
and
large
extended
boundes
,
those
that
dwell
in
the
utmost
and
remotest
parts
there-of
,
Iewes
,
who
once
in
the
yeare
onelie
came
up
from
their
Borders
and
Coastes
,
to
the
Temple
of
Hierusalem
,
to
worship
.
Such
is
their
anniversarie
visiting
of
their
parish
Kirkes
onelie
:
it
beeing
not
〈◊〉
Sabbath-dayes
,
but
a
Weeke-dayes
journey
,
to
goe
thither
,
tho
not
the
same
day
to
returne
.
Ioshua
,
23.
And
as
Reuben
and
Gad
,
and
the
halfe
Trybe
of
Manasseh
,
when
they
were
dissmis●ed
by
Ioshua
,
and
had
returned
to
Gilead
,
the
Land
of
thei●
possession
,
were
forced
for
the
longinquitie
,
and
farre
distance
of
plac●
from
Shiloh
,
where
the
LORDES
Tabernacle
was
,
to
build
an
Altar
,
fo●
a
memoriall
,
to
them-selves
:
even
to
testifie
,
That
they
had
parte
in
th●
GOD
of
Iaakob
,
and
were
not
aliens
from
the
Common-wealth
of
Israel
.
So
,
I
say
,
manie
one
,
and
much
people
,
in
such
parishes
a-fore-sayde
,
and
in
manie
partes
of
the
Land
,
have
more
than
great
necessitie
,
in
respect
of
their
farre
and
remote
habitations
from
their
parish
Kirkes
,
to
have
erected
amongst
them-selves
Temples
of
GODS
Worship
,
and
exercise
of
Religion
:
Seeing
that
in
moste
of
these
parishes
,
the
poore
people
,
other-wyse
remain
,
through
want
thereof
,
lyke
blind
Idiots
,
nusled
up
in
Ignorance
,
and
Atheisme
:
whose
reuthful
condition
,
lyke
that
Vision
of
the
man
of
Macedonia
,
Acts
,
16.
to
the
Apostle
Paul
in
the
Actes
,
doeth
pleade
for
lyke
ayde
,
and
in-vocateth
lyke
pittie
.
And
amongst
whome
,
if
our
blessed
SAVIOVR
were
corporallie
,
as
Hee
was
amongst
the
Iewes
,
Hee
should
bee
seene
with
lyke
pittie
,
Hence
it
is
,
that
not
onelie
,
as
by
the
Prophet
the
LORD
complaineth
,
That
for
want
of
knowledge
His
people
perish
,
and
pittifull
ignorance
is
seene
in
their
myndes
:
but
also
,
that
such
Barbaritie
and
vitiousnesse
is
seene
in
their
manners
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
moe
are
often-tymes
seene
in
their
Kirke-yardes
gazing
,
than
with-in
their
thronged
Kirkes
gathering
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
poore
Infantes
,
especiallie
in
Winter
season
,
have
died
with-out
Baptisme
,
before
that
eyther
the
Pastor
could
bee
advertised
,
in
such
a
long
and
lingring
way
,
up-on
necessitie
to
come
;
or
the
Infant
by
anie
meanes
,
quarter
way
,
could
bee
brought
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
manie
a
poore
Soule
,
with-out
Pastorall
praesence
,
or
notice
,
hath
died
with-out
comfort
:
beside
the
manie
fayntinges
of
poore
and
sillie
ones
,
by
a
wearisome
way
,
which
made
CHRIST
to
bee
compassionate
towardes
the
Multitude
,
Mark
.
8.2
.
and
there-fore
would
not
sende
them
away
emptie
:
For
some
of
them
came
from
a-farre
(
sayeth
the
EVANGELIST
.
