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 INSTRUCTION 
 
 TO THE 
 
 LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, 
 
 1574-5 : 
 
 Whereby he is to govern himself and 
 
 the City. 
 
 By Thomas Norton, 
 
 REMBRANCER, AND ONE OF THE MEMBERS IN 
 PARLIAMENT FOR LONDON. 
 
 Together with a Letter from him to Sir Francis 
 
 Walfingham, ref peeling the dij orderly dealings 
 
 of Promoters. 
 
 From the original Manufcripts, formerly the property 
 of Sir Chriftopher Hatton. 
 
 LONDON. 
 
 PRIVATELY PRINTED. 
 
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 UNIVERSITY 
 
 SANTA 
 
 An Exhortation or Rule wherbie the L. Maior of 
 London is to order him felfe and the Citty. 
 
 HP HER be manye reafons, which I ought not to doubte, 
 -■- that yowe do dailie call to mynde the waight of your 
 chardge in the office of the L. Maior of London. Yowe 
 are to remember howe great a thinge is the L. Maior, and 
 of London fo great a citie, the imperiall Chamber of fo 
 great a Prince, of our Soveraigne Ladie, the ymediate 
 leeftenaunte of the mofte great and mightie God. Yowe 
 are to thincke what trufte her Majeftie and her Progenitors 
 have, and repofe, in the corporate and politique bodie of 
 her Citie of London, as to committ to our felves the 
 naminge and choife of her deputed Chiefe Magiftrate here, 
 and of our owne governour. And howe upon hir Highenes 
 pleafure well knowen, yowe have bene in one and honor- 
 able fourme receaved and allowed, and your care and 
 fidelitie is from and for her Majeftie committed to the 
 kepinge of the place, the prefervation of the eftate, and the 
 governmente of her people of London, a mofte deere pre- 
 tious jewell of the Crowne of England. Yowe are to have 
 in mynde what ftrengthe of the Prince ys here kepte for 
 her fervyce, and for the realmes defence, what pollitic, 
 what wealthe, what order to be maintained for her ufe and 
 honour for the common good, what multitudes of fub- 
 jectes, aswell inhabitinge as repairinge, are to be provided 
 for : yowe are not to forgett what care her Majeftie and 
 her counfell have now fhewed them felves to have, that 
 
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 London be in the chargde of a truftie man, and what per- 
 ticuler proceedinges have browght yowe and Iefte yowe in 
 your good acceptation and confidence, for which yowe are 
 highelie to thanke God and his minifters : yowe muft 
 therof gather what neceffitie is laied unto you to anfwer 
 good expectation. And there with all your wakefulnes 
 mufte needes be a little increafed by remembraunce whome 
 yowe fucceede, I meane a predeceffor who enteringe with 
 fome hardnes of time, both for feafon and matter, hath yet 
 by Gods bleffinge and his good diligence, departed to the 
 good contentation of her Majeftie, as by her pleafure de- 
 clared to yowe bothe at the Barr of the honorable Court of 
 Exchequer hathe appeared, and to the good likinge of the 
 people, fpeciallie the poore, whofe often caufes and dailie 
 needes afke moft helpe. And mofte thankfull voices have 
 commended hym to God, and teftified him to men. If 
 yowe finde his verie good doinges, yowe fhall finde the 
 more hardnes to matche and followc them : yf yowe finde 
 flacke doinges, yowe mail finde the more hardnes to fup- 
 plie and amend them. 
 
 -My Lorde, theis thinges are all fpoken to this ende ; to 
 fhewe yowr difficulties and to fharpen your care. Nowe, 
 fir, to your comforte, that yowe maie with the bolder cou- 
 rage not fainte under your charge, althowghe your felfe 
 remember them well ynoughe, yet gyve me leave, I praye 
 yowe of your good will, to put yowe in mynde of fuchc 
 thinges as owght to raife yowe to cherefulnes, and to a 
 gladfome and hopefull proceedinge with your hcavie. but 
 yet noble burthen. God is your gratious God and true, 
 and that will not faile to performe his promifes of affift- 
 aunce and bleflinges to thofe that fincerlie indevour them-
 
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 felves to their beft to ferve hym in their chardge, that 
 humblie crave his aide, and afluredlie truft in his goodnes. 
 
