not of course for the elite running the colony. It was Dale
who propagated the “Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall.”
This included the clauses
No man or woman shall run away from the colony to the
Indians, upon pain of death.
Anyone who robs a garden, public or private, or a
vineyard, or who steals ears of corn shall be punished
with death.
No member of the colony will sell or give any
commodity of this country to a captain, mariner, master
or sailor to transport out of the colony, for his own
private uses, upon pain of death.