What crime was committed when people had different religious beliefs to the monarch in Tudor England?
Heresy
Treason
Witchcraft
Which of these Tudor monarchs was a Catholic?
Edward VI
Mary I
Elizabeth I
What led to an increase in the number of vagrants in the early modern England?
Poor harvests
Religious change
The English Civil War
How were vagrants punished following the 1547 Vagrancy Act?
Exile
Whipping
Slavery
Who was employed to patrol the streets and arrest criminals in early modern England?
Hue and cry
Watchmen
Justices of the Peace (JPs)
What new punishment was introduced that sent some criminals to America?
Transportation
Carting
Houses of correction
How many crimes were punishable by death when the Bloody Code was introduced in 1688?
50
160
225
What punishment was handed out to the Gunpowder Plotters?
Hanging, drawing and quartering
Which monarch encouraged accusations of witchcraft?
Henry VIII
James I
How many people were accused of witchcraft in East Anglia between 1645 and 1647?
100
250
1000