ADVICE TO THE KING, 



TOUCHING 



MR. SUTTON S ESTATE. 



MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, 



I FIND it a positive precept of the old law, that there 

 should be no sacrifice without salt: the moral whereof, 

 besides the ceremony, may be, that God is not 

 pleased with the body of a good intention, except it 

 be seasoned with that spiritual wisdom and judgment, 

 as it be not easily subject to be corrupted and per 

 verted : for salt, in the Scripture, is a figure both of 

 wisdom and lasting. This cometh into my mind 

 upon this act of Mr. Sutton, which seemeth to me as 

 a sacrifice without salt ; having the materials of a 

 good intention, but not powdered with any such 

 ordinances and institutions as may preserve the same 

 from turning corrupt, or at least from becoming 

 unsavory, and of little use. For though the choice 

 of the feoffees be of the best, yet neither can they 

 always live ; and the very nature of the work itself, 

 in the vast and unfit proportions thereof, being apt 

 to provoke a misemployment ; it is no diligence of 

 theirs, except there be a digression from that model, 

 that can excuse it from running the same way that 

 gifts of like condition have heretofore done. For to 

 design the Charterhouse, a building fit for a prince s 



