Question

Which is true of english society by the early 1600s?

a. the right to trial by jury had yet to be established.

b. titled nobles dominated the house of commons.

c. there was a growing population of beggars and vagabonds.

d. there were no significant class distinctions.

e. there were no limits on the power of the monarch?

Answer 1

c. there was a growing population of beggars and vagabonds.

Step-by-step explanation:

By the early 1600s, there was a growing population of beggars and vagabonds in England. Poverty at this time was rampant, sometimes reaching a third of the population. Unemployment was a serious problem, and the closing down of monasteries in the 1530s had led to a great number of newly impoverished people. Vagabonds at this time were people who travelled from their village to another one looking for work, which was illegal. From the 1550s on, a vagabond was also a person who was poor but refused to go to a workhouse.