)
Where
other-wyse
,
through
putting
up
,
and
not
pulling
downe
of
Kirkes
:
Raysing
,
and
not
razing
Christian
Synagogues
:
Pastorall
duetie
in
in-forming
Ignorantes
:
Reforming
the
vitious
:
Comforting
the
distressed
:
and
watching
over
all
,
should
this
way
bee
better
discharged
,
Subjectes
and
poore
people
more
should
bee
eased
,
the
Countrey
and
Kingdome
more
should
bee
decored
,
the
fewer
starting
Holes
●eft
to
the
subsidiarie
Seminaries
of
the
envious
Adversaries
,
Popple
and
Tares
in
the
LORDES
Fielde
,
and
the
glorious
GOSPELL
of
IESVS
CHRIST
,
more
plenteouslie
should
abound
,
and
shyne
in
the
Land
.
But
what
shall
I
say
?
Too
dolefull
experience
of
this
clayie
Age
,
hath
too
well
taught
the
facilitie
of
pulling
downe
:
but
the
too
great
difficultie
in
their
places
of
putting
up
of
Kirkes
,
and
the
Ablative
,
hath
ever
beene
in
farre
easier
use
with
us
,
than
anie
wayes
the
Dative
:
Practizing
so
the
first
parte
of
Zaccheus
lyfe
,
but
not
acting
the
last
parte
of
his
restitution
:
and
to
impede
heere-after
anie
expectation
of
the
same
;
converting
nowe
,
by
a
Retrograde
,
the
plurall
number
of
Kirkes
,
in-to
a
simple
singular
.
Yea
,
to
speake
to
such
men
,
of
building
of
Kirkes
,
where
in
such
populous
a-fore-sayde
places
there
is
more
than
neede
:
or
,
as
Salomons
Precept
is
,
Barbarian
,
whose
Language
they
know
not
:
or
like
Ioseph
with
his
Brethren
,
Peter
,
That
hee
wist
not
what
hee
sayde
,
when
on
Mount
Tabor
hee
would
have
builded
one
Tabernacle
to
Moyses
,
Elias
,
and
one
to
CHRIST
:
or
as
Festus
objected
to
Paul
,
That
too
much
Learning
had
made
him
madde
:
Acts
,
26.
So
that
they
who
mynde
such
thinges
,
too
much
Zeale
hath
made
them
franticke
.
But
speake
of
casting
downe
two
Kirkes
,
to
make
up
one
:
or
annexing
one
unto
its
neighbour
Parish
,
hence-foorth
ever
to
bee
but
one
Cure
,
and
in
sundrie
places
:
as
it
were
alluding
to
Trinitie
and
Vnitie
,
to
cast
three
in
one
,
they
will
straight
wayes
applaude
,
with
that
of
the
Poët
,
Vnio
divina
est
,
&c.
Polion
.
Lib.
1.
strat
.
It
is
reported
of
Pericles
,
that
being
asked
by
Alcibiades
,
Why
so
often
hee
seemed
so
sadde
and
pensive
?
Who
aunswered
,
Because
(
sayde
hee
)
I
remember
up-on
that
Account
which
I
have
to
make
for
that
which
I
have
received
to
build
a
Portch
to
Minervas
Temple
in
Athens
.
But
howe
few
are
now
lyke
to
Pericles
,
who
mynde
how
much
they
are
addebted
to
GOD
,
to
builde
His
Kirke
,
or
maintaine
His
Service
:
or
what
Account
they
have
to
make
before
GOD
,
and
His
Angels
,
for
the
Meanes
which
they
with-holde
,
and
where-on
the
same
should
bee
done
?
But
on
the
contrarie
,
make
no
conscience
,
zeale-less-lie
,
through
Greede
,
to
ruinate
those
which
zealouslie
,
through
Godlinesse
,
were
formerlie
by
others
alreadie
erected
.
Goe
to
the
Yles
of
Chittim
,
and
beholde
:
sende
unto
Kedar
,
and
inquire
of
the
Nations
round
about
,
Paganes
,
to
their
Gods
,
as
to
the
true
GOD
,
whome
in
CHRIST
wee
worship
a-right
.
