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The Statute of Artificers 1563 or the Artificers and Apprentices Act 1563 (5 Eliz. 1.c. 4), also known as the Statute of Labourers 1562, [1] was an act of the Parliament of England, under Queen Elizabeth I, which sought to fix prices, impose maximum wages, restrict workers' freedom of movement and regulate training.
The Poor Relief Act 1601 [1] (43 Eliz. 1.c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601, popularly known as the Elizabethan Poor Law, the "43rd Elizabeth", [a] or the "Old Poor Law", [b] was passed in 1601 and created a poor law system for England and Wales.
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-211582-9) s.v. "Young Elizabethan". This British magazine or academic journal–related article is a stub .
The English grammar schools, like those on the continent, placed special emphasis on the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.Though rhetorical instruction was intended as preparation for careers in civil service such as law, the rhetorical canons of memory and delivery (pronuntiatio), gesture and voice, as well as exercises from the progymnasmata, such as the prosopopoeia, taught theatrical ...
Marginalia can add to or detract from the value of an association copy of a book, depending on the author of the marginalia and on the book. Catherine C. Marshall, doing research on the future of user interface design, has studied the phenomenon of user annotation of texts.
The Speenhamland system was a form of outdoor relief intended to mitigate rural poverty at the end of the 18th century and during the early 19th century. The system was named after a 1795 meeting at the Pelican Inn in Speenhamland, Berkshire , where a number of local magistrates devised the system as a means to alleviate the distress caused by ...
(The companies of adult actors were, in Elizabethan legal terms, retainers in noble households, and thus not subject to the legal statutes governing apprentices.) [citation needed] [a] They performed female roles (and, of course, roles of male children if required) alongside adult male actors playing men or older female parts.
An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants of Husbandry, and Apprentices. (Repealed by Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 ( 38 & 39 Vict. c. 86)) Maintenance of the Navy Act 1562 [ 1 ] (repealed)