Punishments early modern 1500-1700

• What did the tudors and stuarts believe about vagabonds

  Own fault if you were a vagabond and vagabonds were thieves and murderes
• What was the punishment in the 1547 vagrancy act

  If you were caught begging you would be whipped and made to be a slave
• What is treason

  To plot against the monarch
• What was the punishment for treason

  Hanged drawn and quartered
• Why did the punishment for treason become harsher

  Hearsay and treason became interlinked meaning more plots were against the king for example if you go against the religion it is going against the monarch
• What was the punishment for witchcraft

  Hanging
• How did the courts prove you were a witch

  Trial by cold water
• What was the bloody code

  Capital punishment was used for minor crimes
• What year did the bloody code originate

  Late 17th century
• What was the punishment for stealing a loaf of bread during the bloody code

  Hanging
• Why was the bloody code introduced

  To deter criminals as crime rate had increased and authorities worried
• What is transportation

  Sending criminals to work for free aboard for 7 or 14 years
• Why was transportation introduced

  To give people second chances because people believed that the bloody code was to harsh
• What years were people sent to the USA and why did it stop

  1603-1776 because the US became independent
• What years were people sent to Australia

  1776-1868
• What was the pillory used for

  Minor crimes like selling underweight bread
• What was the punishment for heresy 


  Burning at the stake
• What was bridewell

  Were vagrants , unmarried mothers and runaway apprentices were sent
• What were the stocks used for

  For those who could not pay fines and had been used from Anglo saxon time
• What were fines used for

  Minor crimes
• What was the ducking stool

  this was a continuation it was mainly used as a punishment for women who had been convicted of being scolds , this meant swearing , arguing in public
• What was capital punishment and what was it used for

  Hanging , crimes such as theft and murder and in this time period witchcraft
• Why did capital punishment increase and when

  The bloody code was introduced in 1688
• Where would whipping take place

  On a market place so it could be as public as possible
• What was whipping the punishment of

  Vagrancy , drunkenness , refusing to go to church and stealing goods