A ciuile nosgay wherin is contayned not onelye the offyce and dewty of all magestrates and iudges but also of of [sic] all subiectes with a preface concernynge the lyberty of iustice in this our tyme newly collected and gethered out of latyn and so translated in to the Inglyshe tonge by I.G.

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A ciuile nosgay wherin is contayned not onelye the offyce and dewty of all magestrates and iudges but also of of [sic] all subiectes with a preface concernynge the lyberty of iustice in this our tyme newly collected and gethered out of latyn and so translated in to the Inglyshe tonge by I.G.
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Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.
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[[London] :: Imprynted by me Robart wyer, for Ihon goodale,
[1550?]]
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Political science -- Early works to 1800.
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"A ciuile nosgay wherin is contayned not onelye the offyce and dewty of all magestrates and iudges but also of of [sic] all subiectes with a preface concernynge the lyberty of iustice in this our tyme newly collected and gethered out of latyn and so translated in to the Inglyshe tonge by I.G." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07402.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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¶ Te contentes of this boke.

IN the fyrst Chapiter, what is fea¦re and what is Iustice.

¶ In the .ii. the kyndes of Iu∣stice and howe offices shulde be gyuen and dystrybuted.

¶ In the .iii. what is the lawe of natu∣re, and the positiue lawe.

¶ In the .iiii. it is a deadlye synne to violate the ciuil lawes that is to say the dictes of ciuill magestrates.

¶ In the .v. what is to take the sworde.

¶ In the .vi. what is the power or auc∣toryte of the magestrates.

¶ In the .vii. what is the deuersyte be∣twene the rigore of the law and equite.

¶ In the .viii. howe equite and howe a meane shulde be in our doinges.

¶ In the .ix. whether a Iudge ought to iudge accordyng to equite or accor∣dynge to the lawe wrytten.

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¶ In the .x. whan ygnoraunce excu∣seth offence.

¶ In the .xi. what be voluntary offen∣ces and not voluntntary offenses.

¶ In the .xii. whether it be leful for pre¦uate persons to kyll tyrans, that is to say cruell offycers.

¶ In the .xiii. what is the temporall power and spirituall power.

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