Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Daily lives.
The 'deserving' poor who were physically unable to work, such as the elderly, orphans, and the chronically ill.
Impotent poor appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Elizabethans (1580–1603), especially Daily lives and Contrasting lives.
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