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.
Geneva (Switzerland), Fills, Robert, fl. 1562.
❧For the two Secreataries of the Lieutenauntes courte.
THE petye counsell shall chose them, to present them to the two hundred which haue authority to ratifye the electiō or to make another withoute prolonging the tyme: and the office shalbe thre yere at the least excepte there happen death or a nota∣ble fault, enot wythstandynge in the tearme of thre yere there shalbe made a surueie, & the office perused if they ought to contynue therin: before they shall enter into ye possession they shall Page 49 make an othe before the counsell in maner folowing.
