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the Queen his wife or of his son and heir or to levie warre
against his Majestic or to counterfeit the Kings great or privy
Seal or his coin or to come or adhere to any forreine prince or
State being a professed and declared enemy of his Majesties in
any practice or attempt against his said Majestic
Or to Compass conspire and cause the death of the Lord
proprietaric within this Province or of his Leiutenant Generall

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for the time being (in the absence of the Lord Proprietarie) or
to levy warre against the Lord Proprietarie or his Leiuten^t
Generall for the time being (in absence of the Lord proprietarie
or to come adhere or confederate with the Indians of these
parts or any forreing prince or Governour to the invadeing of
this Province or disheriting the Lord Proprietarie of his Seignory
and dominion therein And all offences of treason shall be
punished by drawing hanging and quartering of a man by
drawing and burning of a Woman and the offenders blood
shall be coruptecl and the offender shall forfeit to the Lord
Proprietary all his or her Lands tenements goods franchises
and all that may be forfeited Provided That punishment of
death shall be inflicted on a Lord of a Mannour by beheading
This Act to Continue to the end of the next Generall Assembly.

An Act For felonies

Be it Enacted By the Lord Proprietarie of this Province of
and with the advice and approbation of the freemen of the
same that these offences following in this act shall be adjudged
to be felonies within this Province that is to say homiside Blood-
shed committed by assault upon the pson of the Leiutenant
Generall or to shed the blood of any Judge sitting in the Court
Burglary Robbery Polygamie Sacriledge Sorcery Petit treason
Sodomy and Rape alsoe it Shall be adjudged felonie within
this Province to commit Idolatry which is the worshiping a
false God or to commit blasphemy which is acursing or wicked
speaking of God. or to commit perjury which is false witness
against an others life or to sell give or deliver to any Indian or
to any other declared or professed enemic of the Province any
gunne pistol powder or shott without the knowledge or lycence
of the Leiutenant Generall or to teach any other Indian or
other declared enemic of the province the use of the said
armes or the makeing thereof

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And the offender in any of those felonies shall suffer pains
of death by hanging and shall forfeit to the Lord Proprietarie
all the land whereof the offender was seized within the Pro-
vince at the time of the offence committed (saveing to the wife
or widow her Dower and to the heir his or her inheritance if

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