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6. In what year was the Poor Law?

  • 1572
  • 1576
  • 1598

7. In which year's Act of Parliament was too severe so the one in 1531 was revived?

  • 1572
  • 1576
  • 1563

8. What year did Parishes provide raw materials for the poor and Houses of Correction built

  • 1598
  • 1576
  • 1601

9. In 1598 what was introduced into each Parish?

  • A poor rate
  • The ability to brand Vagrants.
  • Food for the poor

10. Which year's Act of Parliament stated that every person found begging should be stripped from waist upwards and whipped until body bloody and was sent to place of birth or House of Correction for 1 year?

  • 1598
  • 1601
  • 1576

11. In what year was the Great Poor Law?

  • 1601
  • 1576
  • 1543

12. In 1542 Henry VIII made what a capital offence?

  • Prostitution
  • Witchcraft
  • Vagrancy

13. What year did Mary I distinguish between major and minor Witchcraft?

  • 1553
  • 1572
  • 1624

14. The 1624 Act assumed unmarried women of what?

  • Theft
  • Infanticide
  • Immorality

15. What year was the Game Act?

  • 1624
  • 1671
  • 1601

16. In 1680 the double standards for what were justified as a way to reduce immorality?

  • Violence
  • Infanticide
  • Prostitution

17. What year was the last execution for witchcraft?

  • 1688
  • 1682
  • 1680

18. Which Act of Parliament allowed judges to send criminals who had successfully claimed benefit of the clergy to a House of Correction for up to 2 year?

  • 1707
  • 1706
  • 1712

19. In 1707 the penalty for buying, selling or possessing Game was either what?

  • A fine or imprisonment
  • Death penalty
  • The stocks

20. 1712 was the last trial for what?

  • Vagrancy
  • Witchcraft
  • Poaching