Londons doue: or A memoriall of the life and death of Maister Robert Doue, citizen and marchant-taylor of London and of his seuerall almesdeeds and large bountie to the poore, in his life time. He departed this life, on Saterday the 2. day of this instant moneth of May, 1612.
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- Londons doue: or A memoriall of the life and death of Maister Robert Doue, citizen and marchant-taylor of London and of his seuerall almesdeeds and large bountie to the poore, in his life time. He departed this life, on Saterday the 2. day of this instant moneth of May, 1612.
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- Nixon, Anthony.
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- London :: Printed by Thomas Creede, for Ioseph Hunt, and are to be solde at his house in Bedlam, neere Moore-field Gate,
- 1612.
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- Subject terms
- Dove, Robert, d. 1612.
- Philanthropists -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
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"Londons doue: or A memoriall of the life and death of Maister Robert Doue, citizen and marchant-taylor of London and of his seuerall almesdeeds and large bountie to the poore, in his life time. He departed this life, on Saterday the 2. day of this instant moneth of May, 1612." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08252.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.
Contents
- title page
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR IOHN SWINNERTON KNIGHT, ONE of the Aldermen of the honorable Citie of London.
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LONDONS DOVE, OR THE MIRROVR OF MARCHANT-TAYLORS.
- Of 13. aged men, to whom he giues yearely 20. nobles a peece, and at the end of euery three yeare, to each man a gowne.
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Of his Charitie to threescore poore Widowes, in the Parish of
Saint Buttolphes withoutAlgate, and to sixe men, who haue euerie three yeeres seuerall Cloakes, and foure Nobles aeere for euer. -
Of his Charitie to
Bedlam andBride-well, The Hospitall of S. Bartholmews, andSaint Thomas Hospitall inSouthwarke. - That Prysoners haue beene relieued and re∣leased out of the prisons of Newgate: The Counters and Ludgate by the riches of his gift.
- Of his Charitie to poore young be∣ginners of the Company of Marchant∣taylours.
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Of his bountie to the Prisoners of
New-gate, and his prouision for the Tolling of the Bell, atS. Sepulchers, for condemn'd per∣sons, which gifte is to continue for euer. -
Of the maintenance giuen by him vnto cer∣taine Schollers, in
Saint Iohn Baptist Col∣ledge inOxford. - Of the bountie and charitie of Maister Doues to the Schoolmaister and Schollers of Christs Hospitall in London.
- Of his charitie to the citie of Bristow, and a relation of some other his seuerall bounties.
- The manner of his Departure out of this World, and his desire to bee with God.