...otherwise grievously punished. 13. If any child or children, above sixteen years old and of competent understanding, shall curse or smite their natural...sufficiently testified, that the parents have been very unchristian!)' negligent in the education of such children, or so provoked them by extreme and cruel...

...or they shall bee put to death; unless it can bee sufficiently testified (hat the parents have beene very unchristianly negligent in the education of such children, or so provoke them by extreme and cruell correction that they have beene forced iherennlo to preserve themselves from death, maiming....

...old, and of Cureine or smitcompetent Understanding, shall Curse or Smite their Natural Father mother" or Mother ; he or they shall be put to Death, unless it can be sufficiently testi6ed that the Parents have been very Unchristianly negligent in the Education of such Children,...

...the comon welth, he shall be put to Deth. . 13. Yf any childe or children aboue sixteene yeers old, and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, hee or they shall bee put to Death ; unlesse it can bee sufficiently testified that the parents have...

...sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their naturall father or mother, hee or they shall bee put to death ; unless it can be sufficiently testified...of such children, or so provoke them by extreme and cruell correction that they have been forced thereunto to preserve themselves from death, maiming....

...fitter for perusal, but the sense is the same : "(13.)Ifanychilde or children above sixteene yeares old, and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their natural! father or mother, hee or they shall be put to death, unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been...

...above sixteen years old, and of sufficient understanding,' shall curse or smite their natural father, he or they shall be put to death, unless it can be...unchristianly negligent in the education of such children." This enactment was obviously dictated by the Mosaic law, which declares the acts of cursing and smiting...

...the Commonwealth, hee shall bee put to death. 13. If any Childe or Children above sixteene years old and of sufficient understanding, shall Curse or smite their natural father or mother, hee or they shall bee put to death; unless it can bee sufficiently testified that the parents have...

...16 years old. and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite his natural father or mother, he shall be PUT TO DEATH, UNLESS it can be sufficiently...UNCHRISTIANLY NEGLIGENT IN THE EDUCATION OF SUCH CHILDREN." This was the Mosaic Law, but with an important and characteristic qualification. NASHUA, NASHVILLE,...

...discharge of it, a law was passed in 1646, that " if any child or children above sixteen years old, and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite...sufficiently testified that the parents have been unchristianly negligent in the education of their children." As another indication of the same intense...