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30th September 2021 The Growth of Poverty and the Government

Response in the Localities

Waltham abbey – last monastery to be shut in 1540.

1495 – Henry VII, vagrancy is not that significant, yet there are idle poor and beggars who need to be
driven to work. Vagrants and beggars should be whipped and returned to their original parish

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