Mary I - Society and Economy 1553-1558
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- Mary I - Society and Economy 1553-1558
- Economy
- Inflation, caused by: growing population; debasement of coinage under HVIII and Somerset; Government spending; bad harvests.
- Harvest failures 1548, 1555 and 1556.
- Local food shortages, increased poverty, vagrancy and social discontent.
- Continued decline in the wool trade after the Antwerp Crash 1551.
- Society
- Population rose from 2.3 million to 3 million 1520-1550.
- Epidemics of sweating sickness 1557 & 1558 led to 6% mortality rate.
- What did Mary's Government do?
- Enforced laws against grain hoarding.
- Encouraged people to grow crops rather than grate animals on farm land.
- Neither was effective at dealing with the scale of the problems.
- Economy
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