the report of the governours of the corporation for improving and releiving the poor of this city of london, and liberties thereof city of london (england). this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a49050 of text r39650 in the english short title catalog (wing l2877b). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a49050 wing l2877b estc r39650 18460585 ocm 18460585 107734 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a49050) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 107734) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1638:7 or 21241:124) the report of the governours of the corporation for improving and releiving the poor of this city of london, and liberties thereof city of london (england). 1 broadside. printed by james flesher ..., [london] : 1655. at head of title, in verse: these children orphans singing show ... reproductions of originals in the harvard university library and the british library. eng orphans -england. poor laws -england. london (england) -history -17th century. a49050 r39650 (wing l2877b). civilwar no the report of the governours of the corporation for imploying and releiving the poor of this city of london, and liberties thereof; corporation of london 1655 1057 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-12 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2008-08 spi global rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 megan marion sampled and proofread 2008-10 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion these children orphans singing show , though god's above , he dwels below , who clothes their backs and bellies feed , and gave them fathers in their need . these father'd fatherless , their fathers bless , and warble forth their worth in thankfull verse . blazon or coat of arms city of london coat of arms the epicureans say god takes no care , nor yet regardeth how poor mortals fare , but being himself above all sense of trouble , grief , and indigence ; enjoyes himself , and can , no notice take of man nor sees , nor hears , their sighs or tears ; nor mindes , nor yet condoles , mens joyes or fears . that the light lamps of heaven know their way and beaten paths , from whence they cannot stray , the planets march their wonted pace , sun , moon , and stars , keep on their race from night to day , and then , from day to night agen , times come and goe , tides ebbe and flow , things round redown'd , as days and years do show . hold atheist , stop thy mouth , proceed not thus , gods care o' th poor blaspheme not , look on us , and recollect thy self , for we on dunghils droop't in miserie , had not jehovah car'd , how here poor mortals far'd , we still had lain , pining in pain , but now in plenty he doth us maintain . repent of these thy thoughts vain man , behold how god by us , have these thy thoughts controld , for living instances we are , that god for mortals poor takes care , and doth regard the cries , of orphans waterie eyes , and sends relief from pain and grief , who help and succour to the poor doth give . wandring we were from heavens and earths good waies in sin and idleness to spend our daies , but now translated from that state which led to lewdness , death , hells gate , and in a hopefull way to live another day , when thankfull we , shall surely be , and londons mercy keep in memorie . blest be the great protector of the poore whom fatherless admire , widdows adore ; blest be his a vice protector who much favour did on us bestow , our b president blest be , and blest his c deputy , lord blesse them all who hence forth shall lend hearts , and hands , to ridd the poor from thrall . god is the poor mans god , who doth express himself the father of the fatherless , and men like gods themselves appear , to whom poor fatherless are dear , whose works of charity , he suffers not to dye , what thus they spend to god they lend , who will repay with glory in the end . this is the pure religion , and this by gods appointment leads to lasting bliss ; when scarlet robes , and golden chains shall come to nothing , this remains , when creature comforts faile , such works as these prevaile , most certainly such seed shall be an harvest lasting to eternity . you that have thus so well begun , go on , finish your work , let no man take your crown , such works as these their workmen bless ; by spending thus , you shall increase , this is gods way of thriving , thus give , and get by giving ; what else you save others may have ; these works your selves shall find beyond the grave . the report of the governours of the corporation for imploying and releiving the poor of this city of london , and liberties thereof ; the said corporation ( through the pious care and assistance of the lord mayor , commonalty , and citizens of the city of london , and other well affected persons ) do at the present maintain , and educate about 100. poor children in learning , and arts , whose parents are either dead or not able to maintain them , ayming ( according as ability by the good providence of god shall be administred ) at the entertaining of some hundreds more ; moreover , there are many hundred of poor people and families imployed by the said corporation , the manufactures of spinning hemp , flax , and tow , and weaving of it into cloth ; and many hundreds more might be imployed , in case they did not habituate and necessitate themselves to an idle course of life , none being refused or denyed imployment that will come for it , either to the wardrobe neer black-fryers , or to haiden-house in the minories , belonging to the said corporation . towards the more effectuall carrying on and accomplishing of which good work , so abundantly conducing to the glory of god , the honour of the government of this city , ( being presidentiall in this kind to the whole nation ) the prevention of many evils and enormities , so abounding in that sort of people , and the eternall good of their precious souls : this corporation earnestly desire the ready concurrence and assistance of the magistrate , and ministers of justice of this city in causing the known laws of this common-wealth to be put in execution * for suppressing of vagrants , and common beggars , able to work , who come in troops from the out parts of this city , and make it their constant practice , to spend the day time in begging , and a great part of the nights in drinking , and revelling . and then repair to the city again for fresh supplies , to the great dishonor of this city , the scandall of religion , and hindrance of the charity of many pious and well affected people towards this good work . printed by james flesher , printer to the honourable city of london , 1655. notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a49050e-30 a his highness a special friend . b lord mayor president . c john cutler esq deputy president . mr thomas read treasurer . notes for div a49050e-1230 * 39 eliz. 4. and 1 jac. 7. mr. pepys to the president and governours of christ-hospital upon the present state of the said hospital to the honour'd sir john moor, kt. and president, and the rest of my honour'd friends, the governours of christ-hospital. pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. 1698 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2005-12 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a54296 wing p1451b estc r222472 99833639 99833639 38117 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a54296) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 38117) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2175:14) mr. pepys to the president and governours of christ-hospital upon the present state of the said hospital to the honour'd sir john moor, kt. and president, and the rest of my honour'd friends, the governours of christ-hospital. pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. moore, john, sir, 1620-1702, recipient. parrey, william. aut christ's hospital (london, england). board of governors, recipient. 1 sheet ([2] p.) s.n., [london : 1698] signed: s. pepys. a response is printed at foot of p. [2], signed: william parrey. dated at head: york-buildings. monday, novem. 21. 1698. imprint from wing. copy stained. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library, oxford. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng christ's hospital (london, england) -early works to 1800. orphans -england -london -early works to 1800. charities -england -london -early works to 1800. 