How and why did begging increase?
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- Created on: 03-06-18 11:46
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- How and why did begging increase?
- Different acts were enforced
- 1495 Vagabonds and Beggars Act
- 'idle' people are put in stocks and sent back to their birth place
- 1542 Witchcraft Act
- accused would be trialled in ordinary courts not church courts
- 1547 Vagrancy Act
- V was branded on the head and sold as a slave for 2 years.
- 1563 Act against Conjurations, Enchantment and Witchcraft
- 1597 Act for the Relief of the Poor
- classifies people as deserving help or not
- 1601 Poor Law
- organising poor relief
- 1671 Game Act
- hunting was illegal
- 1495 Vagabonds and Beggars Act
- Different type of beggars
- dummerers = those pretending to be deaf and mute
- drunken tinkers = thieves using trade as a cover story
- priggers of prancers = horse thieves
- Rinchin morts = girl beggars
- Impact of enclosing land
- poor could not gather wild foods or firewood
- wealthy could use the land to graze sheep and sell their wool
- had attractive settings for their home
- Enclosure
- led to changes in law - people continued to hunt rabbits, hares and would fish in rivers and streams - 1671 Game Act made this illegal
- Smuggling
- smuggle luxuries that were imported from other countries and sell them for a a lower price- gain profit
- a difficult law to enforce because no one would report it as a crime because many people benefited from it.
- Different acts were enforced
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