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Q1: Who benefited most during Elizabethan times, the wealthy or the poor?

[Answer]

Land changed hands under Henry VIII and those with land grew richer under Elizabeth.

In our village the yeomen and merchants used this wealth to start to rebuild their houses. This time is called the Great Rebuilding.

Some extended and modified their houses, others rebuilt them entirely, using good materials.

But the poor missed out...