to grant them according to the quality of the persons causes and places as other Judges do ARTIC 25. Item If the Plaintiff doth Comence any suite by craft and causeth any execution thereof against his adverse party or otherwise if the Defendant useth any crafty helps or unlawfull means to defraud the Plaintiff and not to satisfie him The said Prior and Consuls may condemn the party offending for using the said deceit or unlawfull means in a forfeiture and the same to be disposed of as aforesaid as is contained in the tenth Article of Kings Ordinances in the Clause of Obligations and in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May. A note of such Matters wherein it is needfull to have instruction and knowledge of the Cause ALL those Matters are specified and named particularly in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May even as is likewise named Obligations Associations either generall or particular Nominations of persons or of Goods Assurances Accounts and Auditing thereof the giving up of the Rest left in the hands of the Accountant satisfaction of the whole or of a part Transports Delegations Novations of Debts Partnerships Bargains and other Acts concerning the businesse of the said Exchange and all thereunto belonging ARTIC 1. First The Kings pleasure is by the Tenour of the said Letters of the Moneth of May that the said Prior and Consuls do proceed to Judgement of the debates and differences moved or to be moved by reason of the said matters after two defaults and that the parties warned twice and making no appearance the second day appointed them shall undergo the same Judgement Note that the King hath not limited any time for the said defaults but leaveth the same to the discretion of the said Prior and Consuls who are to limit the same according to the distance of the place quality of the party warned commodity of the time and cause of the businesse as all other Judges are accustomed to limit the defaults according to the same circumstances and according to the common disposition of right And the tenour of the second Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Clause of Delayes ARTIC 2. Item Whether the parties warned do appear or be absent the day appointed them the second time The said Prior and Consuls before they do proceed to Judgement of the said matters shall hear the Plaintiffs who upon their Oaths shall affirm their debts so demanded to be true and contain nothing but truth And then the defendants so warned being present answering by credit which is as much to say that it is true that the demand of the Plaintiff do contain truth And forthwith the said Prior and Consuls condemning them to satisfie the said Plaintiff with all costs presently taxed without any form of Processe by the said Prior and Consuls according to the Kings pleasure contained in the said Letters of the Moneth of May. ARTIC 3. Item If the parties so warned shall answer by no credit which is as much to say That the demands of the Plaintiffs are not true in all or in part they shall then affirm the same upon their Oaths and submit themselves to prove the contrary as it is contained in the first Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Clause of Answers ARTIC 4. Item If the parties so warned make no appearance the two defaults being past then shall the Plaintiff be bound to send unto the Defendant a Copy of his demand with his oath to the end that he may either oppose the same or approve it which the Plaintiff may do either by himself or by his Atturney intimating unto him That if he fails therein that then the said Prior and Consuls will proceed against him summarily to Judgement upon the Plaintiffs conclusion as it is said before ARTIC 5. Item If the parties do vary in their demands they shall be bound to give in writing both under their hands and oaths those points wherein they vary and that within eight dayes to the end that diligent enquiry may be made thereof as it is contained in the third Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Clause of Articles agreed upon Of Inquiries ARTIC 1. ITem The said Prior and Consuls their Lieutenants and Deputies in making their Inquest may not admit of any witnesses nor take their oaths nor proceed in proof except the adverse party be first called thereunto or else their proceedings in such a case shall be of no force and if the party shall make default after he hath been twice called they may then admit of the Witnesses and proceed to the Inquiry and all things thereunto belonging as it is contained in the twelfth thirteenth and fourteenth Articles of the Kings Ordinances in the Clause of Commissaries to make Inquest ARTIC 2. Item If inquiry be needfull to be made for both parties and one of the parties will appeal from the Prior and Consuls and from their Deputies then the said Prior and Consuls and their Deputies may make inquiry in the behalf of the party that doth not appeal as it is contained in the fifteenth Article of the foresaid Clause ARTIC 3. Item The said Prior and Consuls in making their inquires can give but one onely default