[70] Force, _Tracts_, III.: “Articles, Lavves, and Orders, Diuine, Politique, and Martiall, for the Colony in Virginea Brittania.” [71] “All such Bakers as are appointed to bake bread, or what else, either for the store to be giuen out in generall, or for any one in particular, shall not steale nor imbezell, loose, or defraud any man of his due and proper weight and measure, nor vse any dishonest and deceiptfull tricke to make the bread weigh heauier, or make it courser vpon purpose to keepe backe any part or measure of the flower or meale committed vnto him, nor aske, take, or detaine any one loafe more or lesse for his hire or paines for so baking, since whilest he who deliuered vnto him such meale or flower, being to attend the businesse of the Colonie, such baker or bakers are imposed vpon no other seruice or duties, but onely so to bake for such as do worke, and this shall hee take notice of, vpon paine for the first time offending herein of losing his eares, and for the second time to be condemned a yeare to the Gallies, and for the third time offending to be condemned to the Gallies for three yeares.” The same penalties are attached in case cooks or those who dress fish withhold any part of the provision given them. Every minister was to read these laws publicly every Sunday before catechising. Force, _Tracts_, III.: “Articles ... for the Colony in Virginea.” [72] _Trelawny Papers_, _Collections of Maine Historical Society_, III., 166-168. [73] _Ibid._, 169. [74] _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Fifth Series, I., 64-67. [75] _Ibid._, 68. [76] _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Fifth Series, VIII., 427. [77] _Winthrop Papers_, Pt. VI., 353-354, note. [78] Trumbull, _Blue Laws_, p. 155. [79] _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Sixth Series, II., 112. [80] Purdon, _Digest_. [81] Purdon, _Digest_, Act of 1700. In East New Jersey the privilege was restricted to white servants. Leaming and Spicer, _Acts of East New Jersey, 1682_. In Massachusetts no servant was to be put off for more than a year to another master without the consent of the Court. _Body of Liberties_, § 86, Act of 1672. In New York no servant, except one bound for life, could be assigned to another master for more than one year, except for good reason.—_Laws of the Duke of York._