2005-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2005-06 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-07 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2005-07 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion mr. pepys to the president and governours of christ-hospital upon the present state of the said hospital . to the honour'd sir john moor , kt. and president , and the rest of my honour'd friends , the governours of christ-hospital . york-buildings . monday , novem. 21. 1698. gentlemen , in pursuance of a resolution of his lordship the present lord mayor and court of aldermen at their last sitting ( our worthy president sir john moore present ) in approval of a proposition of mine on that behalf : i inclose you copys of two papers of mine lately wrote , and for their readier vse prepar'd as these are , and directed to the several members of that court ; relating to what has pass'd between the late lord mayor , the said court , and my self , upon the present state of this hospital . and this i do ; as well for your information in all my proceedings in this matter , and satisfaction in the regard shewn therein to the honour , no less than service of this house ( notwithstanding what has been so injuriously averr'd in it to the contrary ) as for inlight'ning at once your whole body , in the truth , and moment of the particulars in present debate concerning it . in order whereto , and for that the court of aldermen have not yet thought fit to allow of my repeated suit to them , for their disburthening me of the charge i still lie under from them , as your fellow-servant . i do ( as such ) tender it as my earnest and humble advice to you , that these papers may not , like others of mine of equal import , be taken-up , and the knowledge of them suppress'd , to the ( i fear ) irreparable wrong of this house : but , if it may stand with your good liking , communicated to a general court specially call'd on that behalf . for as much as , that being done , i shall not doubt a much happier issue of your deliberations thereon , than can attend any longer want of it : besides the preventing what i should otherwise be most unwillingly driven to , of supplying the ineffectuallness of these papers thus address'd to you in a body , by a several one to be transmitted to every member of it . which i cannot but think my duty to see done ; while standing all of us equally interested in the knowing , and accountable for the due improving thereof , to the benefit of the poor , and satisfaction of those we stand intrusted-by for them. which praying your taking in good part from me , as the last occasion , i hope , ever to have of asking it on these terms ; i do with most sincere respect remain , honour'd gentlemen , your faithful and obedient servant , s. pepys . at a general court holden in christs-hospital . the 21th . day of novem. 1698. upon reading a letter with some printed papers from samuel pepys , esq which were all inclosed in a cover , and directed to the president , and governours of this hospital , assembled in court this 21 th of november 1698. it was by this court ordered , that a general court shall be summoned to meet on friday next in the afternoon , particularly for consideration of these papers ; and major aungier is desired to attend mr. pepys , and acquaint him with the meeting of the court next friday . and request the favour of his presence , and to let him know , that if he doth not think that a convenient day , than to desire him to appoint some other short day , as may best suit with his occasions ; and come provided with the particulars of his charge against this hospital . william parrey . a psalme of thankes-giuing, to be sung by the children of christs hospitall, on munday in easter holy dayes, at saint maries spittle, for their founders and benefactors, anno domini, 1628 christ's hospital (london, england) 1628 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a18701 stc 5208.7 estc s3311 33143309 ocm 33143309 28370 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a18701) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 28370) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1475-1640 ; 1885:96) a psalme of thankes-giuing, to be sung by the children of christs hospitall, on munday in easter holy dayes, at saint maries spittle, for their founders and benefactors, anno domini, 1628 christ's hospital (london, england) 1 sheet ([1] p.). by eliz. allde, dwelling neere christchurch, printed at london : 1628. contains the psalm, with music, and reports on the activities of the charity. reproduction of original in: society of antiquaries. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due 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each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng christ's hospital (london, england) orphanages -england -london. orphans -england -london. broadsides -london (england) -17th century. 2007-08 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-10 pip willcox sampled and proofread 2007-10 pip willcox text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a psalme of thankes-giuing , to be sung by the children of christs hospitall , on munday in easter holy dayes , at saint maries spittle , for their founders and benefactors . anno domini . 1628. chorus from depth of heart , mou'd by desart , wee orphants meane and poore , to christ our king doe praises sing , for plenty and for store . versus . great and most gracious is the lord , to all that he hath made , the poore distrest by him are blest , each state by him is stai'd : yea god which rules the hearts of kings , a godly king did moue , to worke our weale , our griefes to heale , and patrone deare to proue , whose prudent care , did soone appeare the ground-worke of our loy , in thee ( o cittie of the lord ) to shield vs from annoy . chorus . from depth of heart , &c. o london , blessed maist thou be , with plentie , peace , and rest , a staffe thou art to impotent , a prop to poore opprest . eyes to the blind , feete to the lame , fathers to orphants poore , you are , o worthy citizens , praise be to god therefore . and as your bread , thus bounteously , you on these waters cast , the lord grant you may find the same , an hundred fold at last . chorus , from depth , &c. powre downe thy blessings on our king , prolong his peacefull raigne , and grant his subiects loyall proue , thy peace for to maintaine . our noble queene with grace iinspire , the councell graue instruct , the peeres and nobles of this land with pietie conduct . elesse ( lord ) the maior , and aldermen , and commons of this citie , for their great care of our welfare , and moue them still to pittie . chorus , from depth , &c. reports of the hospitals . children kept and maintained at this present , at the charges of christs-hospitall , in the said house . in divers places of this citie and suburbs , and with sundry nurses in the countrey , which are still to be maintained by the said hospitall , vntill they shall accomplish the age of 15. yéers . 804 the names of all these are registred in the bookes kept in christs hospitall there to be séene from what parishes , and by what menes they haue béene from time to time admitted . children put forth apprentices , discharged , & dead this yéere 111 there hath béene cured in st. bartholmewes hospitall , from easter 1627. to easter 1628. of souldiers and other diseased persons 792 all which were relieued with money and other necessaries , at thei departure . buried this yéere after much charges in their sickenes , 138 remaining vnder cure at this present in the said hospitall 281 there hath béene cured in st. thomas hospitall , from the feast of easter 1627. vnto the feast of easter 1628. of souldiers and other diseased persons , 678 of which number many were relieued with money and other necessaries at their departure . buried this yeere last past , after much charges in sicknesse and otherwise , 185 remaining in the said hospitall at this time vnder cure & abroad else where at the charges of the said hospitall , 278 there hath bin brought to the hospitall of bridewell , within the space of one yeere last past , of wandring souldiers and other vagrant people , which haue beene passed thence into their natiue country by passeports , according to the law in that behalfe prouided , to the number of 2483. persons , of whom many haue beene chargeable to the said hospitall in their dyet , in the time of their being in the same , some more , some lesse , as they might conueniently be remoued thence , besides other help , there ministred vnto them , as case required , viz. in apparell , hose , shooes , shirts , bands , money and snch like , which cannot be auoided by reason of their misery , nor they thence passed without charge to the said hospitall , in respect they are to be examined and considered of , to what countrey to be transported . also there is in the said hospitall maintained and kept in arts and occupations , and other seruile workes and labours , at the charge of the said hospitall , of men , women , & children , to the number of 156. persons , whereof 100. and vpwards , are poore boyes taken out of diuers parishes and streets of this citie , & now bound apprentices in the said hospitall , to be made freemen of this citie , at the end of their seuerall termes . toward the which good and charitable foundations , king henry the eight , and king edward the sixt , were most gracious founders , and liberall benefactors . and our most gracious soueraigne king charles , a most religious continuer and maintainer of the same . printed at london by eliz. allde , dwelling neere christ-church . 