Prosperity and depression
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What grew significantly from 1525?
Population
What declined from 1525?
Decline in rate of mortality
What prices rose from the 1520s?
Agricultural prices
What incomes rose?
Farmers
What did debasement of coinage create?
Short-term artificial boom in 1544 to 1546
What did the bad harvests in 1520-21 and 1527-29 lead to?
Significant and temporary increases in food prices- almost doubled
Who did this cause problems for?
Urban workers
What wages dropped?
Real wages
What did assessments for subsidies indicate?
Urban poverty
Example of urban poverty
Over half the population in Coventry had no personal wealth- same for a third of Yarmouth
Where was there growing unemployment?
Among rural labourers
How many migrants moved to London each year?
Over 5000
How did some people get made homeless?
Engrossing
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