What
Temples
,
or
Religious
places
of
theirs
,
once
dedicate
,
deface
or
expose
they
,
to
contempt
,
ruine
,
and
daylie
decay
,
as
named
Christians
now-a-dayes
,
who
will
not
onelie
first
robbe
the
Rentes
from
them
;
Let
this
clayie
Age
looke
backe
also
to
their
Fore-fathers
zeale
,
and
bee
ashamed
:
with
their
Chappels
without
their
Houses
,
and
Oratories
within
:
with
their
Churches
piouslie
respected
,
and
their
Hospitals
plenteouslie
then
doted
:
the
swarms
of
Church-man
within
Townes
,
King
.
18
Genes.
47
▪
lyke
Baals
Prophets
,
sitting
at
plentifull
Tables
:
and
those
without
,
lyke
Aegyptes
Priestes
,
aboundantlie
provyded
for
:
Erecting
also
daylie
,
and
not
,
as
now
,
dejecting
,
Religious
Temples
:
and
,
lyke
Nebuchadnezar
,
Consider
also
in
that
flowrishing
and
Reverende
Neighbour
Church
of
ours
,
where
farre
lesse
Parishes
are
in
sundrie
partes●
and
search
as
narrowlie
as
Labau
searched
the
Stuffe
of
Iaakob
,
Sechem
.
Not
that
anie
way
I
speake
against
such
Vniting
as
is
permitted
▪
and
clearlie
mentionate
in
that
Statute
of
Parliament
:
to
wit
,
vsing
the
verie
words
of
the
Act
it selfe
,
Where
the
Fruites
of
anie
one
alone
will
not
suffice
to
entertaine
a
Minister
:
and
that
the
Reutes
and
whole
Patrimonie
thereof
are
no
wayes
aunswearable
to
the
portion
or
qua●titie
of
fi●e
Chaulders
Victuall
,
or
fiue
hundreth
Markes
of
Silver
in
yearlie
commoditie
,
and
value
:
and
where
for
distance
of
place
,
and
other
lawfull
causes
,
they
are
not
also
found
incommedious
so
to
bee
vnited
(
Of
which
sorte
there
are
few
,
if
anie
,
within
the
whole
Kingdome
)
But
where
beside
distance
of
place
,
and
other
lawfull
causes
,
why
they
are
imcommodious
,
fayre
Parishes
and
famous
Benefices
are
vnited
together
,
the
value
of
the
Rentes
,
Fruites
,
and
Patrimonie
of
anie
one
whereof
,
will
exceede
farre
the
meanest
fore-sayde
proportion
:
to
wit
,
of
fiue
Chaulders
Victuall
,
or
fiue
hundreth
Markes
Silver
:
yea
,
equall
,
and
surmount
the
highest
quantitie
:
to
wit
,
of
ten
Chaulders
Victuall
,
or
a
thousand
Markes
Silver
▪
and
double
,
if
not
triple
,
the
same
.
Where
such
as
these
then
are
coupled
together
,
lyke
Ratches
for
a
Game
of
Hunting
,
what
importeth
such
a
smoothering
Vnion
,
but
the
fore-sayde
sadde
Sequeles
?
Or
what
better
Fruite
can
such
a
bitter
Tree
produce
,
but
sowre
Grapes
,
to
set
the
Teeth
on
edge
?
Midian
,
who
were
driven
away
from
the
Troghs
of
Water
,
which
they
had
filled
to
water
their
Fathers
Flockes
:
As
hee
,
I
say
,
defended
,
and
brought
them
backe
agayne
to
those
places
,
and
gaue
their
Sheepe
refreshment
:
So
(
SIR
)
pittie
the
wronged
estate
in
lyke
manner
of
the
Church
in
your
Land
:
defende
it
lyke-wyse
,
and
make
patent
againe
the
Doores
of
so
manie
Christian
Temples
,
Micah
,
4.14
.
that
the
Flocke
of
His
Heritage
(
as
the
Prophet
speaketh
)
may
bee
fed
with
the
Rod
of
His
owne
Mouth
,
as
in
the
midst
of
Carmel
:
and
that
they
may
pasture
in
Bafhan
,
and
Gilead
,
as
in
olde
tyme
.
Luke
.
1.
