You will be answering this exam question in class next week (25/11) so get preparing

3. What do sources A and B show about changes in punishments between the Roman period and the Anglo-Saxon period?
Explain you answer using sources A and B and your own knowledge.  (8 marks) 

Source A:

Extract from the Twelve Tables, 451BC

“For the fracture of a bone (or a tooth) of a freeman the penalty is 300 asses; in the case of a slave, 150.  For any injury whatsoever committed upon another, 25 asses…

A person setting fire to a house or haystack near a house, if acting intentionally and with sound mind, shall be bound, whipped and put to death by fire…”

Source B:

Extract from 9th century Anglo-Saxon payments of the  wergeld to be paid by the guilty person.

“For killing a chorel or labourer – 200 shillings.

For killing a bishop -1200 shillings

For killing an archbishop -3600 shillings”