Elizabeth society/economy

Question 1

New currency

Answer 1

-debasement of coinage in 1544 left unstable fluctuating currency, introduction of freshly minted sound coins created stablised currency

Question 2

Poor relief

Answer 2

Since dissolution of monasteries in 1536, no place for poor to seek relief from, poor law act of 1601 designated parish to administer pay rates and poor relief
lasted until 1834

Question 3

Acts

Answer 3

1572 act- poor people were branded with V’s

1597 act- 1st time offenders could be whipped and sent to Parish

Question 4

Failing economy

Answer 4

Poor harvests: 9 out of 44 deemed as poor
25 homeless died in urban center Newcastle from starvation
income levels differing, inventories of goods left by workers in Hertfordshire suggests they left goods worth almost 3 times to their counterparts in the North
By 1596, real wages had dropped to half what they had been 9 years ago