fpies placed in feveral stations, let him bring them by artifice into his

power:

262. Then, having fully proclaimed their respective criminal acts, let the king inflict punishment legally, according to the crimes • proved;

263. Since, without certain punishment, it is impoffible to restrain the delinquency of fcoundrels with depraved fouls, who fecretly prowl over this earth.

264. Muchfrequented places, cifterns of water, bake houses, the lodgings of harlots, taverns and victualling fhops, fquares where four ways meet, large well known trees, affemblies, and publick fpectacles;

265. Old courtyards, thickets, the houses of artifts, empty manfions, groves, and gardens;

266. Thefe and the like places let the king guard, for the pre⚫vention of robberies, with foldiers, both stationary and patroling, as • well as with fecret watchmen.

267. By the means of able spies, once thieves but reformed, who, ⚫ well knowing the various machinations of rogues, affociate with them ' and follow them, let the king detect and draw them forth:

268. On pretexts of dainty food and gratifications, or of seeing fome wife priest, who could enfure their fuccefs, or on pretence of mock • battles and the like feats of strength, let the fpies procure an affembly ⚫ of those men.

269. 'Such

269. Such as refuse to go forth on those occafions, deterred by "former punishments, which the king bad inflicted, let him feize by 'force, and put to death, on proof of their guilt, with their friends and kinfmen, paternal and maternal, if proved to be their confe• derates.

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270. Let not a juft prince kill a man convicted of fimple theft, • unless taken with the mainer or with implements of robbery; but

any thief, taken with the mainer, or with fuch implements, let him destroy without hesitation;

271. And let him flay all thofe, who give robbers food in towns, or fupply them with implements, or afford them shelter.

272. Should thofe men, who are appointed to guard any districts, or those of the vicinity, who were employed for that purpose, be • neutral in attacks by robbers and inactive in feizing them, let him inftantly punish them as thieves.

273. Him, who lives apparently by the rules of his clafs, but really

departs from thofe rules, let the king feverely punifh by fine, as a

' wretch, who violates his duty.

274. They, who give no affistance on the plundering of a town,

on the forcible breaking of a dike, or on seeing a robbery on the highway, fhall be banished with their cattle and utenfils.

275. Men, who rob the king's treafure, or obftinately oppofe his

⚫ commands, let him destroy by various modes of just punishment; • and those, who encourage his enemies.

276. ' Of

276. Of robbers, who break a wall or partition, and commit theft in the night, let the prince order the hands to be lopped off, and ⚫ themselves to be fixed on a fharp stake.

277. Two fingers of a cutpurfe, the thumb and the index, let him

cause to be amputated on his first conviction; on the fecond, one hand and one foot; on the third, he fhall fuffer death.

278. Such, as give thieves fire, fuch as give them food, such as give them arms and apartments, and fuch as knowingly receive a thing ftolen, let the king punish as he would punish a thief.

279. The breaker of a dam to fecure a pool, let him punish by long immerfion under water, or by keen corporal fuffering; or the offender 'fhall repair it, but must pay the highest mulet.

280.Thofe, who break open the treasury, or the arfenal, or the temple of a deity, and those, who carry off royal elephants, horses, or cars, let him without hesitation destroy.

281. He, who fhall take away the water of an ancient pool, or • fhall obftruct a watercourfe, must be condemned to pay the lowest • ufual amercement.

282. HE, who fhall drop his ordure on the king's highway, ex" cept in cafe of neceffity, fhall pay two panas and immediately remove • the filth;

283. But a perfon in urgent neceffity, a very old man, a pregnant woman, and a child, only deserve reproof, and fhall clean the place • themselves: that is a fettled rule.

• 284. ALL

284. ALL physicians and furgeons acting unskilfully in their several professions, must pay for injury to brute animals the lowest, but for injury to human creatures the middle, amercement.

285. THE breaker of a footbridge, of a publick flag, of a palifade, and of idols made of clay, shall repair what he has broken, and pay a mulct of five hundred panas.

286. FOR mixing impure with pure commodities, for piercing fine gems, as diamonds or rubies, and for boring pearls or inferiour gems improperly, the fine is the loweft of the three; but damages must • always be paid.

287.THE man, who fhall deal unjustly with purchasers at a fair price by delivering goods of lefs value, or fhall fell at a high price "goods of ordinary value, fhall pay according to circumstances, the lowest or the middle amercement.

288. LET the king place all prifons near a public road, where of• fenders may be seen wretched or disfigured.

289. HIM, who breaks down a publick wall, him, who fills up a publick ditch, him, who throws down a publick gate, the king fhall speedily banish.

290. For all facrifices to destroy innocent men, the punishment is a fine of two hundred panas; and for machinations with poisonous roots, and for the various charms and witcheries intended to kill, by perfons not effecting their purpose.

291. THE feller of bad grain for good, or of good feed placed at the top of the bag, to conceal the bad below, and the destroyer of known ⚫ landmarks,

landmarks, muft fuffer fuch corporal punishment as will disfigure • them;

292. But the most pernicious of all deceivers is a goldfmith, who ' commits frauds: the king fhall order him to be cut piecemeal with

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293. FOR ftealing implements of husbandry, weapons, and pre'pared medicines, let the king award punishment according to the time and according to their use.

294. THE king, and his council, his metropolis, his realm, his

treasure, and his army, together with his ally, are the feven mem'bers of his kingdom; whence it is called Septánga:

295. Among those seven members of a kingdom, let him confider the ruin of the first, and fo forth in order, as the greatest ca• lamity;

296. Yet, in a fevenparted kingdom here below, there is no fupremacy among the feveral parts, from any preeminence in useful qualities but all the parts must reciprocally fupport each other, like the three ftaves of a holy mendicant :

297. In thefe and thofe acts, indeed, this and that member may ⚫ be distinguished; and the member, by which any affair is tranfacted, has the preeminence in that particular affair.

298. WHEN the king employs emiffaries, when he exerts power, when he regulates publick bufinefs, let him invariably know both his own strength and that of his enemy,