1628. to the honorable the knights, citizens and burgesses, in parliament assembled. the humble petition of robert tayloe, joseph emerson, john sawbridge and edward pearce on the behalf of themselves and other poor marriners, to the number of five hundred and upwards, who served the east-india company in their late wars against the great mogul, and other heathen princes: and on the behalf of the widows and orphans of other marriners to the like number, that perished in the said wars. 1685 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a62738 wing t1457a estc r220126 99831554 99831554 36017 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a62738) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 36017) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2046:20) to the honorable the knights, citizens and burgesses, in parliament assembled. the humble petition of robert tayloe, joseph emerson, john sawbridge and edward pearce on the behalf of themselves and other poor marriners, to the number of five hundred and upwards, who served the east-india company in their late wars against the great mogul, and other heathen princes: and on the behalf of the widows and orphans of other marriners to the like number, that perished in the said wars. tayloe, robert. aut emerson, joseph, fl. 1685. aut sawbridge, john, fl. 1685. aut pearce, edward, fl. 1685. aut 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [london? : 1685?] imprint from wing. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng england and wales. -parliament -early works to 1800. east india company -early works to 1800. poor -england -early works to 1800. orphans -england -early works to 1800. 2006-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-10 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-11 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2006-11 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the honorable the knights , citizens and burgesses , in parliament assembled . the humble petition of robert tayloe , joseph emerson , john sawbridge and edward pearce , on the behalf of themselves and other poor marriners , to the number of five hundred and upwards , who served the east-india company in their late wars against the great mogul , and other heathen princes : and on the behalf of the widows and orphans of other marriners to the like number , that perished in the said wars . sheweth , that the said company , in the years 1683 , 1684 , 1685 and 1686. entered your petitioners and others , on board several of their ships , viz. in the ships called the charles the second , the beauford , the cesar , the rochester , and other their ships , to make direct voyages to and from the east-indies , at very low wages and sallaries , in a merchant-like way ( there being then no wars betwixt this crown and any other princes or state in the world , nor did your petitioners apprehend any war was like to be between this crown and any the said princes . that in some short time after your petitioners arrival in the indies , the said companies agents and governors there , ingaged their said ships in an actual war against the said great mogul , and other heathen princes ; and by excessive tortures , as nailing their hands to the main-mast , whipping , and washing their wounds in brine , and other great torments , the commanders of the said ships compelled your petitioners , against their wills , and contrary to the statute made 5 eliz. chap. 5. to serve in the said companies wars , against the said heathen princes , upon their land , in parts very remote from any sea , and to make depredations without any just cause ( as your petitioners could understand ) and robbing the subjects of the said heathen princes to a very great value . that the said commanders , agents and governors , finding the said ill usage of your petitioners not to take its full effect according to their expectation , the said governors caused an order to be made in their court of admiralty held in the said indies , that your petitioners should have ( over and besides their low wages ) a sixth part of all prizes , to be divided amongst them , and the same order to be published on some of the said ships , and to be affixed to the main-masts of the same ships , to make the same more publick , and to encourage your petitioners to fight for them ; which your petitioners accordingly did . that during the said war , there was taken , by your petitioners , in prizes , to the value of 1500000 l. and upwards , which is proved in the court of exchequer , in a suit there brought , and now depending , for their majesties tenths of the said prizes , of which 260000 l. belongs to your petitioners for their sixth part , due to them not only by contract , as aforesaid , but laws of nations ; and so by the said company confess'd , in their answer in the said court in the said suit , and accordingly have paid some marriners their proportions . that whilst your petitioners were in the indies , your petitioners were necessitated to accept from the said commanders and agents , dollers at 9 s. a piece , the prime cost in england was not above 4 s. 6 d. and rack at 12 s. per gallon , the prime cost not above 9 d. per gallon , and brandy at 18 s. per gallon , by which means all your petitioners wages , and more , was expended , and many marriners , more than by the said wars , perished for want of such commodities . that your petitioners have applied themselves from time to time to the said company for the said share , or what should appear due to them , upon a just dividend thereof to be made , and for their non-performance thereof , your petitioners , the last sessions of parliament , were about to address themselves to this honorable house for relief therein ; whereupon a worthy member of his honorable house , then governor of the said company , having notice , promised your petitioners satisfaction if your petitioners would forbear their said address ; which promise your petitioners relying upon , did accordingly forbear , but hitherto cannot get any manner of satisfaction , and in want thereof , are grown so necessitous , that many are forced to be relieved by their respective parishes wherein they respectively live . and forasmuch as this honorable house hath ordered the said company to bring in their books , and a state of their debts and credits ; your said poor petitioners do humbly hope and pray , that this honorable house will take notice , that your petitioners may have credit upon the said companies books for the said summ so due and owing to your petitioners , in order that they may have satisfaction for the same , for that the said prizes have been converted to the use and benefit of the said company ; and to afford such further relief to your petitioners , as to this honorable house shall seem fit . and your petitioners ( as in duty bound ) shall ever pray , &c. the case of the city of london, in reference to debt to the orphans, and others. 1692 approx. 8 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b01894) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 175507) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2739:17) the case of the city of london, in reference to debt to the orphans, and others. city of london (england). court of aldermen. