Society during Elizabeth I's Reign
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- Created on: 06-05-19 22:46
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- Society during Elizabeth I's Reign.
- Nobility
- Remained 10% of the population.
- 51-55 noble families.
- Less likely to create pears, alike Henry VII.
- Population increase across the century
- London: 1520 = 60,000 - 1600 = 200,000.
- York: 1520 = 8,000 - 1600 = 11,000.
- 1470 = 1.5 million - 1550 3 million - 1600 = 4 million.
- Higher in the south-east and London than the north.
- Gentry
- Continuing growth in size and status.
- 500-600 families.
- Increased education due to printing of books across Europe.
- Lower classes
- Around 50% of the rural and urban poor lived at subsistence level.
- Inflation = 400% across 100 years.
- Statues of Artificers 1563
- Tried to reduce vagrancy by enforcing 7 year apprenticeship contracts tied to a specific place enforced by local JP's.
- Poor Relief Act 1572
- Compulsory contributions to poor relief organisations organised by parish overseers.
- Increased punishment for vagrancy to whipping (first offence), also added branding.
- Poor Law Act 1597
- Power of overseers more defined.
- Each county to have a 'house of correction'.
- JP's to buy raw materials for impotent poor.
- First time offenders should be whipped, repeat offenders should be executed.
- Poor Law Act 1601
- Earlier Laws brought together into one clear Act and reissued.
- Nobility
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