The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . STOCKS was the result. In 1640 the town authorized Edward Palmerto build a pair of stocks, in which violators of the laws mightbe placed. The price which he charged was considered soexcessive that the fathers compelled him to inaugurate themby ordering him to be confined in them for one hour. OneCaptain Stone was sentenced to pay one hundred pounds 97. o w Pi CO OO M w o W w«u CO o 1-Jo and prohibited coming within the paten
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . STOCKS was the result. In 1640 the town authorized Edward Palmerto build a pair of stocks, in which violators of the laws mightbe placed. The price which he charged was considered soexcessive that the fathers compelled him to inaugurate themby ordering him to be confined in them for one hour. OneCaptain Stone was sentenced to pay one hundred pounds 97. o w Pi CO OO M w o W w«u CO o 1-Jo and prohibited coming within the patent without the Gov-ernors permission upon pain of death, for calHng one of theofficials (a justice of the peace) a Justass. Josias Plastow,for steaHng four baskets of corn from the Indians, wasordered to return them eight baskets, fined five pounds, andordered that hereafter he be called Josias and not Mr. JosiasPlastow, as previously called. Sergeant Perkins was ordered to carry forty squares ofturf to the fort for being drunk; John Wedgewood, for beingin company with drunkards, was set in the stocks; John Dawwas severely whipped for breaking the seventh command-ment, and a law was passed inflicting death as a punishmentfor breaking it; Robert Coles, fined ten pounds, put in thestocks, a white sheet of paper upon his back whereon waswritten drunkard. But as the severity of the laws was forthe exemplary purity of morals and religion, which shouldextend to every person in society, it, of course, necessarilyreached
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