In the 18th century, the criminal justice system relied very heavily on capital punishment, even minor crimes such as cutting down a tree without permission could resulted in being hanged. Other punishments included transportation to America or Australia to perform hard labour and lesser crimes merited branding and public humiliation.
The majority of crimes were investigated and processed by the victims, with more serious crimes being put before a magistrate's court. At the time, magistrates were unpaid wealthy men who usually did not have much knowledge of the UK legal system. Magistrates at the time were well known for being easily bribed and corrupted.
The police force as we know it today, did not exist. London had Watchmen and each parish elected two people within to act as police officers in their spare time. Quite often, those elected would pay someone else to stand in their place.
The currency of the Kingdom of England in 1700 was the Pound Sterling - exactly the same currency as the UK has now. Well, not quite the same. Today's pound has decimal sub-units. Before that, there were many different non-decimal fractions of a pound as well as there being the guinea (a gold coin worth 1.05 pound), which had its own array of sub-units. Also, there was no pound coin. The largest in that era was only 1/4 of a pound
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UK Crime Stats for England and Wales show 512,750 reported crimes for November 2011. Many more crimes go unreported. That's about 1700 per day.
In short, England during the 1700's was a filled with the revolutionaries hating the monarchies and revolting. In short, England during the 1700's was a filled with the revolutionaries hating the monarchies and revolting.
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A husbandman was a farmer.
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Theatre of 1660 to about 1700 in England.
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England went to war with the Patriots in the 1700's because of the protests over the Stamp Act and other taxes levied on the Patriots in the mid 1700's. This was the cause of the American Revolution.
The King of England in 1700 was King William III, the last Stuart King.
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