Starter quiz
- Which of the following is an example of a blood sport?
- cockfighting ✓
- archery
- bear-baiting ✓
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- Which sport was banned by Henry VIII for being too violent?
- bear-baiting
- archery
- football ✓
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- Why was there so much rural poverty in Elizabethan England?
- There were not many sheep and so the lords could not profit from selling wool.
- Sheep farming resulted in fewer jobs for the poor. ✓
- Population growth meant that more rural people were competing for fewer jobs. ✓
- Most people didn't want to work.
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- Why did many people leave the local area without the local lord’s permission even though it was illegal?
- to find food ✓
- to find work ✓
- to find shelter ✓
- to find sports like bear-baiting
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- Why did London become the fastest growing city in Elizabethan England?
- due to the opportunites such as sport and theatre
- because the birth rate was higher than the death rate
- due to the huge numbers of rural poor making their way to the city ✓
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- By how much did the price of grain increase between 1500-1650?
- sixfold ✓
- 80%
- 10%
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Exit quiz
- Match the words with their definitions.
- impotent⇔helpless or powerless or unable to take effective action ✓
- idle⇔avoiding work or being lazy ✓
- vagabond⇔someone who wanders from place to place without a home or a job ✓
- A ______ is a small administrative district that has its own church and priest.
- 'parish' ✓
- In what ways had the monasteries previously helped poor people in England?
- entertainment
- food ✓
- education
- medical care ✓
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- Match the monarch with the punishment they imposed for vagabonds.
- Henry VII⇔put in the stocks for three days and back to their parish of birth ✓
- Henry VIII⇔public flogging (whipping) ✓
- Edward VI⇔branded for the first offence and death for the second offence ✓
- Match the the three categories of poor created under 1601 Elizabethan Poor Law with their meaning.
- the impotent poor⇔the sick, the disabled and the elderly ✓
- the idle poor⇔able to work but chose not to ✓
- the able-bodied poor⇔wanted to work but could not find jobs ✓
- Which of the following acts introduced by Elizabeth I punished beggars by having a hole burnt through their ear the first time they were caught and death by hanging for a second offence?
- the 1572 Vagabonds Act ✓
- the 1563 Act for the Relief of the Poor
- the 1601 Poor Relief Act
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Key learning points
- Monasteries supported the poor in the early Tudor period.
- After the dissolution of the monasteries, many people were forced to become vagrants and beggars.
- Tudor monarchs and the elite were unsympathetic towards vagrants and beggars.
- The 1601 Poor Law, issued by Elizabeth I, was the most far-reaching Act to support those living in poverty.
Common misconception
Governments and societies have generally been sympathetic to people in extreme poverty who may have been reduced to begging.
Throughout much of history, there has been little sympathy for people in extreme poverty from the majority of governments and societies, even when the circumstances that drove people into poverty are clearly out of their own control.
Keywords
Parish - a parish is a small administrative district that has its own church and priest
Vagabond - a vagabond is someone who wanders from place to place without a home or a job
Act - an Act is a law passed by Parliament
Impotent - impotent means helpless or powerless or unable to take effective action
Idle - idle means avoiding work or being lazy
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