Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
A local tax levied on property owners to fund relief and support for the poor in their parish.
Poor rate 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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