How did they treat the vagabonds?
· 1531 - Unemployed men and women found begging or vagrants, should be whipped until their bodies 'be bloody' and returned to their birthplace or previous residence.
· 1547
o First offence - Two years slavery
o Second offence - Slavery for life or execution
· 1550 - The 1547 Act was repealed as too severe. The1531 act was revived
· 1572 - First offence - whipping and burning of an ear. second offence execution.
· 1576 - House of correction to be built in every country to punish and employ persistent beggars.
· 1593 - The 1572 Act was repealed as too severe. The 1531 Act was revived.
· 1598 - Vagrants to be whipped and sent home. If they did not mend their ways, the JP's could send them to a house of correction, banish them from the country or execute them.
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