Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
People physically unable to work (elderly/sick) who were viewed by society as worthy of sympathy and financial aid.
Deserving poor appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Elizabethan Society and Exploration and The Problem of the Poor.
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