Main Points of The 1601 Act
- The impotent poor (people who can't work) were to be cared for in almshouse or a poorhouse. The law offered relief to people who were unable to work: mainly those who were "lame, impotent, old, blind"
- The able-bodied poor were to be set to work in a House of Industry. Materials were to be provided for the poor to be set to work
- The idle poor and vagrants were to be sent to a House of Correction or even prison.
- Pauper children would become apprentices.
Text of the Act Reginae Elizabethae Anno 43 Chapter 2
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