within which time the parties must make report of their inquiries duly to be made and sealed up with their Seals as is it contained in the ninth tenth and eleventh Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Clause of Delayes ART 4. Item Except the parties have used their diligence in making the same inquiries within the time limited them and cannot within that time finish the same then upon due proof made of their diligence so used in such case the said Prior and Consuls may give them one onely delay more after the which time they cannot make any further enquiry by witnesses or otherwise as it is contained in the 12. and 13. Articles of the said Ordinances ARTIC 5. Item the parties accepted of to make enquiry before the said Prior and Consulls may use all sorts of lawfull proofs aswell by right as by the Kings Ordinances Provided that the same be done as breefely as can be according to the power of the Authority of the said Prior and Consulls All which is to be done in civill manner be it by witnesse by writings publike or private by collection of Letters by oath in the fulfilling of all proof and otherwise according as the case shall require to know the truth and to instruct the Consciences of the said Prior and Consuls ARTIC 6. Item if in the end of the cause of Demands and Articles of the Parties there be found any Article false and deceitfull he that hath affirmed the same shall be amerced by the said Prior and Consuls an hundreth sols half thereof to the Kings use and the other half to the parties as it is contained in the 15. Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Title of Answers And they may make use of the same penalties
and Consuls shall be set down and declared without any appeal according as the offence committed shall require Moreover we have granted and do grant the said Prior and Consuls to take unto them twenty of the said Merchants or more or lesse as they shall think reasonable to assist them in proceeding in their Judgements in Causes of Merchandize Bils of Exchange Assurances and Differences as abovesaid and to cause to be executed their Sentences Judgements and Ordinances of Consignments Provisions Seizing of Goods and all their other Condemnations Sentences or Appointments to proceed therein by Out-cries Proclamations giving notice to themselves or leaving notice at their Houses by Proof Sales Depositings Deliveries and execution Definitive as the Case shall require Likewise we give them power to direct the same Processe and to proceed therein according to their Ordinances as well in matters summarily as by provision As acknowledgement of Bils Subscriptions and Letters of Exchange And the like in Acts of deposite consignments by one onely default of Appearance duly proved by summoning the person at his House or fixing there a Copy of the Commission or Processe in all places where it is lawfull to be done And touching other matters where two defaults shall be made or summoned in person they shall proceed observe and keep the course according to the Kings Ordinances And for all matters wherein they shall give sentence of execution according to their knowledge We will and We do permit them as before is said to cause the execution to passe in all places under command of Our Court of Parliament at Roan and in all other places of Our Kingdom where need shall require Without any disturbance or let to be done by any of Our Judges Justicers or Officers either against them or their Deputies Neither shall they let or hinder any Summons or Arrest Writ or Warrants issued out by them And to give their assistance in all Causes appertaining to their knowledge touching matters of Traffick and all things thereunto belonging against all Merchants trading in our said Citie of Roan And as touching their Factors Dealers and Corresponders of what quality soever they be sent by them into divers Countreys Regions and Provinces as well within as without Our Kingdom Countreys and Dominions under Our Obedience for the Cause of Traffick Merchandizing and doing of businesse and all other things thereunto belonging We will and ordain That they may be constrained to bring their Causes and Proofs for all matters aforesaid before the said Prior and Consuls for the time now being or that shall hereafter execute these Offices Be it either for the rendring of account and satisfaction of part or of whole or condemnations in penalties or other condemnations for fines for trespasses and of all other things that shall be requisite concerning and belonging to the trade of Merchandize according as they shall demerit Whereof We have permitted them and do give them power to use the form even as the said Conservator of Lions Prior and Consuls of Thoulouze and others our Judges do And to cause execution to be served on the offenders either by Arrest Attachment of Goods and sale thereof or by imprisonment of the Parties condemned even as they shall think good Inhibiting all our Judges to presume to take knowledge of any of their said proceedings or of any matter or plea thereunto belonging Which Commanders We will to be made