Crime and Punishment in Medieval Europe

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Across
  1. 4. this person owned the land
  2. 5. This device would saw you in half up until your stomach, you were then left to bleed to death.
  3. 9. removal of the head from a living body
  4. 11. being put on a wooden stake and having fire underneath you. This was a form of punishment
  5. 12. being put into a cauldron of hot water for a slow and painful death.
  6. 13. stealing or taking something that isn’t your own.
  7. 14. these people would work in the lord’s manor house, cooking, cleaning, laundering. These people were also called peasants.
  8. 15. This was a punishment for high treason, you would be put on a rope, tied to a tree this would kill you.
Down
  1. 1. a person’s head would be put in a device that would crack your skull and during this punishment.
  2. 2. taking something that isn’t your own property.
  3. 3. supernatural or magical powers, this type of person was blamed when animals died, when people died of diseases.
  4. 6. This is a cage that displayed the bodies
  5. 7. this person took orders from the king
  6. 8. killing someone
  7. 10. betraying the king or lord