A
notable
decree
of
the
Lordes
of
the
Parliament
house
of
Paris
,
bearing
date
the
26.
of
Iune
,
1582.
Pronounced
against
William
Buhigue
,
containing
a
punishment
for
Banquerouptes
,
namely
the
wearing
of
a
greene
Cappe
or
Hatte
.
BEfore
I
come
to
the
setting
down
of
the
sentence
pronounced
by
the
Lieutenant
of
La
val
,
one
of
the
iurisdiction
of
the
presidentall
seat
of
Poytow
▪
eyther
of
the
confirmatiue
decree
of
the
Parliament
house
of
Paris
,
ratifiyng
the
said
sentence
,
I
thought
it
good
(
gentle
reader
)
in
fewe
wordes
,
to
describe
the
part
of
a
creditor
towardes
his
debtor
,
as
also
the
charge
of
a
debtor
towards
him
that
haue
been
beneficiall
vnto
him
by
relieuing
his
want
with
his
goods
,
whether
goulde
,
siluer
,
or
other
commoditie
,
to
the
ende
,
by
this
briefe
collection
and
aduertisement
,
each
party
may
consider
his
office
and
duetie
,
and
so
,
better
late
then
neuer
,
reconcile
himself
to
God
and
his
neighbour
,
during
his
pilgrimage
in
this
vayne
and
transitorie
life
,
which
being
ended
,
our
God
will
(
as
all
men
knowe
)
require
an
accompt
howe
euery
one
hath
delt
in
his
vocation
and
office
,
howe
simple
so
euer
it
hath
been
,
and
in
the
latter
day
of
iudgement
,
yeelde
the
rewarde
due
to
his
desertes
,
except
by
speedy
repentance
before
the
saide
iudgement
hee
reconcile
himselfe
.
For
God
being
iust
and
perfect
goodnesse
,
extendeth
his
mercie
vpon
thousande
generations
of
those
that
vnfeinedly
do
loue
him
and
obey
his
commaundements
which
he
hath
left
,
and
willed
his
faithful
seruants
and
Apostles
to
preach
vnto
vs
,
and
punisheth
only
to
the
fourth
generation
such
as
of
set
purpose
do
disobey
&
transgresse
his
precepts
,
for
more
acceptable
is
obedience
then
sacrifice
,
&
better
it
is
to
obey
God
then
man
.
The
part
therefore
of
a
creditor
towarde
his
debtor
,
consisteth
in
lending
vnto
him
that
thing
whereof
hee
standeth
in
neede
,
and
which
the
creditor
may
with
least
losse
best
spare
,
without
looking
for
any
amends
,
or
requiring
any
reward
for
the
time
of
the
lone
therof
,
therin
putting
in
practise
that
Christian
charitie
,
whiche
by
God
and
his
Churche
is
taught
in
these
wordes
,
Mutuum
dantes
,
nihil
inde
sperantes
,
lend
looking
for
nothing
againe
,
together
with
many
other
places
of
the
olde
&
new
Testament
,
and
Canonical
&
Apostolicall
epistles
,
continued
in
the
doctrine
of
many
learned
fathers
of
the
Christian
Church
,
both
olde
and
newe
,
wherunto
euery
man
is
bound
to
conforme
himselfe
,
in
case
he
bee
indued
with
any
iot
of
iudgement
,
or
beareth
any
dutifull
affection
vnto
his
saluation
.
But
such
is
the
malice
of
our
dayes
,
that
creditors
in
their
lending
,
will
so
greatly
regard
their
owne
commoditie
,
that
if
they
lende
,
it
shal
be
to
the
ende
,
of
their
debtor
to
receiue
double
the
value
,
as
in
deliuering
but
mean
commodities
,
&
to
receiue
again
the
best
:
In
deliuering
of
rie
,
oats
,
or
barley
,
to
claime
againe
pure
and
cleane
wheat
:
either
to
deliuer
their
olde
wines
full
of
all
sorts
of
dregs
,
yea
for
the
most
part
soure
or
foystie
,
and
agayne
,
to
require
that
whiche
shall
bee
newe
and
of
a
perfect
good
vintage
.
