Your common swearing, transgression of lawes,

Your troubling your neyghbours for every light cause

For this was the cause of the Kings death in dede,
And will be the Quenes without better hede.

Repent you officers all the deceytes

You vse in your paymentes and in your receytes,
Your bribe bought audites, your subtile surueyinges,
Your thevish accompts made by crafty conueyings,
Your robbing the rulers that put you in trust:
Repent, recompence to, hence forward be iust.
For that was the cause of the Kings death in deede,
And will be his sisters, without better heede.

Repent you false lawiers your racking and strayning To make all lawes serve to your gredy gayning, Your robbing the riche, your vndoing the poore, Your making the law and iustice an whore, Which no man enbrace may vntil she be solde For great mens fauours, or bye heapes of golde. For this was the cause of the kinges death in dede, And wil be the kingdomes without better hede.

Repent you marchantes your straunge marchandises
Of personages, prebends, auowsons of benefices,
Of landes, of leases, of office, of fees,

Your monging of vitayles, corne, butter, and cheese :
Your cariyng out good wares, and bringing such in
As sarve to no purpose, save bredyng vp sin.
For this was the cause of the kinges death in dede
And wil be his sisters without better hede.

Repent you caytifes your raysing of rent Your fines, your incoms, yet never at a stent. Your turning of tillage so much into pasture, That townes and towneships are ruyned past cure: Your wasting of woods, your ingrossing chepe wares, To make dearth of plenty, to encreace others cares. For this was the cause of the Kings death in dede, And wil be the kingdomes without better hede.

Repent you Judges your parciall iudgementes,
Your quitting the giltye, your quelling innocentes
For mede, for drede, for spite or for pleasure.
Repent you Rufflers thabuse of your treasure,
Your othes, your fury, your els many a cryme
Beside the expence of your bodyes and time.
For these wer a cause of the Kings death in dede
And wil be the kingdomes without better hede.

Repent you Leachers your dissolute lives,
Your causeles divorsing your true wedded wives,
Your crafty alluring the silly to sinne,
Your bying of Orphans to wed to your kin,

Your forcing of widdowes unwilling to mary

To cause brech of wedlocke, sith nedes they must vary:

For this was the cause of the kinges death in dede,
And will be the kingdomes without better hede.

To conclude, let eche man of every degree
Bewayle his offences what so ever they be,
And aske God forgevenes, and make recompens
To those he hath harmed through any offence:
For sure if we do not, such plagues wil ensewe,

As never cam yet vpon heathen nor Jewe.

For our sins were the cause of the Kings death in dede,
And wil be the kingdomes without better hede.

Sith we all already are gilty of murder,
Ceas we all for Gods sake, to sin any furder,
O sleye not our Soverayne, our most noble Queen,
Whose match in vertue hath seldome be seen,
But pray the almighty her life to defend.

Repent, recompence, pray, pay, and amend.

For if our sins send her to her brother,

Swift vengeance wil folow, let none looke for other.

Syrach the. x.

Because of vnrighteous dealing, of wrong, of blasphemies, & sundry deceytes, a Realme shalbe translated from one people to an other.

As a further addition to this Appendix, may be subjoined

A PRAYER SAYD IN THE KINGES CHAPPELL IN THE TYME of hys graces Sicknes, for the restauracion of his helth, commaunded

to be sayd there, by the right Honorable Erle of Bedford,

and mete to be used of all the Kinges trew sub

jectes. Set for the xix day of June.
M. D. LIII.

O ALLMIGHTY, and moste merciful Lorde, the onely lyfe and helth, of all theym that trust in thee, whhich workest saluacio in thy elect, as well by sicknes as other wise, and therfore bringest theim very lowe, and yet restorest to helth againe; look downe wyth thy pytyfull Eies vpon thy seruaunt Edward our Kyng, and vpon this Realme of England professing thi worde and holy name, & as thou didest moste fauorably deliuer King Ezechias fro extreame sicknes, and prolongedst his lyfe for the saluegarde of thy people the Israelites, & defendedst theim and the citie from the tyranny of the Assyras; so we moste entierlye appeale to thy great mercies, graciously to restore the helth and strẽgth agayne of thy seruaunt Edward our Soueraine Lorde, that as thou hast begonne by him the rooting out of Errour, Idolatry & Supersticion and the planting of trew Religion, trew worshippyng & veritie: so it may please thy mercyful goodnes, lõge to preserue hym for the confyrmacyõ & establishmẽt of the same, and also for the saulfgarde and defence of this Realme, from al outward & inwarde Enemies, for the glorye of thy holye name. Looke not herin (O Lorde) vpon our desertes, whyche for abusinge thy worde, and sinfulnes, deserue great punishmentes, but vpon thy plentiful mercyes, whyche rejoycest to heale the greatest myseries. Be no lesse fauorable (O Lorde) at this present, to Edward our kyng, restorynge thy trew Religion: then in times past to Ezechias refourmyng thy Religio. Be no lesse mercyfull to England thy Churche now: then in those dayes to Jury thy Churche than. But as thy heauěly grace hath ben more reueled in these dayes by the comyng of thy deare Sõne our Sauiour and mayster Chryste, and preachyng of the Gospell: so it may please thy fatherlye loue and goodnes, to bestow vpon vs more abundance of the same fauorable grace and mercy, according to thy wyl in this our huble request. Do thys most mercyful Father for thy owne names sake, and for the merytes and death of thy Sonne our only medyator and redeemer Jesus Christe. Amen.

