2. Create a table in your books:
Medieval Crime Medieval Still considered a Modern
Punishment crime? Punishment
Gossip Scold’s Bridle No None
Use the following
slides to complete
this table.

3. Woman’s Gossip
Punishment:
The Scold’s
Bridle

4. Not Working Hard Enough
Punishment:
Flogging

5. Cheating or Drunkenness
Punishment: Put in
the Stocks or Pillory
Stocks (held the ankles)
Pillory (held head and wrists)

6. Theft
Punishment:
Fines/extra work;
Hands cut off.

7. Murder
Punishment:
Hanging,
Beheading

8. High Treason
Punishment:
Hung, Drawn and
Quartered

9. Heresy
Punishment:
Banishment (if
they repented);
Burnt at the stake
(if they did not
repent)

10. Witchcraft
Punishment:
Hanging/
strangulation;
Burnt at the Stake
for more serious
offences.

11. It didn’t stop with death…
Gibbet: displayed
bodies of executed
criminals.