 Our Soveraigne Ladie whome yowe fhall ferve is the 
 mofte noblie natured Prince in the worlde ; and their with 
 bothe fo wife, as fhe wolde not have fo farr trufted yowe yf 
 fhe had not bene refolved well to trufte yowe, and fo gra- 
 tious, as fhe will well allowe of all true, plaine and honeft 
 meanynge as in all your predeceffors, and moft expreffelie 
 in your woorfhipfull Brother and frend Sr. Alexandei 
 Avenon, hathe appeared ; and above other thinges her 
 Highnes is fo tenderlie mynded to her Citie of London as 
 the well guidinge therof cannot but be in her confideration 
 a moft allowed and pleafaunte fervice. 
 
 Her moft honorable Counfaile, as yowr felfe hath {tQ.no. 
 by dailie proofe, not onelie have been continuall inter- 
 ceffors and meanes, by their good and loving reportes, for 
 her Majefties good and favowrable inclination towardes 
 London, but alfo you knowe they have beene continuall 
 advifers in dowbtes and ordinary releevers of your burthen 
 by their counfailes and directions, and fpeciallie readie 
 helpers with their aucthoritie to fupplie throughe oute the 
 realme and elfe where fuche matters as beinge needefull 
 for London, yowe be ufuallie dryven to fue for, as thinges 
 that by your felves, withowte their helpps, cannot be 
 attained. 
 
 Your felfe is bleffed of God with fufficiencie for that 
 experience which the honor of the place requirethc ; by 
 reafon whereof yowe are not fubjecl to fuche neede as 
 might make a manne apt to corruption, or to contempt : 
 yowe bringe, I doubte not, an upright myndc to ferve God 
 and the Queene fincerelie : yowe have bene noted a man
 
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 of good charitable difpofition, and a tender hart to yowr 
 poore : yowe are not yonge ; yow have not ly ved obfeure- 
 lie; you have had long experience, and bene in place of 
 knowledge, and of bothe politique and judiciall under- 
 ftanding : yowe are joined with a fufficient nombre of wife 
 and grave brethren and commons, beinge companions of a 
 great parte of yowr chardge ; fome of them have paffed the 
 waie before yowe, and the reft have faied the paffage of 
 others, and alltogither fhall fit with yowe, fhall advife 
 yowe, fhall ftrengthen yowe, fhall eafe your travells, fhall 
 fupplie your lackes, fhall defend yowr doinges, fhall to 
 yow, with yow and for yow, gyve, eftablifhe and maintaine 
 direction, power, and countenaunce. Some of them have 
 alreadie gyven yowe a good tafte of their care for yowe, 
 their good will to yowe, and their readines to travell with 
 yowe, and have made it ftande upon their owne worfhipp 
 and credit to affifte yowe. — Yowe have laft a predeceffor 
 that hath bothe troden yow the waie by example, and fo 
 donne as fome fruite, I hope, yow shall finde of his and 
 former provifions, and at his removinge to yelde the cure 
 unto yow. Yowe knowe what goodnes of love and Con- 
 corde he promifed yowe. 
 
 Yowe have a Recorder learned and painefull, and to her 
 Majefties fervice dutifullie, to the Citie faithefullie, and to 
 your felfe lovinglie affected : the comforte of feing you do 
 well fhall joie hym more then all the travells that yowe 
 fhall put hym to in advifinge yowe, or in labouring for 
 yowe fhall troble hym : befides this pryvate dealinge for 
 you, knowne to yowr felfe and fome others, yowe cannot 
 but remember howe lardgelie and howe fraunklie, and for 
 what great thinges, and in what prefence at the Exchequer
 
