Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to
Elizabethan England.
The details from this excerpt best support the inference
that
The following examples show how famine hits the
Cumberland parish of Greystoke. Here "a poor fellow
destitute of succor" is found in the highway and is carried
to the constable's house, where he dies. A miller's
daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food. A
beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in
agony in the road and dies soon afterward "in great
misery." Another "poor, hunger-starved beggar boy" is
found in the street and carried into a house, where he
dies. A widow is discovered dead in a barn. A four-year-
old local boy dies "for want of food and means," as does
his mother. A total of sixty-two people die in Greystoke in
just one year-during which time the parish sees no
marriages and only three children conceived. You hear
the story of a man leaving his home and walking
hundreds of miles in search of work or food and
O death from starvation was common in Elizabethan
England
O very few people died of starvation in Elizabethan
England.
O communities were shocked by the deaths from
starvation.
communities tried to prevent the deaths from
starvation.