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 blaspheming.
Item y• no maner of person doe blas∣pheme Page 80 ye name of god vpō payne, the first time to kisse ye groūd & 24. houres in prisō wt bread & water & to pay fiue shil: for ye second time to kisse yt groūd & two daies in prisonmēt wt breade & water & .10. shil: for yt third time to be imprisonned .3. daies wt bread & water & lx. shil: & further to be pūished & cha¦stised accordīg as y• case requireth. Item ye no maner of persō doe renoūce or dispit god, vpō paine of a great fine & to stād wt a torch ī his hād, & if any doe resist these ordinaūces, yt besyde ye same paine or forfeit to be imprisoned and chastised accordinge as the case requireth