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by samuel roycroft, printer to the honourable city of london, [london] : 1692. caption title. imprint from colophon. place of publication suggested by wing. reproduction of the original in the lincoln's inn library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng orphans -england -london -early works to 1800. poor laws -england -london -early works to 1800. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-04 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-05 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-05 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion official blazon the case of the city of london , in reference to debt to the orphans , and others . by the custom of london , confirmed by divers acts of parliament , the lord mayor and court of aldermen are guardians of the orphans of all freemen of the said city , and have the care and government of them , their estates , and marriages ; and have a customary jurisdiction by the name of the court of orphans . by that custom the executors of every the said citizens are bound , either to find sufficient sureties to the chamberlain for the orphans portions , who is a sole body corporate for that purpose : or otherwise , to pay the same into the chamber of london as a deposit , to be kept for them until security be found , or their respective portions become due ; and such maintenance to be allowed to the orphans , as the custom directed , by the name of finding-mony . in regard the estates of the citizens were mostly personal , and liable to be wasted by widows and executors , that court hath been found by the experience of many ages , to be a most necessary and effectual means to preserve the estates and children of the citizens ; and the protection and preservation of the persons , estates and marriages of many thousands of orphans , are owing to the care of that ancient court. the chamber of london ( being the receipt of all the cities revenue , and the treasury wherein all the portions of orphans were to have been deposited , as in a sacred treasury ) had for many ages a most unquestionable credit , very great sums of mony being continually receiving in , and paying out : and the chamber had sufficient to answer to every orphan , and all other debts , until about the beginning of the late troubles between england and scotland . but about the beginning of those troubles , divers debts owing to the city , amounting to near thirty thousand pounds , became desperate : and about the same time , the city in compliance with his late majesty king charles the first , having advanced to him , and expended for him , about forty thousand pounds more , the city became indebted in the year 1638 , in seventy thousand pounds . ever since the said year , the chamber paid interest for the said debt , and the then government of the city very improvidently allowed the executors of the citizens , to bring into the chamber orphans portions upon interest , which ought to have been only deposited by such executors as could not , or would not give the chamber security for them : and by that means a great cash was kept in the chamber , of which no profit was made ; and out of the same , interest was constantly paid for the said debt , as also for the said portions : so that by a true account , mony being taken in at interest to pay interest , the said debt of seventy thousand pounds , in fifty and fovr years , hath increased to above five times that sum : and the interest paid also to orphans , contrary to the custom of the city , hath made up the rest of the present debt . the cities ancient great revenues , given by benefactors for the support of its government , might in some measure have prevented the vast encrease of its debt ; if the troubles of the kingdom had not happen'd , and the rebellion of ireland first broke out , and afterwards a civil war here ensued , whereby the city was constrained ( by the powers unto which they were subject ) to lay out several sums of mony upon divers occasions , as the prevailing powers commanded . all which , together wth their great losses and diminution of their revenue by the irish rebellion , augmented their debt , and whilst the city laboured under the intollerable burthen of interest for orphans portions , unduly and improvidently ( as is before mentioned ) brought upon th●m , the dreadful fire of london happen'd , and consumed most part of the cities revenue , which consisted in houses . nevertheless the credit of the chamber continued , and payments both of principal and interest were ansvered until the quo warranto brought against the city , to destroy their being : which not only put them to great charge , but so ruined their credit , that all payments into the chamber ceased , and the body corporate and all its legal powers ( until this present happy revolution ) was taken to be utterly destroyed : whereby the duties of waterbailage and tronage , or kings beam , and many other ancient duties and profits belonging to the corporation , were in a great measure lost , and the interest of a vast debt in the mean time continually growing , the city became disabled to answer the same . notwithstanding for the reasons aforesaid , the city hath not received any orphans mony into the chamber since christmas 1683 ; yet since that time , there has been such care to get in debts owing to the city , and to improve their revenue , that they have paid to all poor orphans ( whose portionsin the chamber of london exceeded not fifty and five pounds ) their whole debt , amounting to ten thousand six hundred seventy three pounds , two shillings and eight pence ; and have further paid to the orphans , and others , for interest , one hundred thousand , five hundred and fifty pounds . but the present court of aldermen ( finding it impossible for the government of this city to be supported under the burthen of so great a debt ) have thought it their duty , from time to time , to apply themselves to the wisdom of the parliament , for proper remedies to such a grievance : in regard it is the case of the capital city of the kingdom , in whose support and welfare the whole nation is much concerned ; and this court of aldermen humbly hope , that it will be rightly urderstood , that the debt has not been incurred , nor augmented by their default , negligence , or expence ; they serving the city freely at their own cost , without eating or drinking at the cities charge , as has been untruly suggested . and they have been and are uncessant in their cares and endeavours , to make the utmost improvement of all that belongs to the city , only for the benefit of the orphans : and are now humble solicitors to the parliament , not for any interest or benefit of their own ; but for the relief of the distressed , and the quiet and support of the government . and they shall humbly crave leave to shew unto the parliament ( if they may be admited thereunto ) wherein they conceive this city to be wronged and deprived of divers ancient rights and customs belonging to it : which being restored and established by act of parliament , will greatly help towards the payment of the said debt , or of a reasonable perpetual interest for the same , as the wisdom of the parliament shall think most convenient . printed by samvel roycroft , printer to the honourable city of london , 1692. mr. pepys to the president, and governours of christ-hospital, upon the present state of the said hospital to the honour'd sir john moor, kt. and president, and the rest of my honour'd friends, the governours of christ-hospital. pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. 1699 approx. 12 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a54297) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 38118) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2175:15) mr. pepys to the president, and governours of christ-hospital, upon the present state of the said hospital to the honour'd sir john moor, kt. and president, and the rest of my honour'd friends, the governours of christ-hospital. pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. moore, john, sir, 1620-1702, recipient. christ's hospital (london, england). board of governors, recipient. [4] p. s.n., [london : 1698] signatures: a.