Feudalism in Europe was diminishing during the early sixteenth century, yet England still lived in agrarian-based society which seemed as a never-ending folk tale. Renaissance spread throughout Europe, transitioning nations into educated countries and leaving the Middle Ages in history. Feudal England experienced a surprisingly great impact when Elizabeth I inherit the crown during the middle 1500’s and governed with harsh law. Although Elizabethan punishment consisted of cruel and inhuman executions, Queen Elizabeth I implemented English culture by annexing entertainment and sea-based trade into England during the years of her reign from 1559-1603 Elizabeth I took over a torn-apart feudal England where might ruled the country. Preceding the Tudor queen in 1558, England faced a period where violent rebellions occurred in a constant basis, partitioning England into separate counties]. English county was conformed of four divisions: gentlemen, burgesses, yeomen, and base people, each class …show more content…
The judicial system favored the accusant and even sometimes the defendant had no opportunity of being exonerated. For crimes committed by the nobility, execution was to be hung, drawn and quartered, which consisted of the accused being hung and removed from the scaffold while still alive, then the entrails and genitals were removed, and finally the torso was quartered, all publicly witnessed. In contrast of the elite, the commoners receive a less ‘painful’ execution for committed crimes, such as hanging, burning, placed in “the stock”, starvation , and mutilation of body parts, where public display was optional , depending upon the crime. Little was required for one to be trial as a criminal; crimes such as theft, counterfeiting, adultery, repeatedly begging and even stealing birds’ egg could make one to be trial and punished with