Decline - Growing Costs Flashcards
1
Q
What was the cost of imprisonment?
A
- 3 pence per prisoner per day
- Eg. Ipswich cost £50 whilst waiting for the date at the assize court.
2
Q
How did the trials at Bury St Edmund combat the problem of feeding prisoners?
A
- An officer was appointed specifically to collect bread-money
- Additionally, those who watched the execution of John Lowes and other Suffolk witches now had to pay for the privilege.
3
Q
Why were the assizes expensive?
A
- Sheriff found funds and accommodation for the judges, horses, heat and food
- 1645 - Bury St Edmund - Judge John Godbold sent invoice for £130 to cover his and his assistants costs
4
Q
How were executions expensive?
A
- Yarmouth - Mary Lakeland burned for murdering her husband cost 3 times higher than it would have if she’d been hung
- Over £3 on her execution alone.
- Instructed to collect a new levy for searching and trying witches.
5
Q
How much did Hopkins say he was paid?
A
- Complained at 20 shillings per case
- A months wages for labourers
6
Q
Give an example of the cost of Hopkins.
A
- To convict 7 witches at Aldeburgh in Feb 1646
- In total cost over £40 (1/7 towns annual budget special tax introduced)
- He and search-women Mary Phillips received £6 over two visits
- Innkeeper paid £15 for food and drink
- Gaoler received £2
- £1 for a carpenter to erect gallows
- Executioner 11 shillings
- This compared to his claim of 20 shillings
7
Q
When did Stearne stop hunting?
A
1647
- Returning to expecting wife of a second child.
