Diary of John Manningham Part 5

_Sit modus amoris sine modo._

_Beatus est, Domine, qui te amat propter te, amic.u.m in te, et inimic.u.m propter te._

Quere 3. (1.) _Quere Deum et non aliud tanquam illum._ (2.) _non aliud praeter illum._ (3.) _non aliud post illum._

_Diuitiae non sunt bonae, quae te faciant bonum, sed unde tu facias bonum._

Beda interpreted those letters, S. P. Q. R. written upon a gate in Rome, _Stultus Populus Quoerit Romam_, intimating they were but fooles that went thither for true relligion.

Yf Christ had thought well of wealth he would not have bin soe poore himselfe. He was _pauper in ingressu_, borne in a manger; _in progressu_, not a hole to hide his head in; _in egressu_, not a sheet of his owne to shroude him in.

The covetous persons like the seven leane kine that eate up the seven fatt, and yet remaine as ill favoured as before.

Yf thou carest not to liue in such a house as h.e.l.l is, yett feare to dwell with such a companion as the Divel is.

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SERCHEFEILD OF ST. JOHNS IN OXFORD.[33]

[Footnote 33: Dr. Rowland Searchfield, Bishop of Bristol from 1619 to 1622. (Wood's Athenae, ii. 861.)]

_Cursus celerimus, saepe pessimus._

_Sit opus in publico, intentio in occulto._

A dissembled Christian, like an intemperate patient, which can gladly heare his physicion discourse of his dyet and remedy, but will not endure to obserue them.

_Minus prospere, qui nimis propere._

MR. SCOTT, TRINIT. CANT'BR.

_Dum sumus in corpore peregrinamur a Domino._

_Non contemnenda sunt parva, sine quibus non consistunt magna._

The soules of the just men are like Noahs doue sent out of the arke; could finde noe resting place upon the earth.

He that hath put on rich apparrail will be carefull he stayne it not; he that hath put on Christ as a garment must take heede he soile not himself with vices.

An high calling is noe priviledge for an impious action.

All our new corne comes out of old feilds, and all our newe learning is gathered out of old bookes. (_Chaucer._)

Words spoken without consideracion are like a messenger without an errand.

Our owne righteousnes at the best is but like a beggars cloke, the substance old and rotten, and the best but patches.

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AT BRADBORNE WITH MY COSEN THIS CHRISMAS. 1601.

My cosen[34] told me that Mr. Richers would give his cosen Cartwright 8,000_l._ for his leas of the abbey of towne Mallinges, the Reversion whereof the L. Cobham hath purchased of hir Majestie.

[Footnote 34: The cousin alluded to, and frequently vouched as an authority by the Diarist, was Richard Manningham, esq. of Bradbourne in East Malling, Kent. He survived his wife, who is mentioned in this page, and died 25th April 1611, aet. 72.]

An old child sucks hard; _i.[e.]_ children when they growe to age proue chargeable.

Peter Courthope said it would be more beneficiall yf our woll and cloth were not to be transported but in colours; but my cosen[35] said we may as well make it into clokes and garmentes, as dye it in colours before we carry it ouer; for both variable, and as much change in colour as fas.h.i.+on.

[Footnote 35: Cousin Richard Manningham had been a successful merchant in London. Hence the importance evidently attached to his remarks on Subjects connected with commerce and foreign countries.]

JANUARY.

To furnishe a s.h.i.+pp requireth much trouble, But to furnishe a woman the charges are double.

(_My cosens wife said._)

The priviledge of enfranchising anie for London is graunted to every alderman at his first creation for one: to every sherif for 2: to every maior for 4. (_Cosen._)

And almost any man for some 40_l._ may buy his freedome, and these are called free by redemption.

If a man prentice in London marry, he shall be forced to serve of his time, and yet loose his freedome. But yf a woman prentice marry, shee shall onely forfayte hir libertie, but shall not be forced to serve.

(_Cosen._)

To be warden of the Companie of Mercers is some 80_l._ charge; to be one of the livery, a charge but a credit. A bachelor is charged at the Maiors feast some 100 markes.

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Jan. 1601.]

The Flus.h.i.+ngers wanting money, since hir Majesties tyme, and while they were our friends, seised certayne merchant s.h.i.+ps [and] forced them to give 40,000_l._ The merchants complayned but could not be releived.

Oftymes the Princes dutys are defrayed with the subjectes goods.

Sir Moyle Finche of Kent married Sir Frauncis Hastinges daughter and heir,[36] worth to him 3,000_l._ per annum. All his livinge in Lincolns.h.i.+re and Kent, &c. worth 4,000_l._ per annum. (_Dene Chapman._)