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Year Elizabeth died?

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1603

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Number of weeks parliament met

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140

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Number of times parliament was called?

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13

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Percentage of MPs who debated in people in court?

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500

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Earl of Leicester; Elizabeth’s favourite

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Robert Dudley

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Puritan Spymaster and privy councillor

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Francis Walsingham

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Secretary of state; Elizabeth’s trusted advisor

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William Cecil

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King of Spain

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Phillip II

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Elizabeth’s cousin; successor to the throne

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James I

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Suitor from weak scandanavian protestant country

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Prince Eric

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Earl of Essex

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Robert Devereux

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12
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Elizabeth’s little frog

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Francis, Duke of Anjou

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13
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Dancing privy councillor

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Hatton

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Elizabeth’s abusive uncle

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Thomas Seymour

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Wife of Henry VIII who made Liz go to court

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Catherine Parr

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16
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Mother of Elizabeth

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Anne Boleyn

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Elizabeth’s older sister and former Queen

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Mary I

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Austrian Catholic Successor

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Charles

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Cambridge scholar, tutor to Elizabeth

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Roger Asham

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20
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The system of sponsoring favourites by giving land

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Patronage

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21
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Extended household and social hub for Elizabethan England

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Court

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22
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Small group of advisors; met daily

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Privy council

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23
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When Elizabeth visits houses of the nobility with her court

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Progresses

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24
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When Elizabeth’s image is used to spread a message

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Propaganda

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25
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Elizabeth’s power to deny any parliament law

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Veto

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26
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Concept that a monarch was chosen by God

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Divine Right

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27
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Succession name given to issues surrounding Elizabeth’s heir and marriage crisis

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Succession Crisis

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28
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Passed twice by Henry VIII to remove Elizabeth

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Act of Succession

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29
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When Henry split with the Catholic Church

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Act of Reformation

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30
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Main good exported by Elizabeth

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Woolen Cloth

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31
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Religious and Economic ally on the continent

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Netherlands

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32
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Elizabeth was locked up here twice in her lifetime

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Tower of London

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33
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Rebellion that took place against Mary in 1554

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Wyatt’s rebellion

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34
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English Explorer to circumnavigate the globe

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Drake

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Famous Explorer, discovered virginia and Jamestown

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Walter Raleigh

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36
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Drake’s cousin, pioneered the Atlantic Slave trade

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John Hawkins

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Founding Member of the BEIC trade links with far east

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John Cabot

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38
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Explorer who attempted the NW passage and returned with fool’s gold

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Martin Fobischer

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39
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Famous Elizabethan Playright, wrote at least 37 plays

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William Shakespeare

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40
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Second most famous Elizabethan Playright, wrote Dr Faustus

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Christopher Marlowe

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41
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Wrote “book of Martyrs”

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John Foxe

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42
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Poet, wrote the “Faerie Queen” in honour of Elizabeth

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Edmund Spenser

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Artist who specialised in the creation of miniatures

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Nicholas Hilliard

44
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Elizabeth Musician who composed Fantasia

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William Byrd

45
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Published the book warning against Vagabonds in 1567

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Thomas Harmon

46
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A social class whose power comes from wealth not nobility

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Gentry

47
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The act of fencing off common land

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Enclosure

48
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Destruction of Catholic places of religion

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The Dissolution

49
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Leisure activity involving animals

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Bear Baiting

50
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The flourishing during the Elizabethan Period

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The Golden Age

51
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The strict social Hierarchy in Elizabethan England

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The Great Chain of Being

52
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Another type of Elizabethan Theatre

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Swan Theatre

53
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Type of plays performed before Elizabeth’s reign

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Bible stories

54
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Name given to lower classes who would watch the theatre

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Groundlings

55
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Leisure activity that happened outside of theatres

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Cock-fighting

56
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Famous play attacking Henry VII’s precedessor

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Richard III

57
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Famous Elizabeth manor house

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Hardwick

58
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A huge wave of building which took place during Elizabeth’s reign

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The great rebuilding

59
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Elizabeth becomes Queen

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1558

60
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Act of Supremacy

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1559

61
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Elizabeth’s coronation

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1559

62
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Religious settlement

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1559

63
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Smallpox

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1562

64
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Northern Rebellion

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1569

65
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Excommunication

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1570

66
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Ridolfi Plot + Treason act

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1571

67
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Statutes of Apparel

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1574

67
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Statutes of Apparel

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1574

68
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Drake’s circumnavigation

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1577-80

69
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Throckmorton Plot

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1583

70
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Babington Plot

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1586

71
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MQS is executed

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1587

72
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Spanish Armada

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1588

73
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First Poor law

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1597

74
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Cecil dies

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1598

75
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Globe theatre is built

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1599

76
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Second Poor law

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1601

77
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Essex Rebellion

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1601

78
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Elizabeth dies

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1603

79
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Type of farming used before enclosure

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Agriculture

80
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Tax used to fund the poor

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Poor Law Tax

81
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City which provided for the deserving poor

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London

82
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Punish those who begged

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Vagabonds act

83
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Vagabonds who would be women taking off clothes and beating men

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Baretop Trickster

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Two new materials used in the building of Elizabethan manor houses

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Glass and Bricks

85
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Manor houses were often built in this shape to represent the Queen

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E-Shape

86
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Pipes coming out of the top of manor houses, connected to fire places

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Chimneys

87
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This movement in Europe inspired much of the new Elizabeth architecture

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Renaissance

88
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Leather Waistcoat worn by men

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Doublet

89
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Padded shorts worn by men

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Codpiece

90
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Worn around the neck by gentry

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Ruffs

91
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Type of poor who are too lazy to work

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Idle Poor

92
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When the cost of goods goes up and wages go down

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Inflations

93
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Name given to beggars

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Vagabonds

94
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Beggar who bit soap so he would froth at mouth to garner sympathy

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Counterfeit Crank

95
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Beggar who would fake injuries to garner sympathy

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Clapper Dudgeon

96
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Beggars who pretended to be mad by making noises.

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Tom O bedlam

97
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Princess Portrait

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1546

98
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Coronation Portrait

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1559

99
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Elizabeth on Horseback

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1572

100
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Ermine Portrait

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1585

101
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Armada Portrait

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1588

102
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The ditchley portrait

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1592

103
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The Rainbow Portrait

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1600

104
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The Posthumous Portrait

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1603

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