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Flashcards by sarah.cheney, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by sarah.cheney
almost 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the crime of Vagrancy? | When a person is homeless, unemployed & travel around the country begging |
| Who were the vegabounds? | beggars, tramps, vagrants, demobbed soldiers, criminals who wondered country looking for work/no settled job |
| How was a vegabound spotted? | Most people did not travel from town to town so easy to spot someone different (1500 restrictions removed-can travel from place to place) |
| How were vegabounds punished? | 1531-whipped & sent to birth place 1547-first:2years slavery second: slavery for life or execution 1572-first:whipped, burnt ear second: execution 1576: House of correction-punish/employ persistent beggars 1593-act replaced to serve 1531 act received 1598-whipped&sent home. If no change JP's send them to house of correction, banish from country or exacution |
| What was the main punishment for vegabounds? | whipped/flogged, burnt ear. When caught again executed/hung |
| VEGABOUNDS SEEN AS A PROBLEM? IN 1500's why did people think idleness was wrong? | Puritan religion taught- every one work hard & not tempted by sins. Not working seen as crime. Don't mind helping genuine poor (cant work-sick/old) but not suspiciouse outsiders asking for help(fit/healthy for work) |
| VEGABOUNDS SEEN AS A PROBLEM? IN 1500's Why were Vagrants blamed for crime? | Thought likely to commit crime- only way to get money/food- theft, murder, assault |
| VEGABOUNDS SEEN AS A PROBLEM? IN 1500's Why were people worried about cost? | Each town/village raised poor-rates help genuine poor in parish. Didn't want hard earned money spent on idle from other parish. |
| why did worries about vegabounds increase? | Poverty, unemployment, poor naturally increased. |
| How did the media contribute to worries about vagrancy? | Published alarming pamphlets and books about dangers of vegabounds. |
| How were the genuine poor helped? | Each town paid poor-rate (local tax) by better off residents to help GENUIN poor from THEIR parish (aged/sick children/poor families) |
| What does the harshness of laws against vagrancy show about the beliefs of landowners/Government? | Believed vegabounds behind many crimes, danger to peace (some WERE criminals, petty thieves, fraudulent beggars, some unorganised gangs) |
| What did ordinary citizens think about vegabounds? | Lived in 'terror of the tramp' |
| what is the effect of a poor harvest? | Bread prices go up rapidly & poor get desperate = travel to search for work |
| what happened to the cloth trade in 1528 Netherlands? | Cloth trade disrupted by political disputes = poverty among weavers |
| In normal years vagrancy was not a big problem, why did they go to London? | Went to biggest town in England, so good opportunity for crime or though bound to find work |
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