The poor

Question 1

Poorer getting Poorer

Answer 1

• Inflation and currency value dropping
• Taxes rise as wars happen
• Rack-renting (high/increasing rent)
• Plague
• Dissoloution of monasteries

Question 2

Goverment policies for the poor

Answer 2

• Recoinage - slow down inflation
• Help stop loss of rural jobs
• Workhouses for unemployed
• Poor law
• Satute of artifisces - stopped wages rising inturn slowing down inflation

Question 3

Poor law (1601)

Answer 3

• Poor rate - a tax that goes towards the poor
• Goes towards workhouses and payment reliefs for the “impotent poor”
• Introduced due to bad English economy and threat of rebellion

Question 4

Attitudes towards the poor

Answer 4

• “Impotent poor” - deserving poor, yoo young/old/ill to work, not to blame
• “Idle poor” - undeserving poor, chose to be poor and faked it, spoke in “canting”, attacked and robbed people and faked injuries
• Goverment used “Idle poor” to keep a social hierachy and stop rebellions