known unto them and unto whom it shall appertain by the first of our Officers or Serjeants that shall be required whom We injoyn to perform the same accordingly to the intent that all those charges and extraordinary expences which Merchants may be put unto in following their suites against their Factors and Corresponders before many Judges might by this means be utterly avoided Furthermore We have permitted and do give Authority to the said Prior and Consuls that all such penalties of Moneys as by them shall be inflicted upon men for contempts or any other offences shall be forfeited the one half to Us the other half to the use of the said Common Place or Bourse of Roan for the use thereof allowing them likewise absolute libertie and power to chuse and appoint one Counsellour and one Atturney who shall by all lawfull means labour the benefit and advancement of the said place and shall defend the same to direct their Processe and Causes as well before the said Priors and Consuls as before all other Judges And to the end that the Merchants may assemble themselves as well to consult of their common affairs as to appoint the said Counsellour and Atturney without being bound to repair to Us or to Our Judges for leave when need shall require Therefore all such Judgements as shall passe before the Prior and Consuls being sealed with their seals and signed by a Register by them appointed be it by imprisonment sale disposing of Goods or otherwise shall be held for reall and lawfull being past in manner aforesaid without any constraint to obtain our further permission or liking even according as was granted by Our most Honourable Father the King unto the Merchants of Our Citie of Lions by His Letters Pattents Given in the Moneth of February in the yeer of our Lord 1535. Reserving unto Our said Court of Parliament at Our said Citie of Roan for a last conclusion and by appeal the jurisdiction and knowledge of the said discords and differences And to the end that all such appeals as shall proceed by reason of the Judgements and Sentences that shall be given and declared by the said Prior and Consuls may be speedily and without delay ended in our said Court We have ordained and do ordain injoyn and command all our loving and trusty Presidents and Councellors holding our said Court of Parliament to appoint the said Merchants without delay one day in every week such as they shall think convenient to hear determine and dispatch the said Appellations by order of Roll for that purpose ordained And in regard of the processe by writing there shall be an other Roll made apart to the end that the said appeals may be ended in the same day to avoid the prolonging of suites to the ruine and consuming of the parties And to the end that the said place of meeting of the Merchants twice a day may be quiet and without disturbance Our pleasure is and We do straightly command That none of our Serjeants and Officers presume to enter into the same place nor to make any Arrest for any cause of any person whatsoever during the time of those two accustomed hours of meeting And if such Arrest should be made during the said hours We have declared heretofore and do declare at this present the same to be void and of no effect charging all our Judges not to meddle therein And as we are informed that the Trade of Assurances is of late greatly advanced by the Merchants of the said Citie of Roan a work so honourable
Refusers or them that have committed any fault in their Merchandizes in such penalties as the case shall require and as their authority may use Of the Forfeitures and Punishments and what Seal the said Prior and Consuls may use ARTIC 1. ITem The said Prior and Consuls to entertain conserve and defend their Authority may for every offence use onely the penalty and forfeitures of Money and shall apply the same the one half for the King the other half to the party according to his desert as is contained in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May. ARTIC 2. Item The said Prior and Consuls may without dispersing of the Goods proceed by Sequestration Arrest and Imprisonment of the Persons who by them shall be condemned untill their sentence be fully executed according to such form and order as the Conservator of the Fairs of Lion Bry and Champaign do usually observe as is contained in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of February hereafter expressed ARTIC 3 Item To give force and authority to all the Judiciall Acts being done by the authority of the said Prior and Consuls the same shall be sealed with the Arms and Seal of the said Prior or of one of the said Consuls who hath judged the said Acts and the same shall be subscribed by their Register even as it is more amply expressed in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May being thereby prohibited to use any of the Kings Seals according to the tenour of the said Letters ARTIC 4. Item The said Prior and Consuls having knowledge of any fraud or other deceits to be used by any man they may cause the body of the offender to be committed and proceed against the