# 43 Elizabeth c.2 imposes parish poor relief as duty and compulsion

Date: 1601

## The fact

The same Poor Relief Act is a relief-duty path. Twin of compulsion. High confidence on the statute as later published, not on unique poverty series. The dated public instrument is stored under 1601-12-02. Elizabeth I did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

It is one event.

## Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

[Elizabeth I of England](/people/elizabeth-i-of-england) Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Elizabeth I of England’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional reign is 1558–1603. Dated instruments are later statute calendars, National Archives catalogues, NPG portraits, RMG Armada pages, and encyclopedia lives.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

legislation.gov.uk — later official statute heritage and UK Parliament — later pages on Elizabethan statutes and monopolies independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: legislation.gov.uk — later official statute heritage (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/; The National Archives / legislation.gov.uk).

## Significance

The same Poor Relief Act is a relief-duty path. Twin of compulsion. High confidence on the statute as later published, not on unique poverty series.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Elizabeth I of England.

They are not a public rating.

Driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from 43 Elizabeth c.2 imposes parish poor relief as duty and compulsion at 1601-12-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/. Independent page: https://www.parliament.uk/.

## People

- Elizabeth I of England: https://factrail.ai/people/elizabeth-i-of-england

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.parliament.uk/
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/e1-poor-relief-1601