Life in Tudor Times

-Gentlemen

-Citizens

-Yeomen

-Labourers

-Paupers

-Very, very rich

-Lived in huge country houses with lots of rooms to hold dinner parties, dances and music concerts

-Owned lots of land

-Some gentlemen help king/queen to run the country

-There were some women who had the same social status as gentlemen known as "ladies"

-5% of population

-Also known as merchants

-Lived in town

-Rich, made money by buying and selling goods

-Lived in fine town houses and had servants

-5% of population

-Farmers

-Lived in middle-sized farmhouse

-Made good living from farming crops (wheat or barley) or cattle, pig or sheeps

-Employed people to work on farms and some had servants

-30% of population

-Peasants of Middle Ages

-work in a farm

-lived in town

-Some works as carpenters, tailors, shoemakers or bricklayers.

-60% of the population

-people who had no jobs and relied on charity

-lower class than poorest labourer

-Some wore special badges to show this

-Others went to local churches to collect "relief"-a few pennies to buy clothes or bread

Introduced in 1601 by Queen Elizabeth and her government

Divides paupers into four categories

1. Pauper children - given work and taught a trade

2. Sick paupers - looked after in special homes

3. Fit paupers - given work (they received food and drink as payment)

4. Lazy, idle paupers - whipped, then sent to a House of Correction (a place where they were forced to work)

Poor people had to stay in their own town or village and not wander about.

Each town/village is appointed a “Overseers of the Poor”

They collect money from people(a local tax, known as poor rate) and give to those in need.

The law remains largely unchanged for 200 years

A Tudor child’s education mainly depended on how wealthy their family was

Hence, poor children often start work when they were five or six years old as they could not afford school.

Wealthy children oftern went to grammar school, so called because they were taught Latin and Greek grammer

Latin was the language used by businessman and merchants throughout Europe