There was and increased number of (type of people)
Immigrants
When did inflation cause smallland owners to struggle to invest
1650
What are overseers
Chief local officials who collected poor rates
every parish had one
decided who received relief
What percentage of the population were poor
1/3
What are the 2 types of poor
Settled poor
vagrant poor
Was vagrants a criminal act
Yes
Percentage of the population were vagrants
0.5%
Were the Elizabethan poor laws still used
Yes. 1601
What did the Elizabethan poor laws do
Basic treatment of poor until 1662
only for deserving poor
Stats in 1650 state relief stood at
£188,000 compared to £30,000 in 1614
Charles 1st Policy of thorough aim to do
Make local government more efficient and enhancing poor relief
Poor relief act also called the settlement act in 1662 aim to do.
Poor could only get relief in their home parish and if they wanted to move had to get a settlement certificate first only if their home parish agreed to pay for their transport home
How long did a poor person have to live in another parish to recover poor relief
40days
The act of settlementbenefited?
Landowners and restrictedfreedom of the poor
Society change 1625-88 what may it include
Nobility
poor
women
intellectual change
Society change Nobility 1625-1688?
Inflation caused decline in significance
econmic power decline “aristocratic lifestyle”
short term damage from civil war
supporters of royalist had landconfiscated
When was the House of Lordsdissolved
March 1649-1661
Noble families stats 1625-1688?
104 families -157
Society continuitynobility1625-1688?
Maintainedpoliticalpower only nobility could sit in House of Lords
gentry gained political power
Society change women1625-1688?
Civil war caused women to work in agriculture, run homes, fight in sieges and fight (even tho not allowed)
quakers>equality>sufferage>Fox 1676
Society continuity women 1625-1688?
noeconomic power based on status
literacy and education (but lots of people couldn’t read or write)
cant vote
even tho lots of change it revertsback when Charles 2nd.
When was the interregnum?
1649-1660
Thomas hobbes views?
Royalist
people should have individual liberties but only if a strongrule is in charge
conflict is a state of nature
Causes of social change?
Decline of the aristocracy
urbanisation
price of inflaftion
population growth
radical ideas
increase in international trade
Positives of the poor laws?
Poor were:
allowed chance to revivesupport
get address
prove where they live (settlement certificate)
Negatives of the poor laws?
Landowners:
didn’t want to pay
could send poor away
poor could only get settlement certificate if they could live in a parish for 40days unsupported with home parish agreeing to pay for travel home if they can’t
Who were the levellers?
issued pamphlets petitioning and holding meetings to promote their ideas (relatively peaceful)
house of lords should be abolished
newconstitution
people should be equal before the law and religiousfreedom
Successes of the levellers?
strong force could confront parliament
long term impact their ideas influenced later democratic movements (constitutional monarchy)
Limitations of the levelers?
Disagreement between leaders the group lacked a cohesive message
short term not very influential
their leaders imprisoned in 1649
Who were the diggers?
Beloved ownership of land should be based on man made laws rather than kings
belived:
common ownership of the means of production
compulsory education for boys and girls
abolition of monarchy + House of Lords
Successes of diggers?
Message relevant to rural community’s
Failures of diggers?
Message was too radical for their er. Each community was taken to Court and disbanded
not very influential only a minor group lacked support and finance
Quackery’s and seekers who were they?
Seekers:
purely religious threatened social hierarchy
quakers:
led by George fox
35,000 in 1660s
Successes of quackery and seekers?
Grew to 35,000 quackery in 1660s
recieved harsh prosecution but survived
fox launched in 1654 to spread radical ideas Were such a threat specific acts were passedagainstthem due to their support
Who were the ranters?
Small group preachers in london 1650
took part in criminal acts (sexual behaviour, “drunkenorgies”)
leaders imprisoned in 1651
believed incapable of sin ignore man made codes of social morality
Failures of ranters?
Banned by the blasphemy act of 1650
no big threat
laid the way for prosecution acts on otherradical groups
Hobbes significance in Britain?
He inspired absolute monarchy in his book 1651 book of leviathan