Migration (1500-1700)

Question 1

What year was the migration of the Flemish weavers increased? And where to especially?

Answer 1

1500

Question 2

What year was evil May Day?

Answer 2

1517

Question 3

What year did Henry 8th banish gypsies from England?

Answer 3

1531

Question 4

What year did Elizabeth pass a law punishing ‘vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians’?

Answer 4

1563

Question 5

What year was st bartholomew’s day massacre? What did it prompt?

Answer 5

1572 - prompted the Protestant Huguenots to migrate

Question 6

What year did ‘strangers’ in Sandwich have to leave if they did not carry out permitted trades?

Answer 6

1582

Question 7

Who issues the Declaration of Indulgence? What year and what did it establish?

Answer 7

James II in 1687 to help establish religious freedom in England

Question 8

What year was the foreign Protestants naturalisation act? What did it involve?

Answer 8

1708 and it invited Protestant migrants to settle in England