nature of crime 1500-1700

• what is heresy?


  a crime against the church as a whole or the religion as a whole
• what is recusancy?

  not attending church
• what is treason?

  a challenge to the authority of the ruler
• what is reformation?

  that treason and heresy became connected
• why was reformation made?

  as heresy and treason are connected, all the monarchs were head of the church of england. so if you go against the monarhc, you go against both crimes.
• what happened to protestants for heresy?

  execution
• what happened to catholics for treason?

  execution
• during edward vi's, what became heresy?

  not being protestant
• during mary i's reign, what made it illegal not to be catholic?

  the 1553 heresy laws
• what was the 1559 act of uniformity?

  a law that said everyone had to go to church on sundays and holy days
• what did james i introduce and when?

  strict anti-catholic laws after the gunpowder plot
• what was the 1605 popish recusants act?

  it forced Catholics to swear loyalty to the king and pay heavy fines for not attending church.
• between what years was the reign of oliver cromwell?

  1653 until 1658
• what was puritanism?


  where the government believed people should focus on religion and have pure souls
• why was recusancy decriminalised during cromwell's rule?

  he believed people should find their own path to God.
• what was a vagabond?

  unemployed, homeless people
• what caused the number of vagabonds to rise?

  growing population, falling wages and rising food prices
• what does 'priggers of prancers' mean, and what was it?

  horse thieves and was slang for vagabonds
• what act said that able bodies vagabonds who were without work for more than three days were to be branded with the letter V and sold to be a slave?

  the vagrant act of 1547
• what was the 1549 act for the relief of the poor?

  an act that included harsh punishments for vagrants including whipping and burning he ear with a hot iron.
• what laws said that all local parishes were supposed to provide poor relief for the 'deserving poor'?

  the 1601 poor laws
• what had began to become enclosed?

  areas of land which had previously been used by poor people to gather food and firewood
• what act made hunting or fishing on enclosed land illegal?

  the 1671 game act
• what did the government do to alcohol and tea the 17th century?

  introduced import duties (tax)
• what did introducing a tax on alcohol and tea lead to?

  people smuggling goods into the country.