Prosperity and depression

What grew significantly from 1525?

Population

What declined from 15125?

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 E

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