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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十七世纪初苏格兰城镇边缘的受制裁和非法支持网络

摘要 本文考察了 17 世纪早期苏格兰小镇卡农盖特（Canongate）的妇女参与支持网络的情况，无论是受制裁的还是非法的。Canongate 的官方贫困救济制度由当地教会法庭控制，是支持该镇贫困人口的核心支柱。它反应灵敏，组织良好，但这取决于贫困救济受助者的需要以及他们在镇上维护良好声誉的需要。然而，正如 Canongate 教会纪律法庭记录所证明的那样，公众声誉不佳的女性仍然能够获得支持。这些记录揭示了广泛的非正式和非法的市民支持网络，他们窝藏了“可耻的人”，这些网络对受制裁的支持系统进行了补充和质疑。