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 15, 2024.

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¶The office of the threasorer.

THe threasorer shalbe present eueri day in ye counsell vpō paine afore∣said,

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and haue his voice as the other.

Item that he shall kepe secreate y which shalbe sayd or done in the coū∣sell, vpon the same paine that is set vpon the counsellers.

Item to receiue all the commō mo∣ney as well of the ordinarye reuenue, as the paynes of fines or other extra∣ordinarye sommes.

Item that he shall demaunde and receiue in due time and also yelde ac∣compte of that which shalbe due, ey∣ther by fermers, perticuler receyuers, or paines fines or reuenewes, as of al ather things, so that the towne haue no lacke by negligence.

Item if he cannot be payde with a good will, he shall constreyne the det∣ters by imprisonment withoute anye further delaye.

Item he shall delyuer no money to anie person but by commaundement, and hauing receiued commaundemēt he shall not delaye the tyme, so that there comme anye complaynte a∣gaynst him.

Item he shall render accomptes euery syxte monethe in the chamber

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of accomptes, & not to dyfferre ye time aboue sixe wekes ouer his terme.

Item in rendering of his accompts he shall shewe howe he receyued it, wt what modiaciō, Acte, or Ordinaunce, or by what vertue he hath receiued it.

Item concerning the things recey∣ued or paied, he shal shewe forthe the commaundementes with ye quittan∣ces vpon euery article.

Item y the accomptes may appeare more cleare, he shall set them downe in forme of a register.

When he shalbe deposed frō his of∣fice he shall render the accomptes wt in thre monethes: and if he be founde debitour, he shall render the remain∣der within sixe wekes, or otherwyse he shalbe kept in prison vnto the last ende of the paiment.

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