Charity doesn't Begin at Home: Ecclesiastical Poor Relief beyond the Parish, 1560–1650

McCallum, John

doi:10.3366/jshs.2012.0047

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“…53 Consequently, poor Scots were on the whole more likely to migrate to urban centres in their own country than to England. 54 Nevertheless, poor, vagrant Scots were present in England where they joined native vagrants in arousing hostility among communities concerned by the threat to scarce resources and the inherent marginality of the vagrant way of life which represented a challenge to the organisational paradigms of early-modern society.…”

Section: Vagrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

Brown¹,

Kennedy²,

Talbott³

2019

The Scottish Historical Review

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While very prominent in the contemporary world, anxiety about the potentially negative impact that immigrants might have on their host communities has deep historical roots. In a British context, such fears were particularly heightened following the regal union of 1603 when large numbers of Scots began settling in England. This article offers a fresh perspective on these issues by exploring the experiences and reception of poor, deviant or otherwise ‘undesirable’ Scottish migrants to England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing in particular on chapmen, vagrants and criminals, it suggests that, while in general Scots were able to integrate relatively easily into English society, there existed an unwelcome subset surviving by dubious means. Though not usually attracting unduly severe treatment on account of their nationality, these unwelcome migrants had a disproportionate effect on English perceptions of and attitudes towards the broader cohort of Scottish migrants in their midst.

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Section: Vagrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

Brown¹,

Kennedy²,

Talbott³

2019

The Scottish Historical Review

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“…Gurney places the More–Tyndale debate within the context of contemporary developments in poor relief. McCallum considers ecclesiastical poor relief and its reach outside of the parish bounds. McCallum places his research within the context of a renewed interest in the role of religion in the provision of poor relief.…”

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“…McCallum considers ecclesiastical poor relief and its reach outside of the parish bounds. McCallum places his research within the context of a renewed interest in the role of religion in the provision of poor relief. McIntosh considers the problem of negligence and greed in English charities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Paul

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The Economic History Review

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“Students Who Have the Irish Tongue”: The Gaidhealtachd, Education, and State Formation in Covenanted Scotland, 1638–1651

Cipriano¹

2021

J. Br. Stud.

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This article examines the Scottish Covenanters’ initiatives to revamp educational provision in the Gaidhealtachd, the Gaelic-speaking portions of Scotland, from the beginning of the Scottish Revolution in 1638 to the Cromwellian conquest of Scotland in 1651. Scholars have explored in detail the range of educational schemes pursued by central governments in the seventeenth century to “civilize” the Gaidhealtachd, but few have engaged in an analysis of Covenanting schemes and how they differed from previous endeavors. While the Statutes of Iona are probably the best-known initiative to civilize the Gaidhealtachd and extirpate the Gaelic language, Covenanter schemes both adapted such policies and further innovated in order to serve the needs of a nascent confessional state. In particular, Covenanting schemes represented a unique and pragmatic way to address the Gaidhealtachd's educational deficiencies because they sought practical accommodation of the Gaelic language and preferred the matriculation of Gaelophone scholars into the universities. These measures not only represented a new strategy for integrating the Gaelic periphery into the Scottish state but were also notable for the ways in which they incorporated Gaelophone students into Scotland's higher education orbit—a stark departure from the educational situation in Ireland. By drawing on underutilized manuscript and printed sources, this article examines how the Covenanters refurbished education in the Gaidhealtachd and posits that the Covenanter schemes represented a key facet of the broader process of state formation in 1640s Scotland.

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Charity doesn't Begin at Home: Ecclesiastical Poor Relief beyond the Parish, 1560–1650

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

‘Scots and Scabs from North-by-Tweed’: Undesirable Scottish Migrants in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

Review of periodical literature published in 2012

“Students Who Have the Irish Tongue”: The Gaidhealtachd, Education, and State Formation in Covenanted Scotland, 1638–1651

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