Early Modern England C&P
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- Created on: 24-06-22 17:08
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- Early modern England
- Changes in society
- increase in population
- petty theft increase
- end of feudalism
- more landowners restricted land
- religious beliefs
- heresy
- Treason
- increase in population
- New Crime
- Vagabondage
- falling wages and rising food prices
- Smuggling
- Import tax increased smuggling
- social crime
- Witchcraft
- Henry VIII made it punishable by death
- Elizabeth I made it have to be put through a court
- James I put the death penalty back on it
- Vagabondage
- Law Enforcement
- Watchmen
- Carried a lamp
- Rang a bell to alert people
- All male householders were expected to volunteer
- unpaid
- at night 10pm to dawn
- overseen by town constable
- Town Constables
- employed by authorities in towns
- respected in the community
- had the power to arrest suspects
- helped with town administration
- Watchmen
- Punishment
- Burning
- For Heretics
- Bloody code
- 1688, 50 crimes punishable by death
- minor offences punishable by death
- Transportation
- Went to North America
- James I
- Had to do manual labour
- 7 or 14 years
- most could not afford to go back to England after their sentence
- Burning
- Gunpowder plot
- Planned to kill the king on the opening of parliament
- 5th November 1605
- letter
- Lord Monteagle got a letter telling him not to go to parliament on that day
- Monteagle gave it to Sir Robert Cecil, the kings spymaster
- rented a house next to, and a cellar underneath the houses of parliament
- Cecil ordered a search of the area
- Found Guy Fawkes setting up the explosives
- Found guilty of treason and were hung drawn and quartered
- Witch Hunts
- Lack of Authority
- Civil war weakened the local authorities
- In some areas law and order completely collapsed
- Religious change
- Puritans believed witchcraft was being used by Royalists some of whom were catholic
- Influence
- James I promoted Witch hunting
- Matthew Hopkins
- Witchfinder General
- employed by justice of the peace
- 300 investigated 112 hanged
- used torture to get confessions
- Social Change
- War left many women Widowed
- More strangers around
- Economic Problems
- Civil war and poor harvests
- people looked for scapegoats
- 1645-47
- Lack of Authority
- Changes in society
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