Elizabethan Society

Question 1

What did an Act in 1572 do for poor relief?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What was the first act which attempted to create a national system of poor relief to be financed and administered locally. Under such act towns were required to make provisions for the employment of the deserving poor?

Answer 2

the Poor Law Act of 1576

Question 3

What did the Poor Law Act of 1576 attempt to do?

Answer 3

it was the first attempt to create a national system of poor relief to be financed and administered locally. Under such act towns were required to make provisions for the employment of the deserving poor

Question 4

Further acts in which 2 years affirmed the 1576 Poor Law act?

Answer 4

1597 and 1601

Question 5

What happened under the 1601 Poor Law Act?

Answer 5

the parish became designated as the institution required to raise the rates for and to administer the poor relief-supervised by JPs

Question 6

Under which Act were parishes designated as the institution required to raise the rates for and to administer the poor relief-supervised by JPs?

Answer 6

Poor Law Act 1601

Question 7

In what year was there an extremely repressive and ultimately unenforceable Act against vagrancy passed-though quickly repealed?

Answer 7

1547

Question 8

Although the 1547 Vagrancy act was repealed-what notion remained of how the undesvernig poor should be punished?

Answer 8

by whipping

Question 9

In what year did an Act add branding to the range of punishments available to the authorities for the undeserving poor?

Answer 9

1572

Question 10

What punishment was added in 1572 Act for authorities to punish the undeserving poor?

Answer 10

branding

Question 11

In what year did an Act pass through Parliament which laid down that first time offenders should be whipped and then sent back to the parish of their birth?

Answer 11

1597 Act

Question 12

Between what years was there a famine crisis?

Answer 12

1596-98

Question 13

When was the only serious rebellion in ELiabeth’s reign, the Northern Rebellion which collapsed fairly quickly compared with the greater social disorder in Spain and outright civil war in France for 3 decades?

Answer 13

1569

Question 14

In what year was the Queen proclaimed Supreme Governor of the Church of Ireland?

Answer 14

1560

Question 15

what year was the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 15

1569

Question 16

What demonstrates that social stability broadly held up?

Answer 16

as even after a storm of severe harvest failures, rising prices and outbreaks of plague in the 1590’s-there were no rebellions

Question 17

What was the Oxfordshire rising of 1596?

Answer 17

this in reality was not a rising but an ill thought out scheme by 4 desperate men experiencing poverty

Question 18

Who headed the Northern Rebellion of 1569/70?

Answer 18

Northumberland and Westmorland

Question 19

What was the political intention of Northumberland and Westmorland for the Nothern Rebellion of 1569/70? (2)

Answer 19

they considered themselves dishonoured by having been displaced from their traditional aristocratic role of controlling northern government
+the intention to replace ELiabeth with Mary who would be wed to Duke of Norfolk

Question 20

What gave the Catholic indication of the Nothern rebellion?

Answer 20

the fact that rebels marched on Durham and heard Mass in the cathedral

Question 21

What were 4 reasons for the failure of the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 21

• disorganisation
• poor leadership
• lack of expected foreign support
• decisive action by authorities of the Queen