The Old Poor Law
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- The Old Poor Law- Collective term for a set of concerning poverty, starting in 1601
- Relief systems
- Outdoor relief
- Labour rate
- Landowners who took on unemployed workers at a wage set by the parish
- Were extempt from paying the poor rate
- Roundsman system
- Landowners who employed unemployed workers
- Could pay them what they liked
- Then the Parish would supplement the wages
- Speenhamaland
- Subsidies low wages
- Based on the price of the bread and the size of your family
- Originated in Berkshire, 1795
- Labour rate
- Indoor relief
- Receiving relief in an instution
- Poor house- impotent poor
- Workhouse- able bodied poor who wanted to work but couldn't find work
- House of Correction- idle poor
- Outdoor relief
- Key terms
- Overseer of the Poor
- Local land owner who administered poor relief
- Proletariat
- Lowest class in society
- Poor house
- Institution where deserving poor are sent
- Undeserving poor
- Poors who did not "deserve" to receive relief, drunkards etc.
- Work house
- Where undeserving poor are sent
- Deserving poor
- Poors who deserved help, like widows or orphans
- Laissez faire
- Principle taken by the 19th Century Government, means Government not getting involved in people's affairs.
- Overseer of the Poor
- Important Acts
- 1667 Settlement Law
- Strangers could be denied entry to a parish
- Unless they had a Settlement Certificate
- Stating that their parish of origin would take them back if they needed relief
- 1662 Settlement Law
- On asking for relief, individuals could be returned to the parish of their birth to receive
- Knatchbull's Act 1722
- Parishes could buy building to use as workhouses
- And could make entry to a workhouse for obtaining relief
- 1601 Elizabethan Poor Act
- Parishes become administrative unit for raising money for the poor
- And giving poor relief
- Repression/punishment abandoned for assitance
- Gilbert's Act 1782
- Parishes could combine to build a workhouse
- To share the cost of relief
- But these were only used for the impotent poor
- 1667 Settlement Law
- Relief systems
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