Vagrancy

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