Crime, Punishment, and Law
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- For Further Information on Crime, Punishment, and Law during the Elizabethan Era, watch the video from the link below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4lLAmlyVZs FUN FACTS 1. A peasant stealing anything worth five pence or more (currency at the time) would be hanged. 2. A painful instrument of torture for women called the "Brank" is like a skeleton of a helmet clasped to the head and has a claw at the end to attach to the tongue so if the tongue was moved it would cause pain, it was meant for free-speaking women. Source- http://elizabethancrime.weebly.com/ 3.The people of the period relished the public hangings, and the persons to be hanged were often falsely accused of treason, which called for them to be publicly disemboweled and then cut into quartered sections to be left on display after the person's death. Source- http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Bloodypainful.html |
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