offender so far as his offence shall concern Trade of Merchandize Change or Rechange although the King be interessed therein Provided that they proceed no further then concerneth matters of Merchandizes Change and Rechange And for his other punishment for other offences they shall deliver the persons to the Judges to whom doth appertain the knowledge thereof for the better punishing of the offender and the correcting of all other vices and not otherwise ARTIC 5. Item All Judgements of the said Prior and Consuls may be executed throughout all the Kings Dominions be it by Attachment of Goods and sale thereof Arrest and Imprisonment of the persons condemned as also by penalties and forfeitures of Money according to the cause of the offence and the Authority of the said Prior and Consuls as is contained in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May. ARTIC 6. Item All Judgements Sentences Ordinances Commissions Decrees and Commandments as well definitive as otherwise being done and judged by the said Prior and Consuls for all matters pertaining to their knowledge are of effect and force through all the Kings Dominions as is contained in the said Letters Pattents in the Moneth of May and others of the Moneth of February hereafter specified according to the order as well of the Conservator of Lion as of other Judges Who are subject to the Authority of the said Prior and Consuls and who are exempt ARTIC 1. ITem All Noble personages and others all spirituall men and lay-men of age or under age or their deputies using and exercising the Trade of Merchandize or Exchange shall in that respect be subject to the power and authority of the said Prior and Consuls without any manner of exception as is contained in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May and the Restrictions thereof contained in the Letters Pattents Given at Fountain Bleau the seventh of December in the yeer 1551. and published in the Parliament at Thoulouze the ninth of February in the same yeer ARTIC 2. Item All Servants Factors Dealers and others of what quality soever they be being sent by the Merchants of the said Thoulouze into any place Countreys Dominions or Provinces being either within or without the Kings Dominions for the Trade of Merchandizes or Exchanges are subject to the authority of the said Prior and Consuls onely in the respect of the Trade of Merchandize and Exchange And all other Judges are forbidden concerning such debates and differences growing between the said Merchants and the parties above specified in this Article onely to avoid the frauds abuses and ill demeaners of the said servants and dealers and for other good reasons contained in the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May. ARTIC 3. Item All the Heirs of such men as are subject to the said authority of the said Prior and Consuls and by them shall be arrested and imprisoned are exempted And the said Prior and Consuls shall not have to do to arrest the bodies of the said Heirs but the same suite shall proceed before the Lords of the Court of Parliament of the said Thoulouze according to the effect of the Letters of the eight day of March in the yeer 1551. grounded as well by common reason of Right as by the Kings Ordinances in the Rewbrick of Letters Obligatories ARTIC 4. Item All Noble personages Lawyers and Officers are exempt from the said authority although they have bought Cloath of what kinde soever borrowed Money or other Merchandizes for their necessary uses according to their estate and callings as is contained in the restraints of the said Letters Patents of the Moneth of May. ARTIC 5. Item All Opposers against the Sentences and Decrees of the said Prior and Consuls are exempt from the said authority and they cannot thereby be constrained to bring their causes of opposition before the said Prior and Consuls but they shall return the same unto the Judges to whom the knowledge thereof doth appertain who having heard the same and given sentence thereof and the execution being accomplished both for the right of the King and the performance of Justice or otherwise ordained by the Judge to whom the knowledge of the said oppositions doth appertain as is contained in the Restraints of the said Letters Pattents of the Moneth of May. ARTIC 6. Item All Appeals of the Sentences and Ordinances of the said Prior and Consuls shall be brought immediately into the Court of Parliament of the said Thoulouze And none other Judge can reform the Judgements of the said Prior and Consuls as is contained in the Letters of the Moneth of July 1549. and of the moneth of May 1551. Three Additions to resolve two difficulties ARTIC 1. ITem All that be exempted from the Jurisdiction of the said Prior and Consuls can by no means submit themselves thereunto to take any benefit thereof unlesse it be by the Kings expresse Command or Consent of the other Judges in speciall favour and regard of the Causes of the said exemptions wherein the said Prior and Consuls must be wise and carefull not to give other Judges occasion of offence by their rash hearings ARTIC 2. Item Saving and excepting the Heirs of such as be dead that were in their life time subject to the said Authority
