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Vagrancy
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- 1What is the crime of Vagrancy?When a person is homeless, unemployed & travel around the country begging
- 2Who were the vegabounds?beggars, tramps, vagrants, demobbed soldiers, criminals who wondered country looking for work/no settled job
- 3How 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)
- 4How 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 - 5What was the main punishment for vegabounds?whipped/flogged, burnt ear. When caught again executed/hung
- 6VEGABOUNDS 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)
- 7VEGABOUNDS 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
- 8VEGABOUNDS 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.
- 9why did worries about vegabounds increase?Poverty, unemployment, poor naturally increased.
- 10How did the media contribute to worries about vagrancy?Published alarming pamphlets and books about dangers of vegabounds.
- 11How 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)
- 12What 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)
- 13What did ordinary citizens think about vegabounds?Lived in 'terror of the tramp'
- 14what is the effect of a poor harvest?Bread prices go up rapidly & poor get desperate = travel to search for work
- 15what happened to the cloth trade in 1528 Netherlands?Cloth trade disrupted by political disputes = poverty among weavers
- 16In 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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- History Flashcards on Vagrancy, created by sarah.cheney on 12/11/2013.
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