Lifestyle during Elizabeth's reign Flashcards
Who attended theatre performances?
Both the rich and poor
What happened to literacy under Elizabeth?
It increased
What sports did the Nobility play?
Hunting, fencing and tennis
Approximately how many people were in the royal court?
1000
_____ believed the theatre distracted people from prayer, or even as sinful.
Puritans
What was used to teach children to read and write?
Hornbooks
In what language were studies at Oxbridge taught?
Latin
Who held almost all the wealth before Elizabeth came to the throne?
The nobility
In the 16th Century, what happened to birth and death rates in England?
Birth rates rose and the death rate fell so the population rose
‘Small farms where each farmer grew only enough for themselves’
What does this phrase describe?
Subsistence farms
How many people died in the 1556 flu outbreak?
200,000
When was the warning against vagabonds written?
1567
Who wrote the warning against vagabonds?
Thomas Harman
When was the Poor Law passed?
1601
What would happen to a beggar on the second time they were caught?
Their ear was burned until a hole was farmed
In what year was the first law that taxed the wealthy to pay for the poor introduced?
1601
What measures did the Elizabethan government take to address poverty?
- The government passed the Act of setting the poor on work”
- The government passed a Poor Law in 1572
When were compulsory taxes introduced to support the poor?
1572
When was the ‘Act for setting the poor on work’ introduced?
1576
What were the three categories of the poor?
Idle poor, able-bodied and impotent
Would living standards in Elizabethan England have been better if the Reformation had not happened?
- Catholic monasteries important in providing support & treatment for the sick/ill
- When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s lots of this help disappeared
- Church now offered less support for the poor
