It is likewise ordered that all persons whatsoever that have cards, dice, or [gaming] tables in their howses, shall make away with them before the nexte Court....
It is ordered, that John Legge, servant to Mr. Humfry, shalbe severely whipped this day att Boston, and afterwards, soe soone as conveniently may be, att Salem, for strikeing Richard Wright, when hee came to give him correccion for idleness in his maisters worke.
[Apparently Wright (who was not even the "master" of Legge) had struck first (that being the usual meaning of "give correction"); but a servant must not strike back.]
It is ordered, that Phillip Ratliffe shalbe whipped, have his eares cutt of, fyned 40 £, and banished out of the lymitts of this jurisdiccion, for uttering mallitious and scandulous speeches against the government and the church of Salem, etc., as appeareth by a particular thereof, proved upon oath.
[Apparently no jury trial was permitted in this case (or in several other equally serious cases noted in the early _Records_). For the definite establishment of the jury, see No. 67 _b_, below. It was already in use, however, in capital trials. (Cf. _American History and Government_, # 80.) The extracts from the Massachusetts _Records_ regarding those early cases are too long to give here.]
... It is ordered, that Josias Plaistowe shall (for stealing 4 basketts of corne from the Indians) returne them 8 basketts againe, be ffined V £, and hereafter to be called by the name of Josias, and not Mr., as formerly hee used to be; and that William Buckland and Thomas Andrewe shalbe whipped for being accessary to the same offence.
[These two men were servants of Plaistowe. Cf. _American History and Government_, # 65, on the exemption of gentlemen from corporal punishment; and also No. 78, note 43, below.]
... It is ordered, that it shalbe lawfull for any man to kill any swine that comes into his corne: the party that ownes the swine is to have them, being kild, and allowe recompence for the damage they doe, etc....
Roberte Coles is ffined X £, and enjoyned to stand with a white sheete of paper on his back, wherein _a drunkard_ shalbe written in greate letteres, and to stand therewith soe longe as the Court thinks meete, for abuseing himselfe shamefully with drinke.