Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Crime and Punishment in Early Modern England.
The minor offence of stealing goods valued at less than one shilling, consistently punished by whipping or the stocks.
Petty theft appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Crime and Punishment in Early Modern England and Nature and Changing Definitions of Criminal Activity.
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