Vagrancy and Heresy
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- Created on: 09-05-16 18:46
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- VAGRANCY & HERESY
- HERESY
- Worshipping a religion which is different to that chosen by the King/Queen e.g. Mary I
- GUNPOWDER PLOT 1605
- GUY FAWKES and others tried to blow up the houses of Parliament using gunpowder
- PLOT FAILED
- Plotters were: Hung, drawn and quartered, hung around towns as a deterrent to others
- Had committed Heresy and High Treason - punished harshly to act as a deterrent
- Increased by: Political change & Religious ideas
- RELIGION
- Elizabeth I - Church of England should be a moderate church
- PURITANS
- Wanted everyone to live by the Bible strictly
- Banned Christmas in 1647
- Believed in hard work
- Wanted everyone to live by the Bible strictly
- VAGRANCY
- Being homeless, unemployed and wondering around the country
- Increased by: Population growth, Increased poverty, Taxation, Religious ideas and Increased travel
- PROBLEMS
- Idleness was wrong
- Vagrants were blamed for many crimes
- Costly - the Poor Rate was received by vagrants to feed them which cost more money in taxes for others
- PUNISHMENTS
- 1531 - whipped until 'bloody' and then returned to their birthplace
- 1547 - 1st offence = 2yrs slavery, 2nd offence = slavery for life or execution
- 1550 - the 1547 Act seen as too severs, 1531 Act revived
- 1572 - 1st offence = whipping & burning off an ear, 2nd offence = execution
- 1576 - House of Correction
- 1593 - 1572 Act too severe, 1531 Act revived
- 1598 - vagrants whipped and sent home, if didn't change their ways, JP's could banish them or execute them
- HERESY
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