against all parties who shall not within eight dayes after all delayes give in all their Demands and things contrary thereunto being so ordered by the said Prior and Consuls as it is contained in the fourth Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Title of Articles of Agreement ARTIC 7. Item the said Prior and Consuls and their Deputies in the proving of any matter in the behalf of any man whatsoever can take but ten witnesses and them secretly the one after the other upon an Arbitrary Amercement wherein the said Prior and Consuls and their Deputies may be condemned by the Court of Parliament of the same place And that all witnesses whom they shall take herein above the said number shall be rejected as it is contained in the Title of Witnesses and likewise upon a matter in the Kings Ordinances ARTIC 8. Item The inquiries being made the Parties there both or severally shall be bound to put in their exceptions or reproaches within three dayes after the receiving the said Inquiries without any further delay upon pain to be refused as it is contained in the second Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Title of Reproaches ARTIC 9. Item All Contradictions against the Letters and Exceptions shall be given in within eight dayes after the said Reproaches and Exceptions without any further delay otherwise to be denied as it is contained in the sixth Article of the said Ordinances ARTIC 10. Item After publication made of the said Inquiries no Reproaches and Exceptions shall be permitted to be given in but they shall proceed to Judgement and to the deciding of the Cause upon the former proceedings as it is contained in the third Article of the Kings Ordinances ARTIC 11. Item All Inquiries considering they cannot be other then Civill shall for Actions of Case be published before the said Prior and Consuls having first observed the Tenour of the Articles here before immediately written as it is contained in the Kings Ordinances in the Title of Publications of Inquests and every party in the end of the Cause may retire his own if he so please as it is observed in the Jurisdiction of other inferiour Judges Of Production ARTIC 1. ITem If the proof be to be made by Writings then the Parties are to bring in all the same Writings by which they pretend to prove their intention within three dayes without any further delay unlesse the distance of the place do require any more time as it is contained in the third Article of the Kings Ordinances in the Title of Productions ARTIC 2. Item If the Parties produce any Writings that concern not the cause to trouble the Judgement of the said Prior and Consuls they may then amerce the same party that shall bring in any such Writings in a hundred soles ten shillings as it is contained in the second Article of the foresaid Title to be imployed as it is said before ARTIC 3. Item the said respite of three daies or other respits given by the discreet deliberation of the said Prior and Consulls being past the parties shall not after be permitted to produce any further Writings but the proces shall be judged in the same state as it shall be found at the expiring of the respite as it is contained in the fourth Article of the foresaid Title of Productions ARTIC 4. Item the Register of the said Prior and Consuls shall be bound to keep a little Inventory of all the Writings that shall be produced and shall cause the Parties that produce them to write their names upon every one of them to the end that none of the writings so produced be altered or lost which might happen to be of great importance specially amongst Merchants between whom oftentimes do arise differences of great sums conteined in little papers As bils of Debts and letters of Exchange And likewise to the end that all Writings so produced might be seen to agree with the tenour of the Inventory in the deciding of the Proces as it is contained in the Kings Ordinances in the Title of Inventories ARTIC 5 Item the said Register shall not take out any Coppy of matters of effect out of the said Inventory neither for the one party nor for the other but onely in the cause and for the end wherefore the said writings are produced under the amercement of one hundred sols to be imployed to the profit of the said Exchange as the Atturnies of parties in other Jurisdictions are condemned in the like sum to be imployed to their Chappell as it is contained in the second Article of the said Ordinances in the Title of Productions Of Sentences ARTICLE 1. FIrst the said Prior and Consuls according to the certainty and truth of the proofs and allegations made before them by the parties shall pronounce their Sentences cleerly deciding the Proces under pain of punishment by the Court of Parliament of the said place upon the reformation of their Sentences as it is contained in the second Article of the said Ordinances in the Title of Sentences ARTIC 2. Item when the said Prior and Consuls have pronounced their Sentence without correcting adding or