Across
- 1. These took place in England from 1586-8 and 1596-9
- 5. Created in 1586, created consistency across country in the ways the poor were dealt with
- 6. Total wage for regular members of the almshouse
- 10. Author of 'Descriptions of England'
- 11. Number of times a year the men of the almshouse were required to attend on Lord Burghley
- 12. Almshouses provided an opportunity to remove the association of charitable giving from this Christian denomination
- 16. Close to Burghley's almshouses - where he was educated as a boy
- 20. Elizabethans resented helping the poor because they didn't want to pay more of these
- 22. Year Burghley's almshouse was built
- 23. If a man in Burghley's almshouse missed prayer, they would have this much deducted from their wages
- 24. Number of vagabonds Harrison predicts are in England
- 26. Number of men admitted to the almshouse
- 27. Otherwise known as 'true poor' or 'impotent poor'
- 29. County you can find Burghley's almshouse
- 30. Radius within Stamford the men of Burghley's alsmhouse had to be from
- 32. Town in Lincolnshire the almshouse was built
- 33. River _______, next to Burghley's almshouse
- 34. Type of beggar who moves from town to town causing trouble
- 36. Burghley gave the warden of his almshouse, a yearly allowance of cloth for these
- 37. Lord Burghley's son
- 38. The men of the almshouse had to be over this age
- 39. Thought to have been caused by vagabonds (took place 1569)
Down
- 2. Total wage for the warden
- 3. The 1572 Act of Parliament allowed for the severe punishment of this group of undeserving poor
- 4. When people aren't in work they are...
- 7. The role Lord Burghley held from 1572
- 8. Puritan preacher Robert Dudley appointed to lead his almshouse
- 9. What Burghley named his almshouse
- 12. Gambling and this activity was banned in the almshouse
- 13. Historic site Burghley's almshouse was built on
- 14. Branch of Protestants that used almshouses to secure a radical preaching base
- 15. The gowns worn by the men of the almshouse reflected the gowns worn by Burghley's ___________
- 17. Burghley's son was more interested in sorting this, than using the almshouse left to him to gain the Queen's patronage
- 18. Number of men that Burghley picked for the almshouse
- 19. Crisis in England that peaks in the 1590s
- 21. Burghley's almshouse was NOT Puritan, instead it chose to uphold this
- 25. Otherwise known as 'idle poor' or 'able-bodied poor'
- 28. Where able-bodied poor were sent to work
- 31. When prices raise at an exorbitant rate
- 35. Lord Burghley's name
