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Tudor Economy and Society - Coggle Diagram
Tudor Economy and Society
Family life in the sixteenth century
life expectancy: 35 years
The average family had four or five members
Bubonic plaghue and pneumonic plague were the main killers in Tudor England.
Infant mortality rate was high: 134 of every 1000 babies born died in infancy.
There were poor harvests - endangered life -> were often combined with sweating sickness or influenza
Poor were affected the most by disease
A couple usually married around 26 years of age when they were able to set up a home
The growth of the urban population
Metropolitan London: 60,000 --> 200,000
Cambridge: 2600 --> 6500
Canterbury: 3,000 --> 5000
Plymouth: 0 --> 7000-8000
Price increases/Inflation
1491-1590: Agricultural commodities increased the most in price -> 70 - 165
Agricultural wage-rates increased the least in price. 17 -> 80
During the years 1491 -1590 Timber --> 25 - 145
Vagabond
People would get publicly 'flogged' for begging
Cast out from towns - removed permanently
Poor people were considered 'undesirable' and 'lazy'
Outcasts of Tudor society
Elizabethan yeoman's house
Only the rich could afford such a house
Farmers were fairly wealthy at that time
Enclosure
Enclosure refers to a nation wide movement which benefited greedy landowners
Enclosure itself often proved advantageous if, for example, wasteland was enclosed and farmed with general consent
What contemporaries including the government, objected to was the enforced enclosure of common land without local agreement - the merging of several farms and the eviction of tenants