Migration In Early Modern England C1500-C1700 Flashcards
Name the migrant groups in early modern England 1500-1700
The Flemish and Wallonia
Huguenots and Palatines
Roma Gypsies
Africans
Flemish and Wallons
Why did they migrate?
Fleeing Catholic persecution (Belgium and Netherlands)
Work and trading opportunities in England
Flemish and Walloons
What was the response in England?
Settled in Sandwich and Canterbury
Given St Peter’s church to worship in own way
Locals complained the Flemish were taking ‘their’ jobs
Flemish and Walloons
What impact did they have in England
Passed on/ taught skills to English people living there
Contributed to Kent economy
Became rich building own homes and workshops
Huguenots and Palatines
Why did they migrate?
Escaping religious persecution in France
Huguenots and Palatines
What was response in England?
1517 May Day riots led by people who resented foreigners privileges
Range of skills= found work easily setting up own businesses
Some desperately poor took to petty crime. Palatines deported to Ireland to work on land
Huguenots and palatines
What impact did they have in England?
Cloth trade boosted by Huguenots silk weavers, settled in Spitalfields
Silks and new fabrics such as velvet and taffeta were in demand by rich women and dress designers
Roma Gypsies
Why did they migrate?
Nomadic, travelling from place to place
Often arrived in new places in hope of selling their wares and gaining work as entertainers
Roma gypsies
What was the response in England?
Faced increasing hostility as authorities wanted them to stay in one place
Tudor monarchs introduced Laws which affected Romani people’s lifestyles
Roma gypsies
What impact did they have in England?
Limited impact, increasingly faced difficult experiences from society. Gov began transporting Romani people into slavery in North America from the 1650s onwards
Hanged as punishments for continuing to live as vagrants and beggars
Africans
Why did they migrate?
Global trading companies developed trade do it es to Africa, Europe, India
Merchants traded wide variety of goods including people, transatlantic słabe trade began in this period
Africans
What was the response in England
Enslaved overseas brought back to England to work as servants
They worked for the wealthy, it was fashionable for rich English people to have a black child servant.
Some black African migrants became quite wealthy or musicians eg John Blanke
Africans
What impact did they have in England?
Some individuals impacted on opinions of black people in positive way
Small number of migrants, not fully impacted
