Capital Crimes
Harmful magic combined with a pact from the Devil
What is witchcraft?
On this specific day, the Puration Code bans all work, focsing only on Church
What is Sunday?
Wooden framework locked an offenders head in place, exposing them to the public
What are the stocks/ pilory?
Any criminal act that can legally appoint to death penalty.
What is a capital crime?
These specific laws controlled what people could wear, banning luxury items for ordinarys
What are sumptuary laws?
Harsh punishment involved whipping a criminals bare back at a wooden post
What is the whipping post/flogging?
Speaking out against God or denying the Bible
What is blasphemy?
if a colonist skipped this mandatory weekly gathering, they were fined
What is Church service?
Punishment involving offenders leaving a letter permanentley burned onto their hand
What is branding?
Betraying your country or plotting to overthrow the King
What is treason?
This rival religious group was made of members who were banned from the Puration colonies
Who were the Quakers?
This forces a troublemaker to fully leave the colony and never return
What is banishment?
Intentional killing of another human being
What is murder?
Doing non essential work/travelling on Sunday broke this religious rule
What is breaking Sabbath?
Used often for women accussed for gossiping, this device strapped the offender to a chair and repeatedly plunged them underwater
What is a ducking stool?