Ptōchomuseion [sic]. = The poore mans librarie Rapsodiæ G.A. Bishop of Exceter vpon the first epistle of saint Peter, red publiquely in the cathedrall church of saint Paule, within the citye of London. 1560. Here are adioyned at the end of euery special treatie, certaine fruitful annotacions which may properly be called miscellanea, bicause they do entreate of diuerse and sundry matters, marked with the nombre and figures of Augrime. 2.

Responsio.

You must vnderstand that there be three kindes of lots.

• 1. Diuisoria.
• 2. Consultoria.
• 3. Diuinatoria.

THe lot called Sors diuisoria, whether it be by casting of chaūces, by drawing of cuttes, by taking of balles, or anye other meanes, for ta∣king part of thinges deuided, is not vnlawfull, so that there be no super¦stition, no inuocation of sprites, nor looking for any euent or effect from the constellations or power of the Planets aboue.

Saint Austen in his booke De doctrina Christiana, writeth after this maner. Si forte fortuna duos haberes obuios, aequalis piaetatis at{que} neces∣sitatis, & tantum haberes quo solum alteri eorum subuenire posses. Ita

cōstitutus in ancipiti, nihil melius ageres, quam vt sortito deligeres, vtri benefaceres. Sic existimabis, quadam sorte hunc vel illum ex dei volun∣tate, tibi adiunctū esse, aliquo necessitudinis gradu. If thou chaūce (sayth he) to meete two persons equally to be pitied and releaued, & hast onely so much about thee, wherewith thou canst releaue but one of them, being so set in a certaine perplexitie and doubt, thou canst do no better then to cast lots, to which of them thou mayest dispose thine almes. So shalt thou iudge as it were by a certaine lot, whether this mā or that mā be nerest vnto thee, in some degre of kinred or friendspip.