And
as
Zacharias
,
the
Baptists
Father
,
tho
for
a
short
tyme
bee
was
stricken
dumbe
,
yet
as
at
last
his
mouth
was
againe
opened
,
by
sensible
and
cleare
speaches
to
prophesie
,
and
proclayme
that
Horne
of
Salvation
,
that
was
raysed
out
of
the
House
of
David
;
and
D●yspring
,
which
from
on
high
had
visited
his
people
Israel
:
So
(
SIR
)
restore
in
lyke
manner
,
to
speach
and
prophesie
againe
these
dumbe
,
yea
,
dead-stricken
places
of
GODS
Sacred
Worship
:
that
the
same
Gospell
may
bee
as
yet
published
,
and
that
the
same
tender
mercie
in
them
may
still
bee
manifested
through
all
the
corners
of
your
Land
;
to
giue
light
to
them
that
sit
in
darknesse
,
and
in
the
shaddow
of
Death
,
and
to
guide
their
feete
into
the
way
of
peace
.
Ionas
,
8.
Or
as
the
Whale
,
how-so-ever
shee
swallowed
vp
Ionas
,
disg●●ged
him
againe
vpon
the
drye
land
:
Even
so
(
SIR
)
how-so-ever
this
Vniting
of
Churches
,
throgh
the
moyen
&
greed
of
men
,
hath
past
the
true
Cases
of
manie
wherof
were
never
(
I
am
perswaded
)
clearlie
knowne
to
your
Honourable
Commission
:
I
yke
a
wyse
Solomon
,
then
,
pronounce
the
Sentence
of
Division
:
and
that
as
the
two
Women
which
pleaded
before
him
,
were
each
one
restored
to
her
owne
Chylde
;
so
that
everie
Church
may
bee
restored
with
a
competent
mayntenance
,
to
its
owne
former
and
primitiue
condition
:
Else
,
it
had
beene
better
both
for
Church
and
Kingdome
,
that
,
poore
as
they
were
,
still
as
yet
they
had
remayned
severall
.
Let
not
Christian
Temples
goe
downe
into
your
Kingdome
,
which
were
as
the
Tents
of
the
Shepheardes
,
Ca●●
.
1.7
.
where
the
LORDS
Well
beloved
went
foorth
by
the
steps
of
the
Flocke
,
and
there
fed
her
weake
and
tender
Kids
,
with
the
Spirituall
Food
of
the
Bread
of
Lyfe
.
Especiallie
where
greater
neede
is
to
put
vp
moe
.
Neyther
let
the
Watch-men
,
which
goe
about
the
Citie
,
of
whom
the
Spouse
in
the
Canticles
seeketh
h●r
direction
,
Ca●●
.
3.3
.
where
shee
may
finde
him
whom
her
Soule
loveth
,
bee
diminished
in
number
,
where
there
is
more
necessitie
they
should
bee
augmented
.
Let
not
Na●ash
his
enter-pryse
come
also
now-a-dayes
in
practise
:
Israel
.
Neyther
let
the
barking
Dogs
bee
remooved
from
the
LORDS
Flockes
:
except
thereby
wee
would
please
the
devouring
Wolues
.
But
let
the
Walles
of
HIERUSALEM
still
bee
going
vp
,
maugre
all
opposition
:
Repare
the
ruines
of
your
Church
restore
the
rapines
thereof
:
FINIS
.
The
Poores
Complaynt
,
For
a
just
Redresse
of
the
ruine
of
Hospitalls
.
NO
sooner
(
Dread
Soveraygne
)
was
the
voyce
of
the
Turtle
heard
in
our
Land
(
as
the
Spouse
speaketh
in
the
Canticles
)
or
did
the
Gospell
of
Grace
make
a
Goshen
;
Vp
,
Moab
,
to
the
spoyle
,
put
in
speedie
practise
;
and
(
as
the
name
of
the
Prophets
sonne
was
)
li●e
speedie
Robbers
,
they
were
swift
to
the
Prey
:
So
that
the
zeale
of
God's
House
(
with
David
)
did
not
eate
them
vp
;
but
their
zeale
did
eate
vp
the
Lord's
House
,
while
as
they
hungered
,
not
for
the
Good
,
but
the
Goods
of
the
Church
,
and
made
the
Lords
Patrimonie
to
bee
lyke
the
Baptist
,
who
said
of
himselfe
,
Me
aportet
●inni
.
