Anglo Saxon C&P

• What is a Tithing?

  A group of ten men above 12. If somebody commits a crime/Broke the law the tithing must bring them to court or everybody would pay a fine.
• What is Hue& Cry

  A victim would shout and everybody in village must stop what they are doing and chase after criminal
• Trial by Jury


  Jury is made up of men who knew the accuse and accuser and would determine their fates. Main problem it would depend if you were popular
• Name all trial by ordeals :

  Hot Iron

  Blessed Bread/cake

  cold water

  Hot water
• What was a blood feud?

  Victims were allowed to punish and kill their pepetrators. But this lead to a cycle of murder.
• what does wergild stand for

  man price - fines paid to victim as compensation
• punishment of death was callled

  execution
• Punishment for regular offenders

  mutilation.- used to show you are a criminal
• How much were prisons used?

  very rarely. They were expensive , and mostly to hold accused before a trial
• what were stocks and pillories

  wooden blocks that keep criminals in village centre to be humiliated
• Theft was mostly Money, food, and belongings
• Petty crimes in Anglo Saxon england was:

  Poaching/Hunting

  Theft

  Livestock freelancing
• Why did Crime INcrease because of Harvests?

  a BAD HARVEST LEAD TO DEBT AND STARVATION, POOR TURNED TO LIFE OF CRIME
• Violent Crimes Included:


  Murder/Manslaughter

  Domestic Abuse
• WHEN WAS THE STATUTE OF TREASON?


  1352
• What was the statute of treason?


  If a woman killed her husband, she was guilty of treason. Burned.