They
sel
their
clothes
and
other
wares
at
a
high
and
deere
price
,
when
in
troth
they
be
but
litle
worth
,
giuing
their
debtors
so
short
dayes
,
as
to
their
vndooing
,
they
be
forced
agayne
to
sell
them
,
yea
for
the
most
part
by
brokers
to
those
of
whom
they
first
bought
them
,
for
little
or
nothing
.
Others
there
are
that
deliuer
foorth
money
,
or
other
commodities
from
faire
to
fayre
,
from
3.
monethes
to
three
monethes
,
after
ten
in
the
hundred
or
more
,
to
the
vtter
empouerishing
of
their
debtors
.
To
be
briefe
,
the
Diuell
and
his
supposses
in
the
shape
of
men
,
haue
by
their
subtiltie
inuented
infinite
kindes
of
vsury
:
wherewith
like
rauening
wolues
they
still
deuoure
their
poore
debtors
,
that
are
driuen
to
submitte
themselues
to
their
faith
and
charitable
courtesies
,
who
in
the
ende
are
thereby
brought
to
vtter
beggerie
,
and
vndoing
without
redemption
,
whiche
is
a
wofull
and
lamentable
cace
.
Yea
,
in
the
good
townes
and
other
places
,
eache
one
maintayneth
those
people
,
and
cloke
theyr
offences
,
or
at
the
least
dare
not
speake
of
them
for
feare
of
being
stunge
by
the
like
villanous
vipers
wherof
the
world
is
ful
:
for
vsually
those
be
the
soonest
preferred
to
honors
and
dignities
whereof
in
trueth
they
bee
vtterly
vnworthy
:
therefore
for
those
that
are
manifestly
knowne
to
bee
such
letters
forth
of
goodes
,
there
were
no
reason
theyr
debtors
shoulde
incurre
the
sentence
and
decree
hereafter
rehearsed
,
especially
when
it
is
euident
wherein
the
debtors
haue
by
such
rauening
wolues
and
theyr
detestable
broode
been
circumuented
,
deceiued
and
entangled
with
debt
vpon
debt
vnto
the
full
valewe
and
extent
of
all
theyr
goodes
.
Oh
poore
,
miserable
,
and
wretched
sheepe
,
who
hauinge
yelded
fleze
,
skinne
and
fleshe
,
doe
hardly
reserue
the
bare
bones
,
which
rattle
vp
and
downe
the
Cities
,
Townes
,
and
villages
,
where
they
remayne
within
the
reach
of
such
wild
&
cruell
beastes
,
as
encroch
vp
the
whole
worlde
.
Howebeit
as
suche
debtors
are
by
iustice
,
to
be
relieued
and
defended
agaynst
that
kinde
of
people
,
who
in
euery
Citie
and
towne
do
beare
the
whole
sway
both
in
wealth
,
honour
,
and
dignitie
,
so
muste
we
not
therefore
maintayne
a
number
of
subtill
shifters
,
which
vsing
all
fayre
pretences
&
colourable
flattering
speeches
,
doe
abuse
and
deceiue
both
here
and
elswhere
,
many
well
meaning
marchantes
,
such
as
being
of
a
franck
,
good
,
&
vpright
disposition
do
thinke
that
all
others
doe
resemble
them
.
