What Was Life Like for Poor People in Tudor Times?

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What Was Life Like for Poor People in Tudor Times?
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Tudor Beggars

• In 1570 there were more than 10,000 homeless
  people wandering the roads, looking for work and
  begging.

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Tudor Beggars

• In 1547, a law was made ordering vagrants to be
  whipped and sent to their home towns.

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Types of Poor People
There were many kinds of poor people.

• People on the breadline
• The "deserving poor",e.g. the very young, the
  very old, and disabled people
• Sturdy rogues vagrants and people who moved
  about looking for work.

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Poor Families

• Families would wander with their children begging
  for money or food.
• Some parents would deliberately injure their
  children to get more money from the rich.

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Tudor Punishments
If people were caught begging they would be
punished.

• being chained to stocks
• hanging
• burning to death
• whipping
• dunking in a river
• branding with a hot iron

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Almshouses

• Almshouses were sometimes built for the elderly
  and deserving poor.
• The money for building and keeping the almshouses
  was provided by the rich.

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• How could you sum up the lives of poor people in
  Tudor times?

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• LI To investigate the differences between the
  lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times

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Talk Partner Challenge!

• How would you know that a Tudor house belongs to
  a rich person?
• What are the clues?

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Talk Partner Challenge!

• Rich people had a healthier diet than poor
  people.
• Do you agree or disagree with this statement and
  why?

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Talk Partner Challenge!

• Do you think poor people enjoyed leisure
  activities like hunting and archery?
• Explain your answer with examples from what you
  know about Tudor people.