Impotent poor[1] was a classificiation of poverty used in Britain during the 1600s. Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life including food clothing shelter and safe Drinking water, and Early Modern Britain is the History of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th 17th and 18th centuries It referred to those poor who were unable to support themselves either through age or sickness - not because they did not want to work. This group was considered deserving of poor relief. Under the terms of the Elizabethan Poor Law 1601 poor relief was help given to the poor
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