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Name: Lord Maximus Cortair
Contact: [email protected]
Town: Skara Brae
Type of Institution: Monarchic Republic
Statement of Purpose:
To uphold the virtues and values of the citizens of Skara Brae, whilst defending
them from the evil forces consuming Sosaria.
Constitution:
1. If a controversy arise between laymen, or between laymen and clerks, or between
clerks concerning patronage and presentation of guilds, it shall be treated or
concluded in the court of the lord king.
2. Guilds of the lord king's
fee cannot be permanently bestowed without his consent and grant.
3.
Clerks charged and accused of any matter, summoned by the king's justice, shall
come into his court to answer there to whatever it shall seem to the king's
court should be answered there; and in the guild court to what it seems should
be answered there; however the king's justice shall send into the royal court
for the purpose of seeing how the matter shall be treated there. And if the
clerk be convicted or confess, the guild ought not to protect him further.
4. Excommunicate persons ought not to give security for an indefinite
time, or give an oath, but only security and pledge for submitting to the
judgment of the royal court in order that they may be absolved.
5.
Laymen ought not to be accused save by dependable and lawful accusers and
witnesses in the presence of an Elder, yet so that the Deputy Governor lose not
his right or anything which he ought to have thence. And if there should be
those who are deemed culpable, but whom no one wishes or dares to accuse, the
sheriff, upon the justicar's request, shall cause twelve lawful men of the
neighborhood or the vill to take oath before the justicar that they will show
the truth of the matter according to their conscience.
6. No one who
holds of the king in chief or any of the officials of his demesne is to be
excommunicated or his lands placed under interdict unless the lord king, if he
be in the land, or his justiciar, if he be outside the kingdom, first gives his
consent, that he may do for him what is right: yet so that what pertains to the
royal court be concluded there, and what looks to the guild court be sent
thither to be concluded there.
7. As to appeals which may arise, they
should pass from the Cleric to an Elder, and from the Elder to the Deputy
Governor. And if the Deputy Governor fail in furnishing justice, the matter
should come to the lord king at the last, that at his command the litigation be
concluded in the Deputy Governor's court; and so because it should not pass
further without the lord king's consent.
8. If any one who is of a city,
castle, borough, or demesne manor of the king shall be cited by cleric or Elder
for any offense for which he ought to be held answerable to them and despite
their summonses he refuse to do what is right, it is fully permissible to place
him under interdict, but he ought not to be excommunicated before the king's
chief official of that vill shall agree, in order that he may authoritatively
constrain him to come to his trial. But if the king's official fail in this, he
himself shall be in the lord king's mercy; and then the Elder shall be able to
coerce the accused man by ecclesiastical authority.
9. Elders, Deputy
Governors, and all ecclesiastics of the kingdom who hold of the king in chief
have their possessions of the lord king as barony and answer for them to the
king's justices and ministers and follow and do all royal rights and customs;
and they ought, just like other barons, to be present at the judgments of the
lord king's court along with the barons, until it come in judgment to loss of
limbs or death.
The declaration of the above-mentioned royal
customs and dignities has been made by the Elders of The Fellowship of Skara
Brae. There are, indeed, many other great customs and dignities of our holy
mother guild and of the lord king and barons of the kingdom, which are not
included in this writing, but which are to be preserved to holy guilds and to
the lord king and his heirs and the barons of the kingdom, and are to be kept
inviolate for ever.
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