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 barr* in the rule and politique fight of our Soveraignc 
 Ladie, and in the reall and actuall hearing of her mod 
 honorable counfaile, he undertoke in his owne perfonne, 
 and publifhed that the Citie of London which choofe 
 yowe, undertakethe for yowe that yowe fhall performe the 
 office of a good Maior of London, bothe in advauncinge 
 of godlie religion and fidelitie to her Majeftie and in 
 good governaunce of her people, and that in all theis, 
 befides yowr own induftrie, yee woolde proceede by good 
 and loiall counfaile. ^his was a liberall and thancke wor- 
 thie affumption, and fuche as yowe maie be fuer, for his 
 owne creditts fake will enforce hym in all diligence, that 
 yowe maie well and worfhipfullie difchardge hym. Yowe 
 have a painefull, carefull, and zealous Chamberlaine: yowe 
 have an olde, diligent, experienced Common Sergeant : 
 yowe have a readie and hable Towneclerke : yowe have a 
 wife and well efteemed Solicitour: yowe have other Coun- 
 faillours, Clerkes, and Mynifters in matters of jufticc, 
 equitie, and fervice, to informe yowe and intendc yowe, in 
 whome I thincke flialbe found no lacke. 
 
 Yowe have the generall forme of the fetled and true 
 pollitie of the Citie of London fo diftributed and mar- 
 dialled in ordre by the wysdome of oure forefathers as, 
 lyke a heavye burthen parted and laied upon manie 
 moulders, or lyke a great woorke forted into manie 
 handes, the officers of wardes, parifhes, and precincts, the 
 companies with their Mafters, Wardenns, and Governors, 
 mofte prudentlie affigned to everie woorcke and place, to- 
 gither with the orderlie formes, times, limitations, and cir- 
 cumftances, delivered by knowen and ufuall prefidentes, fhall 
 beare the waight with yowe, and make yowe to beare lighter.
 
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 And, fir, he canne be no good Citizen, muche leffe a 
 good Brother of your Court, or a good officer, or partaker 
 of your Counfailes, that fhall for anie refpect withdrawe his 
 aid from you, or fhall therein make anie unkinde accompte 
 of your pryvate perfon, and not joine his befte indevour 
 for trie common good of London, yowr cafe is fuche as all 
 wife men fee howe yow cannot take hurte or lacke alone. 
 
 Yowe have [in] the auntient and late booke of this Citie 
 the doinges of your predeceffors recorded, their ftepps 
 traced owte and fett before yow, fo as yowe fhall have no 
 caufe of difpaire, but great caufe of comfort and hope that 
 yow fhall paffe yowr time with good difchardge of dutie, 
 fatisfaction of confeience, over comming of expectations, 
 and increafe of w[orship]. Amonge yowr other helpes, for 
 my parte being thereto admonished by your requeaftes 
 and yowr Bretherens, and, namely, by the good and wife 
 motion of your woorfhippfull and lovinge Brother, Sr. 
 Roweland Hewarde, I have perufed over the repertories of 
 certen Maiors times ; and, amongft the reft, I have gone 
 throughe the bookes of his time : owte of thofe, for your 
 eafe and remembraunce, I have gathered this treatife fol- 
 lowing, which I have forted into two partes ; the one con- 
 teyninge certen thinges neceffarie for yowr chardge that 
 are not limited to any fpeciall time, but are fuche as are 
 not lyke a hande or foote or other inftrumentall lymme 
 placed in fome certenn lymitte or parte of the bodie, but 
 rather, lyke bloode, or flefhe are difpearfed throughe owte 
 the whole; and therefore muft, from yowr begynninge for- 
 warde, be had in confideration and daile perufed, untill 
 they be fullie performed or furnifhed. The other parte 
 fcttethe forthe certaine doinges that are lymited to ordinarie
 
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 or prefcribed times, either by ftatutes of the realme, or 
 upon paine, or by the fpeciall lawes and ufages of London ; 
 and thofe be diftincte into monethes accordinge to fuche 
 times as they have bene donne heretofore. 
 
