Robert Coles is found guilty of drunkenness.

(Sept.) A Roxbury resident, Coles is fined 10 shillings and “enjoined to stand with a white sheet of paper on his back wherein ‘a drunkard’ shall be written in great letters, and to stand there as long as the Court thinks meet.” The punishment does not prove to be a sufficient deterrent, however, because he is found guilty of drunkenness again in March 1634. This time he is ordered to “weare about his neck & soe hange upon his outward garment a D made of redd clothe & sett upon white; to contynue for a yeare and not to leave it off at any tyme when he comes amongt company under penalty of XLs.”