The crimes most commonly committed by the Commoners were:
- Theft- Stealing anything over 5 pence resulted in hanging
- Cut purses- Pickpocketing or thieving from people
- Begging- Continuously asking for something
- Poaching- At night = Death, Day time= no punishment
- Adultery- Affairs with different people
- Debtors- Owing money
- Forgers- Produce copies of classified things often documents or things
- Fraud and dice coggers- A game that was looked down upon and resulted in torture or death