I2 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
afternoon catechize such as are not yet ripe to come to the com- 
munion, also to seek to prevent all ungodly disorders with sundry 
provisions for the prevention and punishment of the sins of incon- 
tinency and the “reformation of swearing”; prohibiting the killing 
of meat cattle without leave of the governor; providing against the 
taking of boats or oars without leave; providing against any one 
passing up or down the river without touching first at James City - 
to know whether the governor will command him any service, 
against trading in the bay without license and without giving 
security; against any wrong to the Indians; requiring all persons 
to attend divine service both forenoon and afternoon on Sunday; 
“and all such as beare armes shall bring their pieces, swordes, 
poulder and shotte’’; against maids or women servants contracting 
marriage without the consent of their parents or of their masters 
or mistresses or of the magistrate and minister of the place, both 
together, and prohibiting any servant from foregoing his contract 
made in England for service in the colony. 
Capt. Henry Spelman was then. called to the bar and found 
- guilty of the charge of having said to Opochancano, the Indian 
king, that within a year there would come a governor greater than 
this that now is in place, was condemned to be degraded of his 
title of captain and to perform seven years’ service to the colony 
in the nature of Interpreter to the Governor. 
“This sentence being read to Spelman (he is one that had in 
him more of the Savage than of the Christian) muttered certaine 
wordes to himselfe, neither shewing any remorse for his offenses 
nor yet any thankfulness to the Assembly for theire so favourable 
censure, which he at one time or another (God’s grace not wholly 
abandoning him) might with some one service have been able to 
have redeemed.” 
After disposing of several other matters, including a gratuity to 
the officers of the Assembly for their service, the Assembly pre- 
sented their humble excuse to the company in England “ for being 
constrained by the intemperature of the weather and the falling 
