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• Statute of Artificers (1563)


  • Aim was that poor relief was collected and distributed more effectively
  • Any who refused to pay was imprisoned
  • Officials who failed to organise poor relief were fined up to £20
  • Change from local to national
• The Vagabond Act (1572)


  • Aimed to tackle vagrancy
  • Vagrants could be whipped and have a hole drilled through their ears and face the death penalty
  • Local communities responsible for collecting poor rates
  • Groups would distribute relief to deserving poor
• The Poor Law Relief Act (1576)


  • Aim to distinguish more clearly between the able bodied and impotent poor
  • JP's instructed to provide able bodied poor with raw materials
  • Impotent poor sent to houses of correction
• The Act for the Relief of the Poor (1601)


  • Brought previous legislation together in one clear system
  • Work and apprenticeships had to be provided for orphaned children
  • Overseers of the Poor were to be appointed in each parish
• Who was the triangular trade popularised by

  An English sailor called John Hawkins