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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Title: 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.
Author: Geneva (Switzerland)
Publication: Printed at London :: By Rouland Hall [and Thomas Hacket], dwellyng in Gutter Lane, at the sygne of the halfe Egle and the Keye,; 1562.
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Subject terms: Church discipline -- Early works to 1800.; Ecclesiastical law -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- Early works to 1800.; Church and state -- Switzerland -- Early works to 1800.
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¶Against dissolute and wicked behauiour.

Item y^t no maner of person be so har∣dy to vse whoring, drōkenes, or rūne idely by y^e streats, or to spend his time folishly, or to w^tdraw them selues frō their occupaciō or facultie, but y^• eue¦ry persō shal trauaile & be occupied in his vocaciō, vpō paine to be pūished by iustice, accordīg as y^e case requireth.