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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68491	A pleasant dialogue. betweene a lady called Listra, and a pilgrim Concerning the gouernment and common weale of the great prouince of Crangalor. 1579.	T. N., fl. 1579.; Nicholas, Thomas, b. ca. 1532, attributed name.	1579 (1579)	STC 18335.5; ESTC S110071	9,624	36

railing to the Iustice house saying to the Iudge syr how chaunst you remembred not both my right pot of Conserua Yes quoth the Iudge I remember them bothe but as for your Conserua there came a Hog threw down your pot ye spilt it so that I neuer found any sweetenes therein Mary sir quoth the Poticary a murraine and a pestilence take such a Hog that spilt both my Iustice and Conserua So that Madam I tell you this merry tale to the ende that you may know how in this happy Lande it preuaileth not for the ritch to say I haue a fat purse for why the good Iudges hath so great a feare of God and the Prince that no corruption can auaile And certainely the godly Diuines are a great cause thereof for they will not let to tell all estates their faultes by some honest meanes by reason whereof they doo well know that they thēselues shall come to iudgement and be Iudged so that according to the oppinion of S. Ierom they haue dayly the sounde of the Trumpet in their eares that shall call to Iudgement And this is the principall cause that they do liue in the feare of God and are blessed L. I doo most highly praise this godly rule and order But how are Criminall matters decided P. Forsoothe Madam the Iudges which haue the charge of Criminall matters doo likewise sit all the whole yeare in the iudiciall place but as I sayde before festiuall dayes excepted These Iudges vse great pollicye to searche out the troth against any accused of crime and the troth manifestly knowen the offence is corrected with greeuous punishment but otherwise they haue great feare of shedding innocent bloud by reason whereof euery prisoner is permitted to haue an aduocate make exceptions against his accusers And when any offender is condemned to suffer paines of death he hath three dayes respite to repent his former life they also haue good men that neuer leaueth perswading them earnestly to repent and only to stick vnto the mercy of our Lord Iesus Truely Madam I haue seene some dye with such penitent humble harts that any good Christian would haue cōmended their constant faith L. Sure this is a charitable act P. I must needes confesse Madam that the people in this Country are fully perswaded that there are but two wayes of eternitye the one leadeth vnto perpetual ioy and euerlasting felicity and the other to euerlasting horrible and vnquenchable hell sier the which bothe places shall haue no end whilest God is God and that is infynite L. The name of Iesus be praised for such a Country and people P. Also Madam whilest I abode in Crangalor I saw three persons punished the one was a woman and she was conuicted of Sorcery Witchcraft but no hurt doone by her to either man or beast approoued yet for her dealing in that arte she was condemned The execution was she was set vpon an Asse her body naked vnto her Nauill and annoynted all ouer with Honny the which was beset full of small Feathers of Downe with a Miter on her head of a yarde long and in this sorte she rode about the streets accustomed with a Trumpet blowen before her and a Cryer manifesting her offence An other was punished for periury this man rode likewise vpon an Asse about the accustomed streetes but not naked And in the Market place there was a Barbor attending for hym with his Instruments and there he was foreced to open his mouthe and all his teeth being accoumpted the Barbor drew out euery fifthe toothe in such sort Madam that neither money nor friendship can redeeme any punishment in that Countrey The thyrde person that I saw punished was a wittoll and he I say rode vpon an Asse about the sayd streetes with a Hartes horne on his head ful of small Bels and his wife rode alter whipping him and then followed the hangeman whipping them bothe L. O moste happy Land where vice is so punished But I pray you say father the poore Prisoners that are imprisoned for det are they put in yrons P. No Madam for there they hold opinion that none ought to were Yrons but such as hath cōmitted odious crimes for otherwise say they the Iaile is no other thing but onely a safe custody L. Yet they pay fees for their Yrons P. Alas Madā God forbid for thinke you that it were a iust cause that a poore man who hath fallen into debt by sundry mishaps should now in prison be punished with fees of Yrons and incurre into a new debt nay they hold such vsage for abhominable extorcion and a thinge odious in the sight of God L. But yet I thinke they paye eighteene pence a day for their meate and a groate for their bead or at the least twelue pence a day and a groate for their bead P. That also Madam is holden for an abominable vse But troth it is that any Prisoner for debt may bring his bead his meate and drink from whence he wil. And if he be so poore that he hath nothing wherewith to maintaine himselfe Then the house of charitie prouided for such a one L. What fees hath the Iayler then P. Forsooth syxe pence for euery Prisoner and also a yearely stipend of the Cittizens sufficient to mainetaine an honest man L. I haue father Pilgrim throughly vnderstood all your talke But now I pray you how dooth the Notaries Skriueners and such like officers vse themselues P. Madam I must also commend their vsage for why you shall vnderstand that euery Notary Scriuener or suche like officer concerninge either temporall or ecclesiasticall affaires haue their offices from the Prince for a certayne summe of money vnder the Princes Seale the which offices each one dooth enioye for terme of life except he make resignation thereof to his sonne or some other friend fifteene dayes or more before his death and for wante of suche resignation the ofcie commeth againe to the Prince but in effect euer such officer geueth sufficient Sureties to the Prince for the true and faithfull executing of his office by meane where of all false wrytinges and abhominable deceipts are vtterly banished More euer euery such Notary or Scriuener hath his bookes of Recordes wherein the parties obliged dooth set their firmes and seales with two or three witnesses which testifye that they do know that the parties so obliged are the very selfe same men to auoide all collusion This doon the Scriuener vnder his firme and sygne geueth the partie creaditor the copye of the Bonde which is auaileable and pleadeable in Lawe the cause hereof is to auoide all subtutie for many times poore men by some sinister meane or casualty hath his writings stollen enbesseled burned or loste yet were it not iust that those men should lose their right and title In consideration whereof the originall matters remayneth aliue in the sayde Scriueners bookes in order aforesayde Euery Obligation contayneth a sheete of Paper neere