 Now, my L., when yowe finde by theis matters that I 
 have laied before yowe two thinges, the one what necefTi- 
 ties lye upon yow to make yowe diligent and carefull ; the 
 other what helpps yow have to make yowe cheerefull and 
 hopefull; the thirde thinge reftithe. I gyve yow my poore 
 advife what courfe is to be taken, and what meanes are to 
 be ufed that with yowr diligence and care neceffities maye 
 be anfwered, and with yowr cherefull courage, and the 
 fruites of yowr hopefull fervyce, yowr harte, beinge good 
 and true, maie be comforted. 
 
 Sr., yow are firfte to have care of God. It is he that 
 miniftreth and profperoufelie governethe all good mean- 
 inges : yt is he that guidethe all well doinges : it is he 
 that gyvethe all good fucceffe : it is he that hathe in his 
 hande the hartes, the favors, and disfavors of Kinges and 
 Princes : yt is he to whofe pleafinge, befides the refpecte 
 of fruite, all thinges and doinges are in mere dutie and 
 confeience to be directed. Some particulars of your fervyce 
 to hym properlie are theis: that yow advaunce his religion, 
 the true underftandinge whereof he hathe revealed in his 
 owne worde ; and, thankes be to his grace, yt is with his 
 worde publikelie and fincerely delivered by his mofte ex- 
 cellent minifters, out mofre gratious Soveraigne Ladies 
 aucthoritie, that yowe give good countenaunce to the fup- 
 portation of favour, helpp, and credit to the preachers that 
 fhall come warranted to diftribute fo great a benefitt, 
 whereby the people of yowr charge fhall learne the right
 
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 waie of honoringe God, falvation of their fowles, guidinge 
 of their lyves, and yeeldinge of their obedience and duties. 
 That yow do what in yow liethe to fuppreffe the boldnes 
 and growing of daungerous fectes, and efpeciallie the here- 
 fie of Papiftrie, which hathe, and is not onelie the damnable 
 fubverter of fowles, but alfo the univerfall enemye and fup- 
 planter of all juft crownes and kingedomes, and of all law- 
 full, civill, politics, ftates, and jurifdictions ; and to this daie 
 hathe donne, and at this daie dothe mofte lamentablie and 
 manifeftlie fhewe yt felfe in imploying Chriftians againft 
 Chriftians in the fervyce of the Papacy to have bynne, and 
 to be the verie meanes of betrayinge Chriftians to the 
 tyrannie of the Turke. Yowe muft remember (as Auguftus 
 faied) the houfe of Caefar mufte be free, not onelie from 
 cryme, but alfo from fufpicion of crime ; even fo it be- 
 hovethe that James Hawes, L. Maior of London, both for 
 his name in perfonne, and place in office, be not onely 
 cleere from infection, but alfo, in all reafonable underftand- 
 inge, free from fufpicion of favouringe the howfe of Papis- 
 trie; which in deede cannot ftande neither with true Chris- 
 tian confeience, nor with true Englifhe allcadgeaunce : He 
 that will none evill do, mujl do nothinge that longeth thereto. 
 The verie companie or contraction of futche (for it is a 
 ghoftlie leprofie, and therefore infectious) mufte be care- 
 fully fhonned. When complaintes are brought againfte 
 them, they muft be well examyned and ponifhed, or re- 
 ferred here for us : the cafe ftandethe nowe that ftate is 
 conjoined with civill treafon ; for, althoughe it may be true 
 that fome Papiftes are not Traytours, becaufe fome men 
 are feduced of fimplicitie or conftrainte, yet it is alfo true 
 that there is no Traitor to our Queene, but it is a Papifte-
 
