Dates - Early Modern Period

Question 1

The Vagabonds and Beggars Act outlines punishment for vagabonds: they are to be put in the stocks for three days and nights, then are to be sent back to their birthplace or where they last lived

Answer 1

1494

Question 2

English Reformation and Henry VIII establishes Church of England

Answer 2

1534

Question 3

Vagabond punishments change: one-time offenders are whipped or sent away, two-time offenders have a part of their ear cut off and three-time offenders are executed

Answer 3

1535

Question 4

Dissolution of monasteries

Answer 4

1536

Question 5

Henry VIII stops exile abroad for those claiming sanctuary

Answer 5

1536

Question 6

Witchcraft Act makes witchcraft a capital crime

Answer 6

1542

Question 7

Witchcraft Act makes witchcraft a criminal offence, punishable by death

Answer 7

1542

Question 8

The Vagrancy Act punishes able-bodied vagabonds: those who don’t work for more than three days are branded with the letter ‘v’ and sold as a slave for two years

Answer 8

1547

Question 9

Vagrancy Act of 1547 is repealed for being to harsh and impossible to enforce

Answer 9

1550

Question 10

Bridewell Palace in London becomes the first site of a house of correction

Answer 10

1556

Question 11

Religious Settlement

Answer 11

1559

Question 12

Witchcraft charges start being tried in secular courts rather than Church courts

Answer 12

1563

Question 13

Scottish Witchcraft Act makes witchcraft and consulting with witches capital offences

Answer 13

1563

Question 14

The Pope excommunicates Elizabeth and calls on Catholics to depose her

Answer 14

1570

Question 15

Gallows are built at the ‘Tyburn Tree’ so that several criminals can be hung at once

Answer 15

1571

Question 16

Church courts no longer allowed to try criminal acts, only moral ones

Answer 16

1576

Question 17

Poor harvests cause widespread poverty and suffering. The Act for the Relief of the Poor splits vagabonds into the ‘deserving’ and the ‘undeserving’

Answer 17

1597

Question 18

225 capital offences included in the ‘Bloody Code’

Answer 18

1815

Question 19

Poor Laws allow local parishes to give relief to the ‘deserving’ poor. The ‘undeserving’ poor were to be punished with branding, whipping or being sent to a correction house

Answer 19

1601

Question 20

James I introduces new laws against Catholics

Answer 20

1604

Question 21

Robert Catesby meets Guy Fawkes and some other men in a pub where they begin to discuss a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament

Answer 21

20th May 1604

Question 22

The Gunpowder Plotters rent a cellar beneath and a room next to the Houses of Parliament. Guy Fawkes hides 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellar

Answer 22

March 1605

Question 23

Lord Monteagle receives a letter warning him not to attend the state opening of Parliament on November 5th

Answer 23

26th October 1605

Question 24

Lord Monteagle shows the letter to James I and Robert Cecil - Gunpowder Plot

Answer 24

1st November 1605

Question 25

Robert Cecil orders a search of the Houses of Parliament - Gunpowder Plot

Answer 25

4th November 1605

Question 26

Gunpowder is discovered under Parliament. Guy Fawkes is arrested and taken to the Tower of London

Answer 26

5th November 1605

Question 27

How long was Guy Fawkes tortured for on the rack?

Answer 27

12 days

Question 28

Gunpowder plotters tried

Answer 28

January 1606

Question 29

Gunpowder plotters executed

Answer 29

30th and 31st January 1606

Question 30

Popish Recusants Act

Answer 30

1605

Question 31

The Popish Recusants Act forces Catholics to swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch and either participate in church services or pay a fine

Answer 31

1606

Question 32

James I gives permission for vagabond children to be transported to North America

Answer 32

1618

Question 33

James I abolishes sanctuary altogether

Answer 33

1623

Question 34

Puritan moral laws make acts like swearing punishable by fines, and adultery punishable by death

Answer 34

1650

Question 35

The Game Act makes it illegal to take food from privately-owned enclosures

Answer 35

1671

Question 36

The Habeas Corpus Act prevents unlawful imprisonment

Answer 36

1679

Question 37

Daemonologie by James VI of Scotland published

Answer 37

1597