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A19232	The commonvvealth and gouernment of Venice. VVritten by the Cardinall Gasper Contareno, and translated out of Italian into English, by Lewes Lewkenor Esquire. VVith sundry other collections, annexed by the translator for the more cleere and exact satisfaction of the reader. With a short chronicle in the end, of the liues and raignes of the Venetian dukes, from the very beginninges of their citie; De magistribus et republica Venetorum. English	Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.	1599 (1599)	STC 5642; ESTC S108619	143,054	250

glorious church which is now there to be seene In the yeare 1202. they gat the Iland of Crete now The times of their conquestes called Candia which did before pertaine to the Emperour of Constanstinople also vnder Otto the 3. Emperour of that name they adioyned to their dominion many other Ilands and cities principally Parence Pole Arbu Coricte Corcyre now called Corphu Pharo also nowe called Lesima and many other citties where Pyrats had their receipt Some few years after the Turke began to make wars vpon them and taking from them the fayre cities of Tirachum in Albany and Croy in Slcauonia did so abase them and bring them to such a diffidence of their strength that to obtaine his frendship they were faine to giue him 13. fayre cities which they had conquered and wonne from the Emperour of Greece besides Cosdre a most goodly cittie of Albany in the yeare 1400. they got Vincensa that appertaitained to the Vicount of Mylan in the year 1472. they got Padoua and Verona from the Romaine Empire in the yeare 1402. they possessed themselues of the realme of Cipres some say by a detestable and vnchristian practise which was in order as followeth The heires males of right and lawfull line fayling The historie of the vniust practise vsed by the Vene tians in their possession of Cipies in Cipres Lews D. of Sauoy hauing married Charlot the lawfull daughter to king Ihon was called and receiued of all with great joy as their king Iaques bastarde brother to the said Charlot finding himselfe too weak to resist the said Duke of Sauoy fled with his friends into Alexandria to demaund aide of the Souldan Iaques was a young Gentleman of two and twentie yeares of age of a comely stature and very beautifullpersonage the Souldan was moued with his presence and prayers promising him succour did presently apparrell him with royall ornamentes proclaming him his tributarie king of Cipres and withall commaunded the Duke of Sauoy to get him home into his owne countrie who sent him backe a very submisse embassage with fauour and humble wordes offering him his perpetuall loue and seruice and a yearesy tribute and withall a yearely pension of tenne thousand crownes to Iaques during his life the matter was long debated of in the Councell of the Souldan who was sundry times inclining to the acceptation ofthese offers but in the ende such were the perfwasions and instant meanes vsed by Iaques to the contrarie especially hauing by solicitation gained the Venetians and Mahomet Emperour of the Turkes to fauour his party that the Souldan granting fully to his request tooke his oath and sent him into Cipres with a great army of men when at his first ariuall he constrained Lewes with such Frenchmen as were with him to retire himselfe into a Castle which also in time he made him to abandon and so became Lord of the whole Iland shortly after he married the daughter of a Gentleman of Venice called Marcus Cornarius which daughter was after the death of Iaques adopted by the Senate and by this meanes they possessed themselues of the Realme for she being great with child at the death of her husband the Venetians as tutors retired her vnto them and tooke adminstration of the Realme some will say that they poisoned the child afterwards as likewise they had done the father before others write otherwise that they did not get the realm by so great wickednesse but that after the death of the father and the sonne they succeeded in the Realm by way of adoption and inheritance Venice hath in circuit eight Italian miles and is seated within the flats of the sea there is a naturall Sebastian Munster in his card of Venice The circuit of the citty Ilands about it banke in the sea high and eminent that defendeth the towne from the impious fury of the waues and giueth passage and porte in sundry places to the saylers chiefly at two Castles and at Chosa an episcopall City distant from the towne fiue and twentie miles vppon the way to Ferrara there are about Venice 25. Ilandes which are in manner all enhabited of Monkes the rest is to be seenein the Carde Seb. Munster The number of bridges and boates This City of Venice hath threescore and two parishes and one and forty Monasteries it hath as manie Channels as streetes there are foure hundred publike Bridges besides particulars there are of boats for all vses eight thousande in the Arsenall which is rounde about inuironed with walles there are continually foure hundred men which are dayly imployed in mending and making of Galleis and other things pertaining to the Sea in the Isle of Meurano fast by they make very cleare and goodly glasses commonly Christall glasses called Christal glasses which are thence transported into all countries Notes out of Girolamo Bardi THe first that euer inhabited vpon that Iland called the Rialto where Venice now standeth was one Giouani Bono a poore man that hauing there a simple cottage did liue with his family by taking of fish afterwardes Radagasso with an armie of Gothes entring into Italy sundrie from of the firme land fled into this poore mans house for safety of their liues and among the rest one Entinopus a carpenter of Candia who found meanes to build himselfe there a house maintaining himselfe afterwards by the making of small barkes and boates After Radagasso Alaricus comming like a tempest into Italy there fled so many ouer thether as that at length there were built foure twentie seuerall houses of bordes and reedes but in the yeare of our Lord 418. the fury of the warres being somewhat mitigated the most part of these fugitiues had gotten themselues into Padoua whereof a suddain hearing great and fearefull rumors of newe intended entries into Italy by Aiulfo king of the Vissigots with a mighty multitude of Barbarians by a generall consent they agreede to make some firme place within these lakes and thereupon to build a citty which they presently effected vpon the foresaide Iland gathering into the same the people that were dispersed about the other Ilandes and withall making it of the best defence they could they called it by the name of Venice the beginning of this Citties foundation was laide in the yeare 421. vpon the 25. day of March about noon there were three Consuls chosen by those of Padoua to haue the ouersight and charge the rest whose names were Alberto Faletro Tomaso Candiano and Zeno Daulo this is a breuiat drawn out of the ancient Records of Padoua Afterwardes the ruine and desolation of manie fayre citties vpon the maine land gaue a speedy mightinesse and encrease to this new erected citie insomuch that many of the noblest land inhabitantes fled thether with their treasures and richest moueables transporting euen their goodly pillers carued stones and other matter to build withal to Venice erecting thereunto themselues new and stately mansions so that in the end delighted with the security

