Elizabeth 1- Poverty and Poor relief Flashcards
What did the Act if 1572 establish?
It established the principle that local ratepayers should be required to pay a rate for the relief of their own poor
What was the Poor Law Act of 1576 the first to create?
It was the first act to create a national system of poor relief to be financed and administered locally
.Under the Act, towns were required to make the provision for the employment of the deserving poor
Which years did the two further poor law acts finish the process of creating a national system?
1597 and 1601
After the 1597 and 1601 poor laws what did each parish have to appoint?
An overseer of the poor, with a key responsibility of relieving the impotent poor, setting the able bodied poor up with work and apprenticing poor children
Until what year did Elizabeth’s poor laws stay in place until?
1834
How were the undeserving poor treated?
The treatment was still very harsh with some being whipped