Stuart Period Continuation

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  • Social Crimes during the Stuart Period
    • Threat to authority
      • 5th November 1605
        • Catholic opponents plan to murder James I.
          • They wish to blow him up in the state opening of parliament.
        • There were several people involved, main culprit was Guy Fawkes.
          • Guy Fawkes was an explosives expert, responsible for igniting the large store of gunpowder.
    • Poaching
      • Illegal Hunting
        • People believed they had the right to hunt rabbits and hares for food.
        • Poachers sometimes arranged themselves in gangs to fight off those who tried to arrest them.
        • Landowners restricted this sort of use of their property.
    • Smuggling
      • 1614- exporting wool became illegal.
        • 1661- it was made punishable by death.
      • 1730s-more smugglers brought tea and brandy into the country.
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