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Name the 5 crimes of concern in the Early modern period
The office of Sheriff became less important as the government extended the role of who?
As towns grew who did they employ to patrol the streets?
What where the country’s main courts for dealing with serious offences?
What was the name for the courts that met four times a year and were run by JPs?
During the Quarter Sessions most criminals who appeared before the JPs would be accused of what?
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?
The Manorial courts became less important in this period as what took over their work?
Which courts survived the reformation and became particularly active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century?
There was no professional type of what method of enforcement in the Early Modern period?
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
In the early modern period who did the law enforcers rely on to help them in their work?
Who in the Early Modern period was most likely to make accusations against the poor?
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?
What type of punishments are the stocks, the pillory and cucking stools?
What were the huge buildings that vagrants were forced to work in called?
Which type of Capital punishment became more widespread during the 16th and 17th century political upheavals?
What punishment was first recorded being used in Scotland in the 16th century?
What do we call the political upheavals of the 1640s?
What legal system introduced in 1688 massively increased the number of crimes that were punishable by death?
How many crimes became punishable by death as a result of the Bloody Code?
What happened to the number of people put to death for their crimes after Bloody Code was introduced?
What are the dates of the Early Modern Period?