Neyther
were
they
content
to
doe
so
to
the
Lords
Embassadours
,
as
Hanun
did
in
curtayling
the
Garments
of
Davids
servants
,
and
making
the
Church
(
as
the
Prophet
speaketh
)
lyke
a
Widow
left
to
the
spoyle
;
but
the
verie
Hospitall
Oratories
,
where
the
poore
members
of
Christ
were
placed
and
planted
,
comforted
and
relieved
,
haue
not
escaped
their
supplanting
,
and
●apacious
devouring
:
so
that
what
former
Pittie
and
Pietie
did
in
Endowing
such
Places
,
latter
impietie
hath
done
cleane
contrarie
,
in
Vndoing
thereof
.
Not
remembring
that
speach
of
holie
Augustine
,
Si
sterilitas
in
ignem
mittitur
,
rapacitas
quid
meretur
?
&
si
qui
sua
non
dedit
semper
ardebit
,
quid
recipiet
ille
qui
aliena
abstulit
?
Yea
,
not
onlie
haue
they
robbed
Christ
Iesus
more
cruellie
of
his
Coat
than
those
Roman
Souldiours
who
did
cast
lots
thereon
,
but
also
for
extinguishing
the
memorie
of
such
mortifications
,
vpon
these
verie
Houses
to
which
they
did
belong
.
They
haue
practised
that
speach
of
Edom
,
Raze
them
,
raze
them
,
even
to
the
foundation
,
making
cursed
Iericho
of
such
blessed
places
,
which
was
sacked
,
and
sowne
with
Salt
,
and
which
is
so
evident
in
the
trueth
thereof
thorow
the
Land
,
that
in
place
of
Proofe
,
it
needes
rather
Reproofe
,
and
forceth
this
humble
Addresse
to
Your
Majestie
at
this
tyme
for
a
speedie
Redresse
.
Consider
then
(
Sacred
SIR
)
how
horrible
a
Sinne
this
is
,
which
cryes
so
in
GODS
Eares
for
revenge
,
and
in
Yours
for
reparation
,
what
ingratitude
is
it
to
GOD
,
what
stayne
to
the
Gospel
,
how
ignominious
to
this
Nation
,
injurious
to
the
Poore
,
hurtfull
to
themselues
,
scandalous
to
others
,
prejudiciall
to
posteritie
,
and
in
a
word
,
everie
way
damnable
.
And
as
David
when
hee
came
to
his
Kingdome
for
the
kyndnesse
that
hee
found
at
the
hands
of
Ionathan
,
kythed
his
thankfull
affection
to
his
sonne
whom
hee
left
behinde
him
,
poore
lame
Mephibosheth
:
Even
so
(
SIR
)
seeing
the
LORD
hath
advanced
your
Royall
Majestie
,
and
brought
you
safelie
to
your
natiue
Kingdome
,
for
this
kyndnesse
of
His
to
you
,
show
your
thankfull
affection
to
the
Poore
,
Leane
and
Lame
Members
of
CHRIST
IESVS
,
whom
hee
hath
left
behinde
him
in
his
stead
to
his
second
comming
:
and
remember
that
the
cry
of
their
robberie
and
oppression
cryes
to
your
Sacred
Majestie
,
as
the
saved
Thiefe
did
to
CHRIST
on
the
Crosse
,
saying
,
LORD
remember
mee
when
Thou
commest
●o
Thy
Kingdome
.
