opinion concern the disposition of Sutton charity deliver unto king james may  it please your majesty I find it a positive precept of the old law that there  shall be no sacrifice without salt the moral whereof beside the ceremony may  be that God be not please with the body of a good intention except it be  season with that spiritual wisdom and judgement as it be not easy subject to  be corrupt and pervert for salt in the scripture be a figure both of wisdom  and learning this come into my mind upon this Act of mr Sutton which seem to I  as a sacrifice without salt have the material of a good intention but not  powder with any such ordinance and institution as may preserve the same from  turn corrupt or at the least from become unsavoury and of little use for  although the choice of the Feoes be of the best yet neither they can live  always and the very nature of the work it self in the vast and unfit  proportion thereof be apt to provoke a mis-employment it be no diligence of  they except there be a digression from that model that can excuse it from run  the same way that gift of the like condition have heretofore do for to design  the charter house a house r a prince habitation for a hospital as some shall  give a nourishing of a rich embroider cloak to a beggar and certain a man see  tanquam who ois ceruantur that if such a edifice with six thousand pound  revenue be rected into a hospital it will in small time degenerate to be make  a preferment of some great person to be master and he to take all the sweet  and the poor to be stint and take but the crumb as it come to pass in diverse  hospital of this realm which have but the name of hospital and be but wealthy  benefice in respect of the mastership but the poor which be the near quid  little relieyed and the like have be the fortune of much of the nourishing of  the Roman religion in their great foundation which be in vainglory and  ostentation have have their judgement upon they in the end in corruption and  abuse this meditation have make I presume to write these few line to your  majesty be no better then good wish which your majesty great wisdom may make  something or nothing of wherein I desire to be thus understand that if this  foundation such as it be be perfect and good in law then I be too well  aequainted with your majesty disposition to advice my course of power or  profit that be not ground upon a right nay further if the defect be such as a  court of equity may remedy and cure then I wish that as saint Peter shadow do  cure disease so the very shadow of a good intention may cure defect of that  nature but if there be a right and birth right plant in the heir and not  remediable by court of equity and that right be submit to your majesty whereby  it be both in your power and grace what to do then I do wish that this rude  mass and chaos of good deed be direct rather to a solid merit and durable  charity then to a blaze of glory that will not crackle a little in talk and  quick extinguish and this may be do observe the species of mr Sutton intent  though vary atom for it appear that he have in notion a triple good a hospital  a school and maintain of a preacher which individual resort toee general head  videlicet relief of the poor advancement of learning and the propagation of  religion now then if I shall see before your majesty in every of these three  kind what it be that be most want in your kingdom and what be like to be the  most fruitful and effectual use of beneficence and like to be least pervert  that I think shall be no ill scope of any labour how mean soever perform for  out of variety present election may be best ground concern the relief of the  poor I hold some number of hospital with competent good then any hospital of a  exorbitant greatness for though the course will be the more see yet the other  will be the more feel for if your majesty erect many beside observe the  ordinary maxim good quo common a god well choice may be make of those town and  place where there be most needs and so the remedy may be distribute as the  disease be disperse again greatness of relief accumulate in one place do  rather invite a swarm and surcharge of poor then relieve those that be natural  breed in that place like to ill temper medicine that draw more humour to the  part then they evacuate from it but chief I rely upon the reason that I touch  in the beginning that in those great hospital the revenue will draw the use  and not the use the revenue and so through the mass of their wealth they will  swift tumble down to a mis-employment and if any man say that in the two  Hospials of London there be a precedent of greatness concur with good  employment let he consider that these hospital have annual governor that they  be under the superior care and policy of such a state as the city of London  and chief that the revenue consist not upon certainty but upon casualty and  free gift will be miss if they appear once to be pervert so as it keep they in  a continual good behaviour and awe to employ they aright none of which point  do match with the present case the next consideration may be whether this  intend hospital as it have a more ample endowment then other hospital shall  not likewise work more in a better subject then other poor as that it shall be  convert to the use of maim soldier decay merchant and household age and  destitute churchman and the like who condition be of a better sort then lose  people and beggar deserve both a more liberal stipend and some proper place of  relief not intermingle and couple with the base sort of people which project  though spacious yet in my judgement will not answer the designment in the  event in these our time for certain few man which have be some body and bear a  mind somewhat accord to the conscience and remembrance of that they have be  will ever descend to their condition as to profess to live upon nourishing and  to become a corporation of declare beggar but rather will choose to live  obscure and as it be to hide themselves with some private friend so that the  end will be of such a intention that it will make the place a receptacle of  the worst idle and most desolate person of every profession and to become a  Cell of loiterer and cast servingman and drunkard which will rather give a  scandal then yield any fruit of the common wealth and of this kind I can find  but one example with we which be the nourishing knight of Windsor which  particular will give a man small encouragement to follow that precedent  therefore the best effect of hospitality be to make the kingdom if it be  possible capable of that law that there be no beggar in Israel for it be