Crime and Policing - crimes in C16 and C17th

1.) An act against the Monarch or State. 

2.) Diagreement on religion. 

3.) Example: 5th November 1605, Gunpowder Plot

                   Execution of Mary Queen of Scots 1587

                   1649, Charles I didn't listen to paliament and started a civil war.

1.) Having a different religion to the reigning monarch.

2.) Henry VIII set up the protestant Church of England in the 1530s to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, consequently continuing his search for a male heir. 

3.) Example: Lattimer and Ridley burnt at the stake in 1556.

1.) Someone with no home, no job and  begging. 

2.) The Dissolution of the monastries meant that all the homeless who had gone to seek homes in the Monastries had nowhere to go.

     Changes in farming meant that livestock had taken the jobs of people planting crops. 

3.) Examples: Abraham man - following people whooping and bellowing until they paid him to go away

                     The Rogue - crawled after people with ripped clothes umtil they paid him to go away.