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A50067 The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets colony; Laws, etc. Massachusetts. 1672 (1672) Wing M1003; ESTC R208 224,188 210

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shall search for the same in any suspected places or houses and upon search or otherwise if he shall finde the same or any part thereof or any ground of suspition appearing to the Officer Concealing of theft and receiving satisfaction privately he shall bring the Delinquent or suspected party to a Magistrate to be proceeded with according to the Law And if any person having goods stolen from him shall privately receive his said stolen goods except the fact be private penalty or committed by some member of his own family and so smother the theft and shall not legally prosecute the Offender he shall forfeit to the common Treasury the Goods or Chattels so received or the true value thereof 1652. CAPITAL LAWS IF any man after Legal Conviction shall HAVE or WORSHIP any other God but the LORD GOD Idolatry he shall be put to death Exod. 22.20 Deut 13.6 10. Deut 17.2 6. 2. If any Man or Woman be a WITCH Witch-craft that is Hath or Consulteth with a familiar Spirit they shall be put to death Exod. 22.18 Levit. 20.27 Deut. 18.10 11. 3. If any Person within this Jurisdiction Blasphemy whether Christian or Pagan shall wittingly and willingly presume to BLASPHEME the holy name of God FATHER SON or HOLY-GHOST with direct expresse presumptuous or high-handed Blaspemy either by wilfull or obstinate denying the true God or his Creation or Government of the World or shall curse God in like manner or reproach the holy Religion of God as if it were but a politick devise to keep ignorant men in awe or shall utter any other kind of Blasphemy of the like nature and degree they shall be put to death Levit. 24.15 16 4. If any person shall commit any wilfull MURTHER upon premediate malice Murther hatred or cruelty not in a mans necessary and just defence nor by meer casualty against his will he shall be put to death Exod. 21.12 13. Numb 35.31 5. If any person slayeth another suddenly in his ANGER or CRUELTY of passion he shall be put to death Levit. 24.17 Numb 35.20 21. 6. If any person shall slay another through guile Poysoning either by POYSONING or other such Devilish practise he shall be put to death Exod. 21.14 7. If any Man or Woman shall LYE with any BEAST or Bruit Creature Bestiality by carnal Copulation they shall surely be put to death and the Beast shall be slain and buried and not eaten Levit. 20.15 16. 8. If any Man LYETH with MAN-KINDE as he lyeth with a Woman Sodomy both of them have committed Abomination they both shall surely be put to death unless the one party were forced or be under fourteen years of age in which case he shall be severely punished Levit. 20.13 9. If any Person COMMIT ADULTERY with a Married or Espoused Wife Adultery the Adulterer and the Adulteress shall surely be put to death Levit. 20.19 18.20 Deut. 22.23 27. 10. If any man STEALETH A MAN or Man-kinde Man-stealing he shall surely be put to death Exod. 21.16 False witnes 11. If any Man rise up by FALSE-WITNESSE wittingly and of purpose to take away a mans Life he shall be put to death Deut 19.16 18.16 12. If any Man CONSPIRE and ATTEMPT any INVASION Conspiracy INSURRECTION or publick REBELLION against our Common-wealth or shall endeavour to surprize any Town or Towns Rebellion Fort or Forts therein or shall Treacherously and perfideously attempt the Alteration and Subversion of our frame of Polity or Government fundamentally he shall be put to death Numb 16. 2 Sam. 3. 2. Sam. 18. 2 Sam. 20. Children curse or smite Parents 13. If any Childe or Children above sixteen years old and of sufficient understanding shall CURSE or SMITE their natural FATHER or MOTHER he or they shall be put to death unless it can be sufficiently testified that the Parents have been very unchristianly negligent in the education of such Children or so provoked them by extreme and cruel Correction that they have been forced thereunto to preserve themselves from Death or Maiming Exod. 21.17 Levit. 20.9 Exod. 21.15 Rebellious Son 18. If a Man have a STUBBORN or REBELLIOUS SON of sufficient years of understanding viz. sixteen years of age which will not obey the voice of his Father or the voice of his Mother and that when they had chastened him will not hearken unto them then shall his Father and Mother being his natural Parents lay hold on him and bring him to the Magistrates assembled in Court and testifie unto them that their Son is stubborn and rebellious and will not obey their voice and chastisement but lives in sundry and notorious Crimes such a son shall be put to death Deut. 22.20 21. 15. If any Man shall RAVISH any maid or single Woman Rape committing Carnal Copulation with her by force against her own will that is above the age of ten years he shall be punished either with death or with some other grievous punishment according to circumstances as the Judges or General Court shall determine 1649. 17. Foresmuch as Carnal Copulation with a Woman Childe under the age of ten years is a more hainous sin then with one of more years Rape of a Child as being more inhumane and unnatural in it self and more perrilous to the life and well-being of the Childe It is therefore Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof that whosoever he be shall commit or have Carnal Copulation with any such Childe under ten years old and be legally convicted thereof he shall be put to death 1669. Non-appearance in a Capital Crime 17. If any person shall be Indited for any CAPITAL CRIME who is not then in durance and shall refuse to render his person to some Magistrate within one month after three Proclamations publickly made in the Town where he usually abides there being a month between Proclamation and Proclamation his Lands and Goods shall be seized to the use of the Common Treasury till he make his lawful appearance And such withdrawing of himself shall stand in stead of one witness to prove his Crime unless he can make it appear to the Court that he was necessarily hindred 1646. Cask and Cooper Gager Packer IT is Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof That all Cask used for any Liquor Fish Beef Pork or other Commodities to be put to Sale Cask ●heir Assize and quality shall be of London Assize and of sound and well seasoned Timber And that fit persons shall be appointed from time to time in all places needfull Gagers Fee to Gage all such Vessels or Cask and such as shall be found of due Assize shall be marked with the Gagers mark who shall have for his pains four pence per Tun. Coopers mark And every Cooper shall have a distinct Brand mark on his own Cask upon the penalty of forfeiture of twenty shillings A. 51.