tudor crimes and punishment

• Counterfeit crank

  dressed in old clothes and sucked soap to get money from people who pity them
• clapper dudgeon

  cut their skin and tied dirty rags
• bare top trickster

  trick to buy a meal after he would be robbed and beaten by her gang
• tom o bedlam


  behave in bizarre ways and followed people
• action taken by the royals (Henry vii)


  went into stocks then sent back to birth place
• action taken by the royals(Henry viii)

  some were given licence others whipped and sent back
• action taken by the royals (Edward vi)


  whipped and branded with a v and made slave for 2 years if its repeated they would be executed
• action taken by the royals (Elizabeth)

  taxes to help, those who refused to work were imprisoned in the house of correction. whipped till they bled and sent back