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 vf he be of anie religion at all : for vow maie well knowe 
 that no Chriftian (fo call I a Gofpellour) wilbe enimy to 
 this eftate. Yowe tnuft thinke that yt maye happ yow to 
 be tempted by fome perfons or cafes that maye come be- 
 fore yow, wherein there is reafonne for yowr good frindes 
 to hope that no inclination to fo evill a fide fhalbe feene in 
 yow. Yowe muft frequent publike hearinges of the worde 
 of God, common prayer, and ofte receivinge of the Com- 
 munion, and the fame yf yt maye be with your bretherne. 
 O! what a fweete thing it is to feede on Chrift, and by 
 feeding on hym to have hym fo made one with us, as by 
 good digeftion owr meate and drinke is made one with 
 our fleafhe and blood ! What a thing is the Communyon 
 and incorporatinge of Chrift into yow to the ftrengthen- 
 inge of your owne confcience ! What a thinge ys it to the 
 unitinge of yowr bretherne the Aldermens harts to joine 
 with yowe, to affifte yowe, and to quenche all ftormes that 
 maye fever the knot of yowr concord and godlie confede- 
 racy together! The Oueenes Majefties moft honorable 
 Counfellors, to the notable example of all godlre rulers, 
 ufe yt monethlie, the firfte Sondaie of every monethe. 
 
 You mufte, next God, have a care to ferve her Majeftie 
 and content her. Remember that London ys the Queenes 
 [Chambre], that owr Queene hath committed London to 
 you, and to London yt felfe : when I name London, I 
 name no fmall thinge : fo great confidence afkethe great 
 correfpondence : thus great trufte befide the charge, and 
 befide the paine of not well anfweringe, dothe increafe the 
 burthen with the verie dutie of thanckfulnes and kindnes 
 to fo good a Prince, that lovethe fo well, and truftethe fo 
 muche. For difcharge hereof in governaunce herken ever 
 
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 upwarde, and take your light from above : there is no can- 
 dle comparable to the Sonne. What directions to me from 
 her Majeftie or the Counfell, their intent muft be noted, 
 that their fatisfaction maye be procured : their wordes 
 mufte be well wayghed that their commiffion be not ex- 
 ceeded, the meaninge not myfunderftood, the purpofe not 
 failed : diligence muft be ufed that there be no lacke of 
 retorne of anfwere. 
 
 Yovve mufte retaine a mynde to doe right to everie per- 
 fonne ; heare bothe fides, that you maie underftande aright. 
 Remembre that yowe are by expreffe mention fworne to 
 defende the wyddowes and orphanes : your Courtes are 
 called the Courtes of Orphanes : yowe knowe howe ac- 
 ceptable their caufes are to God ; what a noble flower in 
 the garlande of London is the cuftodie of orphanes and 
 their portions ; howe Citizens children be thereby provided 
 for, and many good young occupiers be releeved and ad- 
 vaunced. Yowe fee what long attendaunce manie verie 
 good Citizens be dryven to fuffre before they canne be let 
 in, whereby, befides the hardnes of the bondes, may growe 
 difcouragement to the better forte to become recognitours. 
 Wherefore you fhall do well, whatfoever caufes you have, 
 being not fpeciall fervyce of her Majeftie, to take ordre 
 that, at fome convenient time of every Court, Orphanes 
 matters be harde, and not delaied. And fhe gave me leave 
 to faie a little in a great matter that fhalbe to yowr com- 
 forte and honor : yt fhall comforte yowr confcience here- 
 after, your childrens children fhall feele the fruite of yt 
 hereafter, yf that yowe wilbe a meane that, as childrens 
 portions be well looked unto, fo their perfonnes hereafter 
 maye be better cared for. Yow fee the dailie ftealinge,
 
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 fellinge and inveiglinge of them at tender yeares by rafcalls, 
 and men of the worfte forte bothe for value and honeftie, 
 to the flaunder of good governaunce, and to the great 
 griefe of worfhipfull and honeft parentes, and to the utter 
 diffolvinge to the chafte, vertuous and fevere bringinge up 
 of yowthe in awe of aucthoritie. Let no fuch offence be 
 lightlie difpenfed with : yf anie of your bretherne fhalbe a 
 meane for eafie pardonne in fuche cafes, let hym be put in 
 mynde of his oathe, and ymagine the cafe to be of his owne 
 childe, for generall fathers be you all in offyce. It ys good 
 cheape yf the price of ftealinge an Aldermans or Citizens 
 childe be but xijV. in the pounde : fo, manie times xxj - . is a 
 great rewarde for hym for whome a Rape is to[o] lyttle : 
 children be deere poffeffions. 
 
