OCR GCSE History B · J411
Paper 1
Revise: Changing nature of crimeVagrancy, also called vagabondage, involved people travelling without settled employment or a permanent home. Many travelled to find work and relied on begging or charity when they could not obtain it. Being a vagrant did not mean that someone had committed theft or violence, but their way of life could itself bring them into conflict with the law.
- Revise: Changes in punishment
Wandering without settled employment or a permanent home, treated as an offence in early modern England.
- Revise: Diversity of European migrants
A historical label for moving from place to place without settled employment or a permanent home. Tudor authorities often associated it with disorder.