{"id":1823,"date":"2007-01-07T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2007-01-07T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T15:23:44","slug":"henry-wasnt-just-hard-on-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"Henry wasn&#8217;t just hard on wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but also on <a href = \"http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/conservation\/story\/0,,1984640,00.html\">wildlife<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Preservation of Grain Act, passed in 1532 by Henry VIII and strengthened by Elizabeth I in 1566, made it compulsory for every man, woman and child to kill as many creatures as possible that appeared on an official list of &#8216;vermin&#8217;. &#8216;Paradoxically, many of these creatures are today highly valued and given the full protection of the law,&#8217; said Lovegrove.<br \/>\nThe act was drawn up to counter food shortages and spread of disease caused by a series of bad harvests and a sharp rise in population. Henry VIII put a bounty on each creature, ranging from a penny for the head of a kite or a raven to 12 pence for a badger or a fox. These were considerable sums when the average agricultural wage was around four pence a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but also on wildlife: The Preservation of Grain Act, passed in 1532 by Henry VIII and strengthened by Elizabeth I in 1566, made it compulsory for every man, woman and child to kill as many creatures as possible that appeared on an official list of &#8216;vermin&#8217;. &#8216;Paradoxically, many of these creatures are today highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-modern-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}