̲, signed at end: s. pepys. dated at head: york-buildings. march 30th. 1699. imprint from wing. copy stained, with heavy print show-through. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library, oxford. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng christ's hospital (london, england) -early works to 1800. orphans -england -london -early works to 1800. charities -england -london -early works to 1800. 2005-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2005-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-10 taryn hakala sampled and proofread 2006-10 taryn hakala text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion mr. pepys to the president , and governours of christ-hospital , upon the present state of the said hospital . to the honour'd sir john moor , k t. and president , and the rest of my honour'd friends , the governours of christ-hospital . york-buildings , march 30th . 1699. gentlemen , your resolution of the 22 th instant , importing your election of me to the treasurership of this hospital , was delivered me by the worthy gentlemen appointed thereto , with a degree of respect as obliging on their part , as the message it self was on yours ; and both surprising . surprising i say ; but without ought of what ( i find ) was in too much tenderness apprehended from me by some of this body concerning it ; as being one , who think nothing below the character of any man to execute , in a service of charity : and who therefore in my late searches into the condition of this house , descended to offices much beneath any thing that can occur in what you are now calling me to . i therefore do most thankfully own the proof you herein tender me of the continuance of your esteem , after the unwelcome freedom i have for some time been unavoidably exercising towards you , upon the unhappy subject of your present state ; in which your selves are now pleased to give me this testimony of your acquiescence : and in the redress whereof , this court shall never want any thing within my power improvable thereto . but whether in the method you now propose , is what i have made it my business for some days to consider ; without being able to bring my self to any other determination in it , than that the giving you any conclusive answer ( whether of acceptance or refusal ) before this resolution of yours shall have passed the censure of another court , is a no less exposing of myself , than imposing on you , ( as in a very late case ) under the vncertain issue of a subsequent court ; and when that is over , of the lord mayor and court of aldermen also : as that without which , by the known constitution of all our hospitals , no election of a treasurer is valid . a consideration of more than common weight at this time ; from the question under which the authority of that court now lies with this ; without ought i can hear-of yet done on their side , in its assertion . which while in doing , and for your clearer guidance in your second debates on this matter at the next court , i think it becoming me , in faithfulness both to you and myself , to lay before you the few following considerations . 1 st . — that i am no freeman ; and consequently , according to the original book of ordinances by which alone ( without entring into the reason of it ) this court and that of the lord mayor and aldermen are at liberty to act herein ; i neither am capable of being your treasurer , nor you nor they , apart or together , in a capacity of making me so . nor is there , i believe , any one instance to be shewn me , of a treasurer not a freeman : and should therefore most unwillingly subject myself to question , for meddling unwarrantably with a revenue so sacred as that of the poor's ; or be an occasion of your adventuring upon that in my case , which was never yet done in any , nor can now justifiably be in this . 2 dly . — that the office and work of your treasurer ought not to be estimated by what we have seen of it in its execution for some years past ; but by the condition the house is reduced to , from its being executed no otherwise . as being an office , that calls at once for qualifications , such and so many , as rarely meet in the same person : such are ( besides that of an approved integrity ) vigour of mind , steadiness of health , entire leasure , vninterestedness , zeal for and tenderness towards the poor , general experience , and particular practice in the business of accounts , a genius fitted for command joyn'd with temper , a thorough-insight into the laws and ends of our constitution , and a capacity of controlling every of our officers and masters in the execution of their dutys , with a constancy of attendance and application ( in his own person , and not by others ) to the performance of his own . a task both in bulk and weight , too much for my age and known infirmities ; besides the disabilitys i am alone conscious to my self of , for it . and though what i have here to add , might not possibly be reckon'd of moment enough alone in this debate : yet in conjunction with what is already said , i know not how without injury to my self to omit the observing ; that i can with no satisfaction think of accepting of a charge , which my self must be own'd to have had the greatest hand in the rendring vacant . 3 ly . — that suitable to my advice to you elsewhere on this subject , i do not see with what safety this court can proceed to the giving a final discharge to its late treasurer , nor how it should expect his being succeeded by any person of sincerity or substance , till a state shall be first adjusted of all your accounts , revenues , charges and debts , to your own and their satisfaction ; and that also laid before , and acquiesced-in by the court of aldermen . besides the review and fresh establishment fit to be first had of the work and instructions of that officer , before the admission of a new. as foreseeing little fruit from any change of hands ( be it what it will ) where those hands shall be obliged by no other rules nor restrictions , than those we owe our present distresses to . for the more successful dispatch of which , as well on the part of your said treasurer as your selves ; i submit it to you , whether it may not be advisable , that the current work of this office be for the present lodg'd with a small commmittee of your own number , properly chosen ; till by the adjustment of these matters , you shall be in a condition of restoring it to its ordinary methods . 4 ly . — lastly , that no degree of industry , experience , or other the vertues ( before requir'd ) in a treasurer , can alone be thought sufficient at this juncture ( where our whole constitution lies at once out of order ) to compass its reformation , without equal aid from a no less vigorous and persevering , however otherwise meritorious a president . one , i mean , whose thorough-knowledge in the design , powers , limitations , and orders of this pious foundation , and the rules of their execution , is able both to preserve himself from being either discouraged or imposed-on , and by his authority , zeal and vigilance , to prevent those practices which , from the want hereof , the generality of this house has been so long misled by , to its vndoing . a reflection , that in one word , would alone suffice ( lay there nothing else in my way ) to deter me from the vndertaking you invite me to , under the circumstances we at present labour in this particular . which having said , and the reasons of it thus opened ; it remains only for me to beg , that my declining your present offer may not be taken for a declension in any part of my concernment for the prosperity of this house . forasmuch as no consideration shall ever discourage or divert me from the pursuit of it ; till by some means , ordinary or extraordinary ( though much rather the former ) i see it restored to the state wherein all good men wish it . in view whereof , give me leave with great satisfaction once more to assure you , that ( without any such obligation as this of your treasurership ) neither you nor your helpless orphans shall ever want the best effects of my personal attendance and service , from the moment that , by your thorough-applications , and those of the court of aldermen towards it , i shall have any grounds to hope , that such my attendance and service , may be followed with any success , to the recovery of the lost honour of this house , by its return to that religious strictness which once distinguish'd it from all others , in its compliances with the holy and charitable ends provided-for by its munificent founders and benefactors ▪ i am gentlemen , your most humble and obedient servant , s. pepys . mr. pepys to the lord mayor upon the present state of christ-hospital. to the right honourable sir humphry edwin, lord mayor pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. 