punishment

• what did the normans continue to rely on?


  physical punishments, crimes and executions. however these became more centralised
• what punishments had an increase of use?

  execution, mutilation, branding
• what were breaking the forest laws punishable by?


  hanging, blinding and castration
• what was the harrying of the north?

  where farmlands were destroyed and animals were killed, after the ressitance against william the conqueror.
• what did the harrying of the north lead to?


  up to 100,000 people having died of starvation as a result
• when would someone have to pay the murdrum fine?


  if a norman was murdered by an anglo saxon and the murderer was not found, the hundred where the body was found would have to pay it
• what happened to the system of wergild?


  it ended, and the fines were now paid to the kings officials instead of the victims of crime.