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<HEAD>The Capitall Lawes of <HI>New-England,</HI> as they &s;tand now in force in the Common-Wealth.</HEAD>
<HEAD>BY THE COVRT, In the Years 1641. 1642.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Capitall Lawes, E&s;tabli&s;hed within the Iuri&s;diction of <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;ets.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. IF any man after legall conviction, &s;hall have or wor&s;hip any other God, but the Lord God, he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Deut.</HI> 13. 6, &amp;c. and 17. 2. &amp;c. <HI>Exodus</HI> 22. 20.</P>
<P N="2">2. IF any man or woman be a Witch, that is, hath or con&s;ulteth with a familiar &s;pi|rit, they &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Exod.</HI> 22. 18. <HI>Lev.</HI> 20. 27. <HI>Deut.</HI> 18. 10, 11.</P>
<P N="3">3. IF any per&s;on &s;hall bla&s;pheme the Name of God the Father, Sonne, or Holy Gho&s;t, with direct, expre&s;&s;e, pre&s;umptuous, or high-handed bla&s;phemy, or &s;hall cur&s;e God in the like manner, he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Lev.</HI> 24. 15, 16.</P>
<P N="4">4. IF any per&s;on &s;hall commit any wilfull murther, which is manflaughter, commit|ted upon premeditate malice, hatred, or cruelty, not in a mans nece&s;&s;ary and ju&s;t defence, nor by meer ca&s;ualtie, again&s;t his will; he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Exod.</HI> 21. 12, 13, 14. <HI>Num.</HI> 35. 30, 31.</P>
<P N="5">5. IF any per&s;on &s;layeth another &s;uddenly in his anger, or cruelty of pa&s;&s;ion, he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Num.</HI> 35. 20, 21. <HI>Lev.</HI> 24. 17.</P>
<P N="6">6. IF any per&s;on &s;hall &s;lay another through guile, either by poy&s;onings, or other &s;uch divili&s;h practice; he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Exod.</HI> 21. 14.</P>
<P N="7">7. IF a man or woman &s;hall lye with any bea&s;t, or bruit creature, by carnall copula|tion, they &s;hall &s;urely be put to death; and the bea&s;t &s;hall be &s;laine, and buried. <HI>Lev.</HI> 20. 15, 16.</P>
<P N="8">8. IF a man lyeth with mankinde, as he lyeth with a woman&punc; both of them have committed abomination, they both &s;hall &s;urely be put to death. <HI>Lev.</HI> 20. 13.</P>
<P N="9">9. IF any per&s;on committeth adultery with a married, or e&s;pou&s;ed wife, the Adulte|rer, and the Adultere&s;&s;e, &s;hall &s;urely be put to death. <HI>Lev.</HI> 20. 10. and 18. 20. <HI>Deut.</HI> 22. 23, 24.</P>
<P N="10">10. IF any man &s;hall unlawfully have carnall copulation with any woman-childe under ten years old, either with, or without her con&s;ent, he &s;hall be put to death.</P>
<P N="11">11. IF any man &s;hall forcibly, and without con&s;ent, ravi&s;h any maid or woman that is lawfully married or contracted, he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Deut.</HI> 22. 25. &amp;c.</P>
<P N="12">12. IF any man &s;hall ravi&s;h any maid or &s;ingle woman (committing carnall copu|lation with her by force, again&s;t her will) that is above the age of ten yeares; he &s;hall be either puni&s;hed with death, or with &s;ome other grievous puni&s;hment, ac|cording to circum&s;tances, at the di&s;cretion of the Judges: and this Law to continue till the Court take further order.</P>
<P N="13">13. IF any man &s;tealeth a man, or man-kinde, he &s;hall &s;urely be put to death. <HI>Exod.</HI> 21. 16.</P>
<P N="14">14. IF any man ri&s;e up by fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e wittingly, and of purpo&s;e to take away any mans life, he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Deut.</HI> 19. 16. 18, 19.</P>
<P N="15">15. IF any man &s;hall con&s;pire, or attempt any inva&s;ion, in&s;urrection, or publick re|bellion again&s;t our Common-wealth, or &s;hall indeavour to &s;urprize any Towne or Townes, Fort or Forts therein: or &s;hall treacherou&s;ly, or perfidiou&s;ly attempt the alteration and &s;ubver&s;ion of our frame of pollity, or government fundamentally, he &s;hall be put to death. <HI>Num.</HI> 16. 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 3. &amp; 18. &amp; 20.</P>
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<P>Printed fir&s;t in <HI>New-England,</HI> and re-printed in <HI>London</HI> for <HI>Ben. Allen</HI> in <HI>Popes-head Allen.</HI> 1643.</P>
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