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Flashcards by Michael Sessions, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Michael Sessions
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| Question | Answer |
| Name the 5 crimes of concern in the Early modern period | Vagrancy Moral Crimes Witchcraft Smuggling Highway Robbery |
| The office of Sheriff became less important as the government extended the role of who? | JPs |
| As towns grew who did they employ to patrol the streets? | Watchmen |
| What where the country’s main courts for dealing with serious offences? | The assizes |
| What was the name for the courts that met four times a year and were run by JPs? | The Quarter Sessions |
| During the Quarter Sessions most criminals who appeared before the JPs would be accused of what? | Petty theft |
| Small groups of JPs began to meet more regularly in their local areas to do admin and deal with petty crimes. What do we call these meetings? | Petty sessions |
| The Manorial courts became less important in this period as what took over their work? | Petty Sessions |
| Which courts survived the reformation and became particularly active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century? | Church courts |
| There was no professional type of what method of enforcement in the Early Modern period? | Police Force |
| Name three unpaid positions that local men were appointed to in, for one or two years in the early modern period, to help police their communities | Churchwardens Constables Overseers of the poor |
| In the early modern period who did the law enforcers rely on to help them in their work? | Local people |
| Who in the Early Modern period was most likely to make accusations against the poor? | Wealthy |
| Vagabonds over the age of 14 should have a hole the size of a penny burned through their ear with a red-hot bar. What is this punishment called? | Branding. |
| What type of punishments are the stocks, the pillory and cucking stools? | Public humiliation |
| What were the huge buildings that vagrants were forced to work in called? | Bridewells |
| Which type of Capital punishment became more widespread during the 16th and 17th century political upheavals? | Hung drawn and quartered |
| What punishment was first recorded being used in Scotland in the 16th century? | Scold’s Bridle |
| What do we call the political upheavals of the 1640s? | The English Civil War |
| What legal system introduced in 1688 massively increased the number of crimes that were punishable by death? | The Bloody Code |
| How many crimes became punishable by death as a result of the Bloody Code? | 200 (up from 50) |
| What happened to the number of people put to death for their crimes after Bloody Code was introduced? | Went down |
| What are the dates of the Early Modern Period? | 1500-1750 |
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