Lifestyles Of The Rich And Poor

Question 1

Who were Nobles and Lords and what was their income

Answer 1

Wealthy land owners
£6,000 per year

Question 2

How many families owned what % of cultivated land

Answer 2

50 families owned 17% of cultivated land

Question 3

What did many landowners do to their houses

Answer 3

Remodelled their homes to promote their wealth

Question 4

What was the era of house remodelling known as

Answer 4

The great rebuilding era

Question 5

What funded the great rebuilding era

Answer 5

Elizabeth’s royal progresses

Question 6

Give 2 examples of remodelled houses

Answer 6

Hardwick hall
Longleat house

Question 7

What were new buildings designed to show

Answer 7

Clear divide between owner and servant

Question 9

What letters were houses shaped as and what did this celebrate

Answer 9

Shaped as an ‘E’ or ‘H’ this celebrated symmetry

Question 10

What was the new gallery

Answer 10

New feature, entire length of the house, framed by windows and/or fireplaces and family portraits

Question 11

What was the function of the long gallery

Answer 11

Entertainment, music, dancing, exercise and playing games

Question 12

What did fashionable noblemen wear

Answer 12

Doublet (shirt)
Ruff
Jerkin
Stockings
Breeches
Leather shoes
Completed with jewellery and a satin and velvet cloak and hat

Question 13

Where were young men tutored and what were they tutored in

Answer 13

Tutored at home in French, Latin and Greek
Social etiquette, hawking, fencing and dancing

Question 14

What did fashionable noble ladies wear

Answer 14

Petticoat (farthingale)
A gown
Stockings
A ruff
Wide sleeves
Bracelets
Brooches
Strings of pearls

Question 15

What were young ladies taught

Answer 15

How to supervise the daily running of the household

Question 16

Who did the Gentry and Yeomen aim to copy the lifestyle of

Answer 16

The nobility, just not on as grand a scale

Question 17

What did the gentry rent out

Answer 17

Land to tenant farmers for regular income

Question 18

How did the gentry dress

Answer 18

Copied the rich though not with expensive gold and silver threads

Question 19

Where were sons educated

Answer 19

Grammar school to learn Greek and Latin

Question 20

How many grammar schools were there by the end of the 1500’s

Answer 20

360

Question 21

What did young men learn

Answer 21

How to become the perfect gentleman

Question 22

How long was a young man’s school day and what did it consist of

Answer 22

11 hours
Hunting, fencing, dancing and good table manners

Question 23

Where did some 15/16 year olds go for education

Answer 23

Oxford or Cambridge

Question 24

What was studied at Oxford and Cambridge

Answer 24

Maths, music, theology, geometry, and astronomy

Question 25

Who were sturdy beggars

Answer 25

Wandering poor who spread disease across towns

Question 26

How many vagrants were there wandering around

Answer 26

Estimated 10,000

Question 27

What were vagrants like

Answer 27

Idle, lazy and a burden on society

Question 28

Name 3 types of vagabond

Answer 28

Hooker, dummerer and counterfeit crank

Question 29

What were homes of the poor like

Answer 29

Typical cottage Often one room shared with animals, thatched roof, earth floor

Question 30

Name some possessions the poor had

Answer 30

Few possessions, furniture often a table and bench

Question 31

Describe a standard working day of the poor

Answer 31

12 hr day with bred and ale for lunch. Main meal at 6pm of vegetable stew and meat was too expensive

Question 32

What did the poor wear

Answer 32

Basic leather shoes Woollen stockings Jacket Waistcoat Leather breeches Felt hat

Question 33

Where were the poor educated

Answer 33

Some lucky to attend parish school to learn to read and write Many had little to no education

Question 34

Name some leisure activities the poor did

Answer 34

Gambling, playing cards, visiting the local inn or tavern, watching a strolling band or fishing

Question 35

How many causes to introduce the poor laws were there, name some

Answer 35

9 Rising population Inflation Rack renting Bad harvests

Question 36

When and what was the statute of artificers

Answer 36

1563 compulsory 7 year apprenticeship for boys

Question 37

When and what was the vagrants act

Answer 37

1572 - JPs keep a register of the poor and enforce local poor rates

Question 38

When and what was the act for the relief of the poor

Answer 38

1601 - work found for able bodied and children learn a trade