Elizabethan Laws by Michael Thomas

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Elizabethan Lawsby Michael Thomas

• Laws based on social Class
• Crime and Punishment of the Nobility
• Crime and Punishment of the Commoner
• Poor Laws
• Sumptuary laws(laws restricting dress)

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General Law

• Most crimes are punished by death
• Incarceration does not yet exist
• Jails only temporary hold facilities
• Authority's are trying to clean up the streets
• Punishment was displayed as a public event for
  which many gathered

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Nobility

• People of High political standing, and wealth
• Usual transgressions include
• Treason
• Spying
• Murder
• And Witchcraft/Alchemy
• Punished by either death(by beheading or burning)
  or torture
• Sometimes received the highest punishment of
  being Hung, Drawn and Quartered

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Commoners

• Commoners where generally extremely poor by
  today's standards
• Most crimes were out of desperation
• Usual transgression include
• Begging
• Theft
• Fraud
• Adultery
• Death was the most common punishment for any of
  these
• Stealing more that 5 pence resulted in hanging
• Begging was address by public beatings

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Poor Laws

• Set up in 1601
• The first pseudo-welfare system
• Categorized the poor into three categorizes
• those who would work but could not
• those who were too old/ill/young to work
• those who could work but would not
• The first two revived finical or physical help
• The third were punished, and made examples of

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Sumptuary Laws

• Laws that attempted to dictate what people could
  wear
• Instituted to maintain morals
• Thought to hopefully promote better spending of
  money
• Generally punished by a fine
• Laws were nearly impossible to in force

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Punishments

• High crimes met the Ultimate punishment described
  as
• ...drawing from the prison to the place of
  execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are
  hanged till they be half dead, and then taken
  down, and quartered alive after that, their
  members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and
  thrown into a fire, provided near hand and within
  their own sight, even for the same purpose."
  -William Harrison
• Small crimes where usually punished be some form
  of death or torture
• Hanging
• Burning
• Whipping
• The Pillory/Stocks
• Boiling
• The wheel
• Starvation
• Etc.

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Elizabethan Renaissanceby Olivia Del Rio
Duties Responsibilities
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Outline

• Duties of Men
• Duties of Women
• Duties of Queen Elizabeth
• Duties of the Noble Advisors

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Duties of Men

• Men
• -in both lower and middle class men were in
  charge of the women and ordered them around
• -the men had various jobs and had to work
• -if a man was a farmer his lifestyle followed
  that of the seasons.

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Duties of Women

• Women
• -upper class women had to get an education at
  home, not allowed in universities.
• -Poor women couldnt get an education.
• -Poor women of society had to work and take
  care of children, this meant they didnt have
  rights with men.
• -Both had to obey the males of the household
  and do as told
• -Both were told they were inferior to men and
  obeyed theyre husbands, so they did as
  told.

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Duties of Queen Elizabeth

• Queen Elizabeths duties and responsibilities
• -she had to rule over England
• -she had to deal with religion in England.
• -she had to make England more stable.
• -she had to stop against threats from the
  Spanish Armanda.

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The Role of Children in Elizabethan EnglandBy
Brian Kennedy
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Outline

• Many card games were played, including One
  thirty (ancestor to our blackjack), Ruff
  Honors (a gambling game played with four
  players). Board games, such as chess, were played
  as well. Wrestling was popular, and so was Colf
  (their version of our Modern day golf).
• Children started their education at home. These
  were basically just table manners, such as
  chewing properly, the proper way to eat morsels
  (a small piece of food), rising early in the
  morning to say prayers, etc. Petty-school
  education was for 5-7 year olds. This was not
  taught in a school, but in the home of the
  teacher. Grammar school was from ages 7-14.
  Children were taught, well, Grammar. This was
  usually paid for by the Guild. Unlike today,
  Religion was taught in schools. Students prayed
  before school, before meals, and after school.
• Children and Adults were treated equally. For
  example, you may recall that in Romeo And Juliet,
  Romeo was 16 years old, while Juliet was only 14.
  The only difference between children and adults
  was height and weight. Children often started
  working at 7, and were paid with meals.

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Games played by Children

• Ruff and Honors
• In Ruff, 52 cards are used, with 12 dealt to each
  player. Turning the top card over determines the
  trump suit. Honors is played in a similar
  fashion 48 cards are used, and all the twos are
  discarded. The final card distributed is turned
  over to reveal the trump suit.
• Hopscotch
• Hopscotch then is the same way it is now, just
  drawn in dirt, not with chalk. You throw the
  stone onto one of the numbers and jump to the
  number.

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Elizabethan Rightsby Emily Foster

• The Rights of Lower Women
• The Rights of Noble Women
• The Rights of Royal Women
• The Rights of Men

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The Rights of Lower Women

• Women were expected to obey the male members in
  there families without question
• They were not allowed to vote
• There were no schools for girls they were only
  taught how to do housewifely jobs
• The only career women were allowed to have was
  marriage
• Women were not allowed to enter the Army or the
  Navy
• Women were not allowed to act in the theatre

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The Rights of Noble Women

• In the Noble class women were sometimes allowed
  the right to an education
• In order to achieve this education women were
  sent away from home
• Could not be heirs to their fathers title
• Noble women could not become doctors or lawyers
• Women were not allowed to vote or enter politics
• Women could not enter the Army of the Navy
• Women were not allowed to act in the theatres

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The Rights of Royal Women

• Even in royalty, women were subservient to their
  husbands and male family members
• Royal women were allowed to be heirs to their
  fathers title
• Women were prohibited from enter into the Army or
  Navy
• Women of the court were allowed to perform in the
  Masques but were not allowed to act in any other
  theatre productions

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The Rights of Men

• What rights you had as a man depended mostly on
  what your status was in society, but one thing
  that all men had in common no matter their status
  was the fact that they were above women
• Men of high social position had the right to vote
• Men could work in the theatres
• Men had the right to join the Army or Navy
• They could also hold any occupation, which
  includes becoming a lawyer or doctor