Sanctioned and illicit support networks at the margins of a Scottish town in the early seventeenth century
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Abstract
This article examines women’s participation in support networks, both sanctioned and illicit, in the Scottish town of Canongate in the early seventeenth century. Canongate’s official system of poor relief, controlled by the local church court, was a central pillar of support for the town’s poor. It was responsive and well organized, but it hinged on both the need of the poor relief recipients and their maintenance of a good reputation in the town. Women without a passable public reputation were still able to find support, however, as the Canongate church disciplinary court records attest. These records reveal extensive informal and illicit support networks of townspeople harbouring ‘scandalous persons’, networks that both supplemented and contested the sanctioned support system. This article explores the relationship between these systems of poor relief and harbouring and demonstrates that women at the economic and moral margins of the town participated in a dense and vibrant network of support.
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