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Statuta · 1490

...unless they have been [admitted] to... as in many cases, why such admission is permitted or [forbidden] in the admission of a sinful [person] by judges, except for that which is [within the] designated secretary, who shall receive six solidi for the memorandum of admission and no more.
pious ...of examiners, for information granted to the inquisitor, for each witness two solidi.
pious For the pious [entry] of any accusation, one solidus; for each questioned movement made, two solidi; for a copy of any folio, one solidus; for witnesses to be examined in favor of the accused, for each witness beyond his expenses outside the city, six grossi. If the treasury of the faith examines witnesses as much in inquiries as perhaps in the evidentiary form, the number of witnesses shall be restrained to six; and if more are examined than six, the accused shall not be held to payment, nor to payment for the copy, and otherwise as the judge shall arbitrate upon these matters. For each memorandum, eighteen denarii shall be exacted and no more. For the published order by which the accused is admitted to canonical purgation, the absolutory sentence being included, two florins shall be received. And if any of said inquisitors shall have been absolved and freed from the said crime, they shall not be condemned in expenses, except for the expenses of the prison, the seal, and the sentence, for which sum one florin shall be received, according to the synodal constitutions and statutes by the most reverend lord Bishop of Lausanne, administrator of the bishopric of Geneva. For the advocacy of any proctor making the defense of anyone detained or indicted for a crime, the same proctor shall receive for each appearance made in court one solidus.
Item, we decree that [no] one shall make [others] beyond a second d[ay] Item, we decree [that] in the first or second term one must duly found the judgment and the petition [should be answered]; and the same is to be judged regarding the defendant if he has not founded the judgment, and the same term shall not be repeated, except for delays of witnesses which are to be governed according to the form of law.
John of Savoy, by the grace of God and the Apostolic See, Bishop and Prince of Geneva, to all, let it be made manifest: That whereas, in order to obviate the abuses and undue exactions of writings which by the officers and sworn officials of our courts were [exacted] against the statutes and ordinances written above, which for the common good, quiet, and tranquility of our subjects, we have issued with the consent of our counselors and after mature deliberation; we therefore, from our certain knowledge, confirm and approve the aforesaid chapters as they lie, and we will that they be observed along with the others issued by our predecessors, the prelates of Geneva. Giving therefore in mandate to the vicar, the official, the judges of excesses, appeals, and temporalities, and their scribes and secretaries, as well as to any sworn officials of our courts and our officers, both mediate and immediate, to whom our letters shall come, or to their deputies, and to each of them, under pain of excommunication and one hundred pounds of Geneva for each, that they keep, attend to, and inviolably observe the same chapters and these our letters according to their content, form, and tenor, and cause them to be observed inviolate by those whom it may concern, and in nothing shall they contravene or oppose them in any way; but rather they shall insert and join them into the volume of the other aforesaid statutes to endure in perpetual memory. Since we wish it to be done thus, we decree by our said knowledge that whatever shall happen to be done against the form of said chapters is null and void, notwithstanding and repelled any oppositions, letters, mandates, exceptions, and others made or brought to the contrary. Given at Geneva, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of September, in the year of the Lord one thousand five hundred and fifteen, in our episcopal council, present our said reverend counselor lords: Amblard Guyeti, Abbot of Filly, Official; Peter Grueti, Prothonotary of the Apostolic See, Vicar General; Philibert de Bona, Archdeacon of Tarentaise, Judge of Appeals, Doctors of Laws, Canons of Geneva; also Louis de Arlo, Fiscal Proctor; Francis Maronis, [Keeper of the] Seal; John Gaugiatoris, Vicar of the Holy Faith, all Canons of Geneva; Marmet Vuarini, Doctor of Decrees, Vice-official; Blandio Grossi, Judge of Temporalities; Robert Conodi, Fiscal Advocate, Doctors of both laws; Peter Leureri, Vice Fiscal Proctor; and Peter Nauis, Patrimonial and Proctor of the Holy Inquisition of the Faith, standing and called to the premises. By the same most reverend lord Bishop and Prince. Bordon.
Peter Grueti, Doctor of both laws, Prothonotary of the Apostolic See, Canon of Geneva, Vicar General in spirituals and temporals of the Church and Bishopric of Geneva, specially deputed by ordinary authority, to all and singular: We wish it to be made known and manifest that, the letters, chapters, and statutes aforementioned having been presented to us and having been seen and read by us, we have offered ourselves as ready to obey them as we are bound; and we have published the same with the chapters and statutes, and have caused them to be read and published in our auditorium of causes in the evening, sitting therein as a tribunal in the manner of our elders, and we wish and command that they be inviolably observed by all sworn citizens, burgesses, inhabitants, and our other subjects. In witness whereof we have caused [this] to be granted, dated and acted at Geneva, where it is above, present there our beloved Buigo, Provost; Peter Nauis, John Bueti, Henry de Nato, John Goyffonis, Stephen Bachodi, Nycodus Vincentij, Blandio Vandelli, Hugh Fufferij, Nycodus Ruffi, and many other notaries and sworn witnesses of our court and other spiritualities of Geneva, standing to the premises in witness of the truth of all and singular the aforesaid. The twenty-eighth day of the month of September, in the year of the Lord 1515. By the said reverend lord Vicar, by his command, Mollia.