Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast, a member of the Agora Podcast Network.

This is episode 77, and we are talking about tutor, crime, and punishment. Just a couple of

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to Paige for the research for this episode. Thanks, Paige. So let's talk about crime and punishment

today, specifically crime and punishment in Tudor England. What were some of the crimes

for which you could be punished in Tudor England, and what exactly would those

punishments be? I often have this idea of Tudor crime as being this really macabre thing,

where you could randomly just be picked out for something really silly, and suddenly your

heads cut off. But was it really like that? Were there trials? And how would it be different

for a poor person over a wealthy noble person?

These are the questions that I want to start to answer in this episode.

First off, what was crime in Tudor England?

Crime and punishment were taken very seriously and similarly to today, there were different types

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