And
at
worthie
and
wyse
Salomon
,
at
his
entrie
of
sweying
the
Scepter
of
royall
authoritie
,
redressed
both
prudentlie
and
powerfullie
the
wrong
that
was
done
to
the
true
Mother
of
the
living
Chylde
,
which
was
theftuouslie
interchanged
and
stollen
away
from
her
,
and
a
dead
Chylde
left
in
its
rowme
:
Even
so
(
SIR
)
let
this
distressed
Mother
that
pleanes
and
pleades
now
before
you
finde
the
lyke
comfort
,
even
those
Nurseries
of
the
Poore
,
piouslie
founded
,
but
impiouslie
subverted
and
confounded
,
which
cry
now
and
craue
to
bee
restored
to
that
which
theftuouslie
in
lyke
manner
hath
beene
taken
from
them
,
and
nothing
at
all
left
,
in
the
towme
thereof
,
no
,
not
so
much
as
the
emptie
walles
of
their
habitations
.
Neyther
let
such
a
Guilt
(
SIR
)
lye
on
your
Land
,
nor
Stayne
on
the
Gospell
,
that
the
Church
should
not
onlie
be
seene
Sacrilegiouslie
robbed
of
her
due
Patrimonie
;
but
also
beside
the
Vintage
of
Abiezer
,
that
the
verie
Gleanings
of
Boaz
,
or
Ephraim
,
should
not
bee
left
;
&
not
onlie
the
Childrens
Bread
taken
away
;
but
,
not
so
much
left
as
the
verie
Crumbes
of
the
Poores
Almes
vnsnatched
vp
greedilie
.
Indeede
,
the
LORD
,
these
manie
yeares
bygone
,
hath
continued
with
vs
the
Gospel
of
Peace
;
and
,
with
it
,
an
happie
Peace
and
Plentie
;
the
Comfort
of
the
one
,
and
Commoditie
of
the
other
:
and
shall
Hee
be●
so
requyted
for
all
that
hee
hath
done
to
his
Vineyard
;
that
in
place
of
the
sweete
Fruit
of
the
Workes
of
Charitie
,
Hee
shall
finde
the
sowre
Grapes
of
the
workes
of
Crueltie
?
And
lyke
the
sinne
of
the
sons
of
Eli
,
shall
the
LORDS
.
Offering
,
by
such
rapacitie
,
bee
abhorred
,
to
cause
fearfull
wrath
at
last
seaze
on
your
Land
?
and
shall
this
not
bee
showne
to
our
Zealous
Soveraigne
?
Hath
not
th●s
caused
the
taunting
obloquie
of
the
Adversarie
,
that
o●r
Profession
is
not
onlie
a
solitidian
Religion
,
but
that
our
Fayth
(
lyke
Pharaos
leane
Kye
)
hath
devoured
the
fat
of
the
Fruites
of
the
Charitie
of
others
,
which
should
haue
beene
adorned
and
perfected
by
our
owne
,
to
others
?
Hence
is
it
that
our
good●est
Profe
●ours
are
sayde
to
b●e
(
and
are
too
well
seene
)
most
powerfull
onlie
lyke
the
Load-stone
in
the
attractiue
facultie
;
skilfull
in
the
Ablattue
,
but
ignorant
in
the
Datiue
Case
;
Arithmeticians
onlie
in
s●●●traction
from
GOD
,
to
make
vp
an
addition
to
themselue
,
whose
heartes
are
as
Nabals
,
or
Dives
,
destitute
of
Pittie
,
and
whose
hands
are
as
Hopb●ies
flesh-hooks
,
nimble
in
rapacitie
:
but
as
Ieroboame
arme
,
dryed
vp
,
and
destitute
of
charitie
.
It
was
the
former
glorie
(
SIR
)
of
your
natiue
Kingdome
,
that
no
Nation
did
over-match
it
(
according
,
yea
beyond
the
power
thereof
)
in
statelie
Erections
,
and
rich
endowments
of
religio
is
Places
:
But
now
her
glorie
is
turned
to
her
shame
;
while
as
the
eye
of
the
most
curious
survey
shall
not
in
anie
Countrey
or
Kingdome
,
round
about
,
beholde
so
manie
religious
Places
and
Hospitalls
promisc●o●slie
demolished
;
as
in
this
our
Nation
▪
and
not
onlie
CHRISTS
Patrimonie
devoured
,
appointed
for
His
Worship
;
but
the
Poores
also
,
ordained
for
their
comfort
:
whereby
those
who
should
bee
in
these
places
supported
,
and
relieved
(
like
A●no●
,
looking
leaner
from
day
to
day
)
are
now
forced
in
their
feeble
Strayings
,
and
bedfast
Starvings
,
to
poste
vp
such
Groanes
,
&
Grievances
,
to
the
Throne
of
Iustice
,
as
may
be
fittest
Pleaders
of
their
Cause
,
&
playners
on
their
Wrong
.
