Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
Those physically unable to work, such as the elderly or disabled; they were seen as worthy of help.
Impotent poor appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Elizabethan Society and Exploration and The Problem of the Poor.
Early Elizabethan England
Elizabethan Society and Exploration • The Problem of the Poor
Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern England • Nature and Changing Definitions of Criminal Activity
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