Download or read book Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England written by Paul Slack and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Slack's book demonstrates the extent to which the poor in England has been formally provided for by the end of the period: the scale of the English welfare apparatus that had been firmly established by 1700 had no parallel in the rest of Europe. This book explains how this unique achievement came about.