Courts of Judicature &c ^ly 



Cady is obliged to attend at the Court of Juilice once or twice a 

 Day, where he hears and determines the ieveral Suits and Com- 

 plaints that are brought before him. But as Bribery is too often 

 (and perhaps juftly enough) charged upon the Cady , all 

 Affiirs of Moment are laid before the Tiey, orelfe, when he 

 is abfent or otherwife employed, they are heard by the Trea- 

 furer. Mailer of the Horfe, and other principal Officers of the 

 Regency, who fit conftantly in the Gate * of the Palace for that 

 Purpofe. At all thefe Tribunals, the Caufe is quickly decided, 

 nothing more being required than the Proof of what is alledged ; 

 fo that a Matter of Debt, Trefpafs, or of the higheft Crimes w^ill 

 be finally decided, and theSentence executed in lefs than anHour. 



In Cafes of Debt, the Debtor is ufually detained in Prifon, 'till o///.,v p«- 

 the {Chcufes) Bayliffs have feized upon his Effects and Void "•^''' "''"''• 

 them. If the Sale amounts to more than the Debt, then the 

 Overplus is returned to the Prifoner ; if it comes fhort, he is 

 notwithftanding releafed, and no future Demands are made 

 upon him. Leifer Offences are puniihed with the Βαβϊηαάο '/ 

 i e. the Offender is to receive fo many Stroakes (fometimes 

 two or three hundred) upon his Buttocks or the Soles of his 

 Feet, w ith Sticks of the Thicknefs of ones little Finger. But in 

 greater Crimes, particularly for unnatural Luft, not only the 

 Parts already mentioned, but X\\q αΙάοπιιηαΙΜ\χ{(:\^<ί, likewife 

 are to be chaftifed : a Punifhment which is generally attended 

 with Death. For clipping or debafing the pubhck Coin, the old 

 Egyptian Punifhment ' is infli£led, which is to cut off the Hands 

 of the TranfgrefTor. Whatfoever Jeid/ or C/-?ri/??W-Subjea is guil- 

 ty of Murder or any other capitalCrime,he is to be carried without 

 the Gates of the City, and burnt alive : but the Moors ζηά ^rahs 

 are either impaled for the fame Crime, or hung up by the Neck, 

 over the Battlements of the City, or elfe thrown upon the 

 Hooks* that are fixed in the Walls below, where fometimes they 

 hang, in the moil exquifite Agonies and Torments, thirty or 



1 Thus we read of the Elkrs in the Gate. (Deut. 22. ly. and 2y. 7.) and (If. 29. 21. 

 Amos J. 10.) o( H'm that reproveth and rebuheth in the Gate. The Ottoman Court likewife 

 fecms to h.ivc been called the Port, from the Diftfibution of Jufticc, and the Diiliatch of 

 publick Bufinefs that is carried on in the Gates of it. 2 It was in this Manner probably 

 that St. Paul was beaten with Rods : (2 Cor.ii. 2 j.) as the Choufcs, whofc Office it is to inMid: 

 this PuniHiment, appear to be no other than the like Number of /?«;;.(« Li^ors armed out 

 with their Fafces. 3 Died. Sic. 1. i. p. p. 4 The faftning of the Body of Sm\ to the IValls 

 e/Bcthilian. (i 54)». 31. 10.} might be the fixing it only to fuch Hooks as were placed 

 there for the Execution of Criminals. 



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