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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 |
| 1. Who passed the Statute of Winchester (1285) which tightened up law and order? | Edward I |
| 2. What do we call a group of men organised by the sheriff to go and catch a criminal that has escaped the hue and cry? | Posse |
| 3. Whose job was it to make sure that men practised archery on a Sunday | Parish constable |
| 4. Which official was in charge of law and order in a county? | Sheriff |
| 5. Which medieval courts heard the most serious cases? | Royal Courts |
| 6. Men between which ages were expected to be armed and ready to serve in the king’s army if necessary? | 16-60 |
| 7. Who gradually took over the role of the Sheriff after they were created in 1361? | JPs |
| 8. In medieval times which courts dealt with petty crimes that affected the community? | Manor courts |
| 9. What was the name given to serious crimes? | Felonies |
| 10. What was the punishment for a capital offence? | death |
| 11. Give an example of a new crime from the medieval period. | Vagrancy, scolding, petty treason |
| 12. What is the name of the civil war fought between 1455 and 1485 that caused a rise in violent crime caused by nobles fighting each other? | Wars of the Roses |
| 13. What happened in 1315-16 that caused a rise in thefts particularly from poor peasants? | Failed harvest, famine |
| 14. How did the definition of the crime of treason change after 1351? | Now treason is a crime against anyone in authority not just King (i.e. husband, employer etc) |
| 15. What were prisons used for in medieval times? | People in debt, people waiting trial or refusing to plead |
| 16. How did gaolers get their money? | Prisoners had to pay for food, bedding etc |
| 17. How would claiming the ‘benefit of the clergy’ help if you were arrested for a crime? | Tried in the church courts rather than the kings – lighter sentences, no death penalty |
| 18. What does to ‘abjure the realm mean? | Leave the country for ever. |
| 19. Name two crimes that were a particular concern in the Early Modern period. | 19. Name two crimes that were a particular concern in the Early Modern period. |
| 20. What courts dealt with serious crimes in the early modern period? | The Assizes |
| 21. By the early modern period how much did you have to steal before you would before the punishment became death? | 1 shilling |
| 22. What was the name for the courts that met four times a year and were run by JPs? | Quarter Sessions |
| 23. Give an example of further powers that JPs were given in the time of Elizabeth I. | Road mending, fixing wages, licensing alehouses, arresting vagrants and regulating games such as football |
| 24. 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. |
| 25. What type of punishments are the stocks, the pillory and cucking stools? | Public humiliation |
| 26. What were the huge buildings that vagrants were forced to work in called? | Bridewells |
| 27. What happened to noblemen who committed treason in the early modern period? | Beheaded with an axe. |
| 28. What legal system introduced in 1688 massively increased the number of crimes that were punishable by death? | The Bloody Code |
| 29. How many crimes became punishable by death as a result of this system? | 200 (up from 50) |
| 30. What happened to the number of people actually put to death for their crimes after this system was introduced. | Went down |
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