These
craftie
conueyars
by
borowings
reiterated
and
renewed
ofter
then
neede
requireth
,
and
that
in
sundry
places
,
and
of
diuers
persons
for
feare
of
discrying
,
yea
&
in
greater
sums
then
their
power
or
habilitie
wil
beare
,
one
creditor
nothing
knowing
of
another
,
when
the
dayes
of
payment
draw
on
,
will
not
find
wherwith
to
satisfie
euen
she
smalest
sum
wherewith
they
haue
bin
holpen
:
but
then
to
auoyde
emprisonment
,
(
therein
counterfeiting
the
glutted
and
drunken
Ape
,
which
after
drinke
hoppeth
vp
&
down
)
do
leape
from
place
to
place
,
and
according
to
the
prouerb
,
come
to
set
their
tayles
vpon
the
stone
,
which
by
law
&
iustice
is
appointed
for
the
cession
&
deliuery
of
al
their
goods
to
their
creditors
,
whom
to
the
same
intent
,
they
cause
to
be
summoned
to
the
sight
of
that
their
miserable
benefite
:
which
interdiction
of
law
,
tending
to
the
reliefe
of
the
good
&
not
to
the
boulstering
vp
of
such
fraudulent
debtors
,
as
are
last
mentioned
,
is
founded
vpon
the
edict
of
Orleance
,
though
in
that
respect
but
simply
executed
throughout
most
part
of
this
lande
,
where
euery
one
indifferently
,
whiche
seeketh
to
deceiue
his
creditor
,
is
vpon
his
owne
onely
petition
,
admitted
to
the
benefite
of
cession
of
goods
,
bringing
in
for
the
true
value
therof
,
no
other
witnesse
than
himself
can
chuse
among
his
friendes
or
fauourable
neighbours
,
without
other
circumstaunce
or
solemmity
,
then
during
the
sitting
to
assist
&
houlde
plea
barehead
vppon
the
sayde
stone
.
Hereunto
hath
this
court
at
this
time
had
great
&
diligent
respect
,
to
the
ende
,
hereafter
to
cutt
off
such
shiftes
and
wicked
dealings
,
for
the
reliefe
of
honest
,
and
in
deed
charitable
creditors
,
and
therefore
in
confirmation
of
the
sentence
of
the
ordinarie
iudge
of
Laual
,
haue
decreed
that
from
henceforth
,
euery
one
that
will
sue
for
the
admission
,
to
the
benefite
of
cession
of
goods
,
shall
weare
a
greene
Cap
or
Hat
,
which
his
creditors
shall
buy
him
.
And
for
this
time
,
William
Buhigue
to
beginne
with
the
wearing
of
the
same
,
which
shall
bee
prouided
him
,
by
Marin
the
Monke
,
defendent
and
withstander
of
the
saide
cession
of
goods
,
to
the
ende
,
as
well
the
saide
Buhigue
,
as
all
other
of
his
profession
may
be
knowne
,
and
the
worlde
thereby
warned
of
his
or
their
saide
cession
,
which
by
the
wise
aduice
of
the
chiefe
president
Thow
,
together
with
the
graue
,
learned
,
&
experimented
Senators
,
his
assistantes
in
the
great
chamber
,
who
are
not
to
seeke
in
the
like
cases
practized
among
the
Romans
,
and
conteyned
in
their
histories
and
secretes
of
lawe
,
is
commaunded
to
be
put
in
execution
.
This
decree
is
taken
a
simili
,
namely
of
the
auncient
maner
of
the
Romanes
,
practised
vpon
such
as
had
incurred
any
great
losse
by
land
or
by
water
,
as
piracie
,
drowning
,
fire
,
or
robbery
,
or
any
such
like
,
as
we
may
in
these
dayes
terme
those
extremities
,
whereto
our
Master
vsurers
by
meanes
and
diuises
aforesaid
,
together
with
infinite
others
,
enow
,
if
a
man
shoulde
stande
vpon
them
all
,
to
replenishe
hole
vollumes
,
doe
reduce
and
driue
the
poore
:
whose
practise
at
this
time
is
so
manifest
,
that
there
needeth
no
more
but
the
princes
commission
,
directed
to
faithfull
officers
,
to
make
generall
enquirie
thereof
,
least
they
doe
hereafter
as
horseleaches
,
euen
sucke
vp
the
marowe
of
the
poore
,
and
be
drunken
with
their
blood
,
yea
the
prince
must
vse
them
according
to
the
sence
of
the
Embleme
,
where
standing
with
a
sponge
in
his
hande
,
and
wringing
out
of
euery
drop
of
the
water
therein
,
he
giueth
to
vnderstand
,
that
in
like
maner
he
is
to
vse
al
such
as
fil
&
enriche
themselues
with
his
treasure
,
or
the
substaunce
of
his
poore
commons
,
whom
with
their
subtill
slightes
and
practises
,
catching
at
their
goodes
,
they
wring
as
drye
as
a
bone
.
