Crime and Punishment in Tudor times

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Woman: Please sir, I’m hungry and tired. Could you spare a little food?

Man: Get away, you vagabond! We don’t like your type here.

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Woman: Please, could you spare some food?

Man: Get away from here! Dirtying our streets. Constable, we’ve got another vagabond.

Judge: You’re accused of vagrancy, wandering around the country, no job to speak of. Shame on you!

Man: We don’t want any vagabonds in our town!

Man 2: Scaring our kids!

Man 3: Stealing from us hardworking folks.

Judge: Silence! The sentence for vagrancy is to be burned through the ear and then lashed ten times.

Woman: no, please sir! I was just starving and trying to survive!

Judge: Silence, and if I find you are still a vagabond in our town, you’ll be sentenced to death.

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