Reasons for poverty in Elizabethan England
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- Reasons for poverty in Elizabethan England
- Changes in agriculture
- Bad harvest: 1954-58 = food shortages
- Enclosure = keeping sheep on land + not crops = fewer workers needed
- Unemployed farm workers migrated to urban areas - not enough jobs
- Actions of previous monarchs
- Henry VII limited right of nobles to have private armies = unemployed soldiers
- Henry VIII - Reformation = monks, nuns + others unemployed
- Monasteries closing = no one to care for poor + sick
- Henry VIII + Edward VI - collapse of cloth trade
- Flu outbreak
- 1556
- Killed 200,000 people
- Population increase
- From 2.8 million - 4 million due to high BR + low DR
- Landlords given power due to limited housing = unfairly increased rents (rack renting)
- Lack of food = price inflation
- Changes in agriculture
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