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Tittle of article: Elizabethan Crime and Punishment
Website: William Shakespeare Site
Date of last update: N.d.
URL: www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-crime-punishment.htm
Informat found: m-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-crime-punishment.htm
ion found: Various means of tortures were used to extract confessions for crime. Women did not escape torture and punishment during this violent era. Instruments and means of torture, for unproven crime, included the following:
The Rack
The Scavenger's Daughter
The Collar
The Iron Maiden
Branding Irons
Assorted instruments designed to inflict intense pain
The punishment of Death by the axe was a terrifying prospect. The executioners often took several blows before the head was finally severed. The punishment of death by Execution were held in public and witnessed by many people. The punishment even continued after 'death'. Traitors’ Heads were placed on stakes and displayed to everyone in public places such as London Bridge. People did not travel around a lot during the Tudor and Elizabethan era. Travelling during the Elizabethan era could be dangerous, money was necessary and a license, obtained from the Bailiff in the Guild Hall, was required by anyone who needed to travel around England. It was a crime to travel without a licence. This law ensured that the spread of disease, especially the plague, was contained as much as possible and that the poor and the homeless did not travel from one village to another village of last update: N.d.

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Title of article: Crime and punishment

Website: tomecek

Date of last update: N/a

Date consulted: 10 feb 2013

URL: http://www.tomecek.com/jay/CrimeandPunishment.html

Information found:  The Elizabethan Age had extremely severe penalties for stealing, murdering, or committing treason. A minor offense, as in the breaking of a city law, is termed "misdemeanor". The penalties are of a lesser nature than a felony (murder, grand...