diminishing the fame the said Register shall give a Coppy of the said Sentences to either of the said Parties being required thereunto upon an arbitrary penalty to be set upon him and to be held a false man if he doth the contrary as it is contained in the third Article of the foresaid Title ARTIC 3. Item the Kings pleasure is that all Sentences given by the said Prior and Consuls both interlocutory and desinitive shall be of force and effect even as those of other Judges as it is contained in the last Article of the said Title of Sentences Of Arbitrators ARTICLE 1. ITem the Merchants of the jurisdictions of the said Exchange of Thoulouze as well by their own consents as by the command of the said Prior and Consuls may refer their differences to Arbitrators from whose sentence they may appeal to the said Prior and Consuls who as they shall see cause may reform or confirm the Sentence of the said Arbitrators ARTIC 2. Item the appellation of the Sentence of the Arbitrators shall not be accepted by the said Prior and Consuls before the Arbitrement be performed by the party that doth appeal upon condition of restauration in the end of the Proces if it be so thought good by the said Prior and Consuls as it is contained in the Kings Ordinances in the Title of Arbitrators ARTIC 3. Item the said Prior and Consuls are to note that no Merchant nor other being of their Jurisdiction can transport or make over their interest to any person Priviledged and not subject to the same Jurisdiction be it by gift sale or Exchange or by any other meanes thereby to avoyd their Authority or else the same transports or possessions shall be of no effect and the losse of their right and cause as it is contained in the first and second Articles of the Kings
the Registers of the Court to enjoy the Contents thereof according to their form and tenour by which the King hath confirmed unto them all the Contents of those Declarations and Ordinances which were made by his Predecessors in the moneth of March 1556. the 23. of October 563. the 29. of December 564. the 22. of February 566. and the 22. of August 586. together with the approving and acceptations thereof by the said Court that they and their successours in the said Offices may enjoy and use them as they have done heretofore and do still use at this present and in the same form and manner altogether as it is contained and Declared in the said Declarations Orders and Ordinances concerning the approbations thereof The said Petition being seen by the Court together with the Letters Pattents in form of a Declaration of King Henry the second in the moneth of March 1556. The Ordinance of the said Court ensuing upon the approbation thereof on the 20. of July 563. other Letters Pattens of Charls the ninth of the 25. of October in the same year and the 29. of December 564. An Ordinance ensued upon the approbation thereof of the 30. of August 566. Other Letters Pattents of Declaration of the 22. of February in the said year 66. An Ordinance of approbation of the 22. of March other Letters Pattens in form of a Declaration granted to the said Prior and Consuls by King Henry of happy memory lately deceased In the moneth of August 586. upon the Ordinance ensued for the approbation of the said Letters Pattents of the 22. of the said Moneth after the Conclusion of the Kings Atturney Generall All being considered the Court hath ordered and doth order that the said Lettets Pattens of confirmation of the moneth of December 596. shall be Registred in the Register of the said Court That the Prior and the Consuls of the Merchants of this city of Roan may enjoy the Contents thereof according as it is contained in the former Ordinances Given at Roan in the said Court of Parliament the 7. day of August 1598. The Coppies being compared with the Originall Signed De Boisleuesque with his Subsignature Another Confirmation of the said Jurisdiction and Place of Merchants in Roan and the approbation thereof in Parliament LEwis by the grace of God King of France and Navar To all present and to come Greeting Desiring in imitation and after the example of the deceased Kings our predecessours to shew our grace and favour unto our dear and welbeloved the Prior and the Consuls of the Merchants in our good City of Roan and to maintain and protect them with all our might in the Consulary Jurisdiction which was granted unto them by our Predecessors by many of their Letters Patents confirmed also by the Letters-Patents of Charter of the moneth of December of our most honoured Lord and Father in the yeer 96. After which many Judgements and Ordinances have ensued to their profit and advantage that the said Jurisdiction might no ways and in what manner soever be altered or diminished to their prejudice For these causes by the advice of our Councell who have seen the said Letters-Patents Judgements and Ordinances annexed hereunto We out of our speciall grace full power and Royall authority have continued and confirmed do continue and confirm unto the said Prior and Consuls of Merchants in the said City of Roan granted given and confirmed