that  kind of people that be a burden a eyesore a scandal and a sort of peril and  tumult in a state but chief it be to be wish that such a beneficency towards  the relief of the poor be so bestow as not only the needy and naked poor shall  be sustain but also that the honest person which have have mean to live upon  with who the poor be now charge shall be in some sort ease for that be a work  general acceptable to the kingdom if the public hand of nourishing mighty  spare the private hand of tax and therefore of all other employment of that  kind I commend most the house of relief and correction which be mix hospital  where the impotent person be relieve and the sturdy beggar buckle to work and  the unable person also not maintain to be idle which be ever join with  drunkenness and impurity but be sort with such work as he can manage and  perform and where the use be not distinguish as in other hospital whereof some  be for age and imptent and some for child and some for correction of vagabond  hutare general and permiscous that must take of every for from the country as  the country breed they and thus the poor themselves shall find the provision  and other good people the sweetness of the abatement of the tax now if it be  object that house of correction in all place have not do the good expect as it  can be deny but in most place they have do much good it must be remember that  there be a great difference between that which be do by a settle ordinance  subject to regular visitation as this may and beside this the want have be  common in house of correction of a competent sum and certain estate for the  material of the labour which in this case may be likewise supply concern the  advancement of learning I do subscribe to the opinion of one of the wise and  great man of your kingdom that for grammar school there be already too many  and therefore it be no providence to add where there be excess for the great  number of school within your highness realm do cause a want and likewise cause  a overflow both of they be inconvenient and one of they dangerous for by mean  whereof they find want in the country and town both of servant for husbandry  and apprentice for Trade and on the other side there be more scholar breed  then the state can prefer and employ and the active part of that life not bear  proportion to the preparative it must needs fall out that many person will be  breed unfit for other vocation and unprofitable for that which they be bring  up which fill the realm full of indigent idle and wanton people which be but  means a thing new therefore in this point I can wish mr Sutton intention be  exalt a degree high that that which he mean for teacher of child your majesty  shall make for teacher of man wherein it have be my ancient opinion and  observation that in the university of this realm which I take to be both of  the best poled and of the best endow university of Europe there be nothing  more want towards the flourish state of learning then the honourable and  plentiful salary of reader in be and profession in which point as your majesty  bounty have already make a beginning so this occasion be offer of God to make  a proceed sure reader in the chair be as parent in science and desire to enjoy  a condition not inferior to the child that embrace the particular part else no  man will sit long in the chair then he can walk to a better preferment and it  will come to pass as Virgil say ut father not strong to bear back tenina born  for if the principal reader through the mean of their entertainment be but man  of superficial learning and that they shall take their place but ju passage it  will make the mass of science want the chief and solid dimension which be  death and to become but pretty and Compendious habit of practice therefore I  can wish that in both the university the lecture as well of the three  profession divinity law and physic as of the be of speech the Mathimatiques  and other be raise in their pension to l per annum a piece which though it be  not near so great as they be in some other place where the greatness of the  reward do wish for the able man out of all foreign part to supply the chair  yet it may be a portion to content a worthy and able man if he be  contemplative in nature as most of those spirit be that be fit for lecture  thus may learning in your kingdom be advance to a further height for learning  which I say under your majesty the most learned of king be so cherish may also  claim some degree of elevation thereby concern propagation of religion I shall  in few word set before your majesty three proposition none of they device of I  own otherwise then as fever approve they two of which have be in agitation of  speech and the three act the first be a college for controversy whereby we  shall not still proceed single but shall as it be double our file which  certain will be find good in the encounter the second be a receipt not  seminary in respect of the vain vow and implicit obedience and other thing  tend to the perturbation of state involve in that term of convert to the  reform religion either of youth or otherwise for I like not the word seminary  in respect of the vain vow and implicit obedience and other thing tend to the  perturbation of state involve in that term of convert to the reform religion  either of youth or otherwise for I doubt not but there be in Spain Italy and  other country of the papist many who heart be touch with a sense of those  corruption and acknowledgement of a better way which grace be many time  smother and choke through a worldly consideration of necessity to live there  man not know where to have succour and refuge here this likewise I hold a work  both of great piety and consequence that we also may be wise in our generation  and that the watchful and silent night may be use as well for sow of good seed  as tear the three thing be a imitation of a memorable and religious Act of  queen Elizabeth who find a part of Lancashire to be extreme backward in  religion and the benefice swallow up in impropriation do by decree in the  duchy court erect four stipend of l per annum a piece for preacher well choose  to help the harvest which have do a great deal of good in those part where  they have labour neither do there want other corner in the Raelm that for a  time will require the like extraordinary help thus have I brief deliver unto  your majesty my opinion touch the employment of Sutton charity whereby that  mass of wealth which be in the owner little better then a heap of mack may be  spread over your kingdom to many fruitful purpose your majesty plant and water  and God give the increase amen