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67 Qu 5 To Kil no man, without just cause and just authority. Ans: This is Good & they desire to do so Q 6 To commit no unclean Lust, as for iniated Adultry, incest, Rape, Sodomy, Bigamy or Beastiality. Ans: Though sometimes some of then do it, yet they account it naught. Q: 7 Not to steale. Ans: They said to this as to the sixt ques Q 8: To Suffer their children to learne to read God's word, that they may learne to kno God aright, and to worship him in his owne way. Ans: They say as oppertunity wil serve, and the English live among them, they desire so do doe. Q 9 That they should not bee idle. Ans: To which and all the rest they consente accknowledging them to bee good. Being received by us, they presented twenty six fathom of wompom, And the Court directed the treasurer, to give them fower coats two yards in a coat of Red cloth, & a potfull of wine.

The above is a true coppy taken out of the records of the Generall Court, Book 2: page 64 as attests
                                                Edward Rawson
                                                    Secretary.

The praying indians confyned to Deare Iland are the people, with whome the above written