Dealing with poverty the result of fear of social disorder? Flashcards
1
Q
What factors to include?
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population growth debasement of coinage Land and Poverty Vagrants and beggars punished provison for poor relief role of charities and Local authorities
2
Q
What was the 1570s Tudor Law?
A
distinguished impotent poor from able bodied
3
Q
What was the 1531 Poor Law?
A
punishments were whipping and impotent poor given a licence from JPS
4
Q
What was the Vagrancy Act 1547?
A
letters V on chest and work as a slave
letter S on Face and slave for the rest of your life
Execution was next
5
Q
What was the new Poor Law?
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required impotent poor to be registered and made parish priests put more pressure on those who didn’t give donations
6
Q
What was the Act for the Relief of the poor 1563?
A
made payments to poor relief almost compulsory
7
Q
where would able-bodied work?
A
houses of correction
