The main causes of poverty in the 16th century
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- The main causes of poverty in the 16th century
- Rising inflation
- Wages could not keep up with rising prices, especially food prices
- Changes in farming methods
- Farmers switched from growing crops to keeping sheep; they enclosed common lands and employed fewer labourers
- Rising population
- A sharp rise in population from 2.7 million in the 1540s to 4.1 million by 1601 caused more demand for food, clothes, housing and jobs
- Rack-renting
- Sharp increases in rents meant that many tenants farmers were unable to pay the higher rents and were evicted
- Bad harvests
- Bad harvest, especially in 1556, 1596 and 1597, caused a sharp rise in food prices and increased the level of starvation
- Rural depopulation
- Dissolution of the monasteries
- This caused a rise in unemploymen-t among monks, servants labourers and took away the vital role of charity relief
- Changes in the cloth industry
- Rising inflation
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