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child_n	fatherless_a	let_v	widow_n	2,056	5	10.8885	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16281	The fardle of facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asia.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1-2. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae.; Waterman, William, fl. 1555?	1555 (1555)	STC 3197; ESTC S102775	133,143	358

bedtime let them testifie to the Lord his bounteous goodnes from the time of their deliueraunce oute of Egipte Forasmuche as thāckes giuinge of very nature is dewe and is had aswell to yelde recōpence for the benefites paste as to allure the like in time afterwarde Let them also write vpon their doores eche most notable benefite receiued of God and what soeuer may set forthe hie power and fauour towarde them Lette them beare them for broches on their cappes and braselettes on their armes and let them shewe them to all menne that goddes tendrenes towarde thē may on euery side be apparāt Lette there be chosen for euery citye seuen rulers exercised in all vertue and in the waye of equitie And to euery of those let ther be giuen two ministres of the Tribe of the leuites And let those whiche are appointed to ministre the lawes to the citie be had in all honour and reuerence So that no man be bolde to speake any wordes of dishonestie thei being present ne to behaue him self malapertly That this their reuerence towarde men of dignitie may make them more fearde to offende against God And let the iudges haue power to pronounce their sentēce excepte any man can shewe that thei are corrupted with money to peruerte the lawe or can bring any other cause to conuince them not to haue iudged a righte For it is not miete that such shoulde sitte in iudgement as will leane to lucre or dignitie but suche as preferre equitie before all other thinges For so might God seme to be smallie reputed amonge you and to be iudged of lesse aucthoritie then thei to whose sentence ye shoulde yelde your consente for feare of power The power of GOD is equitie He then that beareth in anye pointe with them that are of power for dignities sake enhaunseth their power aboue the power of GOD. But if the iudges be not able to determine in some race brought afore thē as amōge men it oftentimes happeneth let thē remitte the whole cause to the holy citie And let the highe priest the prophete and the counsell assēbled giue their sētence Cleaue not to the Testimonie of one witnes But of thre or twaine at the leaste suche as haue so liued that for their honestie thei maye be reputed credite worthy The woman shal not be admitted as a witnes for the lightenes and disshonest holdenes of that kinde No the bondemā shall haue no voice in matier of witnes for that he lacketh the francque noblenes of minde either for lucre or feare is like to testifie vntruthes If any shal be giltie of false witnes conuicted therof let him suffre the same that the personne should haue againste suffred whome he wytnessed If ther shall haue bene in any place a murder committed and neither the doer can be founde ne anye man suspected vpon malice to haue done it lette serche be yet made for the doer with al diligēce appointing rewarde to him who so euer shall detecte him But if then neither no mā shal disclose in the officers of the townes nexte vnto the place wher the murdre was done shall mesure the distaūce fro the plotte where the deade lieth And looke what towne shal be founde nexte therunto the rulers of the same shall leade a boughte cowe into a valley and place neither fitte for ploughe ne plante and shal cutte in two the senowes of the beaste in the houghes And the priestes and leuites and the counseille of that towne wasshinge ouer the heade of the oxe shall with loude voice protest that they neither did it ne ware present at the diede And to desire God to forbeare his wrathe and that neuer ther happen so heinous a diede in the londe agayne At this present ye are not gouerned by any kinge or any one man alone but by a nombre of the beste chosen out among ye The whiche of all gouernaunces is the beste and to liue vndre it passing all other liues Wisshe ye not then for anye other trade of cōmune wealthe but be ye cōtēted with this accōptinge your lawes for your lordes doyng al thinges acordīg vnto thē For god is sufficiēt enoughe to be your ruler But if ye shal be at anye tune desirous to haue a king ouer ye let him be of your bloude and suche a one as estiemeth righteousnes and all other vertues And let him not sticke to his owne wisedome but ordre all matiers of waight by the lawes and the lorde And let him do nothinge withoute the hyghe priest and the sentence of the counseille Neither let him be giuen to many mariages ne to seke aboundaunce of money and horses Whiche hauing obteined he maye waxe full of the lawe and vtterly contempne it And if ye perceiue that he busily seketh suche thinges lette him be cutte shorter that his power encreace not more thā is expediēt for you It shal be lawful for no man to remoue the boūde either of his owne londe or of other mennes with whome ye haue peace But let it be sene to that they maye continue in their steades as the sure markes of god there placed for euer For therof comme the warres and sedicion when the coueitous manne will encroche beyonde his boundes Yea who so thus ouerleapeth the bounde will not gretly sticke to ouerleape also the lawe He that planteth an horteyarde if the settes bring frute before the fourth yere let him neither yelde vnto God the firstlinges thereof ne occupie them to his owne vse For thei are comen in vndue time and soner then their nature permitteth And be nether miete for God ne the owner But in the fourthe frute haruest for then are thei seasonable lette him beare the whole gather into the holy city and let them be spente together with the tenth of all other frutes festing with his frindes the fatherles childe and the widowe And in the .v. yere he shall haue libertie to take to him self the profectes of his plantes Lette not the vineyarde be planted or sowen with aught elies For it is enoughe for the grounde to nourishe the vine to be free fro the labour of the ploughe Let the grounde be tylled with oxen and let none other beaste be yoked with them Yea let the ploughe be hande somed for them also acording to their sortes Lette your siede be moste piked and cleane pure and vnmingled nor lette them not be sowen by two or by thre sortes together For nature liketh not suche felowship of sondry kindes Neither shal ye put to your cattaille a male of adiuerse or contrarye kinde For it is to be feared lest therby the vnkindlie couplinge against kinde passe also at lengthe vnto men beginning at thinges of smalle regarde and so crieping on further Lertes ther is nothing to be suffr●d for other to folowe wherof mighte procede anye chaunge of your state But it behoueth you forasmuche as the lawes haue takē charge of the weightyer thinges to foresee with all