Cue for Treason

What relief could an honest man in Elizabethan England obtain, if he could not find work? Who supplied this relief? If a man fell into straightened circumstances in another parish than his own, what provision was made for him? Why, then, did Peter Brownri

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There wasn't much relief. There were small pockets of charity. Most people were sent back to their county and perhaps neighbours might help them. Sometimes there was farm work but not much.