2. Lifestyles of the Rich and Poor - Elizabethan Era

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What kept everyone in their place?
Structured class system.
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How much land did the wealthy landlords own?
17% of all cultivated land.
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Who lived on the edge of starvation?
Landless and unskilled labourers.
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What were the labouring poor reliant on?
Low wages.
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What did the labouring poor struggle with?
Finding money to pay rent.
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What did they not have?a
Savings.
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What was a constant threat to the poor?
Possibility of homelessness and poverty.
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What percentage of those struggling lived on the edge of starvation?
Between 20-30%
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Name the triggers that put people into poverty.
Harvests, rising prices and changes from seasonal employment.
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What did the poverty stricken then turn into?
Beggars.
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Name a source of information of these times for historians.
Writings of contemporaries (diaries of everyday life etc)
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What happened to the landowning classes during Elizabethan times?
Increased their wealth.
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How and when did these people get their land?
Bought land in 1530s following dissolution of the monastries by Henry VIII.
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What did they do with their bought land?
Rent it out.
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What did the other landowners abandon and for what reason?
Abandoned the cultivation of the land in favour of more profitable sheep farming.
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What did some others do?
Others began to exploit the mineral resources on their land by mining for coal, lead and iron ore.
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What other method of increasing how much land you owned stayed the same?
Marrying the daughter of a wealthy landowner.
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What would the landowner receive as a result?
A bride would come with a large dowry which might also include land.
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What was a 'dowry'?
Money or property paid by the father of the bride on her marriage.
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17% of all cultivated land.

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How much land did the wealthy landlords own?

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Landless and unskilled labourers.

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Low wages.

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Finding money to pay rent.

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