Crime, Policing and Punishment In Later Medieval England Flashcards
Statute of Labourers
A crime to ask for higher wages💵💸💵
Heresy
A crime to hold different beliefs🧧🧿🔮
What is tythingmen?
They are basically constables and lead the hue and cry
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What did the royal sherrif do?
If the villagers failed, then the royal sherrif would lead a posse
Whats a posse?
A posse is like a group of people that would go catch the criminal if the villagers failed to do so
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Coroner was introduced
Its when you deal with suspicous deaths
Justice of peaces?
Peace makers (inntroduced by the king)
Trial by ordeal ended…. when?
1215
What was introduced for those who are waiting for trial
Prisons
What did they add after someone died of treason?
They would cut of ur limbs and display them around the country