Take our quiz about Crime and Punishment in the Elizabethan Era! Hopefully you were listening during our lesson as there is food up for grabs!
People were/are hung
They both have/had fines
Punishments are/were mostly physical
Community service
Boiled in oil or water
Burned on a stake
Buried alive
Cutting off their head
True
False
True
False
Rape
Murder
Plotting to overthrow the queen.
Witchcraft
Wandering around drunk
Being to talkative
Gossiping
Stealing items worth more than 12 pence
Speaking too freely
True
False
True
False
Now
Elizabethan era
Both
It is mostly used for women
You cannot sleep with it on
If you try to speak it cuts your tongue
It is used if you are caught gossiping
Drowning stool
Death sentence
Swimming chair
Dunking stool
True
False