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So Slendre Effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jean S. Lindsay
Jean S. Lindsay*
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Hunter College
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Extract

The problems of the overcrowded cities of today had their parallels in sixteenth-century London, and Elizabeth and the Council struggled with them during the greater part of the reign. Persistent attempts to check the growing population are recorded in the Acts of the Privy Council in memorandums for letters chiefly to the Lord Mayor, the Master of the Rolls, and the Justices of the Peace for Middlesex and Surrey. These entries give a wryly amusing account of conditions familiar in our own time—high rents, relief rolls, emergency legislation, evasions of the law, and possible favoritism in administering it. They suggest one other point of interest—that the Queen felt very strongly about the situation. Though it may be rash to see an immediate expression of her personal attitude in the communications of the Council, it is difficult to do otherwise.

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Research Article
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Renaissance News , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1955 , pp. 131 - 136
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1955

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References

1 Acts of the Privy Council of England, ed. John Roche Dasent (London, 1894).

2 Acts, Sept. 27, 1573; Feb. 21, 1573-74; April 27, 1578.

3 Acts, June 5, 1590.

4 Acts, XIX, 279.

5 Strype, John, M.A., Historical Collections of the Life and Acts of the Right Reverend Father in Cod, John Aylmer (Oxford, 1821), pp. 46–48 Google Scholar. Bishop Bancroft accused Aylmer of making six thousand pounds by cutting the woods at Fulham and leaving barely enough for fuel for the former's immediate needs. Ibid, p. 128.

6 Acts, Sept. 19, 1591.

7 Acta, July 30, 1598 (XXIX,6).

8 Acta, July 26, 1590.

9 Acts, Nov. 18 and Dec. 22, 1591.

10 Acts, June 27, 1591.

11 Acts, May 25, 1591 (xxi,232).

12 Acts, May 7, 1598.

13 Acts, Aug. 8, 1596.

14 Acts, May 7, 1598.

15 Acts, Aug. 8, 1596.