This
is
the
Cause
(
SIR
)
of
such
Desolation
in
the
Land
,
and
that
it
staggereth
and
reeleth
to
and
froe
,
lyke
a
drunken
man
.
This
is
the
Cause
why
so
manie
auncient
and
noble
Houses
draw
neare
the
period
of
vtter
Exterminion
:
and
that
the
lyne
of
Desolation
is
spread
over
them
,
and
the
stones
of
emptinesse
are
to
bee
found
in
them
.
This
is
the
cause
that
such
a
visible
Curse
is
seene
to
follow
vpon
the
eating
of
the
Fruit
of
this
forbidden
Tree
.
For
assuredlie
the
LORDS
Portion
will
bee
vnto
them
,
and
their
estates
,
as
that
Worme
which
was
at
the
roote
of
Ionas
Gourd
,
which
caused
a
speedie
fading
,
and
finall
decay
,
like
Achans
ex●crable
thing
,
which
was
his
ruine
,
and
his
whole
Families
:
or
as
the
Arke
to
the
Philistines
which
never
ceased
to
plague
them
,
till
it
was
sent
backe
to
the
right
owners
.
And
as
Iacob
supplanted
Esau
,
the
holie
thing
will
be
ever
the
supplanter
of
the
vnholie
V●urper
:
the
bread
of
deceit
will
turne
into
gravell
in
the
mouth
:
and
tho
stollen
waters
be
sweet
,
yet
like
the
accursed
water
to
the
guiltie
partie
,
although
they
cause
swelling
of
their
Rents
at
first
,
yet
they
shall
bring
vpon
them
a
consumption
at
last
.
But
fearfuller
shall
be
their
dittie
hereafter
,
when
Christs
words
not
onely
of
,
Non
pavistis
,
but
pabul●m
abstulistis
,
shall
bee
prono●nced
against
them
:
and
most
fearfull
shall
be
their
doome
of
e●e●nall
damnation
,
which
like
that
threatning
against
the
House
of
Eli
,
shall
make
their
eares
to
tingle
;
and
make
them
more
dreadfullie
astonished
,
than
ever
was
Balthassar
.
The
imprecation
whereof
is
set
downe
as
the
sententiall
and
vsuall
clause
and
clausule
of
such
Mortifications
▪
saving
thus
▪
and
as
from
Eball
thundring
,
If
any
shall
take
away
,
or
apply
to
any
other
vse
,
that
which
I
haue
mortified
and
bequeathed
to
the
indigent
,
(
as
I
hope
none
will
dare
ever
to
attempt
)
let
him
be
ANATHEMA
,
and
let
his
count
be
without
Mercie
at
the
dreadfull
day
of
Iudgement
,
when
hee
shall
compeare
and
receiue
his
doome
at
the
hand
of
the
Iudge
both
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
to
whom
I
dedicate
the
same
.
This
(
Sir
)
is
the
Cause
likewise
why
so
few
new
Erections
of
such
Places
are
in
the
Countrey
,
or
charitable
Dotations
,
out
of
mens
devotion
,
while
as
they
see
how
the
liberall
donations
of
others
,
and
pious
erected
Hospitals
are
so
grosselie
devoured
and
ruinated
remedilesse
:
and
thereby
vehementlie
suspect
,
yea
,
assuredlie
expect
,
that
it
would
no
otherwise
fare
with
that
which
they
would
in
like
manner
out
of
pittie
and
pietie
●rogate
and
consecrate
to
God
.