Imprynted at London in Flete Strete, at the Sygne of the Rose Garland, by Wyllyam Copland.

No. VII.

LETTERS PATENT OF KING CHARLES II. IN RELATION TO THE

FOUNDATION OF THE ROYAL MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL.

CHARLES THE SECOND by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To our right trusty and welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Thomas Lord Viscount Osborne our High Treasurer of England And to our High Treasurer of England for the tyme being To our right trusty and wel beloved Councellor Sir John Duncombe Knight Chancellor and Undertreasurer of our Court of Exchequer And to the Chancellor and Undertreasurer of our Court of Exchequer for the tyme being And to the Chamberlaynes and Barons of our Court of Exchequer now and for the tyme being And to all other the officers and Ministers of our Revenue and Receipt there now and for the tyme being And alsoe to the Mayor and Comonalty and Cittizens of the Citty of London Governors of the Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospitalls of Edward King of England the Sixth of Christ Bridewell and Saint Thomas the Apostle And to all others to whome these presents shall come or whome itt shall or may in any wise concerne greeting WHEREAS itt would bee a worke of great piety and Charity in itt selfe and of extraordinary benefitt and advantage To all our dominions if such a distinct foundacon were layd in the said Hospitall called Christs Hospitall and such an Establishment made as might bee a convenient provision for the mayntenance of forty Poore Boyes in the said Hospitall whoe having attained to competent [skill] in the Grammer and Comon Arithmatique to the Rule of Three in other Schooles in the said Hospitall may bee fitt to bee further educated in a Mathematicall Schoole and there taught and instructed in the Art of Navigacon and the whole Science of Arithmatique untill their age and competent proficiency in those parts of the Mathematiques shall have fitted and qualified them in the judgment of the Master of the Trinity House for the tyme being to bee initiated into the practices of Navigation and to bee bound out as Apprentices for seaven yeares to some Captaines or Comanders of Shipps And that as soon as any shall dye or be Bound out Apprentices as aforesaid Care bee taken to supply theire

number out of such other Poore Boyes within the said Hospitall as shall bee fitt for such kinde of Educačon KNOW yee therefore that wee being desirous to promote so pious and publique a worke Of our especiall grace certain knowledge and meere močon HAVE erected founded constituted ordayned appointed and established And by these presents for us our heires and Sucessors DOE erect found constitute ordaine appoint and Establish a Mathematicall Schoole to bee held from tyme to tyme and for ever contynued within the said Hospitall called Christ's Hospitall within which Schoole there shall alwayes bee kept and mayntained one School Master well skilled and experienced in the Mathematiques and more especially in the Science of Arithmatique and Art of Navigačon And Forty Poore Boyes in Blew Coates which said Forty Poore Boyes shall bee for ever called or knowne by the name of the Children of the NEW ROYALL FOUNDACON and shall be taken and chosen out of the whole number of Blew Coate Boyes within the said Hospitall and shall weare such kinde of Badges and Cognizances upon theire Blew Coates As Wee our heires and Sucessors for the better distinguishing of them from other Blew Coates in the said Hospitall shall thinke fitt to appoint from tyme to tyme AND MOREOVER WE HAVE given and graunted and by these presents for us our heires and sucessors DoE give and graunt unto the Mayor Comonalty and Cittizens of London Governors of the Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospitalls of Edward King of England the Sixth of Christ Bridewell and Saint Thomas the Apostle and theire Successors for ever That it shall and may bee lawful to and for the said Governors and theire Sucessors from tyme to tyme to elect nominate and appoint such Person as they shall thinke fitt to be School Master of the said Mathematicall Schoole And the person soe elected nominated and appointed from tyme to tyme remove and displace arbitrarily and according to theire free will and pleasure And alsoe to elect and nominate out of the whole number of Blew Coat Boyes within the said Hospitall forty such as have attained to a competent skill in Grammer and Comon Arithmatique as farre as the Rule of Three and them to place in the said Mathematicall Schoole to be further instructed in Arithmatique and Navigačon and to weare such Badges and Cognizances on theire Blew Coates as shall be appointed for the Children of the NEW ROYALL FOUNDACON and as often as any of them shall dye or bee Bound out Apprentices or otherwise removed To elect and nominate others in theire Roomes out of the whole number of Blew Coate Boyes within the said Hospitall qualified as aforesaid AND for the better support and mayntenance of the said School Master and the children of the New Royall Foundacon As alsoe for defraying all other the incident Charges and Expences which shall from tyme to tyme bee found necessary for the carrying on of so great a worke and for the accomplishing the severall ends and purposes herein before and after mentioned WEE OF OUR