This detailed enumeration of people below the poverty line in Norwich, then the second or third city in the land, is a product of the City’s sophisticated approach to poor relief in the Elizabethan period.  Their ages, occupations, diseases and family relationships are all recorded.

 

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Series: Norfolk Record Society, Vol. XL

Edited By: J. F. Pound

Year of Publication: 1971

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