¶Howe the lieutenant ought to gouerne in matters of imprisonment.
FOR the execusion of hys letters & for default or contumasye as hath bene sayde, he hathe aucthorytye to imprison.
Item for the transgression of cryes
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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- 1562.
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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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or proclamations, in case that the of∣fender deserue punnishement, for the lieutenaunt is the executour of pro∣clamacions.
Item at the request of anye whiche wilbe partye accuser against another he shall set him prisoner with him.
Item in matters of crimes, be it strife, fighting or violence, if ye plain∣tife come to him and the person whom he complaineth of be suspect of flieng, excepte it be a man resydent in the towne hauing goodes and houses, he shal not laie hand vpon him before he haue notified it to one of the Sendic∣ques, and hath had his permission.
Moreouer he hath no power to deli∣uer or set at libertie a prisoner which hath ben taken for other causes then ciuill, and apperteyning to his tribu∣nal, but incontinent as he hath shut vp any in case as hath bene said, that he notyfie it.