Elizabeth 1- Poverty and Poor relief

Question 1

What did the Act if 1572 establish?

Answer 1

It established the principle that local ratepayers should be required to pay a rate for the relief of their own poor

Question 2

What was the Poor Law Act of 1576 the first to create?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Which years did the two further poor law acts finish the process of creating a national system?

Answer 3

1597 and 1601

Question 4

After the 1597 and 1601 poor laws what did each parish have to appoint?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Until what year did Elizabeth’s poor laws stay in place until?

Answer 5

1834

Question 6

How were the undeserving poor treated?

Answer 6

The treatment was still very harsh with some being whipped