 Good my Lorde, in the reverent refpect of God, her Ma- 
 jeftie and this Citie, to whome yowe are bounde by oathe, 
 with renouncing of Gods helpe yf yow faile, and for the 
 peril to be avoided, and for the fruite to enfue to yowr 
 owne pofteritie, be fevere in this cafe : preferve the fame of 
 your aucthoritie that, befides all other inconveniences, the 
 Cities cuftodie and governement of the bodies of Orphanes 
 become not faleable by lewde practizes, grevous to good 
 Citizens and flaunderous to the worlde. And thowgh the 
 matches be otherwife good and convenable ynowghe, yet 
 thinges wolde have ordre, parentes woide not have griefe, 
 and the mutuall provifion for the Orphanes wolde not by 
 prevention be deftitute of the frendes forefight. Evell ex- 
 amples abounde in this behalfe of late, and efpeciallie fince 
 a father of the Court joyned with a forren jurisdiction 
 againft the Court in the defence of a ftolen covennte. 
 
 Yowe mufte be carcfull for provifion of victuall, fewell,
 
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 and all thinges neceffarie ; and that of all thinges there be 
 true and holfome ftuffe, good affize, jufte weight and mea- 
 fure, and prices reafonable : wherein yowr beft pollities 
 fhalbe by encouragement to permit, and by good forefight 
 not to let flipp the beft times of providinge or bringinge. 
 
 Amonge all your cares do juftice with difcretion, execute 
 lawes uprightlie and kepe order : have ever ftill a pitifull 
 eye to the poore, and whenfoever you fee the poore, crav- 
 inge, needinge, yowe aide them in anie thing, favinge to do 
 wronge. Ymagine that yowe fee Chrifte begginge in the 
 poore bodies perfonns. To this good affection yow have 
 bynne ever thowght well difpofed, and therefore I make 
 fewe wordes abowte yt, onely for yowr owne foules fake I 
 wolde admonifhe that yow doe almes as dutie, and not ac- 
 compt them as meritt : the one is acceptable to humilitie, 
 the other is arrogant in fuperftition. In the generall courfe 
 of governynge the Citie, of miniftring juftice, of endinge 
 caufes, of confidering fuites, of ponifhing faultes, of diftri- 
 butinge offices, and chardges of makinge or executinge 
 law r es or commaundementes, and alfo in particuler perform- 
 inge of thinges enjoyned from above, and generallie in all 
 thinges when the fecret commaunde doth permitte yowe, 
 yt is good that all be donne with your Brethernes advice 
 and affent : yf they devife the beft waie, let them allowe 
 yt : this waie ys fureft for wyfedome and ftrongeft Con- 
 corde : fuche warrant of agreement fhall bothe direct yowe 
 to do, and defende yowe when yowe have donne. Yowe 
 fhall finde great eafe yf yowe wilbe a meane that in yowr 
 Courtes and confultations be kept fage and comely ordre, 
 fuche as befemeethe fo grave perfonages, that men lovinglie 
 and freelie delyver their opynions, that they be quietlie
 
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 and orderlie harde, that Counfell be fecretelie kept, that 
 confeffion be avoided, that conftancie and filence be ob- 
 ferved, that no man for affection contend to preferve any 
 pryvate caufe before dutie, juftice, and the common good 
 of the Citie ; that there be no fodaine leapinge from one 
 thinge to an other before the former matter be ended ; for 
 otherwyfe yt loofethe time and labour, yt darkenethe un- 
 derftandinge, yt hinderethe expedition, yt wearyethe at- 
 tendaunts, yt makethe in manie doiuges nothinge to be 
 donne, and it defames yowr good difcretions. 
 
 Speciall orders wolde be obteined amonge yowe, that 
 yowe that rule us all by aucthoritie may rule your felves by 
 reafon ; wherin ys to be noted that the firft begynnynge of 
 good nile ys to rule your hartes, that they be fincere and 
 uncorrupted, and according to the abundance thereof yowr 
 mouthes fhall fpeake. And fuerly, fir, I have fet in your 
 prefence and noted that which I have ells where feene in 
 greatter places, the wifeft man is the mofte yeldinge to an 
 other better reafon. 
 
