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what were the home of the gentry like?

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country houses with over 50 rooms
with glazed windows

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Food and drink in Gentry houses

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expensive feasts

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Examples of exotic meats

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swan, pheasants, fish such as salmon,

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What did the gentry do for a living?

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Did not work

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How did the gentry earn their money

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Renting out their lands

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Homes of the middling sort

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Around ten rooms and over two floors.

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What was the diet of the middling sort like?

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Afford to eat a good diet of meat, fruit and bread

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Was the diets of the middling sort as good as those of the Gentry?

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No

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What were the jobs of the middling sort?

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Merchants, Small business owners, independent owners

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What were the homes like of the labouring poor?

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Small one room houses with no chimney or glazed windows

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what was the diet like for the labouring poor?

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Bread, pottage

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What did the labouring poor rely on when it came to food?

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A good harvest

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Jobs of the labouring poor?

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Travelled to look for work on farms

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14
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What type of society was Elizabethan?

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Patriarchal Society

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Patriarchal Society?

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Social system where men have more power than women

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What played a central role in Family life?

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Marriage

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Divorce in Elizabethan England

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Very difficult, people were encouraged to remarry if their partner died

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Belief about same sex marriage in Church

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Forbidden by the church

19
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Children from which social group went to school?

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Gentry

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What age did gentry children go to school?

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7

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What gender went to school?

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Boys

22
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Work as a child in poorer families (labouring poor)

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Started work as early as possible on farms

23
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Poverty at the end of Elizabeth’s reign

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Increased

23
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How many people lived in poverty by the 1580s?

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30%

24
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What were vagabonds and vagrants?

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Unemployed people who roamed from town to town looking for work

25
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Why was the middling sort and gentry worried about vagrancy? (2)

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  1. Vagrants would commit crime
  2. Vagrants would spread the plague
26
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Why was there actually an increase in poverty?

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  1. Population increase
27
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How much had the population increased during Elizabeth’s reign?

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2.4 million to 4.1 million

28
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How did inflation increase poverty? (Why was there actually an increase in poverty?)

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Increased demand led to prices increasing. Price of wheat increased

29
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How was failed harvests a reason for poverty increase? (Why was there actually an increase in poverty?)

A

The harvest failed in 1595, 1596, and 1597. There was even less wheat

30
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What punishments did vagrants receive for supposedly causing poverty?

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Whipped and burnt in the ear with a hot iron

31
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What happened to vagrants if they were caught a second time?

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Hanged

32
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Did punishing vagrants work to end poverty?

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No it did not deal with the cause of poverty

33
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Wha did the 1601 poor law introduce?

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Divided the poor into two categories

34
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What two categories were the poor divided into?

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The deserving poor and the undeserving poor

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The deserving poor

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People who wanted to work but couldn’t

36
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Examples of the deserving poor

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Elderly, children, disabled people

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The undeserving poor

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People who could work but didn’t

38
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Examples of the underserving poor

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Lazy people, criminals

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How were the deserving poor treated?

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Compassion

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What kind of opportunities were given to the deserving poor?

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Benefits, materials for work and apprenticeships for children

41
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How were the undeserving poor treated?

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Whipped and made to do hard labour

42
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The poor law (tax)?

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Paid for by a tax called the poor rate, managed by the justices of peace

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