Definitions (Elizabeth)

Question 1

Great chain of being

Answer 1

Triangle (pyramid) reflecting class status in Elizabethan England

Question 2

deserving poor

Answer 2

poor who deserve help e.g. sick/old/orphans

Question 3

undeserving poor

Answer 3

poor who do not deserve help because they can’t be bothered to work so made themselves poor by their own actions

Question 4

vagabonds

Answer 4

people who move around - thought to be criminals

Question 5

House of Correction

Answer 5

a type of punishment built after the passing poor law that meant that unwilling workers were set to work through hard labour (punishment reform)

Question 6

nobility

Answer 6

class below monarch - very wealthy and owned lots of land

Question 7

gentry

Answer 7

class below the noble - quite wealthy and were land owners/land lords

Question 8

Great Rebuilding

Answer 8

a period in which heightened level of construction work, architectural change & rebuilding - improved rural buildings too

Question 9

poverty

Answer 9

living in conditions where you are unable to afford main necessities e.g. food, clothes, water, housing

Question 10

beggars license

Answer 10

you needed one of these to beg legally