Crime+and+Punishments

//Crimes and Pun////ishment////s// //By:Christine Fischer//

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The crimes and punishments applied to anybody who broke a law, this also included the king. The punishments were very harsh punishments depending on what crime the person had committed. These punishments happened in the middle ages of Europe, and the punishments happened because the laws were not followed and the laws were meant to be followed. But the people who were punished the most where the people who practiced witchery even though they usually just ended up killing an innocent person. But people were punished if they practiced or were just accused of it because the people of Europe blamed them for the natural disasters that happened.  ======

//The jail (gaols) back in the medieval era was dirty and filthy and so if criminals were jailed for a long time they would have died from disease and possible starvation. There were crimes that we thought of as extremely bad then the not so bad crimes, some examples of crimes are: // “Rebellion/treason: This crime was punished by the accused been hung. Just before he died he/she would be drawn from the hangman's noose and quartet alive.” Vagrancy – A vagrant is a person, usually poor, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular work. In Medieval Europe this was considered a crime. From the 1530's this was punishable by getting whipped and from the 1540's were hung. Smuggling - In the 1700s people smuggled in goods from abroad egg. Tobacco, Brandy, Tea and Silk. Why? Because the government had placed 'tariffs' on them. Highway Robbers: Stagecoaches were a popular target as they usually carried people with lots of money and jewellery. Witchcraft: witches were forbidden in medieval times, in England especially. Made people feel uneasy especially England and Europe were considered a Christian nation and witches were seen as devilish. Most natural disasters were blamed on them because people thought through magic potions and spells the witches triggered the disaster.

Witch craft had the worse punishments, such as: Was been burnt at the stake, Been left naked, legs and arms spread out under the sun causing extremely bad sun burns, Been hung.

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