History Crime and Punishment ~ Medival period

c1000

ANGLO-SAXONS RULED ENGLAND, they introduced:

• Wergild to replace blood feuds

• trial by ordeal

• King’s Shire Reeves responsible to criminals into justice

• Hue + Cry

• Taking oath

• Stocks + pillory a form of public shame + deterant

• Tithings + Hundreds

1066

William I crowned king, he introduced:

• Church Courts for moral crimes

• Murdrum fines

• Trial by Combat

• Build 500 motte + bailey castles

• Feudal System ensured all fines go to king and to assert dominance

1069

Harrying of the North for Normans to keep england under control

1072

Forest Laws introduced

1086

Domesday Book introduced - record book of who owned what land

1154

Henry II crowned King

1164

Constitutions of clarendon established to reduce ecclesiastical power

1166

Assize of Clarendon introduced ~ reorganized and set up prisons and courts = made a more centralized system.

1194

coroners introduced

1195

King Richard I appointed barons and knights to make a more centralized system

1215

Trial by ordeal abolished + Trial by jury introduced

1305

Hung, drawn and quartered introduced for treason

1348

Black death hits England

1351

Statutes of Labourers meant that workers couldn’t ask for higher wages

1361

Justices of peace introduced to maintain king’s peace

1382, 1401, 1414

Laws against heresy introduced:

• 1401 ~ they can be burned at stake

• 1414 ~ JPs can arrest suspected heretics