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Punishments
June 9, 2012
11:35 am
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Maggyann
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For some reason when I woke up today I had beheadings, crime, punishment and suchlike on my mind. Maybe I was dreaming in the night but I can’t recall anything. Anyway what I was thinking about was the punishments through the ages.
Anne was executed for (take your pick as they were all lies) witchcraft, treason, adultery and all the rest.
Many people exectured for treason in one form or another.
Then there were all the burnings for heretics etc.
What were the ‘punishments for more mundane, everyday type of crimes.
Murderers, Rapists, Robbers, Burglars, Thieves. Basically if you took the types of crimes we read about everyday in 2012 how would those found guilty of the same crimes way back when be dealt with?
I suppose then, as now, crime would be dealt with fairly locally but how and by whom? Did they have prisons as we know them? Would it be a case of the nearest ‘Lord of the Manor’ dishing out sentences, were there fixed penalties?
How would the land be ‘policed’. Would crimes be investigated to any extent?
Sorry it is a BIG subject but I would be interested in any info on the subject.
Thanks folks Laugh

Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves - Boudica addressing the tribes Circa AD60

June 9, 2012
1:24 pm
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Boleyn
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There were a range of “fixed penalty” punishments, From the lost of a hand to actually being hung.
It just depended on what type of crime was committed.
Generally it was the Lord of the Manor who decided on the punishment, but I think anything major such as murder it was dealt with by a visiting Magistrate.
The punishments themselves were not too pleasent either, but then they were designed to be a deterent.
There were a few odd punishments too but again it’s the way things were.
One of the weirder ones I’ve heard of is that if you were caught whistling on the Sabbath you would be put in the stocks.
If you get a chance read up about someone called Judge Jeffrey’s known as the bloody Judge. His reign of terror (for want of a better word)
was called the Bloody Azisses (excuse spelling) He was a complete fruit loop. If you went before in the morning you may well get off with perhaps a public flogging, but as these court sessions generally took all day, he would of course need a drink the more he drunk the worse the sentences became and for something as trivial as perhaps spilling your neighbours beer you could be hung or transported to West Indies.
Eventually after James 2nd was turfed off the throne and booted out of England Judge Jeffrey’s who had the protection of the King, was in mortal danger and decided to hot foot it out of England too. Jeffreys tried to flee and follow the King abroad. He was captured in a public house in Wapping, now named The Town of Ramsgate. Reputedly he was disguised as a sailor, and was recognized by a surviving judicial victim. Jeffreys was in terror of the public when dragged to the Lord Mayor and then to prison “for his own safety”. He begged his captors for protection from the mob.

He died of kidney disease (probably pyelonephritis) while in custody in the Tower of London on 18 April 1689. He was originally buried in the Chapel Royal of Saint Peter ad Vincula in the Tower. In 1692 his body was moved to St Mary Aldermanbury.

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June 9, 2012
6:25 pm
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Mya Elise
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I find alot of their punishments to be very cruel and unnecessary, like quarting and stuff. And then there’s torturing people. *Shudders*.
Eespecially in the case of Mark Smeaton, his crime was so have maybe of slept with Henry’s wife and for that someone deverses to be tortured and coarsed into lieing with hope that they can maybe live? It makes me so angry and upset.

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