The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills.
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The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills.
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Geneva (Switzerland)
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Printed at London :: By Rouland Hall [and Thomas Hacket], dwellyng in Gutter Lane, at the sygne of the halfe Egle and the Keye,
1562.
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Church discipline -- Early works to 1800.
Ecclesiastical law -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- Early works to 1800.
Church and state -- Switzerland -- Early works to 1800.
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"The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01594.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.
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¶The election of the petye or smale counsell.
THe mondaie folowing, the fower
newe elected Sendiques with the
olde, and the threasorer, shall as∣semble
together with the two hun∣dred,
and after they haue made exhor∣tacion
and praier, and the othe, they
shall recite the rowle of the yere past:
and whom they wil haue to continue
in their office: the other to be put of.
Neuertheles ye fower auncient Sen∣diques
shall continue withoute con∣trouersye,
excepte they haue commit∣ted
faultes worthy of reprehension in
the time of their gouernement.
If that anye be put of by the moste
voices, there shalbe no other put in
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their places sodenly, but the smale
counsell whyche shalbe chosen, shall
name in number double, yt is to say
two for one, to take which shall seme
good to thē, or to chose by their iudge∣mēt,
as hath ben said of ye Sēdicques.
If it happen that anye counsellour
dye, there shall none succede hym in
place vntyll the next yere, excepte it
be by pestilence, or by other inconue∣niences,
yt ye nūber be so sore dimini∣shed
yt the coūsell shalbe vnfurnished.
The election done, all shall come
and make their othe before they set
downe, principallye the newe elected
as the other hath done before.
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