http://www.renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html
A great site with information on almost every facet of daily life during Shakespeare’s time. 

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/punishment.htm
Crime and punishment: “The greatest and most grievous punishment used in England for such as offend against the State is drawing from the prison to the place of execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are hanged till they be half dead, and then taken down, and quartered alive; after that, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire, provided near hand and within their own sight, even for the same purpose.”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison%2
Dengland.html
This site provides the full text to Description Of Elizabethan England, 1577 (from Holinshed's Chronicles).  

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Elizabethan_life.htm
Another general information link which covers housing and class divisions.