Poverty
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- Created on: 25-06-18 18:45
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- Poverty
- deserving poor: poor by misfortune, can't be helped
- undeserving poor: lazy, beggars who beg despite being able to work
- vagabonds
- Clapper dudgeon:arsenic on skin, bandages
- angler: stole clothes from washing line with long stick
- doxy: carried bag to hide stolen items, knitting while begging
- counterfeit crank: swallowed soap, pretended to fit
- Worries
- Charity
- Landowners used to help, couldn't afford any more
- Crime
- begging
- stealing
- Idleness
- seen as sin, vagabonds chose not to work
- Disease
- Believed to be spread by beggars, often fatal
- Scaremongering
- Exaggerated writings scared public
- Social Order
- Didn't fit into society, scared upper class, had not control
- Charity
- 1572 The Vagabonds Act
- Children of convicted beggars put into service
- Beggars over 14, whipped and burnt in right ear
- Vagabonds returned to place of birth, then sent to prison
- Poor tax raised for elderly and sick, kept by local justices
- Record kept of poor in area
- 1576: Act for the relief of the poor
- towns required to find work for able-bodied poor
- Those who refused sent to a house of correction
- towns required to find work for able-bodied poor
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