Topic 2: Lifestyles Of The Rich And The Poor Flashcards
How many families owned 17% of the cultivated land. (Nobels and Lords were great landowners)
50
What was the function of the Long Gallery?
Entertainment, music, dancing, exercise and games.
Name 4 things that noblemen wore?
Ruff, breeches, leather shoes and stockings.
Name 4 things that Noble Ladies wore?
Petticoat, gown, stockings and a ruff.
What were young men expected to learn compared to ladies?
Men: hawking, fencing and dancing.
Women: how to supervise the daily running of the household.
How many hours of school did young men of the gentry (middle class) attend?
11 hours
What were the wandering poor called and how many were there?
10,000 ‘sturdy beggars’
Name and describe three types of vagabonds.
Hooker: use a hooked stick to steal clothes and valuable through windows to sell later on.
Dummerer: pretended to be dumb to get sympathy and money
Counterfeit Crank: pretended to suffer from epilepsy, they would suck soap so that they foamed at the mouth.
What was the difference between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor?
Undeserving: able bodied and capable of work but were lazy and unwilling to find jobs.
Deserving: genuinely couldn’t work, due to age, hardship or illness, they were recognised to be in need of poor relief.
Describe a typical poor persons house, working day and meals.
One room shared with animals, thatched roof, 12 hour long working days, bread and ale for lunch and vegetable stew for dinner.
What act found work for able bodied and children to learn a trade and made all “Poor Laws” permanent?
1601 Act for Relief of the Poor
What was the Vagabonds Act (1572)?
Justices of Peace created registers of Vagrants.
Creates “Overseers of the Poor” = harsh punishments for beggars.
List three reasons for the rise in poverty and vagrancy.
- Bad harvests.
- Rising Population.
- Dissolution of the Monasteries. (Unemployment for monks, servants and labourers and took away the vital role of charity relief.)
