Question

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.
If you are hungry, you might feel inclined to turn to poaching. But be careful: this is risky. Taking livestock is theft, and theft is a felony which carries the death sentence. Killing wild animals that live on another man’s land is also against the law; even taking a single fish from a river can result in a fine of a shilling or more. It is unlikely that you will be hanged for taking a wild animal such as a rabbit; but, even so, you will get a fine amounting to three times the value of the animal as well as three months in prison, and you will have to enter into a bond to guarantee your good behavior in the future; a second offense will be treated more harshly. If a gamekeeper attacks you and you defend yourself, you can be charged with assault. You may find yourself on the gallows if you injure him.
Which detail from the text best supports the inference that farm animals were very val

Answer 1

This gives a picture of Elizabethan England.

The given excerpt analyses how law and order prevailed through an entire community, and how killing of animals, poaching and harming another man’s animal living on his/her land was also crime.

The guilty could be fined with a shilling or more.

In fact the problem also lay in the fact that if a gamekeeper attacked a person and if he defended, then that would also tantamount to assaulting the gamekeeper.