Vagabonds in the Early Modern Period
- Created by: Valle
- Created on: 18-09-18 17:42
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- Vagabonds
- Problem
- Crimes
- Theft
- Abuse
- Mock beggars
- Faking beggars
- Counterfeit crank
- dressed up in old rags and pretended to have epilepsy. would eat soap so his mouth would foam up when someone walked past
- The angler
- Spent the day dressed up in old rags and kept an eye out for things to steal. steal clothes off washing lines at night
- Clapperdudgeon
- Tied arsenic to his skin , making it bleed. Then tied dirty bandages around it.
- Tom O'Bedlam
- Walk around half naked making strange noises so people would thing he was mad.
- Counterfeit crank
- Puritan religion taught that everyone should work hard so they did not have time to commit sins
- Crimes
- not a problem
- When printing press was invented, "fake" news might have been spread on leaflets influencing peoples thoughts on vagabonds.
- When Henry VIII shut down all the monasteries many people were left without aid and so travelled only looking for work.
- when the harvest failed, people were left without money and so only travelled looking for work
- Up until 1598, oxford JPs only dealt with 12 vagabonds a year
- Salisbury JPs dealt with around 20 per year.
- the law
- 1531
- Unemployed m and W found begging or vagrants, should be whipped until their bodies be bloody and returned to their birthplace
- 1547
- First offence = 2 years slavery.
- Second offence= Slavery for life or execution.
- First offence = 2 years slavery.
- 1550
- 1547 act repealed as it was too severe. 1531 act put in place
- 1572
- First offence = whipping and burning of the ear. Second offence execution
- 1531
- The law PART 2
- 1576
- House of correction to be built to punish and employ persistent beggars.
- 1593
- 1572 act repealed as thought to be too severe. 1531 act put in place.
- 1598
- Vagrants to be whipped and sent home. If they did not mend their ways, the JPs could send them to a house of correction, banish them from the country or execute them.
- 1576
- Problem
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