Laws in the Elizabethan Era

Death Penalty

• What caused the penalty
• high treason
• blashpemy
• sedition
• spying

DEATH PENALTY CONTINUED...

• rebellion
• murder
• witchcraft
• alchemy

Punishments

• The Rack
• The Scavenger's daughter
• The Collar
• Branding Irons
• Assorted instruments designed to influct intense pain

The Poor Law

• Helped the poor people in the country

LAWS ON FASHION

• clothes were worn to show wealth and class
• a poor person was not permitted to wear royalty clothes
• a rich person was not supposed to wear "poor" clothes
• Easy way to identify the rank and wealth of that person

Law of Supremacy

• made King Henry VIII head of the Church of England

Physicians and Surgeons Act

• limiting medical practice retained
• had to be issued licences to practice

Highways Act

• required parishioners to provide for four days labour for maintenance

ACT OF UNIFORMITY

• forbade the use of the Catholic Mass