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The people who were in trial or imprisoned they were put in trial to see if they were guilty or not. The process was to throw a person into a well.

If the person was floating they would be accused guilty. If the person was drowning they were declared innocent.

This was proved to be the way that god declared if the person was guilty or not.

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Crime was very common

People convicted of crimes were kept in dirty jails and had to depend on their families for food and money.

Ways of determining who committed the crime changed in the 1100s

A royal court

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Punishments were very harsh. For lesser crimes, people were fined or put in the stocks, stocks were wooden frames with holes for the person's legs and sometimes arms.

Being left in the stocks for hours or days was both painful and humiliating.

For serious crime, people were usually burned or executed in public, usually in front of large crowds.

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People stole from wealthy travelers

No streetlights

Noisy and crowded