(1) [August 23/September 2, 1630. The first "court" after the arrival of Winthrop.]
... It was ordered that carpenters, joyners, brickelayers, sawers, and thatchers shall not take above 2 s. a day, nor any man shall give more, under paine of X s....
(2) [September 28/October 8, 1630.]
... It is ordered that labourers [i.e., unskilled] shall not take above 12 d. a day for their worke, and not above 6d. and meate and drinke, under paine of X s....
(3) [November 30/December 10, 1630.]
... It is ordered that John Baker shalbe whipped for shooteing att fowle on the Sabbath day, etc.
[No law had been made regarding such an offense. This is an instance of an ex post facto law, made by the magistrates in imposing sentence.]
(4) [March 1/11, 1630/1631.]
... It is ordered that Mr. Aleworth, Mr. Weaver, Mr. Plastowe, Mr. Shuter, Cobbett, and Wormewood shalbe sent into England by the shipp Lyon, or soe many of them as the ship can carry, the rest to be sent thither by the 1st of May nexte, if there be opportunitie of shipping, if not, by the nexte shipp that returnes for England, as persons unmeete to inhabit here; and that Sir Christopher Gardner and Mr. Wright shalbe sent as prisoners into England by the shipp Lyon, nowe returneing thither.
[The two last named had been "tried" after a fashion. For the others, apparently, there was not even a form of trial, with or without a jury. The banishment was executive, not judicial.]