Early Modern Eng II

Question 1

What is meant by hanging,drawing and quartering?

Answer 1

Offenders were hanged by the neck,gutted,beheaded and cut into four.Carried out In public to deter traitors

Question 2

What is meant by heresy?

Answer 2

Crime of holding religious beliefs different from those of the monarch or Church. The punishment was public burning at the stake

Question 3

What is meant by treason?

Answer 3

Disobedience or disloyalty to monarch.The punishment was hanging,drawing,quartering

Question 4

What was the aim of the Gunpowder Plot 1605?

Answer 4

Robert Catesby hatched a plan to blow up Parliament,kill King James and put a Catholic on the throne

Question 5

Define Vagabondage

Answer 5

Crime of being a wandering beggar

Question 6

Who was Matthew Hopkins 1645 - 47?

Answer 6

known to be able to identify witches.If a mouse or fly entered the room of an old woman it was seen as a familiar

Question 7

What did a scar or boil represent?

Answer 7

Devil’s mark helped recognise who was a witch

Question 8

One trial to test whether one was guily or innocent?

Answer 8

Trial by cold water-if accused floated he was guilty.Those found guilty were then hanged

Question 9

What continued in policing?

Answer 9

Hue and cry

Question 10

What changed in Policing?

Answer 10

Watchmen were employed in larger towns to patrol.Expected to arrest drunkards and vagabonds.They were paid poorly.

Question 11

What continued in Trials?

Answer 11

Manor courts dealt with minor crimes;drunkeness.

Question 12

What changed in Trials?

Answer 12

Justices of the Peace was used to judge manor court cases.They could fine people,send them to stock/pillory,have them whipped.

Question 13

Give 4 reasons why the Bloody Code was introduced after 1688?

Answer 13

The Bloody Code means the death penalty and the 4 reason are an increased fears of crime, the growth of towns, a traditional views of punishment, and landowners’ attitudes

Question 14

Explain the increased fears of crime

Answer 14

Cheap pamphlets carried stories on crime creating the impression that crime was rising rapidly.Executions were held in public publicising crime and speeches made by the one whos gonna be excuted was published for public to read.

Question 15

What was the impact of the Growth of Towns?

Answer 15

Hue and cry and parish constables became less effective since people no longer knew their neighbours

Question 16

Traditional view on punishment?

Answer 16

Harsh punishments has been used to deter criminals and it was believed to be an effective way to reduce crime.

Question 17

What was the landowners’ attitudes?

Answer 17

Government, who passed laws of Bloody Code, was made up of wealthy landowners. They feared the large number of poor people and saw them as a threat to their property and priveleges. Landowners believed that only harsh punishments would keep poor in place.

Question 18

Other forms of punishment

Answer 18

Stocks and Pillary, whipping, fines, Houses of correction, prisons, 1600 onwards Transportation