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themes: poverty, Unemployment, agricultural problems, depopulation/growth of London
percentage of families classified as the working poor
50%
rural households in absolute poverty
10%
urban households in absolute poverty
20%
Percentage of poor’s income spent on food + drink
80%
how many of richest towns are in the south?
23/25
Name of 1563 act against enclosure
Act for Maintaining Tillage
what act set a threshold price for corn and placed limits on its export?
1592 Price Limit on Corn
Name of the 1598 act against enclosure
Act against conversion to pasture (1598)
punishment for vagrants under the 1572 Vagabonds Act
whipped
bored through the ear
put to death
when was the responsibility for the poor transferred from church to JPs?
1572 Vagabonds Act
Percentage of income henrician monasteries gave to charity
3%
Av life expectancy
35
When were houses of correction introduced?
1598 Act for Punishment of Rogues
When was the right to work recognised
1563 Act of Artificiers
When was a maximum wage brought in?
1563 Act of Artificers w
how many rebels… were in the Oxfordshire rising and when…?
4
1596
When were JPs given the duty to secure apprenticeships?
1598 Act for Relief of the Poor
When were food riots in hampshire
1586
When was Tyrone’s rebellion in Ireland?
1594-1603
When was the Northern Rebellion?
1569
Leaders of the northern rebellion
Percy, Lord of Northumberland
Howard, Duke of Norfolk
Earl of Westmorland
14th Nov 1569
Mass held in Durham cathedral
number of rebels executed by Elizabeth
700
size of london in comparison to next largest city
x4 bigger
Failed harvests
1594-98
