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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment. Elizabethan England. Theft and O ther Common Crimes. Hanging Burning The Pillory and the Stocks Whipping Branding Pressing Cutting off hands, ears, fingers, tongues, and various other limbs. Nose splitting. Tools of Punishment. The Rack The Scavenger's Daughter

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Crime and Punishment

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  1. Crime and Punishment Elizabethan England

  2. Theft and Other Common Crimes • Hanging • Burning • The Pillory and the Stocks • Whipping • Branding • Pressing • Cutting off hands, ears, fingers, tongues, and various other limbs. • Nose splitting

  3. Tools of Punishment • The Rack • The Scavenger's Daughter • The Collar • The Iron Maiden • Branding Irons • Assorted instruments designed to inflict intense pain

  4. Ducking • Ducking was a way women were punished. • The woman was tied to a chair and repeatedly dunked under water. • Frequently done in a pond or river.

  5.   Fun Facts   • The most common crimes were theft, cut purses, begging, poaching, adultery, debtors, forgers, fraud and dice cogging. • Begging was a Crime. • They believed in witches and innocent women were burnt.

  6. Bibliography • http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-crime-punishment.htm • http://www.google/images

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