1698 approx. 11 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a54295) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 38116) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2175:13) mr. pepys to the lord mayor upon the present state of christ-hospital. to the right honourable sir humphry edwin, lord mayor pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. edwin, humphrey, sir, 1642-1707, recipient. [4] p. s.n., [london : 1698] signatures: a.̲, caption title. signed: s. pepys. dated at head: tuesday, octob. 25. 1698. york-buildings. imprint from wing. copy stained. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library, oxford. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng christ's hospital (london, england) -early works to 1800. orphans -england -london -early works to 1800. charities -england -london -early works to 1800. 2005-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2005-06 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-07 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2005-07 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion upon the state of christ-hospital . 〈…〉 per 1 mr. pepys to the lord mayor upon the present state of christ-hospital . to the right honourable sir humphry edwin , lord mayor . tuesday , octob. 25. 1698. york-buildings . my lord , another three months are now run-out , and the whole twelve of your lordship's great office at the eve of their expiring ; while our poor orphans remain in the same reliefless state i left them in with your lordship , in my letter of the 5th . of april last . wherein nothing more was propos'd of trouble to your lordship towards the remedying it ( and that too of your lordship 's own seeking ) than the accompanying with your authority my report thereof to the gentlemen of christ-hospital ( to whom it was specially directed ) and to the body-corporate of the city , which , as i have heretofore noted , stands originally answerable for the same , to the crown . in neither of which , though abundantly apply'd-to in both , has your lordship thought fit to express any regard to your vndertaking to me . but so much the contrary ; as to have arraign'd my late memorial to you concerning it ( even after your own and the court of aldermen's solemn thanks to me for it ) as a libel , and the only occasion of the no-voice given your lordship , at the late parliament-election for the city . and this deliver'd me from your lordship , and my lady mayoress too , as your joint-message , by the same worthy citizen , and member both of your common council and hospital , whom your self was first pleased to employ to me , on those pious errands i was misled by , to the submitting the execution of this matter singly to your lordship . my lord , i shall not offer at the asking-after , or even aiming at the ground of this your so extraordinary dealing , in a cause of so religious an import ; as leaving that to god , the city , and your self , to be reckon'd-for . it shall suffice me , my lord , to observe , that it has arisen from neither of those causes , whereto the court of aldermen were led to joyn with your lordship in the assigning it , and in the yet unperform'd undertaking for its recovery ; your sickness , i mean , my lord , and sir tho. stamp's absence . give me leave only , to bewail the consequences of it to the poor ; whatever it may end-in to the city . namely , the continuance hereby occasion'd to the imposure upon the gentlemen of the hospital ; whose better information could not but e're this have produc'd some good effects towards its relief . next , the more confirm'd admission of their methods , whose interest ( and therefore business ) it seems to be , to suppress that information . and lastly , the rend'ring the poverty , disorders , and impieties of the place , so much less superable than they appear'd to me when first laid before your lordship ; as to put me beyond all hopes of their redress , from any lower hand than that of a royal visitation . the power of which ( after so glorious a proof of it as i have lately seen , to the lasting honour of his lordship , the present lord chancellor , in the case of st. katherines ) i cannot , on behalf of our distress'd orphans , and in right to their holy benefactors , but bless almighty god for ; and henceforward direct my self wholly to ; without offering either your lordship , my lord elect your honourable successor , his brethren the court of aldermen , the gentlemen of the hospital , or my self , the interruptions i have been so long driven , at the end of every three months , fruitlesly to repeat on this subject . but apply my self to the speedy bringing-up to this day what is now behind of my report , for the six months your lordship has thus unhappily added to the time i had last adjusted it to , relating to the moral part of this house's misery : in order to such vse to be made thereof , as a like royal inspection may , i trust , find it convertible to . it remains ; that in taking my leave of your lordship ( which i would do with all the respect due to your lordship's just character ) i beg you to consider , whether what i either have done , am now doing , or may have further to do , in exposing my observations and sentiments in this matter , be either more or other , than what my cha●ge as a governour obliges me to ; and what my self alone , through my closer applications to the service of the house , am inlighten'd to do ; or otherwhere , than by my immediate duty i am bound ; or , which is yet more , in any other manner , than what is alone left me to do it in . especially , after the miscarriage of all other methods ( personal and written ) employ'd by me with those i thought most concern'd to improve them ; whether at their committees and courts , or separately as private governours and superior ministers ; viz. the treasurer , president , and last of all your lordship , both alone , and in conjunction with your brethren the aldermen : for preventing ( if possible ) the obvious consequences of my being compell'd to the carrying them elsewhere . and even this too , with such a degree of tenderness , as , after all that has been said of its being made the entertainment of coffee-houses , ( to the offence , i find , of my lady mayoress as well as your self , and not a little to my own too , for the sake of the poor , ) to stand ready with a reward of five pounds to whoever shall shew me any one of my printed copies , other than what were strictly deliver'd by mr. town-clerk to your self , the aldermen , and the assistants of that court ; and those severally indors'd by a hand of my own , with the name of each person intitled to the same . and if this , my lord , be a libel ; i shall not undertake for its being my last , where nothing gentler will be hearken'd to ; rather than be conscious of an approaching ruin to a foundation like this i 'm concern'd for , and be dumb. next , my lord , for avoiding any unnecessary repetition of trouble to the court now sitting , where your lordship has yet the honour of presiding ; permit me to pray , that in the notice you may see reasonable to take there , of this paper : you will please to be its remenbrancer , in what , for the considerations assign'd in my last , i then bespoke its favour in reference to the disburthening me of a charge , in which i am at the end of any hopes of seeing my self further serviceable . lastly , let it be no offence to your lordship , that i end with an observation , impossible for me to over-look . namely ; that while i am here lamenting the misfortune of our poor , from the suppression of this report of mine , calculated for their relief ; i find so much of it ( and so much only ) as seemed to me the properest introduction to it , in advancement of charity ; transferr'd in terminis to the head of a sermon and made the text of it , preach'd before your lordship , and published by your command , in express diminution thereof . and not that only ; but to the doing violence to the memory of one ( scarce yet cold in his grave ) whose good works have been too many and too conspicuous , not to have covered errors of a much greater magnitude ( for no man thought him infallible ) than any i hear him charg'd with . especially , in a point of faith ; wherein 't is hard to say , which raised the greater dust , and most to the offence of weaker eyes : his single departure from the doctrine of our church , towards the wrong ; or that of our own doctors from one another , in their determinations touching the right . so far only i shall adventure to interpose , in the particular doctrine advanced in this sermon by your lordship's chaplain ( whom i take to be the first that ever raised it from that text ) as with all deference to recommend it back to your lordship , with this only improvement , for the rendring it more apposite and edifying in the present case ; viz. that the neglect of the poor is as little an evidence of a true faith , in any body else ; as the care of them is a justification of a mistaken one , in mr. fermin . i am , most respectfully , my lord , your lordship 's most obedient servant , s. pepys . mr. pepys to the right honourable sir francis child, kt. lord mayor, and to the court of aldermen upon the present state of christ-hospital. pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. 