offence or the condition of the offendor Now the time Two sorts of inferior magistrates requireth that we should briefly speake of some inferior magistrates that haue authority to punish offences of lesse qualitie and moment eyther in regarde of the meanes of the faulte it selfe or the slender regard quality of the person that commiteth the same These also are of two sortes the one hath power of life and death the other not their authority stretching no farther then to the punishment of Rogues and Harlots whome they cause to bee imprisoned or whipt with rods euery of them according to the proportion of their committed lewdnes The first magistrate also that hath power to giue sentence of life and death is likewise deuided into two sortes For the selfe same Iudges doe not search out and examine and call to tryall the offendor but the first being the heades of the officers by night doe throughly examine the cause of Officers of night the offender and register vp in writing the deposition of the witnesses whatsoeuer else the party hath confessed eyther of his owne accord or els by the constraint of torture and then finally represent the whole to the iudges of the Properties This Magistrate differeth Iudges of the properties much from the former and giueth sentence of death when the cause in handling is capitall But if it be a lighter offence to bee punished onely with whipping or imprisonment the captaines of the officers by night do of themselues dispatch the matter without asking the aduise of the Colledge eyther for the imprisoning or torturing the offendor which authority neuer thelesse the office of the Aduocators hath not but must first acquaint the Colledge and proceede according to the decrees thereof neither is the same so ordayned without exceeding reason and foundation for that for euery small matter and the offence of euery baggage fellow the Councell should haue been mooued both the common wealthes should haue beene ouermuch troubled with many impertenent brablers and also lewd fellowes should haue had a greater scope of liuing licentiously through the hope of escaping punishmēt For greater expedition thereof of these kinds of iudgements the heads or chieftaines of the officers by night do obtaine that authority of which the Aduocators are depriued These officers of the night are six and six likewise are those meane officers that haue onely power to correct base vagabonds and tryfeling offences Those that do execute this office are called heades of the tribes of the city because out of euery tribe for the city is deuided into six tribes there is elected an officer of the night and a head of the tribe which custome also we obserue in the election of our Councellers as here before I haue expressed The duty of eyther of these officers is to keepe a watch euery other night by turn within their tribes and now the one and then the other to make rounds about his quarter till the dawning of the day being alwayes guarded and attended on with weaponed officers and serieants and to see that there be not any disorder done in the darkenes of the night which alwaies imboldneth men ill disposed to naughtinesse and that there be not any houses broken vp nor theeues nor rogueslurking in corners with intent to do violence At the first beginning of the city eyther of these offices was of great estimation but since new Magistrates being added according to the chaunge of the times and the occasion of the common wealth the same is much diminished and of lesser respect for the chiefe authority being transferred ouer to the new officers there remaineth onely in their courtes the decision of base and baggage matters as the suddes or lees of the rest Hetherto there is inough saide of those Magistrates that do determine Capitall causes In the next volume we will speake of ciuile Iudgementes The end of the third booke The fourth Booke of the Magistrates and commonwealth of Venice IT hath beene alwaies a perpetuall continuing custome in the commō The whole high and chief authority of all thinges belonging to the Councels and not to any particular magistrates wealth of Venice that no magistrate whatsoeuer should haue in matters of waight and importance high chief authority but that the same shoulde wholy belong to the colledge or rather vsing the common manner of speech to the Councels insomuch that in ciuile causes such as In ciuile causes the party preiudiced may after iudgement giuen appeale to the Auditors and to the Colledge of the Forty shall exceede the summe of fiue and forty crownes there is not any magistrate from whose iudgement the party may not appeale to the Auditors of the ciuile causes and to the colledge of forty of whome we haue heere aboue made mention But to the end that the whole manner of these ciuile iudgements may be made manifest and plaine wee Two sorts of Auditors the olde and the new will begin with the Auditors which are of two sortes that is to say the olde and the new the olde doe deriue their name from the antiquitie of their office The old Auditors more ancient then the new and being much more ancient then that of the new which was altogether vnknowne in this common-wealth till the same beganne to haue Dominion ouer the maine Lande many ages after the building of the City These olde Auditors haue in manner the same authority in determination of ciuile causes after they are debated of iudged by the ciuile iudges as the aduocators haue in all such matters as any way they shall thinke to be offensiue to the lawes I meane in receauing of appeales or making of report ouer When therefore by the ciuile Iudges there is any sentence giuen against any man it is lawfull for him who receiueth preiudice thereby to appeale from their indgement to the Auditors the cause then being brought into their court and of eyther side pleaded debated of those betweene whome the controuersie dependeth if the same exceed not the summe of fiftie crowns they may of their own authority so they agree all in one end and determine the same without the Colledge of the forty or if they disagree in opinion then one of them hath authority to make report ouer Three Iudges that haue authoritie to iudge and determine on thinges that are found to a very small Colledge where the company of eyther Auditors do note and likewise three other Iudges that vsually do sit vpon thinges that are founde and there these lesser affaires are absolutely determined But if the whole cause did amount aboue the rate of the foresaid summe before our time the matter coulde not haue beene brought into the Colledge of the Forty vnlesse someone of the Auditors had interposed himselfe and made reporte of the sentence so giuen by the Iudges vnto the forty But in this time of ours there is a Law made whereby liberty is graunted vnto