What was that person hanged for? A historically accurate gameable for your Renaissance campaign
What was that person hanged for?
Die roll (d%)
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Crime
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00–75
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Theft
1 - food
2 - horse
3 - livestock
4 - money
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76–93
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Witchcraft
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94–99
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Murder
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00
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Other
1 – arson
2 – buggery
3 – breaking and entering
4 – rape
5 - sodomy
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These figures, based on data from late sixteenth-century Essex, England, only represent hanging offences and so do not include executions by other means, such as drawing, hanging, and quartering (for treason), beheading (for treasonous nobles), or burning at the stake (for heresy and women guilty of petty treason).
Source: Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (London: Vintage Books, 2013), 308, citing data from the Essex assizes in F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life, vol. 1: Disorder (Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1970).
Source: Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (London: Vintage Books, 2013), 308, citing data from the Essex assizes in F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life, vol. 1: Disorder (Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1970).
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