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 office charge and power of the lordes Sendicques.

THe foure Sendicques shalbe con∣tynually resident in the towne, during y yere of their Sendicate, not so muche as anye of them to de∣parte oute of the towne, to lodge oute of ye towne, not for one night, excepte he let it be knowen to ye others: & that none of them doe enterprise any farre iourney, to be sixe or eighte daies ab∣sent, wythoute the leaue of the counsell.

Item that euery daye they shal ga∣ther thē selues to gether after dinner, yt is to saye at one of y clocke, to con∣sulte vpon that whiche shalbe to doe, and to put order their in, and also to put those thinges in execution which hath been concluded by the counsell.

Item vpon the ordinarie daies that the counsel is holden, the Sendicques shalbe the first in the towne house▪ as wel to shewe good enspāle vnto other as to deliberate together of those

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things which they will doe.

Item if anye thinge happen which requireth the assemblie of the coūsel, they shall gather them selues toge∣ther to doe those thinges which shal∣be nedefull.

Item in things which shal require their presence in dyuers places at one tyme, they shal deuyde them selues in suche sorte as eche of them maye be where it shalbe expedient.

Item if it happen any publike noise as fyre, tumulte, or other like, that ye firste Sendicque shall come inconty∣nent into the towne house, and shall cōtinue there, waiting for the newes which shalbe brought him, to y ende to assemble the counsell from hower to hower if nede shalbe, or otherwyse to dispose according as necessitie shal require: and that the other thre shall runne hastely vnto the place where ye dainger shalbe, and moreouer hauing seen the thing, two shall disseuer, one on the one syde of the towne and the other on the other syde, to visyte and kepe the streates, corners and ye gates if nede shalbe, and the thirde shal con∣tinue

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vpon the daūger, vntyll it shal∣be apesed, or otherwise.

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