1. Rich and Poor in Tudor times

2. Rich
Poor
 Made of bricks, wooden
frames
 Had chimneys
,fireplaces ,glass
windows
 Huge houses
 Lots of rooms
 Lots of servants
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Food
 Venison (deer)
 Wild boar
 Swans
 Vegetable
 Bean soup
 Sometimes rabbits
Clothes
 Made of:
 Silk and velvet
 Had shabby clothes
 So less clothes
Leisure
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Houses
Enjoyed: Hunting
Playing sports
Archery
Watching Plays
Cottages
Made of daub
No servants
Have 1 or 2 rooms
No chimneys , fireplaces,
or glass windows
 Enjoyed:
 Cock fighting
 Bear-baiting

3. Poor Tudors
 There were many kinds of poor people
 People on the breadline
 The "deserving poor",
e.g. the very young, the very
old, and disabled people
 Sturdy rogues: vagabonds
and people who moved about
looking for work

4. Poor Tudors
 Poor Tudors life was harsh
 Poor people had to work long hours but still
couldn’t afford good houses to live or food to eat
 Few of them could read and write
 Peasants would often work in farmlands
 The church would usually own the farmlands that
the peasants worked on
 Sometimes poor Tudors would work in the
kitchens in palaces but some monarchs thought
they were really dirty.

5. Poor Tudor
children
 poor children would have to work to earn money or
help around the
house
 Poor children didn’t go to school, because they had to
work
 When they worked to help around the house, they
would do jobs such as spinning wool and collecting
eggs
 To earn money, they would do jobs such as baking
bread or making shoes

6. Houses
 Poor people houses were like cottages
 They were made of daub (mud and animal dung)
 They had no servants
 They had one or two rooms
 There were no chimneys or fireplaces
 There windows was a hole in the wall
 They threw their rubbish in a bush
 All they had for a toilet was a hole in the ground

7. Clothes
 There clothes were shabby
 Some people made their own clothes out of poor
materials such as wool
 Lower class people were only allowed to wear
wool, linen and sheepskin
 Men wore a hose of wool and tunic
 Women wore a dress of wool, apron, cloth
bonnet and linen scarf
 They had so less clothes

8. Clothes
 Working Women
Working women tended to wear shorter dresses than the
wealthy. They also rolled up their sleeves when working.
Their clothes were made out of wool.
 Working Men
Working men wore loose fitting tunics and shirts made of
woolen cloth. They also wore shirts that were made of
wool rather than silk or linen. They wore boots on their feet

9. Clothes
 Poor Tudor girls wore dark skirts, white blouses and bright
coloured waist coats
 Poor Tudor boys wore trousers pulled in at the shin,
brightly coloured socks, a shirt and a waist coat
 Shoes were made of leather. High shoes were
fashionable for both men and women. The toes were
squared off and there was braid decoration down the front

10. Food
 Poor people in Tudor times didn’t eat much food
 They ate Vegetables and bean soup
 Sometimes they catch rabbit or poach fish
 If they went to market they would buy beef
Vegetable and
bean soup

11. Food
 Poor people ate bread made out of rye or ground acorns
 Sometimes they ate butter and egg
 The poor people drank ale, cider or buttermilk.

12. Leisure
 Poor people enjoyed cock-fighting and bear baiting
 Poor children played with wooden hoops and balls made out
of pigs bladders

13. Belongings
 2 straw mattresses
 1 table
 1 chair
 2 stools
 6 trenchers
 1 pig
 1 woolen cloak

14. Rich Tudors
 Rich people were Nobles, Bishops, Lords and Ladies
 Merchants, Yeoman and craftsmen were quite rich too
 They had good houses
 They could read and write
 They ate lots of meat
 They wore clothes made of silk and velvet

15. Houses
 Huge houses
 Rich people houses were made from bricks or wattle daub
 Houses had chimneys , fireplaces and glass windows
 There are lots of servants
 They have lots of rooms
 They had tapestries hung on the wall to keep out draughts

16. Clothes
 Tudor England is famous for
its beautiful and ornate
clothing, particularly during
the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
 They wore clothes made of
silk and velvet
 The clothes of the wealthy
were decorated with
jewels and embroidered
with gold thread
 Middle class people like
traders and craftsmen
wore plainer versions of
these outfits

17. Women Clothes
 Head dress
 Corset - stiffened with wood
 Gown - split at the front to reveal the
kirtle. Sleeves were either sewn in or
tied on
 Kirtle - the main underskirt, coloured
at the front

18. Men Clothes
 Hat
 Doublet – tight-fitting
jacket that was stuffed and
then quilted
 Coat
 Breeches – tied at the
knee with laces

19. Clothes

20. Children Clothes
 Rich Tudor girls wore dresses that puffed out at the top of the skirt
 Boys wore girls clothes until they were nine. Then they could
wear trousers that pulled in at the shin, a shirt and maybe a waist
coat with gold embroidery
 Children usually wore mini versions of their parents clothes

21. Tudor Jewellery
 Both men and women wore
jewellery
 They wore rings, chains, earrings
and decorated hats and belts in
semi precious stones

22. Food
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The main part of each meal was meat. They ate:
Beef
Lamb
Pork
Poultry
Rabbit
Deer
Goat
Wildfowl
 Rich people even ate swans!
 Everyone, by law, ate fish, not meat, on Fridays and during Lent.

23. Food
 Until the 1580’s, vegetables and fruit were less
popular. By the end of the century there were
many more vegetable and fruit gardens, and many
new varieties were available, but only for the rich
 From Europe it came raspberries and gooseberries
 From America came pepper, pumpkins and
potatoes

24. Food
 The rich people at bread made from flour
 The rich drank wine from France and Spain

25. Leisure
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The rich people enjoyed
Hunting
Playing Sports
Archery
Watching plays

26. Belongings
 3 beds
 4 feather
mattresses
 6 oak chests
 8 silver plates
 2 tapestries
 25 cows
 20 barrels of wine

27. Glossary
Craftsmen: people like tailors and goldsmiths
Yeomen: farm owners
Breadline:1:a queue of people waiting for free food given out
by a government agency or a charity organization
Merchants: A person who buys and sells commodities for profit
, dealers
Deserving Poor: the very young, the very old, and disabled
people
Vagabonds: Vagabonds are homeless people who traveled
road begging or stealing
Monarch: a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor

28. The end
Presented by: Hams Yasser
Class 6A