English Poor Laws
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english-poor-laws-182-5408614
title:
English Poor Laws
text:
The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief in England and Wales that developed out of the codification of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws in 1587–1598. The system continued until the modern welfare state emerged in the late 1940s. English Poor Law legislation can be traced back as far as 1536, when legislation was passed to deal with the impotent poor, although there were much earlier Plantagenet laws dealing with the problems caused by vagrants and beggars. The history of the Poor Law
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Laws regarding poverty in England, 16th–19th century
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Poor_Laws
date created:
2003-04-01T00:44:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T11:43:06Z
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