495: Deserving poor may beg in own parish.
1531: Deserving poor need a license from their JP to beg in own parish.
1536: People told to give money to church officials who will give to the most deserving.
1547: The parish must find homeless deserving poor a place to live, a collection for the poor is taken after church on Sunday, no one has to give.
1552: Licensed beggars may go from door to door in their own parish but they must not sit outdoors and beg.
1563: If people do not give money to the Sunday collection for the poor, they have to explain why not to their JP. If they don't have a good reason, they can be locked up. Only disabled people with a license are allowed to go from door to door begging. Others have to rely on alms from parish.
1597: Overseers of the poor are appointed to look after the poor. The parish officials set a poor rate. If someone does not pay, the overseers can take their possessions to the value of the poor rate and sell them to get the money.
II: Vagrants:
1495: Vagrants to be punished in the stocks for 3 days.
1531: Vagrants to be whipped.
1536: Vagrants make to work on jobs like road repairs.
1547: Vagrants could be forced to work as slaves (this law was cancelled in 1549 because it was considered too harsh).
1572: Vagrants over 14 were to be whipped and have a hole made in their right ear the first time they were caught. Caught again, they could be put in prison, even hanged.
1576: Houses of Correction (Bridewells) set up where vagrants were forced to live and work.
1597: Vagrants whipped and sent back to county where they had last lived. Vagrants who kept getting caught were sent overseas to work in the colonies.
2007-10-29 09:33:57 · 6 answers · asked by oohhbother 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Oh, yeah - and were the Tudors Socialist for providing housing to the poor?
2007-10-29 09:37:30 · update #1
Deserving poor were locals who could be vouched for as moral by the clergy.
2007-10-29 09:40:00 · update #2
Vagrants were poor from other parishes.
2007-10-29 09:52:08 · update #3
Privatizing the poor!!! What a laugh, wheres the profit in that?
It does seem some of our brethren wish a return to Victorian England and beyond. Its not surprising considering it was an incredibly immoral time once you got past the surface of the wealthy.
Its much the same today, no one wants to truly help the poor they only wish to use them as a whipping boy or a political ploy.
2007-10-29 09:46:13 · answer #1 · answered by justa 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Taxing the poor seems reasonable. Its better than taxing the rich!!
2007-10-29 12:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define deserving poor and the licensing process.
2007-10-29 09:38:25 · answer #3 · answered by Holy Cow! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So if I don't like our current system, you think I support a system from the 1500s? Are you really that stupid?
Privatizing the welfare system is the only logical way to deal with the issue. If you are not smart enough to recognize that, that is your problem, not mine.
2007-10-29 09:42:25 · answer #4 · answered by Aegis of Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It was tried before in Germany and it did not work very well.
2007-10-29 13:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The current system is better, but it certainly could be improved.
2007-10-29 09:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by Shane 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