Liz society

Question 1

Population

Answer 1

4mil by 1603
3mil in 1550s, 1.5 mil 1470
large differences in population density, high in SE

Question 2

impact of population increase

Answer 2

surplus of available labour means wages not keeping in pace with inflation. Pressure on agriculture

Question 3

Harvests

Answer 3

substantial suffering when bad
1594+98 bad
9 of 44 harvests can be described as poor

Question 4

Spanish silver

Answer 4

discovered in Spanish empire, brought back and used in Europe. Greater quantity of money in circulation meant prices could rise as there was surplus purchasing power

Question 5

poverty

Answer 5

estimated 50% rural and urban poor lived at or below subsistence level

Question 6

real wages

Answer 6

by 1596 real wages had collapsed to less than half the level they’d been at 9 years earlier

Question 7

local industries

Answer 7

more opportunities arose in local industries like mining of iron/coal. Limited to specific locations- encouraged geographic mobility
cloth industry migrated to more rural areas

Question 8

state of urban areas

Answer 8

urban decay prominent, boroughs heavily dependent on cloth industry
condition of old-established towns continued to improve (York,Norwich)
Relatively new urban settlements such as Manchester and Plymouth also developed

Question 9

North

Answer 9

poverty worse
Newcastle reported burying 25 homeless people presumed to have starved
inventory of goods left by labourers in Hertfordshire was worth almost 3x as much as their counterparts in Northern England

Question 10

impact of war

Answer 10

cost of warfare from 1581 disrupted normal flow of the economy by causing rises in taxation and cost of imports

Question 11

1597 poor act

Answer 11

vagrancy
1st time offenders whipped and sent back to parish of their birth
Repeat offenders could be executed
confirmed compulsory poor rate and required setting up of apprenticeships to train boys until 24 and girls until 21

Question 12

Poor Law Acts

Answer 12

1576 1598 1601

Question 13

Houses of Correction

Answer 13

1576 set up to punish those who refused to work
more built 1597 so able bodied could work

Question 14

distinction of poor

Answer 14

impotent poor- couldn’t work
able bodied poor
undeserving/ idle poor
established 1572

Question 15

food riots

Answer 15

London and SE 1595
East Anglia 1596-7

Question 16

literacy

Answer 16

fewer than 20% could sigh their name
invention of printing press meant more books available

Question 17

Statute of Artificiers

Answer 17

aimed to fix prices and wages and to enforce potential workers to take on 7 year apprenticeships tied to a particular place, therefore restricting freedom of movement
JPs given responsibility to punish and send culprits back to their original parishes

Question 18

Wales

Answer 18

Welsh border no longer a problem
England and Wales integration continued
Much of Wales remained relatively poor
Book of Common Prayer and Bible printed in Welsh

Question 19

English peers

Answer 19

by 1590 half had town houses in London

Question 20

Liz culture

Answer 20

spent £1,500 a year on music
had her own company of actors, The Queens Players

Question 21

Theatre

Answer 21

Shakespeare emerged 1590s
Puritans waged propaganda war against evils of London Theatres
Privy Council in 1600 agreed plays should be encouraged
Used for propaganda, Lord Chamberlains mean persuaded to perform Richard II 1601 before Essex’s revolt, failed to rile up London mob