Migrants 1500-1700 Flashcards
Some suffered attacks that took place against foreigners in
London-
Lombard’s and hansa
A preachers, Dr.Bell’s speech attacking migrants led to riots Bell accused immigrants of stealing jobs from English
workers and of “eat[ing] the bread from poor fatherless
children”.
when did this happened when and what event happened after
Events known as ‘Evil May Day’ 1517
1,000 + mob attacked foreign shops and people
Stopped after 5 hours by government troops
however these attacks were rare
Romany gypsies worked as labourers, menders of pots
and pans and trading animals- as people who moved
from place to place – were often seen as ‘vagrants’
Allowed to live here but only if staid in one place- they
did not.
what law did liz I pass that led to some being hung
Elizabeth I’s 1601 poor law also made life hard ,
especially for Roma. Many were hung for ‘vagrancy’.
1650s- government forcibly transported some Roma
gypsies into slavery in North America and the
Caribbean
Dutch migrants introduced new crop rotation methods and varieties of carrots .
Dutch workers helped drain the fens creating……..acres of agricultural land,
40,000
Dutch drainage of the fens transformed the landscape& farming there……… for
linen, hemp for rope were now grown, and lakes stocked with…for London buyers
Oats,flax
pikes and eels
Dutch also introduced new
varieties of ,,,,,, new crop …. and a new alcohol beverage called?
carrots
crop rotation
gin(Will III put high taxes on spirit imports like brandy leading to local made gin becoming popular
Anthony van Dyck from the Netherlands (also Holbein*German for Henry VIII) was the court painter for who
James I & Charles I this led to
Very lifelike painting with people in more informal,natural
poses.
The rich and powerful wanted their own family & pets
painted.
A fashion for portrait paintings developed