Neither
haue
Laicks
onely
had
their
hands
in
this
cursed
Crime
,
but
Levi
hath
also
joyned
with
Simeon
,
to
be
Brethren
in
evill
▪
and
both
haue
linked
together
,
as
Sampsons
Foxes
,
to
waste
the
Lords
Field
:
so
that
Iudas
,
quid
mihi
dabitis
,
et
ego
tradam
e●m
?
hath
not
died
with
him
:
but
without
Sense
,
or
Shame
,
hath
bene
the
manner
of
latter
bargaining
by
his
Soule-lesse
successors
;
their
conscience
being
more
leper
than
the
bodie
of
G●b●zi
:
&
a
more
dreadfull
judgement
abyding
such
,
no●
that
for
the
receiving
of
the
gift
from
Nama●
:
for
as
Lamech
sayd
to
his
wiues
,
so
may
I
,
if
this
horrible
Crime
in
Laicks
be
avenged
seavenfolde
,
doubtless●
in
such
who
should
be
Trumpets
,
to
cry
aloude
against
the
same
,
and
should
be
preservers
of
such
places
,
it
will
bee
avenged
seaventie
folde
.
And
be
he
of
what
degree
soever
,
who
for
Bribe
,
〈◊〉
favour
,
like
Iudas
,
or
Pilat
,
hath
betrayed
or
delivered
Christ
i●
his
poore
members
,
and
their
Rights
,
to
the
barbarous
and
crue●●
hands
of
those
who
haue
Canniball-like
devoured
them
,
with
Iudas
and
Pilat
,
such
should
be
justlie
repute
to
haue
no
Place
in
so
holy
,
a
ministration
,
and
may
with
them
feare
the
like
woe
and
judgement
.
Let
not
then
(
Sir
)
your
land
herein
be
an
Aceldama
,
or
the
blood
of
the
poore
(
like
that
of
Abels
)
cry
still
against
the
same
for
vengeance
.
Deliver
your
subjects
from
such
a
fearfull
curse
:
&
cause
their
mawes
(
like
the
belly
of
Ionas
Whale
)
to
disgorge
the
poores
portion
,
who
haue
swallowed
vp
the
same
,
that
(
as
Iob
sayes
of
himselfe
)
the
blessing
of
him
who
was
readie
to
perish
,
may
come
vpon
you
,
&c.
and
yee
may
cause
the
hearts
of
the
poo●●
to
sing
for
joy
.
Put
on
Righteousnesse
then
,
and
let
it
cloathe
you
,
Iudgement
,
&
let
it
be
a
Robe
&
a
Diademe
vnto
you
:
be
Eyes
to
the
Blind
,
&
Feet
to
the
Lame
:
and
the
cause
of
the
poore
,
which
yee
know
not
,
search
it
out
.
For
it
is
your
part
(
Sir
)
to
purge
th●
land
of
such
blood-guiltinesse
,
and
to
make
a
straite
inquisition
with
Ioshua
,
concerning
the
execrable
thing
:
to
break
the
jaw●●
of
the
wicked
,
and
to
plucke
the
spoyle
out
of
their
teeth
,
and
to
the
poore
at
this
time
to
leaue
a
blessed
memoriall
behinde
you
〈◊〉
So
may
yee
promise
to
your selfe
,
that
yee
shall
die
in
your
〈◊〉
&
multiplie
your
dayes
as
the
sand
:
your
Root
also
shall
spread●
out
by
the
Waters
,
and
the
Dew
shall
lye
all
night
vpon
you●
Branch
:
Your
Glorie
,
in
like
manner
,
shall
bee
fresh
in
you
,
and
your
Bow
shall
bee
renewed
in
your
Hand
:
and
amongst
all
the
Titles
of
Honour
&
Dignitie
,
which
the
Lord
hath
multiplied
▪
&
heaped
vpon
your
sacred
Majestie
,
this
shall
not
bee
the
leas●
wherewith
your
Royal
Grandsire
,
of
blessed
memorie
,
was
styled
▪
to
bee
called
,
THE
POORE
MANS
KING
.
FINIS
.