Vagabondage Factors
- Created by: tsalomroberts
- Created on: 23-11-20 07:35
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- Vagabondage
- Government
- The rich paid 'poor taxes'
- Taxes to provide relief to the poor
- They didn't want to pay extra to support other porr people.
- Introduced many laws
- 1531-Whipped until bleeding and sent back
- Vagrancy Act 1547-Harsh measures
- Able-bodied VB w/o work for 3 days were branded and sold
- Act of Relief of the Poor 1597
- Whipping and burning of ear was first offence. Second was execution
- 1601 Poor Law
- All local parishes had to provide money to those not fit to work 'deserving poor'
- The rich paid 'poor taxes'
- Attitudes in Society
- Suspicions that vagabonds were professional criminals. Who didn't work and didn't deserve help.
- Fear that vagabonds formed organised gangs. And spoke their own languages
- The Church
- The Bible taught that 'the Devil makes work for idle hands.'
- Those not working may be tempted to commit sins
- The Bible taught that 'the Devil makes work for idle hands.'
- Science and technology
- Printing press introduced pamphlets
- They talk about vagabondage being a crime
- Increased fear of vagabonds
- They talk about vagabondage being a crime
- Printing press introduced pamphlets
- Government
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