Poverty Elizabeth

Question 1

The Statutes of Artificers

Answer 1

10th April 1563

The government regulates the working day and wages to stop people from moving to town-to-town.

In Kent, the working day was 5am to 7pm, and 5-8 in summer

Sets wages – bad don’t increase 1568-1589 ]

Men under 30 who were not married were not allowed to leave their job.

Daily wage set to 2D – 2.5p now, if they miss shift forfeit of 1 p

Rural apprenticeships were set up (like being a thatcher) were set up.

Overall very ambitous – hard to enforce, some short term improvemnts, unemployment decreases –progress lost by war in 1585, costs over 1260000 a year, more taxes

Question 2

Alms act

Answer 2

July 29, 1563.= distinguished between the impotent poor and needy persons

Question 3

Vagabond act

Answer 3

August 1, 1572.

= can hole punched through ear or sent to house of corrections, and national poor rate

Question 4

Poor relief act

Answer 4

March 31, 1576.

differentiates between different poor

Question 5

2nd poor relief act

Answer 5

1598=
jps msut help, pauper children to be apprenticed until ages of 21(F) and 24(MP

Question 6

Poor Laws

Answer 6

19th December 1601

Poor tax for deserving , illegal to beg with no licence, sent to corrections

Overall very ambitious and fails- ½ are not even earning working wage, lack of infastrutre to ensure work, or provide protection

Question 7

Towns actions

Answer 7

1569 – Ipswich have youth training schmes and lisxences

1570 – Norwich 80% live in poverty, tax 650 richest citizens, contributes to the 200 poor people

Question 8

Peoples help

Answer 8

Henry tooly sets up alms houses in Ipswich

Leicester sets up hospitals in Warwick

Whit gift sets up alms houses

Question 9

What deters help?

Answer 9

Thomas Harmon – Caveat for common cursitors (1557) wrote popular book about trickery of poor, 23 categories

William Harrison – pamphleteer warned of travelling with 10000 vagrants on the road