Courts of Judicature (Sec. 5.15' 



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

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

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

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

 Affairs of Moment are laid before the T)ej>, or elfe, when he 

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

 furer, Mafter 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 ; 

 fothat a Matter of Debt, Trefpafs, or of the higheft Crimes will 

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



In Cafes of Debt, the Debtor is ufually detained in Prifon, 'till of their p,<- 

 the (Cboufes) Bayliffs have feized upon his Effeas and fold "^^^"^"'"■ 

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

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

 notwithftanding releafed, and no future Demands are made 

 upon him. LelTer Offences are punifhed with the Baflinado '•• 

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

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

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

 greater Crimes, particularly for unnatural Luft, not only the 

 Parts already mentioned, but the ahdominal Mufcles likewife 

 are to be chaftifed : a Punilhment which is generally attended 

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

 Egyptian Punifliment ' is inflidted, which is to cut off the Hands 

 of the Tranfgreffor. Whatfoeveryi?^ orCbrifiian-SuhjeO: 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 znd ^abs 

 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 moft exquifite Agonies and Torments, thirty or 



I Thus we read of the EUers in the Gate. (Deut. 22. ij. and 2f. 7.) and (If. 29. ar. 

 Amos ^. 10.) o{ ITw! that reproveth and rebuketh in the Gate. The Ottoman Court likewife 

 feems to have been called the Port, from the Diftiibution of Juftice, and the Difpjtch of 

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

 thatSt. Paul Wis, beaten ivith Rods: (2 Cor.xi. 2j.) as tht Chotifes, whok Office itis to inflid 

 this Punifhment, appear to be no other than the like Number of Roj/un Z-ifferi- armed out 

 with their Fafces. 3 Dlod. Sic. 1. i. p. yo. 4 The faftnhig of the Body o/Saul to the Walls 

 e/Bcthfhan. (i Sam. 31. 10.; might be the fixing it only to fuch Hooks as were placed 

 there for the Execution of Criminals. 



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