Crime

• What happened to levels of Crime in Early Modern Period?

  Increased due to Increased levels of unemployment and a growing population
• Example of Continuity in Early Modern Period?

  Vagabondage

  Smuggling

  Witchcraft
• What was Vagabondage?

  Homelessness or Unemployed

  Often resorted to begging

  Resented by the whole population
• What was Witchcraft?

  Anyone who was against Rules of Church dabbling in ancient magic and superstition
• When did Henry VIII make witchcraft punishable by death?

  1542
• What church took care of Witchcraft trials?

  Church Courts
• Why was Smuggling a new crime?

  Import tax increase for smugglers saw a chance to profit by illegally smuggling goods into the country
• What was Smuggling seen as?

  Social Crime
• Not going to church is part of religious settlement

  Fines for not going to church

  Another name was recusants
• What was Rural crimes

  Poaching on enclosed land