Chapter 2-Lifestyles of the rich and poor Flashcards

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How were the Nobles and Lords children educated?

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Sons would be educated at home in social etiquette, languages and hunting.
Daughters would be taught by a governess how to run a large house and it’s staff.

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How were the gentry’s children educated?

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Sons would attend grammar schools and taught to be the ‘perfect gentleman’.

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How were the children of the poor educated?

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Most of the poor would not receive an education but instead start work as soon as they could.
Those lucky would go to parish schools were they were taught to read and write english however most would be forced to work when they became teenagers.

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4
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Define ‘impotent poor’.

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Those who genuinely couldn’t work due to age and or injury. These were thought to be in need of poor relief.

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Define ‘able-bodied poor’.

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Those able to work but were unable or unwilling to find employment. They would be encouraged and or forced to find work to prevent begging.

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6
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The main nine causes of poverty.

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Rising inflation
Rising population
Changes in cloth industry
Costly foreign wars
Dissolution of the monasteries
Rural depopulation 
Rack-renting
Changes in farming methods
Bad harvests
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What was rack-renting?

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When rent would sharply increase

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What was a Vagabond?

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A homeless unemployed person

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What was a hooker/angler?

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A vagabond who carried a long hooked stick to reach through windows and steal valuables

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What was a clapper dudgeon?

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They made themselves bleed to attract sympathy while begging

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What was a doxy?

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A female beggar who wouldn’t pretend to knit whilst moving around stealing valuables to put in her bag

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What was an abraham man?

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Someone who’d pretend to be mad to result in charity

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What was a Ruffler?

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Ex-soldiers who would beg and use threats to rob people

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What was a dummers?

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Someone who pretend to be dumb to get charity.

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What was a counterfeit crank?

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Would pretend to be sick by using soap to create foaming at the mouth to get charity

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16
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When was Act for the relief of the poor introduced?

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1576

17
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When was the Act for the relief of the poor changed?

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In 1598 and 1601