[835] Brodhead, Hist. of N. Y., II, 18, 63, 66, 67; Colonial Laws of N. Y., I, xii, 100, 101. The code of the Duke of York has been thrice published: in Collections of N. Y. Hist. Soc., I, 305-97, for the year 1809 (New York, 1811); in the recent Colonial Laws of New York (Albany, 1894), I, 6-100, where a critical note on the original copies may be found; and as the Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws, a part of Linn's Charter and Laws of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, 1879), the edition here cited by preference.
[836] O'Callaghan, Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. of N. Y., III, 226, 227; N. Y. Col. Laws, I, xii, xiv, 107 (Andros's order). Cf. Dongan's report in O'Callaghan, op. cit., III, 390 (1686); also see Hildreth, Hist. of U. S., II, 44 ff., 76 ff.; Lodge, Short Hist., 297-99; Brodhead, Hist. of N. Y., II, 273; Howard, Local Const. Hist., I, 105, notes.
[837] Hazard, Annals of Pa., 427; N. Y. Col. Laws, I, xii.
[838] Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws: in Charter and Laws, 19, 36; Col. Laws of N. Y., I, 45, 46. In at least one case this provision was carried out: on Oct. 5, 1672, Dan Sutton, for perjury and bigamy was sentenced to have his tongue bored through with a red-hot iron: Law Reports, X, 733 (Lauderdale Peerage Case); for the text of the duke's marriage law of 1664/65 see ibid., X, 730, 731.
[839] Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws, 37.
[840] Ibid.
[841] Ibid., 65.
[842] Ibid., 70.
[843] Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws, 13, 14; Col. Laws of N. Y., I, 19.
[844] Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws, 36; Col. Laws of N. Y., I, 46.