unto them by the said Letters-Patents and Ordinances to be enjoyed and use made of by the said Petitioners and by their Successours in the said Charges fully and peaceably according unto their said Letters Patents Grants Judgements and Ordinances and in the same manner as they have well and rightly enjoyed and used them and do still at this present make use thereof Moreover we do command our trustie and welbeloved keeping our Parliament in Roan the Masters of Requests in Ordinary in our Common-hall the keepers of the Seal of the Chancery and those that keep the Requests in the Hall or Palace of the said place the Bayliff of the said Roan or his Lieutenant and every one of them as it shall concern them to cause suffer and permit the said petitioners and their successours in the said places to enjoy and peaceably fully and perpetually to make use thereof in every point according to their form and tenour of these Letters Pattens of confirmation and all the Contents as above and so to cause our abovesaid Letters Patents Declarations and Ordinances made thereupon to be kept observed maintained and put in execution not permitting nor suffering the least trouble disturbance or hinderance to be done unto them to the contrary Which we do expresly forbid unto all persons upon 100. l. amercement and upon all the charges dammages and interests for such is our pleasure And that it may be a sure and a permanent thing for ever We have caused our Seal to be put unto these presents save our own right in these and the right of others in all things Given at Roan in the year of our Lord 1617. and the eight year of our Reign Signed Lewis and upon the Labell Visa and Contentor signed Thibaut with his subsignature The said Letters being sealed with the great Seal of green wax with red and green strings And Registred the Kings Atturney Generall hearing and assenting unto them that they that have obtained them may enjoy the Contents thereof according to the former Ordinances Given at Roan in Parliament the 14. day of August 1618. Signed Cusson with his subsignature An Extract out of the Register of the Court of Parliament VPon the Petition presented by the Priors and Consuls and the Atturney of Merchants of this City of Roan to the end that the Letters Pattents in form of Charters given at Roan in the moneth of December last may be verified and approved of and Registred in the Registers of the Court that they that have obtained them may enjoy the Contents thereof according to their form and tenour the Court having seen the said Petition the Letters Pattens by which the King having seen at the Councell Table many other Letters Pattens of the Kings his predecessors Charters Judgements and Ordinances ensued hath continued and confirmed the jurisdiction of the said Prior and Consuls that they and their successors in the said charges may keep it and exercise it according and conforming to their said Letters and even as they have heretofore well and rightly enjoyed them and made use thereof and do still at this present make use of the same The Letters Pattents in form of a Declaration of Henry the second of the moneth of March 1556. containing the Ordaining and establishing of the Jurisdiction of the said Prior and Consuls The Ordinances of approbation thereof in the said Court of the 20 of July 1563. Other Letters Pattents of Charles the ninth of the 13. of October in the said year of the 29. of December 1564. The Ordinances upon
the said Roan intimated in the appeal of the said Cauvigny and for his own part appealing from the Prior and Consuls established for the Merchants in the said Citie by M. John Morin his Atturney of the other part and also between the said Prior and Consuls plaintiffs by way of Petition to that end that Inhibitions may be made unto the said Sheriff of Roan and to his Lieutenants to take notice of causes and matters concerning Commerce and Traffick of Merchandise granted and given to the said Prior and Consuls by the Kings Ordinances and Orders given thereupon Pierre Lachers Merchant and the Atturney of the said Merchants Jurisdiction of the said Prior and Consuls being present joyned with the said de Cauvigny and by M. Richard le Fae their Atturney of the one part and the said Sheriff of Roan Defendant against the Request of the said Prior and Consuls asking and desiring the grant of another Request tending to that end that Inhibition may be made to the said Prior and Consuls to take upon them any other notice of matters but that which was given them by the Ordinance of their ordaining and establishing or to attempt any thing against the Order made by the King and against the Ordinance of the Court ensued thereupon by which they are prohibited to assume unto themselves the notice of those differences which are arisen and shall arise from Merchandises sold and bought for the publike necessities and for the Kings subjects though it be between Merchants appearing by M. Peter Deshayes his Atturney of the other part The Court the parties being heard and the Sentences being read which were given as well by the Sheriff or by his