POVERTY AND POOR RELIEF

Question 1

WHAT WAS THE ACT IN 1572

Answer 1

• ## act required local rate payers to pay a rate for the relief pf their own poor

Question 2

WHAT WAS THE ACT IN 1576

Answer 2

• act required towns to make provision employment for the deserving poor

Question 3

WHAT WAS THE ACT IN 1597/8

Answer 3

-act provided a code for poor relief for establishing overseerers of the poor

Question 4

WHAT WAS THE ELIZABETHAN POOR LAW 1601

Answer 4

• national system for poor relief based on parish
• each parish was required to raise the rates for and administer, poor relief through an overseer of the poor
• the impotent poor (those unable to work) were to be cared for in poorhouse
• the able bodied poor were given work in a house of industry
• the idle poor and vagrants were sent to a house of correction or prison
• pauper children were to be apprenticed to a trade