The
Romanes
I
say
,
vsed
playnely
and
at
large
to
paint
and
set
out
the
miseries
,
and
inconueniences
or
losses
,
which
such
men
had
any
way
susteined
,
and
then
to
cause
the
party
endamaged
,
to
carry
vp
and
downe
this
table
,
wherin
his
losse
was
portrayed
vpon
his
shouldiers
,
wherby
euery
man
might
knowe
his
losse
,
and
consider
of
his
desert
,
and
so
if
need
were
to
relieue
him
,
or
otherwise
to
beware
of
committing
to
his
hand
that
thing
which
he
was
not
able
to
keepe
or
make
accompt
of
,
as
the
satirical
Poet
Persius
,
and
after
him
more
at
large
his
expositor
Murmelius
do
rehearse
.
Vpon
this
ground
haue
this
court
at
this
present
,
in
confirmation
of
this
sentence
of
the
aforesaide
Iudge
of
La
Vall
of
the
iurisdiction
of
the
seat
of
Poitow
,
determined
and
decreed
that
the
Banquerupte
William
Buhigue
shall
from
henceforth
weare
a
green
Cappe
or
Hat
,
at
the
cost
of
Marin
the
Monke
defendant
,
vpon
the
alowance
of
his
letters
of
cession
,
and
that
onely
to
the
ende
,
the
saide
Banqueroupt
may
in
all
places
be
known
,
as
were
those
men
at
Rome
,
whiche
carried
vpon
their
shouldiers
the
picture
of
their
mishap
,
whereby
the
people
might
afterward
know
them
:
Such
therfore
is
the
excellencie
of
this
sentence
,
that
it
deserueth
confirmation
throughout
all
this
lande
,
against
suche
Banquerupts
,
as
forcing
them
to
weare
a
green
cap
or
hatte
,
as
a
badge
of
their
disorders
,
yea
and
to
be
for
perpetuitie
inserted
into
the
very
heart
of
the
ciuill
&
canon
lawe
,
also
by
vertue
of
the
princes
perpetual
&
irreuocable
edict
,
for
euer
to
bee
ratified
word
for
word
,
after
the
order
&
forme
of
the
said
decree
and
sentence
,
as
followeth
.
An
abstract
out
of
the
recordes
and
ordinarie
register
of
the
court
&
Iurisdiction
of
La
Vall.
BEtweene
William
Bughigue
,
prisoner
in
the
castle
of
La
Val
,
chalenger
of
the
fite
of
cession
of
goods
at
this
present
,
by
his
Atturney
M.
Francis
Belangier
Licentiate
in
the
laws
on
the
one
part
:
and
Marin
the
Monke
appealant
there
against
,
personally
and
by
his
Atturney
M.
Iohn
Sercoul
,
likewise
licenciat
in
the
lawes
on
the
other
part
.
The
parties
heard
,
&
the
said
appealant
by
his
declaration
,
not
able
to
proue
any
concealement
of
goods
,
as
by
him
hath
been
into
this
court
intimated
,
wee
doe
debarre
and
condemne
in
costes
and
damages
,
and
in
respect
thereof
,
haue
amerced
him
at
fourtie
shillinges
tournois
.
Moreouer
,
in
as
much
as
the
sayde
appealant
,
cannot
produce
sufficient
cause
why
the
saide
Buhigue
shoulde
not
be
admitted
to
the
said
benefite
of
cession
,
our
sentence
is
,
that
presently
hee
be
dismissed
out
of
prison
,
and
so
brought
into
this
court
personally
to
receiue
the
saide
benefite
.