Lieutenant as by the said Prior and Consuls containing the Amercements of the one and of the other part hath made the Appeal and the matter thereof void without any Amercements or Charges And for this cause and for amending the Judgement hath sent back and doth send back the cause matter betwixt the said Cauvigny and Du Fay before the said Prior and Consuls on the first day that right may be done unto them as it shall be meet and hath taken off and doth take of the Amercements in which the said Cauvigny and Du Fay and the Sergeant also were respectively amerced by the said Sheriff Prior and Consuls unto the restitution whereof the receivers have been and shall be constrained by all due and reasonable ways Given as above Signed de Boisleuesque with his Subsignature And these words were endorsed The sum of ten pounds tournois was given back again and restored unto the said Grenier by Master Nicholas Vaignon Receiver of the Amercements in the Sherivalty of Roan Which sum he was condemned to restore by the Contents in the other part IN the yeer of our Lord 1568 on Munday the 11 of October in the Court before us John de Brevedent Esquire Counsellour unto the King our Lord and Lieutenant-Generall in the Bayliffs Court of Roan between John Peter prisoner and plaintiff desiring to be admitted into the Benefice of Cession of goods appearing by Tiregorge his Atturney on the one part and the Worshipfull Stephen Dugard Merchant in this City of Roan defendant against the said Cession and withall Plaintiff desiring to be sent back before the Prior and Consuls of this said Citie appearing by le Mire his Atturney of the other part The parties being heard the Bonds being read and the Accounts brought in by the said Dugard and the Kings Atturney in the said Bailiffs Court who hath said that the imprisonment of the said Peter was by vertue of Bills of hand and of Accounts acknowledged before the said Prior and Consuls the most part whereof were made in the Citie of London and the matter was between the parties about their Negotiations and Traffick and the priviledges thereof for that cause he intended not to hinder the said renewing As for the said Peter that he intended to withstand the removing of his Suit because the question was onely about Cession of goods into which he pretended to be admitted which was not under the notice and Jurisdiction of the said Prior and Consuls We have ordered neverthelesse that the said Dugard shall proceed afore us and shall prohibite the said Petition of Cession of goods from which the said le Mire in the said name hath appealed which appealing he was commanded to take and cause to be served in due time whereof the said Peter obtained these Presents Given as above Signed Varin with his Subsignature Of the 4 day of February 1569. in the Court of Parliament at Roan BEtween Stephen Dugard appealing from the Bailiff of Roan his Lieutenant and anticipated appearing by M. William Valdorg his Atturney of the one part and John Peter prisoner in the prison of the Bayliwick of Roan intimated and anticipating by Master Richard le Fae his Atturney on the other part The Court the parties being heard and the Kings Atturney-Generall likewise say That it was ill and to no other effect judged by the said Bailiff of Roan or by his Lieutenant and well appealed by le Mire and amending the said judgement The said Court hath sent and doth send back again the said parties to appear eight days hence before the said Prior and Consuls of this City of Roan to proceed in the matter as it shall be meet Given as above The Copies are compared with the Original Signed de Boisleuesque with his Subsignature An Extract out of the Register of the Jurisdiction of the Worshipfull the Prior and the Consuls of the Merchants of Roan of what followeth Wednesday the 13 of Decemb. 1570. VVHereas John Bourgovin Merchant living at Orleans obtaining of us Warrant and the Kings Letters-Patents in form of Debites he being present in his own person hath caused to be warned Richard Pillon Merchant living in Saint Christopher neer Montfort in the Sherivalty of Pontanton and Ponteaudemer within the Bayliwick of Roan also present to save or amend a default which the said Bourgovin had got against the said Pillon the 25 of December last and to see himself condemned to pay him the sum of 25 l. tournois for which he said that the said Pillon had remained debtour unto him upon some Accounts made by the said Pillon between themselves upon a day past for a certain quantity of Merchandise of Wines which he had formerly sold and sent to the said Pillon Since the which Accounts he said that he had sent a Kilderkin of Wine which he had promised to give him upon the making of the said Accounts The said Pillon considering the Allegation made that it was for Merchandise sent and that the said pretended Accounts were made in his house he hath acknowledged it and hath demanded to be sent back again afore his ordinary Judge though he confessed himself to be a Merchant which removing of the Suit was withstood and prohibited by the said Bourgovin maintaining that he ought to