T2- Lifestyles Of The Rich And Poor

Question 1

How many families were the Nobles and Lords?

Answer 1

50

Question 2

What was the income of the Nobles and Lords?

Answer 2

£6000 per year

Question 3

Who were the gentry?

Answer 3

Lesser landowners

Question 4

How many families in the gentry?

Answer 4

10,000

Question 5

What was the income of the gentry?

Answer 5

Up to £200 per year

Question 6

Who were the wealthy merchants?

Answer 6

Successful in the business of trading goods

Question 8

How many families of wealthy merchants?

Answer 8

30,000

Question 9

Who were the professionals?

Answer 9

The emerging middle class
Lawyers,clergy,schoolmasters

Question 10

Who were the yeomen?

Answer 10

Owned their own property, had few servants and famed some land

Question 11

Who were tenant farmers?

Answer 11

Rented 10-30 acres of land from landowners

Question 12

How many families of tenant farmers?

Answer 12

100,000

Question 13

What were cottagers?

Answer 13

Had small gardens to farm
Small-scale industry such as spinning

Question 14

Who were skilled artisans?

Answer 14

Men with a trade, craftsmen

Question 15

Who was at the bottom of the hierarchy?

Answer 15

Landless unskilled labourers
Seasonal workers
Poor and unemplyed

Question 16

Who was at the top of the hierarchy?

Answer 16

The monarch

Question 17

What materials were worn by noblemen?

Answer 17

Silk,velvet and linen

Question 18

What would noblemen wear?

Answer 18

Doublet (shirt)
Stockings
Jerkin
Stiffened ruff
Leather shoes

Question 19

What would a wealthy Elizabethan lady wear?

Answer 19

Farthingale
Ruffs
Gown
Stockings
Leather shoes

Question 20

What was the vagabonds act 1572?

Answer 20

Any vagabond over 14 could be whipped.
JPs keep a register of poor in parish and raise money for them.

Question 21

What was the Act for the relief of the poor 1976?

Answer 21

JPs needed to encourage able-bodied poor to work.
Those who refused would be sent to houses of correction

Question 22

What was the Act for the punishment of vagabonds 1598?

Answer 22

Vagabonds were to be whipped

Question 23

What was the Elizabethan poor law 1601?

Answer 23

All act were reviewed and made permanent in 1601 and became known as the poor law
Used for over 200 years

Question 24

How much of the population did landless unskilled poor make up?

Answer 24

30-40 %

Question 25

How were the rich educated?

Answer 25

At home Men would learn classics Women would oversee soap and bread making

Question 26

What would a ruffler do?

Answer 26

Rob,threaten and beg

Question 27

What is a dummerer ?

Answer 27

Pretended to be poor and played the drums

Question 28

What was a counterfeit crank?

Answer 28

Pretended to suffer from epilepsy Would put soap in their mouths

Question 29

What did a Doxy do?

Answer 29

Woman with large bag and knitting but would actually steak valuable things such as chickens

Question 30

What did an Abraham man do?

Answer 30

Pretended to be mad

Question 31

What did a Clapper dudgeon do?

Answer 31

Bleed on purpose for sympathy

Question 32

What did a hooker do?

Answer 32

Knock on houses and ask for charity but come back at night to steel through the windows

Question 33

How much did servants earn a year?

Answer 33

£2

Question 34

By how much did the population increase?

Answer 34

2.7 million in 1540 4.1 million in 1601

Question 35

In what years were there bad harvests leading to starvation?

Answer 35

1556,1597,1596

Question 36

What were some causes of poverty?

Answer 36

Unemployment of monks and servants because monasteries were destroyed Evictions Rural depopulation Costly foreign wars Switched from crops to sheep, fewer workers

Question 37

When was the vagabonds act?

Answer 37

1572

Question 38

When was the Act for the punishment of vagabonds?

Answer 38

1598

Question 39

When was the first act for the relief of the Poor?

Answer 39

1576

Question 40

What did people assume about vagrants?

Answer 40

Vagrants were prepared to commit crimes and spread diseases Risks of rebellion

Question 42

What was the Act for the relief of the poor 1598?

Answer 42

Apprenticeships would be provided for children to learn a trade Hospitals were built Impotent poor looked after in alm-houses 4 overseers of the poor to collect the poor rate

Question 43

When was the second act for the relief of the poor?

Answer 43

1598

Question 44

What were the 2 acts in 1598?

Answer 44

Act for the relief of the poor and act for the punishment of vagabonds

Question 45

Give examples of an Elizabethan house

Answer 45

Hardwick hall Burghley house