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.

¶Of the office of Capitaines, Ban∣deretts and Dyzners.

THE Capitaine generall shalbe diligente and vigillant ouer all the towne, he shall gather no as∣semblie suspecte, nor make any con∣uenticle, whiche maye be a prepara∣tiue to sedicion, tumulte, or mutine∣tie, and the perticuler Captaynes, Banderettes and Dizners, shall doe the lyke, euerye one in his office and quarter.

Item, yf any such lyke thyng hap∣pen, or that there be beginninges of trouble, the Captaine generall shall take hede to it betymes and aduertise the counsell.

Item, if the perticuler Captaitnes shall firste perceyue it, they shall doe the lyke, enformyng the Seniors, or their Generall to make their reporte as shall seme good to them.

Item, thei shall watche euerye one in his office that there be no disorder or insolence, and that the Burgeses and Inhabitants gouerne them sel∣ues honestlye in their housholdes, without noyse, trouble, or brauling,

and if any do the contrary, they shall admonishe him, and if that admonis∣sion profit not, they shall make their reporte to the Captayne or Seniors.

Item, if there happen any daunger or inconuenience in the towne, they shalbe alwayes readye for defence of the same, when commaundement shalbe geuen them.

Neuertheles, it shal not be lawful to the Capitaine or Banderet to assem¦ble men, or to arme any, without ex∣presse commaundement of the coun∣sell, except there happen some sodein assaulte without, in the whiche case thei shal doe their office, whyle in the meane tyme, the counsell maye pro∣uyde more largely.

Item, to the ende that the towne shal not be vnprouided, the Capitain general shal not enterprise any farre voyage, as to bee aboue eyght dayes absent without speciall lycense.

Item, that eche of them and espe∣cially the Dizners, shall be diligent that the Proclamations and Ordi∣naunces of the counsell, as well for the reformation of the church, as for

the ciuile estate, that thei may be wel obserued: & if any doe the contrarye, they shal aduertise the Seniorie.

Item that euery Dizener shal make euery halfe yere a roule of all the bur¦geses and inhabitauntes within his diznarie comprehended, with all the housholdes makyng fyre aparte, & to present the said roule to the counsel.

Item, that once a yere the captain generall accōpanied w^t the captaines perticulers and Dizners, eche in his quarter, shall make visitation from house to house, to know if the Burge¦ses and Inhabitauntes be furnished with armour as it appertayneth for the defence of the towne.