Lifestlyes

Question 1

How was the Elizabethan society structured

Answer 1

Very structed social class
Everyone kept in their place
Huge difference in lifes of the poor and the rich

Question 2

What was the social structure - did they earn?

Answer 2

Monarch elizabeth
Nobels and lords(about 50 families) with £6000 per year
Gentry (10000 families) £200 per year
Wealthy merchants 30000 families good in buying and selling goods
Professionals emergeing middle class
Yeomen owed their own property had servants and farm land
Tenant farmers rented 10-30 acres of land from a landowner about 100000 families
Cottageshad small garden to farm had small scale industry
Landless unskilled labourers unemployable in some parts of the year

Question 3

Why and how many families lived near starvation?

Answer 3

20%-30% because of bad harvests rinsing in prices and changes in employment

Question 4

What was the lifestyle of the rich

Answer 4

Rich landowners got richer because of sheep farming rather that labour intensive cultivation of land
They explored the advanges of the mineral resources like coal lead or iron ore
Advantageous marriages

Question 5

What was the homes of the rich like

Answer 5

Elizabethan era was the era of great rebuilding the old medieval style of bulidings was defensive and dwelling design dor the defence were replaced with elizabethan mansions this ment she wasn’t afraid of war starting. Houses were semetrical ‘E’ or ‘H’ shape including laege windows brick or stone walls fireplaces with a chimney finely plastered cellings and wood panelled walls on which to hang fine tapestrys. Many houses included a large long gallery lined on one side with a large windows. House were made to last and to be aesthetically pleasing.

Question 6

Fashion within the nobelmen

Answer 6

The nobelmen and their wife wore the latest fashions made out of silk linien and velvet

Question 7

Education of the nobel children

Answer 7

Home tutored the classics and language such as french latin and greek daughters were taught how to run a large house and the staff

Question 8

Household of the nobel people?

Answer 8

The wife and nobelmen supervised the day-to-day running of the household

Question 9

Lifestyle of the gentry

Answer 9

They tried to copy the nobelmen but not on a such grand scale

Question 10

Homes of the gentry

Answer 10

The gernty modernised and refashioned their homes the bulit new houses out of stone and brick auch houses had fireplaces large windows and plasterd walls

Question 11

Fashion of the gentry

Answer 11

Gentry wore midern and stylish outdits without the expense of jewlles

Question 12

Eduction of the gentry

Answer 12

Gentry wer etaught un grammer schools and some went to oxford or Cambridge

Question 13

Lower classes homes

Answer 13

Much smaller houses , little less than one room earth floor timber framed walls with wattle and daub infilland a thatched roofs

Question 14

Fashion in loweclasses

Answer 14

They posseded a few pairs of outfits made from roygh twilled cloth

Question 15

Education and lesiure of the poor

Answer 15

Very little education little time to socilise but when the did they went to the local inn to gamble or watch cock and bear baiting

Question 16

Causes of poverty

Answer 16

Rising population 
Raising inflation 
Bad harvests
Changes in farmings methods 
Rack renting 
rural depopulation 
Cost on foreign wars 
changes in cloth industry

Question 17

Beggers types?

Why were they a threat to sociey

Answer 17

They were a threat to society as they were seen as sturdy beggers and were blamed for the increased of crime
Angler-used a hooked stick to steal peoples washing or reach theough windows to reach valuables
Clapper dudgeon- tied resnic to their skin to attract sympathy when begging
Doxy- female vagabon who stole item and hid them in her bag
Abregam man- pretend led to be metally insane to attract dympathy of charity
Counterfeit crank- sucked on soap to foam at the lips and pretended to have epilepsy

Question 18

Government legislation of the poor

Answer 18

1563- statue of artuficeres-compulsory seven year apprenticeship
1572-vagrency act-sever punishments for vagrants local people had to pay the poor rate
1576-relifie of the poor-houses of correction to be bulit in every county
1598-relief of the poor-overseeres appointed to supervise issue of poor relief
1598-act of punishment of Rogues-houses of correction to be set up for rogues and vagabonds begging was forbidden
I601-act for the reliefof the poor- set up a legal framework to tackle poverty

Question 19

How successful were the Elizabethan poor laws?

Answer 19

The opinions are mixed although it didnt solve poverty it introduced a system to relief the poor
Laws did help many people ple that need support
Helped to reduce the threats of rebellion
Government took action to help the poor
System of the poor relief established by Elizabeth stayed for over 200 year
Poverty continued to rise