Crime and Punishment - Early modern England
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- Created on: 30-05-19 10:39
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- Law Enforcement
- Early modern England
- Punishment
- The Bloody Code
- In the 17th century there were 50 capital offences,
- Fines
- Stocks and Pillaries
- Heresy
- Hanging
- The Bloody Code
- Crimes
- 'New' crimes
- Crimes against authority
- High treason
- the crime of plotting or acting to overthrow or harm the ruler or country
- The Gunpowder Plots
- They were hung, drawn and quartered
- They wanted to overthrow the protestant king of England
- The Gunpowder Plots
- the crime of plotting or acting to overthrow or harm the ruler or country
- Heresy
- the crime of having religious beliefs that were different to the official religion of the the country
- High treason
- Witchcraft
- Witch hunts
- were when people activelt tried to discover witches
- in 1542, Henry VIII made witchcraft punishable by death
- Witch hunts
- Punishment
- Role of the church
- Benefit of the Clergy
- the community
- people were expected to raise and join the hue and cry
- town constables and night watchmen
- no national police force
- Early modern England
- led by Matthew Hopkins
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