2. Homes, Working Day, Fashion, Education and Leisure of the Lower Class - Elizabethan Era

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Describe the homes of the lower classes
Lived in small houses with earth floor. Poor mans cottage usually meant sharing with an animal and being one room.
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Describe the working day of the lower classes
Tenant farmers and labourers worked long hours (5am-5pm) in the evening. They had breaks at 7am and 11am for bread, ale and cheese.
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What was their life expectancy?
Low.
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Describe how the tenant farmer/labourer would dress
Leather shoes, knitted woollen stockings, a doublet and jerkin (jacket and waistcoat), and a felt hat or cap.
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Describe how the women would dress
Petticoat, mantle, doublet, kerchief, ruffs a net or cap on the head and leather shoes.
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Describe what the lower classes did in their leisure time
VGPB - *V isits to the inn and tavern. *P laying cards or dice. *G ambling in ****/bear baiting rings. *B etting on the racing.
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Name two common past times for the lower classes
Fishing and Archery.
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Describe the working day of the lower classes

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Tenant farmers and labourers worked long hours (5am-5pm) in the evening. They had breaks at 7am and 11am for bread, ale and cheese.

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What was their life expectancy?

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Describe how the tenant farmer/labourer would dress

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Card 5

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Describe how the women would dress

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