1699 approx. 19 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2005-12 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a54298 wing p1451e estc r222474 99833641 99833641 38119 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a54298) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 38119) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2175:16) mr. pepys to the right honourable sir francis child, kt. lord mayor, and to the court of aldermen upon the present state of christ-hospital. pepys, samuel, 1633-1703. child, francis, sir, 1642-1713, recipient. city of london (england). court of common council, recipient. [6] p. s.n., [london : 1699] caption title. signed at end: s. pepys. dated at head: york-buildings, march 7th. 1698/9. [i.e. 1699] imprint from wing. copy stained, with heavy print show-through. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library, oxford. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng christ's hospital (london, england) -early works to 1800. orphans -england -london -early works to 1800. charities -england -london -early works to 1800. london (england) -economic conditions. -early works to 1800. 2005-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2005-07 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2005-08 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2005-08 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion mr. pepys to the right honourable sir francis child , kt. lord mayor , and to the court of aldermen , upon the present state of christ-hospital . york-buildings , march 7 th . 1698 / 9. my lord and gentlemen , that nothing may rest uncommunicated to this court , of what goes from me to that of christ-hospital ; any more than , by your allowance , i with-hold from them , ought of what i offer you : i here tender you a copy of a letter of mine thither , of the 25. of january . the contents of which bearing my farewel to them , as with all respect my purpose is in this to you ; i cannot but recommend the perusal thereof to this court ; as carrying with them such a representation of the perishing state of that house , in some fresh particulars essential to the well-being of it , as render it a thing little less than hopeless for me ( by ordinary means , at least ) any longer to think of saving it : after finding my self put to above seven months labour , in compassing only its treasurer's signing that one article of his account , which you had before had from him vnsign'd ; and more than ten , in finding passage only , through this court thither , to my late report of the state of the same . and what it is that may be look't-for from it , even now it is there , with a committee of few less than forty , and of them the majority such , as will find little work for them in it , but self-arraignment ; i submit to your lordship and this court. especially , when you shall be pleas'd to reflect upon the present circumstances of that house's government ; viz. vnder the guidance of a president , equal indeed to the worthiest of his predecessors , both in his general virtues , and special munificence to that place . but one , whose piety has out-liv'd his strength for being otherwise personally aidful to it , in any of the weightier duties of that charge . vnder a treasurer , who ( besides what you have elsewhere before you concerning him ) was also pleas'd to declare himself unable both in mind and body , for the longer execution of his office ; and therefore made his formal resignation of it , and had it as formally accepted-of from him in court there , above two years since . vnder the direction of gentlemen acting indeed as governours , and to whom as such i have for more than 23. years had the honour of reckoning my self a fellow-servant ; but are said to stand reported to you at this day by your learned council , not to be such , nor capable of being so , without ( what they have never yet had ) the confirmation of this court. and lastly , vnder an administration also on the part of your lordship and your honoured brethren , so gentle ; as to have suffer'd your orders thither , even in points the most important , to lye 7. months together wholly neglected , and your authority as openly renounc'd ; without having yet thought fit to have ought done ( within my notice at least ) in assertion of it . a reflection , my lord , as hard to be accounted-for , as in it self grievous . forasmuch as , if after so uninterrupted a jurisdiction , as has been always exercis'd by this court , and with a submission as constantly paid thereto from these hospitals ; if after so long a succession of gifts and bequests to them , and those to great values , in reliance upon the credit and authority of this court alone for their security ; if after so establish'd a veneration acquir'd to it , as guardians of these foundations , and particularly as the moral fathers of the orphans of this house , when in your easter and other solemnities , they , as your children , bear no small part in the honour of your processions ; and lastly , if after what in my particular i have been endeavouring herein for your service , and for the service of the poor ; this court shall appear to have been all this while thus credited and thus obey'd , without authority at this day , under the greatest of their miscarriages , to visit and reform them ; for so also your learned council are said to have determin'd . what must be thought of this mistake ? and particularly , how will the pious credulity of our princely founders and past benefactors be to be lamented ; and what more to be either hop'd or wish'd-for of them , on these terms , in time to come ? what must the apprehensions now be of those , whose subsistence rests upon the authority only of this court , for the payments that house stands charg'd with to their vse , out of the larger benevolences of their charitable auncestors ? or theirs ; whose debts of more modern date , lye unpaid ( many thousand pounds deep ) by that hospital at interest , upon no other security ? what is there to be rely'd-on of fruit from the retrospections said to be now on foot there , or those lying before your lordship and this court , from my report ? or in a word ; what to be hop'd-for either of satisfaction for so much of our poor's stock and benefactor 's bounties as has already miscarry'd ; or of better provision in time to come , for securing the remainder ? what , i say my lord , must the result of all this be , and how to be answerd-for ; should this court be so unhappy , as knowingly to permit such a foundation and its revenue to rest one day longer , in hands no otherwise qualify'd-for , nor better intitled to the trust of it ? while by a resolution of its own , not yet 16. months old , you have been pleas'd to declare your selves standing governours of the same , and ( as such ) required your being ( as anciently ) summon'd to every of its courts , and accordingly have ever since been so , and now are : to the entitling your selves ( i fear ) to a nearer concernment in the fate of it , than may have been yet sufficiently reflected-on ; and possibly , to an accountableness with them , for the good or bad events of their