New-Haven's settling in New-England and some lawes for government / published for the use of that colony : though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added.
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New-Haven's settling in New-England and some lawes for government / published for the use of that colony : though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added.
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New-Haven Colony.
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London :: Printed by M.S. for Livewell Chapman, at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley,
1656.
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Disturbers of the publick Peace.
It is Ordered, &c. That whosoever shall disturb or undermine the peace of this Jurisdiction, or of any of the Plantations, Chur∣ches, Families, or persons within the same, whether by conspiring,
or plotting with others, or by his own tumultuous and offensive carriage, traducing, reproaching, quarrelling, challenging, as∣saulting, battery, or in any other way, tending to publick distur∣bance, in what place soever it be done, or shall defame any Court of Justice, or any of the Magistrates,
or other Judges of any such Court within this Jurisdiction in respect of any Act, or sentence therein passed; every such offender upon due proof made, either
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in the Generall Court, Court of Magistrates, or particular Court, (if the tryall, and issuing of the case exceed not their limits) shall be punished by fine, imprisonment, binding to the peace, or good behaviour, disfranchisement or banishment, according to the quality and measure of the offence, or disturbance.