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Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547-1600 (Paperback)
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Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547-1600 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R595
Discovery Miles 5 950
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At the cutting edge of new social and demographic history, this
book provides a detailed picture of the most comprehensive system
of poor relief operated by any Elizabethan town. Well before the
Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, Hadleigh, Suffolk-a thriving woolen
cloth center with a population of roughly 3,000-offered a complex
array of assistance to many of its residents who could not provide
for themselves: orphaned children, married couples with more
offspring than they could support or supervise, widows, people with
physical or mental disabilities, some of the unemployed, and the
elderly. Hadleigh's leaders also attempted to curb idleness and
vagrancy and to prevent poor people who might later need relief
from settling in the town. Based upon uniquely full records, this
study traces 600 people who received help and explores the social,
religious, and economic considerations that made more prosperous
people willing to run and pay for this system. Relevant to
contemporary debates over assistance to the poor, the book provides
a compelling picture of a network of care and control that resulted
in the integration of public and private forms of aid.
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