Elizabethan Law
1) Steal 11p or less = Prison, Steal 12p or more = DEATH!
2) Must wear woolly hats on Sundays
3) Cloaks were banned so that the Queens courtiers could reach their swords quicker should she be attacks
4) Only Noblemen or those with higher status could wear purple or clothes embroidered with silver or gold
Punishments
Beheading, Hanging
Burning, Boiled Alive
Whipping (Flogging)
Branding, Pillory (standing)
Stocks (sitting), Ducking stool (only used for woman – witch trials)
Limbs cut off, Drunkard’s Cloak (wearing a barrel)
Education
Not many children went to school.
Those that did were the sons of wealthy working families who could afford it.
School days were longer and they worked hard on languages.
The schools were very strict – got Birched (caned) for punishment.
Two types of school –
= Petty School à Taught to read
= Grammar School à Taught Latin
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