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192 Assembly Proceedings, September 1642.
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Liber P R
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or instrument by wch the right passeth be acknowledged before
some person authorised, & recorded in, or certified to the
office of that County Court afore the next ordinary Court day
following. This Act to endure for three yeares from this
present day
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15 An Act ordeining punishmt for certaine greater Capitall
offences
All offences of Treason by the Statute of 25 Edw: 3. ca: 2
done within this Province, shalbe punished as Treason vseth
to be in England.
All offences of willfull murther by the Law of England
shalbe punished as willfull murther vseth to be in England.
All offences of conspiring the death or destruction, or of
attempting any premeditate violence against the person of the
Lord Proprietary of this Province, or (in his absence) of his
Lieutenant Generall, or of holding any private intelligence
with a declared enemy of the Province (by way of practise &
conspiracy against the Lord Proprietary, or (in his absence)
against his Leiutent Generall; or of rising in armes or mutinie
against the Lord Proprietary, or (in his absence) against his
Lieutenant Generall) or of being accessary to any the offences
aforesaid, shalbe punished by paines of death, and forfeiture
of all the offenders, lands, goods, and chattels to the Lord
Proprietary. This Act to endure for three yeares from this
present day.
16 An Act for the punishmt of certaine lesse capitall offences
These following shalbe adiudged capitall offences within this
Province, that is to say, all offences of homicide, pyracie, rob-
bery, burglary, sacriledge, sodomy, sorcery, rape & larceny, to
be determined by the Judge as neare as may be to the Lawes
of England. Likewise all offences of willfull burning or de-
stroying a house or stack of tobacco, corne, or hay of another
mans, or of cutting or plucking out willfully anothers eies or
tongue.
And the offender (whether principall or accessary afore the
offence committed) in any of these, Shall or may be iudged to
suffer pains of death, or of burning in the hand or losse of
member, and to lose all his or her lands for life, goods or
chattells, dignity, or office, or may be outlawed, exiled, im-
prisoned during life, or adiudged to serve the Lord Proprietary &
his assignes for the terme of seven or lesse yeares (except he be
a gentleman) or may be any otherwise corporally corrected or
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