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Anglo Saxons

• Policing Punishments
• - Tithings
• - Trial by combat/ Trial by ordeal
• Hue and cry
• Punishments
• - wergild
• corporal/capital punishment
• - Most people lived in rural villages and policing as mainly locally based
• - The wergild was paid to the victim and their family at this stage
• ~ policing was quite unorganized

Normans

• Policing
• - Tithings
• - Trial by combat/ Trial by ordeal ( Trial by combat)
• - Hue and cry
• Church courts
• Punishments
• - fines paid to King
• corporal/capital punishment
• Crimes
• -Murdrum
• - forest laws
• - Policing started to become more centralised as the king gained more power
• -Churches also started to have more power - church courts were more leniant
• - Forest law not seen as a crime by the people often ignored.

Later medieval period

Definitions

• ~Tithings - a group of 10 meant, aged 12 or older who policed the village
• ~Hue and cry - Everyone in the village went out and shouted to bring attention to the criminal
• ~Wergild - a fine paid to the victim/their family
• ~Capital punishment - Punished by death
• ~ Corporal punishment - physical punishment
• ~Murdurm - Anglo Saxons had to pay a fine as a village for any norman murdered
• ~forest law - Introduced By the normans, all the forest land belonged to the king
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