What were the major problems of the poor in the period 1471 – 1626 and how were they alleviated? There was a massive increase in poverty and the problems faced by the poor in the period 1471 – 1626, this was due to a number of interdependable social, economic, and monarchical changes throughout the period. There was a high rise in birth rate, causing the population to double between the reigns of Henry VII and Elizabeth I. Along with this, unemployment …showed first 75 words of 1939 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1939 total…only some were successful. One of the most successful acts was that passed in 1601, which confides previous Tudor legislation and did the most to help the poor by making each Parish responsible for its poor, poverty could be confined and thus controlled in separate small parishes, rather than on a national scale. This Act “remained in force until 1834” , proving that it did help to answer some major problems of the poor during the Tudor period.