Crime and Punishment

1. sanctuary

   Anotações:

   • if a wanted criminal got a church they had 40 days to chose whether to face trial or leave England
2. Neck Verse

   Anotações:

   • if you were connected with the church you might know the verse form Pslam 51 that entitled you to a church trial and often a lenient punishment
   • 'have mercy upon me,O God, according to thy lovingkindness; according un to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions'
3. Church courts

   Anotações:

   • the local bishop tried churchmen and ruled on moral crimes.

Anotações:

• if a victim or witness cries out everyone has to chase the criminal

Anotações:

• 10 men who made sure each other obeyed the law and would bring each other to justice if not

1. Trial by ordeal abolished

   Anotações:

   • if the jury couldn't decide then they put their fate in the hands of God; hot iron, hot water, cold water, blessed bread
2. Parish constables
3. Coroners and Sheriffs

   Anotações:

   • Only in the later MA
4. Posse

Anotações:

• wergild

Anotações:

• stocks and pillories set an example, humiliation

Anotações:

• Mutilation Whipping Pilgrimage 

1. Prisons for those awaiting trial

   Anotações:

   • 1166 of them Henry II-1154

Anotações:

• compensation to the victim and their family

Anotações:

• in London

1. Protestant

1. Catholic
   1. Killed 300 protestants

1. 250 Catholics executed as traitors
2. Most lenient