CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

NOBILITY

• High treason- betraying a country, especially by attempting to overthrow the government
• Sedition- conduct or speech inciting people rebelling against the authority of a monarch
• Rebellion- violence or resistance to a government or ruler
• Murder
• Blasphemy- act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about god or using profane talk
• Spying

NOBILITY CONTINUED

• Witchcraft- the practice of magic or using spells and the invocation of spirits

LOWER CLASS

• Theft
• Cut Purses - pickpocket
• Begging
• Poaching
• Forgers - fraudulently copies
• Fraud
• Dice Coggers - a cheat

UPPER CLASS

• The normal punishments that they would receive was beheading in public
• Normally the upper class committed around the same crimes as the Nobility

PUNISHMENTS

• Hanging
• Branding
• Burning
• Pressing
• The pillory
• Ducking stools
• Whipping

PUNISHMENTS CONTINUED

• The wheel
• Starvation in public
• The gossips bridle
• Cutting off of various limbs
• Boiling in oil/water

FUN FACTS

• Many women would claim to be pregnant to get out of punishment
• Theft of anything over 5 pence resulted in hanging

MORE CRIMES

• Traveling and acting without a license
• Begging was common by commoners and was even considered a serious crime
• Poaching at night

KAHOOT

SOURCE

• http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-crime-and-punishment.htm