Law Order & Punishment in Medieval Times 

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Wow! Very interesting - thank you

The Salem witch trials have an example of this. Giles Corey refused to enter a plea, simply requesting more weight each time he was pressed for an answer, ultimately dieing but preserving his estate.

So the royal buggers had a motivation to torture good people for made up bullsheet just to get "legal" authority over their wealth and valuables? Sons of biscuits!

So these royal bug gers had a motivation in torturing good people in order to gain "legal" authority over their wealth and valuables? Sons of biscuits!

Wonderful, thanks for that comment!

Do you know when this was roughly - My hubbie worked in the sea life centre in Weymouth in the early 90's x

"Well I don't bloody want it tell them to chuck it back in"...

Would that even be applicable considering it’s an entirely different government now?

@@Straightforward-iPhone-Tips England's government is the same monarchy, the same crown legally speaking, that it has been since England was unified as a nation.

They don't arrest peeping toms nowadays. Now they hound the victims for daring to complain!

@pm8465, And if you were a PC today you would be arresting someone for misgendering someone. LOL

If your British sergeants are anything like the ones we have in the colonies, he found that law at some point and has just been itching for a chance to use it

Depends what you mean by official laws, written ones? Vendel and Viking age judiciary were dictated by councils of eldermen, jarls and other local noteworthy persons in oral tradition. The following centuries saw Sweden’s first written laws who mostly followed what was already established orally. It’s first with our christianisation that bishops, magnates (stormän) and noble lawmen took over this practice in regional scale. National laws came some time later but holmgång remained up until the 1600’s when dueling was banned, it merely adapted throughout the eras

Likewise, the killing of an man was something which could be resolved by paying *weregild* ("man gold"), the amount dependent on the rank of the victim. Otherwise, reciprocal violence and sometimes long-lasting feuds could result. Of course, just paying the weregild wasn't necessarily sufficient to end the bad blood resulting from a murder. ='[.]'=

It does explain why the vikings were large. All the smaller guys had long been dispatched in legal disputes. 'Oh no, here comes Bjorn the Litigious!' ;-)

I'm 1/4 Norwegian, so I'm all in favour of bringing that one back.

"Might makes right" is definitely the dumbest legal system we've come up with, and that's a low bar to begin with.

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Enjoy the fireplace. They are trying to block people being able to heat themselves with their electricity. But I am not surprised

Hey Pat, thanks for the SUPER again, I'm glad you enjoyed a chuckle, this one was fun to do.

@@thehistorysquad The fact you were having fun, came through in your presentation. 👏👏👏. Making it all the more fun for us.

Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoy them 👍

Sure you are ……

@@buttercxpdraws8101 what a weird thing to not believe.

Don't get drawn in, we read some pretty odd stuff on here 😉@@Chanceisafoodie 👍🏻

​@@buttercxpdraws8101what you even mean by that,why would someone lie their age or gender for nothing lol

Wow, thanks very much, I appreciate that. 👍🏻

Great additions here Neil thanks.... you should be making history documentaries 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad I wish I had the time. I'm too busy researching and writing my first novel set in the reign of Richard I and featuring a certain Yorkshire outlaw.

Excellent, let me know when you publish 👍🏻@@neiloflongbeck5705

I'm from Beverley, that's hilarious! It's only a minster and not a cathedral so it's interesting that such a unique law applied to it, but it is very large and pretty!

@@SamuelHallEngland try looking up the Beverley Sanctuary Crosses or Stones. Even the Minster's own web pages mention them and your ignorance will be removed.

We are getting worse by the day.

Same here in the UK. The rich pay off the police and get away with anything, and once paid, the police then hound the victims. They just love going for single women, the elderly, the disabled. Cops are also involved with organized crime.

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They’d then promptly get taxed into oblivion lol

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That's okay @michaelpage4199, we'll bring our own to get the truth out of ye! 🤣👍

@@tyree9055 I work in a Theatre, so I could bring some stage weights if Michael won't talk! 🤣🤣🤣. Dave.

You made me laugh @michaelpage4199!! Have you watched Kev's video of Margaret Clitheroe and her being pressed to death? If it's not bad enough to be pressed until you make a plea, you'd probably get home (if you lived!) to find that while your door was off, all your stuff got nicked!! 🤣🤣. Dave.

