8 pages of class notes from grade 9/ A* student for Elizabethan Society in the Early Elizabethan England Topic in GCSE Edexcel History. Contains general life, education, leisure and poverty.
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More comfortable life?
- An important source for telling us about life in Elizabethan England is the
1577 book “The Description of England” written by clergyman William
Harrison, who toured England to find out about people's everyday lives.
- People in England were divided into four classes within Elizabethan society:
● Gentleman: nobles, lords, gentry
● Citizens & burgesses in towns: merchants, master craftsmen, lawyers
● Yeomen: farmers who owned their own land
● The fourth sort: farm labourers, servants, shopkeepers and
craftspeople, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, bricklayers.
- There were opportunities for the better off to increase their wealth and social
status. This was through education buying land, moving into trade and
commerce, following a career at court or in local government, or even
marrying into the class above.
- It was not possible or was incredibly difficult to increase your social status or
wealth if you were in the forth sort. The only way was finding a patron,
someone who would sponsor you and saw potential. They would pay for the
people to go to grammar school or university.
- In the 1570’s, people's lives were more comfortable in a variety of ways. More
houses were built out of stone and brick. They had fireplaces, chimneys and
glass windows.
- Many houses had several floors, and oak panels on the walls to keep them
warm. Tapestries and painted cloth were also hung on walls.
- Everyone had more furniture, and they had cups, plates and spoons made of
silver and pewter, instead of wood. They slept on feather mattresses and
place pillows instead of straw mattresses and logs.
Education
Parish/ petty schools:
These were local schools where young children (ages 4-7) learnt to read and write in
preparation for grammar school. It was mostly boys but a small number of girls from
upper classes.
Dame schools:
These were petty schools but they were run by a well- educated housewife or in the
local women’s house.
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