 In counfell takeing yt fhalbe good to ufe men accordinge 
 to their (kill. For lawe Mr. Recorder, and thofe whofe 
 profeffion it is are to be called and harkened unto : for 
 matters of experience thofe that have longeft knowen them : 
 for matters of Arts thofe that be moft fkilfull in them ; and, 
 amonge all other, for orders and thinges before paffed, the 
 prefidents of our fathers are to be ufed. In matters fpeci- 
 allie publique, let rafhnes be avoided, and good time of 
 confideration taken : in matters fpeciallie pryvate, you fhall 
 muche eafe your felfe, and beft finde the beft waye, and 
 fureft to do left wrong, by committinge manie thinges to 
 chofen men to examyne and reportc. And ever in ponifli-
 
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 merits have your refpect to tymetocome, for example, and 
 not to time pafte : for revenge, love thofe paines that will 
 mofte enforce the parties to amend ; that ys to ponifhe the 
 poore by money that careth lytle for fhame, and the ryche 
 manne by fliame who is little reformed by a lyttle loffe of 
 money. 
 
 And one note out of place, that fhowld before have bene 
 fpoken : the prefente time requirithe yowe to have good 
 care and ufe good meanes towchinge the contagion of 
 fickenes, that the ficke be kept from the whole, that the 
 places of perfons infected be made plaine to be knowen 
 and the more releeved ; that fweetenes and holfomnes of 
 publique places be provided for ; that unneceffarie and 
 fcarflie honefte reforts to plaies, to fhewes to thoccafion of 
 thronges and preffe, except to the fervyce of God ; and 
 efpeciallie the affemblies to the unchafte, fhameleffe and 
 unnaturall tomblinge of the Italion Weomen maye be 
 avoided : to offend God and honeftie is not to ceafe a plague. 
 
 As towchinge the ufe of this booke, which is drawen owte 
 of our prefidentes, yt is thend to be ordered. 
 
 The generall thinges, not lymited to times, are from the 
 begynnynge of yowr courfe dailie, or often, to be perufed 
 untill they be performed; and fuche wherein, yfyow (hall 
 have once proceeded to effecT:, yt were good to note with 
 a marke in the margin as thinges palled yf they require a 
 contynuaunce, or a fecond, or after doinge or newinge, an 
 other marke maye be added for remembraunce. So fliall 
 it ever fall readie to the eye, what ys donne, or what ys to 
 be undone ; for thinges that have their prefcribed times, 
 and fobe fet under the titles of everie feverall monethe, yt 
 is good dutic to reacle over the thinges of the monethes
 
 L ord Mayor of L ondon. 1 5 
 
 wherein you then be, ftill notinge in the margin what 
 thinges are performed : yt is good alfo dailie to perufe over 
 thofe monethes that are paffed, to confider what thinges be 
 left undonne in the former monethes, and remaine to be 
 expedited in the time followinge, for lacke of leafure or 
 oportunytie before. It is good alfo to reade over the mo- 
 nethes that (hall next follovve, to fee yf anie thinge in the 
 moneth followinge do require preparation or warnynge in 
 the monethe prefente. 
 
 It maye alfo be that, befides matters whereof be former 
 prefidentes alreadie, fome newe thinges maie be decreed to 
 be done hereafter. Thofe, when they be decreed, yt were 
 good to enter into yowr booke under that monethe or time 
 wherein they are to be donne, for which caufe there ys 
 voide paper left for every monethe. Yowe muft not looke 
 to finde a large difcription howe and in whate forme every 
 thinge ys to be donne that ys heare mentioned ; for fo 
 fhowlde the booke have bene to large for yowr ufe, and yet 
 impoffible to have the whole therein fullie conteyned : for 
 befides the orders appearinge in your bookes, and knowne 
 ufages, the mofte thinges for the manner are from time to 
 time, as caufes and circumftances fhall fall owte to be 
 directed by yowr brothers advifes, which yt were not poffi- 
 ble for me to fett downe aforehande. This booke holdethe 
 onelie titlings of thinges to be donne, without tellinge howe 
 to avoide forgettinge and negligence, and to efcape the 
 penalties of omittinge in due time. 
 
