https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk Alanis Appathurai & Kaitlin Palmer en-us 2016-07-25 02:17:55 UTC 2023-03-29 23:47:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923177 During the Elizabethan era crimes and high forms of punishment such as execution and torture was not held as uncommon. It is said that the punishments that crimes were met with were held as violent and cruel. Many punishments and executions were witnessed by many hundreds of people. The Lower Classes treated such events as exciting days out. Even royalty were subjected to this most public form of punishment for their crimes. ]]> 2016-07-25 11:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923177 Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923238 Elizabethan England was split into two classes - the Upper Class, the nobility and courtiers, and everyone else. Punishment would vary according to class. The Upper class were well educated, wealthy and associated with Royalty and high members of the clergy. They would often become involved in political intrigue and matters of religion. The most common crimes of the nobility included:   

- High Treason
- Blasphemy
- Sedition (conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch).
- Spying
- Rebellion
- Alchemy 
- Murder
- Witchcraft]]> 2016-07-25 11:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923238 Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923314 Many crimes committed by commoners were through sheer desperation and abject poverty. The most common crimes were:

- Theft
- Cut purses
- Begging
- Poaching
- Adultery
- Debtors
- Forgers
- Fraud

]]> 2016-07-25 11:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923314 Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923429 Witchcraft - Witches would either be punished by being drowned into a river or they would be set alight by being burned alive. ]]> 2016-07-25 11:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923429 Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923488 Whipping ]]> 2016-07-25 11:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923488 Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923508 Hanging]]> 2016-07-25 11:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923508 Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923577 Getting beheaded, placed in a pillory. ]]> 2016-07-25 12:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/116923577 Appathural https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/117125466 THOMAS CROMWELL (1540)

Thomas Cromwell was possibly the most disliked in his time. He was arrested with charges of treason, heresy, corruption, and plotting to marry the Princess Mary. He was also well-known for a mission in England to destroy the Catholic church. Thomas was close to King Henry VIII, however, Henry had enough with Thomas and after years of trusting his advice and working alongside with him, he finally put him to death.]]> 2016-07-28 06:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Appathural/gdtcz5e6hmqk/wish/117125466