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London
London acted as a training ground for all national legislation relating to that of improving the lives of the poor such as being the first to introduce punishments and acts of exile
and first to introduce poor relief
1553 Bishop of London supports the Lord Mayor to further develop poor relief
e.g. St Thomas hospital re-established under city management, added 200 beds
1552 Edward VI gifted the royal palace of bridewell it was coverted to a “house of correction”
provided provisions to poor children sick and impotent idle and vagabond
given small tasks
For these services provisions of food and some finished wares were granted. Recognised different types of vagrants and provided seperate methods for their management.
Wealthy individuals such as Lady Dacre gave £300 to build a hospital in westminister. “Emmanuael Hospital”
Alms house built in Tottenham from wealthy spanish donor
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A 'beggars' badge'. These were licenses that were provided to only those who could not work so that they could beg legally.
After the dissolution of the monasteries, St Bartholomew’s hospital was established, after being gifted by Henry VIII.
There was also st Thomas’ and Christs’ the first two being for the impotent poor, and the latter for children.
compulsory tax was implemented for all elderley to have residence in a hospital, and the young to go to training school.
London licensed beggars in 1517 and put them on a more organised basis. People had ti psy towards the “sustenation maintenance and finding poor personage for the space of one whole year”-City Order 1547
Norwich
By 1570 there were 2,000 beggars roaming the city, they were described as the 'centers of physical and moral pollution' and the numbers were increasing.
As a result of this the 1571 Orders of the Poor were introduced which increased the restrictions placed upon the poor.
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It was during the 1570s that Norwich underwent a concentrated and extra-ordinary change in its provision for the poor
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Norwich sanctioned compulsory assessments in 1549 . A statute was approved in 1563 to encourage people to contribute more alms ; apparently this problem was increasing in intensity and the town had to deal more harshly
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In 1549, Norwich was the first town to enforce compulsory contributions to the poor.
•A 1570 census revealed 2300 of the city were poor, and the majority begged from door to door.
•Norwich separated its poor into two categories: 'idle poor' and 'unfortunate poor'. The idle poor were given work, while the unfortunate poor were given food and other forms of support.
•Authorities distinguished between the idle and the impotent poor.
They were the first to tax people who were capable of contributing through the 1563 statute.
•Poor children were put in charge of ‘select women’ and some were sent to St Giles hospital to be educated.
Vagabonds were placed in the Bridewell, which was an institution intended for the relief of the poor, it meant that all capable of work had work, and any loiterers or idlers were punished. The Bridewell assessed all poor in the city and ensured that all had evenly distributed alms. This was essential to the city’s poor
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