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Did the 'lower orders' generally benefit from the legislation-introduced by Tudor government to combat poverty and vagrancy?
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Did the 'lower orders' generally benefit from the legislation-introduced by Tudor government to combat poverty and vagrancy? The most immediate and pressing concern of government, for something more than a century was with the problem of vagrancy. This combined with the much larger one of poverty in general gradually evolved into the great Elizabethan poor laws of 1598-1601 and finally gave an impetus to that great outpouring of mercantile charity which more than anything else kept the problem within reasonable bounds. For almost fifty years those responsible for the government of Tudor England appeared little concern with the dual issues of poverty and vagrancy. The majority believed that it was the fault of the individual and it was this view that led to the government dealing with beggars and vagrants punitively, they initially dealt with the symptoms rather than the cause. The actual causes of poverty and vagrancy during this...
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