Poverty and Vagrancy-Causes
- Created by: Daniel Armstrong
- Created on: 14-11-13 14:23
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- Causes of Vagrancy
- Inflation
- Result of rising prices throughout period
- Even if employment prospects were good still @ mercy of price rise throughout 16th Century
- Likely that Government didn't know cause of inflation
- Historians struggle to know why it happened
- Debasement of coinage=small factor
- 2/3 reduced- led to a rise in prices
- No rise in earnings
- First adopted in 1526- Carried on through to Edward's reign
- Led to less focus on textiles and sheep rearing
- 2/3 reduced- led to a rise in prices
- Worsened by lack of land, bad harvests and failure of textile industry in rural areas
- Few people had land to fall back on
- Result of rising prices throughout period
- Disease/Plague
- Problem if principal wage earner is affected
- Random-Ca strike anyone at any time
- Intermittent
- Hit biggest cities
- Killed 1/3 of population of Norwich
- Trading stopped-Worries of passing Plague
- Brought farmers distress
- Labour to do farmwork was reduced
- Crops would go rotten. No harvest
- First led to the death of 6000
- Cloth Trade
- Linked with Foreign Policy
- Antwerp was staple market- Was also a Spanish dominion
- Districts were Yorkshire, East Anglia and West Country
- Thousands would be unemployed if there was a slump in the trade
- Men, women and children
- Urban cloth trade very vulnerable
- COMPETITIVE
- Thousands would be unemployed if there was a slump in the trade
- Government insisted on merchants to continue employing/retaining employees when there was a decrease in work
- Districts were Yorkshire, East Anglia and West Country
- Antwerp was staple market- Was also a Spanish dominion
- Principal export
- Contained internally
- Relied on external factors like war, plague or bad harvest to not occur to be successful
- Alternate slumps and booms in trade meant there was no guarantee of availability of original job
- Relied on external factors like war, plague or bad harvest to not occur to be successful
- Linked with Foreign Policy
- Inflation
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