Lifestyles, the rich and poor

Question 1

RICH

Fashion

Answer 1

MEN Wore a doublet (shirt), ruff, jerkin, breeches, leather shoes and stockings.
Outfits completed with jewellery and satin and velvet cloak and hat.

WOMEN wore a petticoat, a gown, stockings and a ruff
With wide sleeves, brooches and strings of pearls

Question 2

RICH

Nobles and lords

Answer 2

Great landowners with an income of £6000 a year

Question 3

RICH

Schooling

Answer 3

Young boys were tutored at home in French, Latin and Greek as well as social etiquette, hawking, dancing and fencing

Young girls were taught how to look after the home

Question 4

Gentry

Answer 4

Aimed to copy the lifestyle of the nobility just on a smaller scale

Question 5

GENTRY

Fashion

Answer 5

Taken seriously and they copied the rich just not with expensive gold and silver threads

Question 6

GENTRY

Education

Answer 6

Sons went to grammar schools to learn Greek and Latin
Young men learned to become the perfect gentleman with and 11 hour school day, They learned fencing, dancing, hunting and good table manners

Question 7

POOR

Working day

Answer 7

Long 12 hour day with bread and ale for lunch and vegetable stew for dinner (meat was too expensive)

Question 8

POOR

Fashion

Answer 8

Basic leather shoes, wooden stockings, breeches, jacket, waistcoat and a felt hat.
Most only had the one outfit

Question 9

POOR

Education

Answer 9

Little to none, you were lucky to be able to attend a parish school and learn to read and write

Question 10

Poor laws

Answer 10

1563 - statue of artificers, compulsory 7 year apprenticeship for boys
1572 -