Transcript Life as a poor Tudor - Dulwich Hamlet Junior

Life as a poor Tudor
By Obi and Kit
Contents
• How would you earn a living?
• How much would children have to work?
• What kind of house would you live in?
• What kind of clothes would you wear?
• How would you be treated?
• What kind of food would you eat?
• Glossary
• Index
How would you earn a living?
Often the jobs for the poor would
be harder than the jobs for the
rich.
Peasants would often work in
farmlands.
The church would usually own the
farmlands that the peasants
worked on.
Sometimes poor Tudors would
work in the kitchens in palaces
but some monarchs thought they
were really dirty.
How much would children have to
work?
Often poor children would have to work
to earn money or help around the
house. Poor children didn’t go to
school, because they had to work.
When they worked around the house,
they would do jobs such as spinning
wool and collecting eggs. To earn
money, they would do jobs such as
baking bread or making shoes.
What kind of house would you live
in?
In Tudor times, the houses for
the poor were very different to
the houses for the rich. Their
houses were made of wattle,
daub and thatch, instead of the
plaster and timber the rich
houses were made of. All they
had for windows was a hole in
the wall, instead of glass and
shutters. All of their belongings
were kept in one box and they
threw their rubbish in a bush. All
they had for a toilet was a hole in
the ground.
What kind of clothes would you
wear?
Poor people in the Tudor times
didn’t have as many belongings
as the rich. One of these types
of belongings were clothes.
They had to wear one set of
clothes for a week. Some
people actually made their own
clothes out of poor materials
such as wool. lower class
people were only allowed to
wear wool, linen and sheepskin.
Men wore a hose of wool and
tunic, while women wore a
dress of wool, apron, cloth
bonnet and linen scarf.
How would you be treated?
Because the poor were not as well-off as
the rich, they were treated differently;
either harshly or sympathetically. If a poor
person was able to work but wouldn’t
work was caught begging, they were
treated harshly. Merchants would often
treat the poor who couldn’t work
sympathetically. Sometimes rich people
would provide tramps with houses.
What kind of food would you eat?
The poor would not eat as much food as the
rich in Tudor times. They had a much smaller
range of food than the rich, and didn’t eat
expensive food such as sugar. They would often
eat their chickens and catch rabbits to eat.
Sometimes they would even poach fish. If they
went to market, they would buy beef. Water was
not safe to drink in those days, so they drank a
drink called cider, which they made from apples.
Glossary
Merchant: a rich trader.
Monarch: king or queen.
Peasant: a poor person.
Poach: hunt animals that are illegal to hunt.
Spinning wool: untangling wool using a spindle or a wheel.
Sympathetically: Behaving in nice way towards something/
someone you feel sorry for.
Timber: a type of wood.
Wattle and daub: a mud-like material used to make poor
Tudors’ houses.
Well-off: wealthy.
Index
Merchants: slide 7.
Monarchs: slide 3.
Rich people: slides ,5,6,7,8.
Rubbish: slide 5.
Sugar: slide 8.
The church: slide 4.
Toilet: slide 5.