Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is the shame of any people.
Thou shall not keep an ordinary but by special license from the governor.
Thou shall not swear, the penalty 5 shillings or 5 days imprisonment at hard labor in the house of correction, and bread and water only.
Thou shall not speak profanely, the penalty 5 shillings or 5 days imprisonment as hard labor in the house of correction, and bread and water only.
Thou shall not be drunk, the penalty 5 shillings or 5 days imprisonment at hard labor in the house of correction, and bread and water.
Thou shall not drink healths to provoke to drinking, the penalty 5 shillings.
Thou shall not sell strong spirits and liquors to the natives, the penalty £ 5.
Thou shall not play at cards, dice, or suchlike vain and evil sports, the penalty 5 shillings or 5 days imprisonment at hard labor, and bread and water only.
Thou shall not speak seditiously, the penalty 20 shillings.
Thou shall not speak slightingly against any magistrate, the penalty 20s or ten days imprisonment at hard labor in the house of correction.
Thou shall not report false news nor defame any person, the penalty that of a breaker of the peace.
Thou shall not clamor, scold, or rail, the penalty 3 days imprisonment in the house of correction at hard labor.
Thou shall not keep an ordinary without a license.
Thou shall not demand more than 6 pence for a meal of flesh meat and small beer. Thou shall not demand more than two pence for a Winchester quart of strong barley malt beer. Thou shall not demand more than one penny for one Winchester quart of any molasses beer.
Thou shall have stabling to hold four horses and hay for them, and ask no more than 6 pence for every night for each of them.
Thou shall have 4 beds for strangers and shall ask no more than two pence a night for one person's lodging and such only as travel on foot.
Thou shall not suffer any to stay in thy house after 8 at night, travelers and lodgers excepted.
Thou shall give an account to the next justice of the peace in the place, of the name of every stranger and traveler that comes to the house from time to time after daylight.
Thou shall not suffer any indweller of the place to stay longer than one whole hour at one time in thy house, unless at a meeting of business.
Thou shall not suffer any disorder or breach of law in thy house on pain of the same punishment due to the transgressor.
From William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History
By Jean R. Soderlund, Richard S. Dunn
University of Pennsylvania Press (June 1983)
The Fell types used here are provided by Igino Marini.
Igino Marini: the history of Fell types