Herevpon
the
saide
Buhigue
,
being
come
into
the
face
of
this
courte
▪
hath
wholy
resigned
and
made
cession
of
all
his
goodes
to
his
creditors
,
and
acknowledgeth
the
whole
summe
by
this
appealant
demaunded
,
faithfully
promising
vpon
the
bettering
of
his
estate
,
to
satisfie
all
his
creditors
,
and
affirming
that
hee
hath
not
any
other
goodes
whatsoeuer
,
then
what
presently
hee
beareth
about
him
.
Also
that
fraudulently
he
hath
not
made
conueyaunce
of
any
away
.
In
consideration
therefore
of
the
premisses
wee
haue
,
and
by
these
presentes
do
grant
the
said
benefite
of
cession
vnto
the
aforenamed
William
Buhigue
,
as
well
for
all
summes
demaunded
,
as
for
his
lodging
and
fees
.
Wee
do
also
at
the
instance
of
the
appealant
,
the
Monke
aforesaid
,
decree
and
ordeyne
,
that
for
the
manifest
knowledge
hereof
,
the
saide
William
Buhigue
shall
from
henceforth
in
all
places
,
and
at
all
times
weare
a
greene
Cappe
or
hatte
,
whiche
the
sayd
the
Monke
shall
prouid●
for
him
.
Also
that
when
,
or
wheresoeuer
the
saide
Buhigue
shal
be
found
without
the
sayde
Cap
or
Hat
,
after
that
the
aforesaide
,
the
Monke
shall
haue
made
deliuerie
thereof
to
him
,
it
shall
bee
laweful
for
the
said
the
Monke
,
or
any
other
his
creditors
to
commit
him
to
prison
,
commaunding
our
chiefe
vsher
,
vpon
reasonable
requeste
to
see
this
our
decree
fully
and
in
all
parts
executed
according
as
is
most
requisite
,
and
thereto
do
giue
him
full
power
and
authoritie
.
Giuen
at
La
Val
,
in
the
presence
of
vs
,
Francis
Tartrous
,
Licentiat
in
the
laws
,
and
Lieutenant
generall
in
the
iurisdiction
of
the
sayde
place
,
this
9.
of
September
.
1580.
Thus
signed
.
Morayne
.
FInally
,
this
court
by
decree
hath
disanulled
al
appeales
here
against
,
without
costs
or
damages
,
and
do
ordaine
that
notwithstanding
whatsoeuer
appeale
,
the
said
sentence
shall
stande
in
full
force
and
power
.
Giuen
in
full
plea
the
26.
of
Iune
.
1582.
Hereby
it
is
euident
that
Annuells
,
Quinquennells
,
and
cessions
of
goods
ought
not
slightly
to
be
graunted
,
or
permitted
to
euery
one
that
will
sue
for
the
same
before
a
iudge
,
for
the
causes
and
considerations
before
mentioned
:
for
Annuels
and
Quinquennels
,
are
no
other
but
the
two
steppes
whereby
debtors
doe
clyme
to
Banqerouptshippe
,
or
cession
of
goodes
;
endeuouring
by
such
deuises
and
priuiledges
to
defeat
their
wretched
creditors
of
such
commodities
,
as
simply
and
on
good
faith
they
haue
lent
them
.
Also
vnder
suche
clokes
,
shadowing
their
false
intentes
,
and
mayntayning
their
credites
to
the
vttermost
:
which
is
an
easie
matter
to
doe
,
vnlesse
the
greene
Cappe
or
Hatte
bee
to
the
same
conioyned
,
as
an
euident
token
thereof
,
according
as
by
the
sentence
is
prouided
,
whiche
together
with
the
decree
,
confirmatiue
thereof
,
deserueth
perpetuall
remembrance
and
honour
,
as
the
meane
whereby
the
posteritie
may
knowe
such
as
looke
so
simply
to
their
affaires
,
or
fraudulently
seeke
to
defeate
their
creditors
of
their
right
,
that
they
be
forced
to
submitte
them selues
to
the
dishonourable
wearing
of
a
greene
Cappe
or
Hatte
vnder
paine
of
imprisonment
on
the
behalfe
of
their
creditors
,
so
often
as
they
bee
founde
destitute
thereof
.
