Richard Amy cannot dépose to this interro- " gatory

6. — '' George Radier knoweth nothiug touching « this article."

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7. — ^ Philip de Rue, unekle to Mavie de Rue, '' knoweth likewîse nothing but by heare-say toaehing '' the saine artide."

Rapport des Commifisaiies. Item» ^^ to the sixt. ^^ The said Anthony did not, for the cause mençoned ^^ in the said article, commit the said Nichol. Arthur to '^ prison, but a quarrell sudaiuly happeniug between '^ the said Arthur and the said Starck, tnençoned in '^ this article, about adoggue, and both of them being ^^ wounded, the said Anthony Poulet committed them '^ both for breaking the Queax's peace, for one night ^' to prison, as the Govemor in such cases lawfuUy ^' might do. And yet« at the Plainti£& importunitie, *' we examined many wittnesses of their part, which " we hâve aUso herewith certifyed, and no matter of '^ suffident proofe appeared of the Plaintiffs allégation " touching the said article."

Uu article des Ordonnances du Roy Henry VII porte, " Que le Capitaine, de sa meure auctorité, ne son Député, ne aussi aulcun Souldoier dudit Chasteau à empiisonnement aulcun des subjects du Roy d'icelle Isle, &c/' n n'y a là distinction aucune de la cause ni de la durée de l'emprisonnement. Comment est-ce que les Commissaires, qui allèguent œs Ordonnances à toute heure, pouvoyent dire, as the Govemor lawfulfy wfiffht (to ? n est vrai qu'une autre Ordonnance de Jaq. L Juin 9, lOOo» contient, entre plusieurs autres Règlements pour Guernesey, that the Govemor shall not be restrcnned to commit any Islanders to prison upan such cm^se as he shall think ta havejustly deserved imprisonment. But for as much as every parHcular cr

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private offense which deserveth resftmint dothnoi admitt the laying an efirons^ p&tting inte tbe dungeon^ er long tmffisonmmt^ ii is therefore tiiought Jitt ihat no persons shatt he restrained or hept ifii pria^n hg the corn" mittement of tke ijhvemor longer time ihan the space offour and twentg hoteres^ nor be laid in irons^ nor putt in the dmngeon^ unlesse the partg sta/nd charged f€ith semé such natter as is €f kigher nature ihan a private offense and may concem him in his loyaiiy to the King's Majestjf's person or to the State, in which the BmUff and Jurats (if the matter he such as may without danger be imparted io so many) are to he mode acquainted with the cause of his commiitement so farr forth to reveale it as to acquaint them, or any of them, with t7, may he left to his discrétion how to proceed, bothfor the Orne and the manner of imprisonment and for retuming the cause private to himselfe ; allwayes to he regarded that the Oovemor committ not to prison the Bailiff, or ony of the Jurats, unlesse it befor some suchgreat cause conceming the King's Myesty, or the State, as is before mençoned. Mais cette Ordonnance, qui est de quatorze âne postérieure au Rapport de Messieurs Fyne et Napper, ne leur pouvoit servir de guide, et ne peut pas détruire, n'étant faite que pour llsle voisine, une loy expresse qui ne permet au Gouverneur de Jersey d'emprisonner que pour le seul cas de trahison.

7. — Le septième article est omis dans la copie que j'ai yeûe.

Eapport des Commissaires sur le 7e article. '' Item '' to the seaventh, the cause being thus : In a gênerai