Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700Boydell Press, 2004 - 198 pages This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, it asks how the elderly poor managed to survive in a pre-industrial economy, and answers through focusing on the many factors that make up the experience of old age - status, health, wealth, and local culture - in two Suffolk villages. Botelho demonstrates that the poor law did not, nor did it intend to, provide complete support, and she documents the individual efforts of the poor as they made their own old age arrangements, drawing as heavily upon their own initiatives as upon charity and legislated relief. LYNN BOTELHO is Associate Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. |
Table des matières
The parishs relief of the poor | 18 |
The marginally poor | 74 |
The aged parish pensioner | 104 |
Conclusion | 153 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
accounts adult children aged pensioners aged poor almshouse annual assistance average Barker-Read Birthpangs budget Bury St Edmunds Cambridge cash cent charity Christian Humanism church churchwardens clothing co-residence collected cost Cratfield and Poslingford Cratfield CWA death Early Modern England economic edited eighteenth-century elderly pensioners elderly poor Elizabethan employment Essex example Exclusion Crisis Farnhill gifts Henry Simonds Hindle History honour households income individuals inhabitants John L. A. Botelho labour Laslett Late Medieval Little Waldingfield living London manorial marginally poor miscellaneous relief Newman Brown Norwich Ottaway parish pension passim pauper payments Pelling pension Peter Laslett poor relief poor's population Poslingford CD Poslingford OSA R. M. Smith ratepayers received recorded religious rent role rural seventeenth century sickness sixteenth century Slack Social SROB SROI stipend Suffolk survival Tallant Terling Thane Thomas Thomas Plume town house Tudor typically vestry village village's Warwickshire weekly pension Widow women Worlich Wrightson