If the Mrs asks about a rockery, best dissuade her 😆👍🏻

Yes, one of my ancestors pleaded not guilty to poaching because when the bird took off, it was on his land. He was fined a shilling and the newspapers reported that he left the magistrates court in tears of laughter.

One of the funniest things ive read from the era is when some soldiers discovered guy fawkes guarding the gun powder he claimed his name was 'john johnson'. Great quick thinking.

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Sorry to say but this system is not about punishing. it´s about revenge.as cruel as can be.

​@@michaelpielorz9283revenge,or deterrent? Primary reason for punishment is deterrent.

​@@michaelpielorz9283If you commit a crime you should accept the punishment.

Not quite everyone equal at that time....some 18th/19th century uprooted west africans would like a word

@@Ukraineaissance2014 They meant equal as humans not animals.

Yay! Thank you 👍🏻

I agree 100% on that HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@@oneshotme thank you for your comment,but I didn’t say it for laughs.I’m very serious!

The government likes it's monopoly on extortion and violence.

...and mafia guys can all at least cook.

​@@toldyouso5588are you talking about Frankie Delissio?

How lovely, thank you!

The Hour of the Pig, a great film 👍🏻

I once read an allegedly true story about a man who was killed when a statue fell on him, they put the statue on trial for murder.

Thanks for listening

Haha, cheers Laurent!

Thanks for this Jodie 👍🏻

Tampering, defacing and counterfeiting currency was and still is a serious crime. An economy based on a finite currency as opposed to bartering or trading in pure precision metals is utterly reliant on that currency holding its value. Meddling with this system could completely undermine the economy. Back in the old days coinage was valued on the amount of precious metal it contained by weight. People would clip, file or sand the edges of coins and collect the silver dust. In colonial America and the early days of the USA, mints would press deep serrations into the edge of a coin so that it would be easy to tell if it had been filed. Often times people would put the silver coins in a leather bag and shake it to cause the coins to abrade on one another and form silver dust. The serrations and specific designs pressed into the coin acted as a tamper indicator. Later on post civil war, counterfeit currency was a serious problem with paper money to the point it was severely impacting the economy. The US Secret Service was actually founded under the department of the treasury to track and destroy counterfeit bills in circulation, prior to it becoming the presidential security detail.

Ah, cheers Nick! @NickC_222

Cheers 👍🏻

​@@thehistorysquadYou've forgotten to mention breaking on the wheel...? 🤔

Yes, that was a horrible punishment. I'll maybe take a look at that and some of the others in another video. Thanks @@NobleKorhedron

Interesting about the term nippers 👍🏻

Thanks so much! The pin is a white boar, part of the coat of arms of Richard III.

Thanks, will do!

Stocks or pillories would be even more effective in this age of social media.

Thanks for watching each time, I appreciate it.

Hi Pauline, that's so kind of you thank you. You have a wonderful Christmas too and we'll see what stories we can discover for 2024. All the best to you.

exactly

Nah it has changed massively: things are way better and fairer today.

Glad you enjoyed it Dave, thanks!!

@@thehistorysquad I've been wanting to do another longbow shooting video for my pathetic little channel Kev but me range is full of flight cases!! 😕😕😂. Dave.

Thanks very much!

I appreciate that! Thanks

😜 my pleasure

I think he might have arrested me once lol

Cheers Dave

Great suggestion! But to get you started, the first commissioner of police was Robert Peel 👍🏻

I appreciate that, thank you for taking the time to comment 👍🏻

Thanks for the insightful comment 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad and thank you for another great video. :)

We have the same close to where i live in Arboga, but it's called 'Galgbacken' which means Gallows Hill

No I was in Thames Valley from 85-92. My beat bordered the Met. I did experience localised riots but nothing big like those in Northern Ireland when I was in the army. Julie's been compiling a list of all my 'bobby' stories so one day I'll get to share them on video. 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad Great. 😀 I look really forward to seeing that video, and hopefully some pictures of you as a bobby.

Thanks so much. More to come!

😜 will do

Our pleasure!

Wow, thank you too!

You're most welcome 👍🏻