For the tenth offense, the offender shall be bound by
sureties for good behavior for three years.
A person equating himself or another with God or not believing in
God shall be imprisoned for six months without bail. For the
second offense, he shall be banished from the nation.
No longer shall people be punished for nonattendance at church on
Sunday or days of Thanksgiving, but may be at some other place of
prayer, preaching, reading, or the scriptures.
Hawkers and ballad singers have been libelous, so are to be
whipped as common rogues and then dismissed. Also, their ballads
and pamphlets are to be confiscated. Vagrant, idle, loose,
dissolute and disorderly persons and fiddlers in inns, alehouses,
and taverns are to be punished as rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy
beggars, that is, whipped.
In 1649, treason against Parliament was defined as writing,
printing, or declaring that the government is tyrannical, usurped,
or unlawful or that Parliament is not the supreme authority or the
nation, or plot, contrive, or endeavor to stir up or raise force
against the government. Attainder for such would not work
corruption of the blood.
Treason to the Protector was defined the same as it was to the
King.
Army deserters are to be corporally punished or executed.
Fellable wood and underwood, but no timber trees, may be cut
within 60 miles of London because fuel is needed, especially by
the poor.
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