Tudor crime and punishment

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Tudor crime and punishment

• Introduction

Our enquiry project is on Tudor crime and
punishment. we (Oscar and Edwin) have worked hard
and learnt a lot that we didnt know before.
Did you know That if you spoke too freely you
would be put a metal brank? It is a helmet with
no metal bits apart from some strips to keep it
on and a razor bit by the mouth so if you spoke
your tongue would be cut off.
Did you know One of the most painful tortures
was for the foot? It would be put in a metal shoe
and stuffed around your foot would be wood. Then
water and oil would be added and then the whole
thing would be put over a fire. The metal shoe
would start to shrink and cause lots of pain.
Maybe your foot would drop off and cause an
infection.
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Tudor crime

• There was lots of murder for wealth and money.
• There was lots of robbing for food in the Tudor
  times.
• In the Tudor times people would take children
  from the rich people and they would only give
  them back if they gave them lots of wealth.
• In the Tudor times some people would hire
  assassins to get rid of someone they hated.
• When they were at war with the Spanish if you
  were a Catholic you would be forced to give up
  your religion and if you refused you would be
  kept in your house and never to come out. If you
  were caught out of your home you would be hanged.

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Tudor punishments

• 1, hanged
• 2, head chopped off
• 3, hand chopped off
• 4, crucified
• 5, burnt alive
• 6, poked with a hot spear

7, executed 8, boiled in a pot until death 9,
stretched 10, beaten 11, whipped
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Law and court

• In Tudor school if you made a mistake you would
  be beaten with a stick.
• The law in Tudor times it was very strict. If you
  did the slightest thing wrong you would get into
  trouble.
• The law was only for royal people like King Henry
  or a judge to choose what their punishment was.

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Prisons

• Tudor prisoners would usually say stuff like It
  wasnt my fault, or It was for my family, but
  it never really worked. All they would do was
  kill them. Thats why the Tudors were brutal.
• Tudor prisons were different to today the ones we
  have are more up to date and much cleaner than
  the Tudor ones. Also Tudor prisons were very
  dirty and dusty.

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Punishments

• If you committed treason against the king you
  would be hanged or quartered.
• If you were caught for stealing your hands would
  be cut off.
• Your head would be cut off if you murdered
  someone.
• If you had been thought of as a witch you would
  be put in a chair. If you floated back up it
  would mean you were a witch so you would have to
  be put on fire. If you didnt float you would
  have drowned.

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Finished

• By Oscar Matthews-Wright
• By Edwin Kavanagh