Which
neuerthelesse
is
not
ment
to
tend
to
any
such
note
of
infamie
as
thereby
to
be
debarred
or
reiected
from
lawful
witnessing
,
or
bearing
such
office
or
autoritie
,
as
otherwise
they
might
bee
capable
of
,
in
cace
all
other
their
behauiour
were
correspondence
.
Neyther
ought
any
Annuels
,
Quinquenelles
,
or
cession
of
goodes
to
bee
otherwise
taken
,
tollerated
and
allowed
,
then
for
mischances
happening
through
fire
,
water
,
wars
,
or
such
like
,
when
without
doubt
,
by
some
ineuitable
inconuenience
,
the
losse
of
all
or
most
parte
of
a
mans
goods
doe
thereto
driue
and
enforce
the
petitioner
,
not
his
owne
manifest
negligence
or
wilful
wast
,
and
so
to
haue
recourse
to
those
meanes
,
yea
sometimes
before
that
debt
bee
due
,
for
the
whiche
they
sue
out
the
sayde
Annuells
,
Quinquenelles
,
respits
,
or
cessions
of
goods
:
during
the
allowance
of
which
suites
,
they
shall
not
be
forced
to
put
into
the
officers
handes
those
summs
of
money
which
they
owe
,
except
the
said
suite
be
compassed
after
condemnation
.
Neyther
is
the
suiter
to
be
emprisoned
,
after
hee
hath
procured
his
creditors
to
be
summoned
to
appeare
at
the
admission
of
the
sayde
Annuells
,
and
Quinquenelles
,
but
beeing
so
emprisoned
,
is
to
be
released
and
set
at
lebertie
.
Father
,
a
man
condemned
for
trespasse
in
amendes
,
is
not
receiuable
to
the
Cession
of
goodes
.
Many
other
things
are
also
to
be
considered
before
any
be
forced
to
the
said
cession
in
respect
of
the
interest
that
sundry
creditors
haue
thereto
:
and
therfore
it
is
meete
that
any
appeare
at
the
suite
commenced
and
prosecuted
against
the
debtor
for
deteyning
his
person
,
by
reason
hee
hath
no
goods
(
as
is
to
be
presupposed
)
wherewith
to
pay
:
but
if
he
haue
any
,
them
he
ought
to
confesse
them
to
his
creditor
,
to
the
ende
,
bee
may
therewith
be
satisfied
according
to
reason
.
All
which
notwithstanding
,
it
is
to
bee
noted
,
that
a
man
giuing
vp
his
goodes
in
maner
aforesayde
,
can
not
be
taxed
with
any
spotte
of
infamie
,
reiected
from
witnessing
on
any
behalfe
,
or
made
incapable
of
bearing
suche
office
as
otherwise
hee
might
,
or
by
right
ought
to
enioy
.
For
cession
of
goods
simply
,
is
a
fauour
to
the
poore
,
and
by
lawe
admitted
for
sundry
commendable
respectes
,
and
therefore
is
not
to
breede
contempt
against
those
that
by
pouertie
,
or
other
inconuenience
are
forced
to
submitt
themselues
to
such
extremitie
of
lawe
.
This
therefore
may
be
a
sufficient
warning
to
all
creditors
,
wisely
and
christianlike
,
to
vse
their
duetie
as
is
before
specified
:
also
to
such
needy
debtors
,
that
in
time
they
haue
recourse
to
others
according
to
reason
,
before
they
be
compelled
to
weare
a
greene
Cappe
or
Hatte
at
their
creditors
costes
,
as
by
this
former
decree
,
confirmatiue
of
the
sentence
of
the
abouenamed
ordinarie
iudge
of
La
Vall
,
the
day
and
yeere
aforesayde
,
it
is
both
learnedly
,
circumspectly
,
and
wisely
ordeyned
.
Let
this
therefore
serue
as
an
example
to
all
wis●
,
discreete
,
and
wary
persons
in
euery
common
wealth
.
Farewell
friendly
reader
,
and
take
in
good
woorth
this
simple
discourse
:
grounded
vpon
the
saide
sentence
and
decree
.
FINIS
.