managements there . a consideration i am the more willingly your present remembrancer in , from the fresh endeavours said to be now on foot there , for resuming their old liberty of taking-in children , while unprovided of a bit of bread for those they now have , otherwise than by running into new debt , or length'ning their score of interest upon the old ; besides sacrificing the innocence of so many fresh infants , to the dissoluteness of manners now reigning , among those they are to be there mixed-with . the evil of whose contagion , and pressure of which debt , i take to be no otherwise removable , than by a total stop to be for some time put , to the occasions of both. an expedient , that i well know will at the first hearing be thought as impracticable , as in other respects extraordinary . but the case is extraordinary too ; and consequently , to restrain its remedy to ordinary methods only , is little other , than to leave it remedy-less . which i cannot think any gentleman , who hath the honour and trust of a governour there , will contentedly sit-down with , while furnish'd with any thing to offer towards the saving it , as ( for want of better ) i do this : and yet with an opinion so far from deeming it impracticable , as to reckon it a work neither of length nor difficulty ; if , in atonement for that misconduct of ours , by which , from the prosperity this house was in while under the care but of 16. governours with 500. children , it has been brought into the condition it now lies with 400. governours ( little more or less ) and but 400. children ; if ( i say ) in atonement for that misconduct , we would improve the opportunity of this nearness in our numbers , to the easing the house at once of the whole , by every governour 's taking to himself one : thereby leaving the income of it entirely free to the discharge of its debts , doing right to its founders and benefactors , and that being done , to the setting-out afresh , with a revenue clear'd , its discipline reform'd , and provision made for its future better conduct through the whole . and this i lay with all deference before your lordship and this court , as that without which , or some other aequivalent , i must avow my despair of ever seeing this unhappy house in the state it ought to be ; and therefore would be glad , with your concurrence and the concurrence of the gentlemen of that body , to be doing my part , either in this or any other effectual proposition , towards it . i am well aware , my lord , of the censure this fervor of mine may expose me to , as one overpressing in a cause , wherein others neither less interested nor less discerning than my self , are pleas'd to shew so little of the dissatisfaction i do ; and without any surprise on my side at it , as well remembring how little different my own sentiments were of it , while my knowledge thereof ( like theirs ) had no other direction , than the information of others . whereas no sooner was i engaged in the closer and more deliberate enquiries apply'd thereto of my own , but that indifference of mine was awaken'd to the degree of concernment i now profess ; and which , on like conviction , would be no less in any other , whose morals ( like mine ) know no middle , in matters of trust at least , between scrupulously iust , and down-right the contrary . or to speak more plainly ; between mixing my own hand in the ruin of this religious house , and sitting silently within view of its being brought-about , by the vanitie , supineness , prodigality , or self-interest of others . indulge me therefore , my lord , the liberty of this one only closing note to your lordship upon this subject . namely , that as the direction of the hospitals , has in all times hitherto been undeniably exercised by your honourable predecessors , in this place ; and as uninterruptedly submitted-to . so is it no less evident , that however an occasion has now ( after sevenscore years practice ) been administred to the questioning it ; your said predecessors , ( the lord mayor , commonalty , and citizens of london ) upon covenants first by them entered-into with k. edward vi. for the good government of them , were by his special charter of incorporation as governours thereof , furnished with all the powers requisite to the enabling them to make-good those covenants . in consideration of which , and in duty to your lordship , to the city , to this court , and to the poor , i cannot ( as a servant to all ) but most earnestly pray ; that this matter may without delay , be laid for remedy before that body corporate , where-ever it now rests ; in order to the preventing , if possible , any unnecessary recourse to methods extraordinary , for what should be thought attainable by ordinary . especially while , sitting a parliament , with so many of your own number , and of the hospital's , members therein , and with a bill already ( i take it ) before them , relating to charitable uses ▪ no reasonable supplement ought to be doubted from it , to that ordinary power : if any such can be judg'd wanting , after so illustrious a proof , as i have sometime since given you , of the issue of his lordship , the present lord chancellor's proceeding in the late memorable case of st. katharines 〈◊〉 proceeding i cannot but remind you of ; as well as of the check put but few years before at the great seal , to a visitation then offered-at , in a method less regular , in the case of st. thomas's . to conclude , my lord , this calamity of ours in our hospital-concernment is a spot not to be cover'd in our feasts of charity , once the glory of this city . and a spot not at the worst neither , but daily spreading , and daily deepening too , through every part of it . witness its appearance ( where least to have been lookt-for ) in the very last act of our treasurer's signing this account ; as giving you therein , his own hand in evidence against the truth of what you had had before from him vnsign'd ; and in which , as in all other its former editions , to my self , to the hospital , and from thence to the lords of the treasury , there had been suppress'd in the single article of sea wages , a sum no less than 1400 l. besides others of greater moment yet behind . and this too , notwithstanding repeated cautions to them concerning it ; and particularly in my last , whereof this brings you a copy . and since which ( as fresh at it is ) they have nevertheless adventur'd to ask , and actually received more than 700 l. upon that very head on which the treasurer has so lately own'd his having twice that sum of the king 's in his hand , yet to be accounted-for . be pleased therefore to think of some speedy prevention to the growth of this our reproach . and towards it , permit me only to say ; that as uneasy as the vndertaking may appear to others ; i see no cause of apprehending any thing of more difficulty needful towards it ( whether as to the due animadverting upon what is past , or better providing for what is to come ) than a right choice of a very few hands to be assign'd thereto , supported with an authority suited to the work , and powers requisite to the rendring their labours and determinations therein effectual . which being adjusted , and that only ; i should with great assurance of success , both readily and gladly pay the utmost of my personal service to the gentlemen so commission'd ; as well in detecting the errors of my own calculations ( and which for the poor's sake i could wish more , than i dare yet hope them to be ) as suggesting and applying adequate remedies , to what those gentlemen in their happyer enquirys may find truly needing the same . but if after all ( which god avert ) it should be our infelicity , even with the aid of that charter , not to have wherewith of our own to help our selves herein . the cause nevertheless is too sacred , both in it self , and as it is the king 's , to be permitted to sink , while within the support i have so often mention'd , of his own soveraign visitation ; and more particularly in what relates to himself within our care in the mathematical foundation ; by translating it , from the hands in which it now languishes , to those he is pleased to intrust with that of his own later erection , to the same royal purpose in the advancement of navigation , within his own palace and inspection at greenwich . i am in most respectful manner , my lord and gentlemen , your ever most faithful and obedient servant , s. pepys . 