Early Modern 1500-1700

• What was invented in 1440?

  The printing press
• Who introduced the printing press to England?

  William Caxton
• What were the punishments of the Gunpowder plotters?

  Hung, drawn and quartered
• What did the Act of Supremacy 1534 do?

  Made Henry VIII head of the Church of England
• What form of local community policing still remained?

  The Hue and Cry
• How many protestants did Mary I burn?

  three hundred
• How many Catholics did Elizabeth I burn during her reign?

  two hundred and fifty
• Who published a pamphlet warning of vagabonds? In what year?

  Thomas Harman in 1587
• What were introduced to ‘reform’ vagabond? Year?

  Houses of Correction in 1576
• In what years were harsh laws introduced against vagabonds?

  1547, 1572 and 1598
• What caused wages to fall to their lowest point since 1200?

  A series of bad harvests in the 1590s
• What did local people have to pay to support the poor in their parish?

  Poor rates
• in 1560 how many cases of vagabonds were in London? What did this increase to in 1600?

  69 cases and then this increased to 555
• Who was Matthew Hopkins?

  ‘Witchfinder General’ - operated in East Anglia from 1645 to 47. He accused over 250 women.
• What was the name of the book about witchcraft James I wrote?

  Demonologie
• In 1589, a pamphlet was published spreading news about…what?

  The three Joans - Prentice, Upney and Coney. They were hanged as witches.
• What were County Assizes?

  Royal Courts travelling the country twice a year.
• How many times did Justices of the Peace meet across the county? What were they called?

  Four times a year - in Quarter Sessions.
• What started in 1642 and ended in 49?

  The civil war
• What did people say about the Civil war? who were able to travel less because of it?

  That the ‘world turned upside down’ and Assize judges were less able to travel.
• What did the Habeus Corpus Act do?

  stopped people being locked up without being properly charged with a crime.
• Who paid Town Watchmen? Why?

  Local merchants to patrol at night
• What were witches used as for…what?

  Scapegoats for problems before the Enlightenment began.
• What did the Enlightenment offer?

  More scientific ideas to things like bad harvests and bad weather
• The Habeus corpus act was passed in 1679