Poverty and Vagrancy in Tudor England

able-bodied alms appointed areas assessed Babergh Hundred Bedfordshire beggars begging bequests census cent century progressed charity churchwardens city's clergy compulsory concerned contributions corn death destitute dissolution distress document Edward Hext Elizabeth's reign Elizabethan employment enclosure fact funds hable harvest failure haue Henry VIII houses important impotent poor income increasing number Ipswich Item justices justices of peace Ket's Rebellion labour land least legislation less living London merchants monastic monks Norfolk normal Norwich authorities Norwich scheme nuns occasion ordered overseers Oxfordshire parish particularly payd peace pension period person poor law poor rate poor relief population poverty and vagrancy problem of poverty Professor Jordan R. H. Tawney rent rise rogues rural sixteenth century social rehabilitation spyn St Peter Mancroft statute Suffolk sums ther Thomas Harman towns trade Tudor England tyme unemployed urban vagabonds vagrants wage-earner wages whipped wyfe yere