Treatment of poor Flashcards

Poor people who were unable to work due to age, illness, or disability. They were seen as deserving of help.

Able-bodied poor who were seen as lazy or unwilling to work. They were often treated harshly.

The poor were divided into deserving and undeserving categories, with increasing concern about vagrancy and crime.

A law that aimed to regulate employment and apprenticeships, ensuring that poor relief was funded by local taxes and that everyone worked.

A law that punished vagrants harshly, including whipping and branding, and required towns to keep registers of the poor.

A law that formalised the system of poor relief, requiring overseers of the poor to collect taxes and provide support for the deserving poor.