In Tudor times punishment was especially bad because even if you were caught begging you would be hung by your hair to a frame and whipped. About the most common punishment was beheading. The victim would kneel down and place their head on the chopping block. Compared with being hung or burned at the steak beheading was not that bad. Beheading was a quick and painless death. Each crime would have a different punishment, the worse the crime the worse punishment.

      Burning
Being burned at the steak was about the most painful way to die. It is a slow and painful way to die. If you were burned at the steak you would have to of do something else bad.

      Beheading

If you were executed you were considered lucky, well not exactly lucky. But compared with being burned it was a quick and painless death a slave would draw a dotted line across your neck and down would come the axe.

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