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They could enter fifteen muids of wine, without paying duty for it, they could take eight bushels of salt in the year, from the kings stores and at the merchant's price, and give the right of committimus to all ecclesiastics, after a year's residence in the town. The church of Saint-Patrice, has some stained glass windows of the greatest beauty.
The nation was unanimous that the writ of committimus, by which cases could be removed by privileged persons from the regular courts to be tried by exceptional tribunals, or by distant parliaments, should be totally abolished. Justices of the peace, or informal courts with summary processes, were to have the settlement of small cases. T., Amiens, A. P., i. 747, Section 1.
By a writ called committimus, the tribunal by which an action was to be tried could be changed. This appears to have been a frequent cause of failure of justice. As for the criminal proceedings of the age, there was hardly a limit to their cruelty. Under Louis XV. the prisons were filthy dens, crowded and unventilated, true fever-holes.
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