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The name given to the expanding collection of laws that made many offences, including property crimes, punishable by death in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The name given to the growing body of laws that made many offences punishable by death, beginning in the late seventeenth century.

The growing collection of capital laws became known as the Bloody Code. It was not one single law introduced overnight: its importance lay in the expansion of offences for which people could be executed, including property offences that seem relatively minor today.

The collection of laws that made a large number of offences punishable by death, including relatively minor crimes.

For change, explain what was new: transportation removed offenders overseas, while the Bloody Code increased the number of offences carrying the death penalty.

Keep this period within c1500–c1700: the later expansion of the Bloody Code belongs to the following period.

Distinguish the ending of the Bloody Code from the ending of public executions in 1868: these were separate changes.

The name given to the large number of offences punishable by death in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.

Fines, public humiliation, physical punishment and execution remained familiar. However, houses of correction and transportation offered additional ways of dealing with offenders, while the expanding Bloody Code made more offences punishable by death.

Bloody Code

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