 It maye be alfo that in time to come the booke maye be 
 made perfect, both with increase of matter and fuller pre- 
 tenfions of ordre ; but this in the whole, I doubt not, will 
 ferve your torne to verie good purpofe.
 
 1 6 Instructions to the 
 
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 Nowe, laftlie, my L., yowe mufte not forget that God is 
 
 the gyver of all good thinges : yowe mufte reforte to hym 
 dailie by praier, and to pray with harte; not fuffred to fay 
 over Our Father, but to weighe everie petition, and joine 
 thereto a mofte affeciuous defire to obteine yt accordinge 
 to his will. In that the Lordes praier, fo ofte as you faie 
 yt, when yowe come to this place, our dailie bread, yowe 
 muft remember, that there ys not comprifed bread onelie, 
 but therein is ment all thinges that are neceffarie for this 
 prefent lyfe ; and amonge otheP thinges his bleffmge, that 
 yowe maie anfwere yowr charge in governaunce. And, 
 according to that warrant of Chrifte who, in the generall 
 worde bread, hath conteined the furtheraunce of yowr fuc- 
 ceffe in yowr dutie, I have drawen for yowe a fhorte forme 
 of fpeciall prayer applied to yowr office, which I have 
 written before the notes of the booke yt felfe. I have not 
 drawen yt as prefcribinge yowe a patterne of wordes, but 
 admonifhing yowe of directing yowr affection as the fpirit 
 of God fhall guide yowe. They be good partes, and good 
 notes, of a perfeel religion to ftablifhe devotion and chari- 
 tie : yowe mufte of devotion praye hartelie that yowe 
 maye obteine effecluallie : yowe muft of compaffion do 
 charitablie, that manie maye praye for and with yowe. I 
 cowlde gladlie wyfhe that fome lyke forme of prayer 
 might dailie be ufed in yowr Court and Counfell Chamber 
 by yowe and all yowr bretherne before yow enter into 
 caufes. It is fo ufed in the Parliament, and he praiethc to 
 the [blank in MS.] that comethe to late to be prefente ; 
 and, thowghe fuche ufe be but of late, I trufte it fhalbe 
 contynued and growe to be olde ; and, fuerlie, I fpeake yt 
 of good harte to your felfe, I hertelie wyfhe to yowe
 
 Lord Mayor of London. \J 
 
 the honor and bleffing to have it begonne in yower 
 tyme. 
 
 Sir, I am bothe a Citizen and here brought upp: accord- 
 inge to my right, I have accepted my fredome, and bounde 
 my felfe to this Citie by the oathe of a free manne. I 
 have ferved, and do remaine at this prefente, in trufte and 
 in chardge to ferve the Citie in Parliament : I have placed 
 my dwelling here and do take my parte of the Cities good 
 provifion: I am the Cities officer and called to their Coun- 
 failles : I have the Cities fee, and owe myne attendaunce. 
 Thus, manie thinges befide the love of my country and the 
 fpeciall requefte made for this matter, and fome perticular 
 good will, which, I thinke you make accompte that I do 
 beare yowe, have moved me not onelie to drawe thes 
 bookes, but alfo to add theis devifes. I praie yowe to 
 take them in good parte, and therewith my readines to do 
 the Citie and yowe in your place the beft fervyce I canne : 
 and I fhall count my labours beft accepted, when I flia.ll 
 fee and be wytnes of yowr good endevours accordinglie : 
 of the which, as of the doinges of a manne well and 
 fincerely mynded, difcreete, and conformable to all good 
 advifes for fatisfaclion of yowr duties to God and to her 
 Majeftie, and to the place that they have called yow, I 
 do conceave hopefullie, and praye for yt hartilie. 
 
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