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Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard
Only 2 people were executed for these crimes and it can be concluded that many in Lincoln got away with their crime.
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I may as well mention that since (it sounds like) these laws were prescriptive rather than descriptive, it's also likely that they were not put into practice as consistently and formally as history textbooks might suggest. It's not as if every medieval authority figure was iron-fisted, stone-hearted, and blood-thirsty. They were humans and liable to be complex.