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Poverty in the Mid-Sixteenth Century (AQA A-Level History): Flashcards

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Vagabonds in Tudor England

Unemployed men who travelled from place to place

Traditional poverty relief providers before 1530s

Church, monasteries, families, charitable houses

Impotent poor

People unable to work (too young, old, or disabled)

Idle poor

Fit to work but not working, seen as undeserving

The Great Debasement period

1544-1551, coincided with steep price rises

Primary driver of Tudor inflation

Population growth (per modern economic historians)

1547 poverty law punishment

Branding & slavery for vagrants, death for 3rd offence

1572 Act significance

Distinguished genuinely unemployed from 'idle poor'

Poor rate

Compulsory local tax for poor relief

1601 Poor Law Act duration

Remained basis of poor treatment until 19th century

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Henry VIII's Last Years

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