Law

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Law Order
During Elizabethan Times
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How people lived in England before living the
life of crime?

• 2 controlled the land and wealth of the nation
• Jobs paid 50,000 to 16 per year
• Schoolmasters made 16/a
• 20 received Welfare
• Poverty and disease caused riots

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Common Crimes

• Cutprusing
• Having money stolen
• Hooking
• Stealing with sticks
• Dishonest Horse Dealers
• Selling decrepit horses claiming their young
• Gamblers

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Serious Crimes

• Poaching
• Housebreaking
• Horse thieving
• Highway robbery
• Major Theft

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Criminals of England

• Rufflers
• A prigman
• An upright man
• A curtal
• A jackman
• A patriarch co
• A kitchin morts

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Court

• Either dealt by the church
• Religious Matters
• Or the High Council quarter Sessions
• Felonies

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Punishments

• 1000 hangings annually in England
• Less serious crimes were punished in jail
• Good prisoners had special/better treatment
• Poor/ bad prisoners were treated like dogs
• Pleading could save yourself from being hung.

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The End