Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Introduction to the Series; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Background; 1 The Causes of Poverty; Retainers and ex-servicemen; The rising population; The cloth industry; Enclosures; Inflation; Plague; Harvest failures; The dissolution of the monasteries; 2 The Extent of the Problem; The poor; Forces of law; Disorders; The problem; Part Two: Descriptive Analysis; 3 Early Tudor Legislation; 4 The Elizabethan Poor Laws; Early legislation; The harvests and their significance; The Acts of 1598 and 1601
5 Urban Experiments in the Suppression of Vagrancy and the Relief of the PoorLondon and the provincial towns; The Norwich Scheme; 6 The Contribution of the Individual; Merchant philanthropy; Other classes; Part Three: Assessment; Part Four: Documents; Causes of poverty; The extent of poverty; Types of vagrant; The Norwich census; Legislation; Local schemes of poor relief; Bibliography; Index
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First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
