An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1830 Excerpt: ... Connecticut always zealous and public-spirited, furnished more than her proportion, (the friendly Indians God's honor, shall be punished Trith loss of pay and other punishments at discretion. '3. All those who often and wilfully absent themselves from the public worship of God, and prayers, shall be proceeded against at discretion. '4. Whosoever shall be convicted to do his duty negligently and carelessly, shall be punished at discretion. '5. No person shall presume to quarrel with his superior officer upon pain of cashiering and arbitrary punishment; nor to strike any such upon pain of death. '6. No commander or soldier shall depart from his charge or captain without license upon pain of death. '7. Every private soldier, upon pain of imprisonment, shall keep silence when the army is to take lodging, or when it is marching, or in battle, so as the officers may be heard, and their commands executed. '8. No man shall resist, draw, lift, offer to draw or lift his weapon against his officer, correcting him orderly for his offence, upon pain of death. '9. No-man shall resist the provost marshal or any other officer in the executing his offioe, upon pain of death. '10. No man shall utter any words of sedition or mutiny, upon pain of death. '11. They that shall hear mutinous speeches and not acquaint their commander with them, shall he punished with some grievous punishment. '12. Drunkenness in an officer shall be punished with loss of place, and in a private foot soldier with such punishment as a court marshal shall think fit. '13. Rapes, ravishments, and unnatural abuses, and adultery, shall be punished with death. '14. Fornication and other dissolute lasciviousness shall be punished with discretion according to the quality of the offence. '15. Theft or robbery ...