HIST 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Assizes, Quarter Session, Poor Relief
7 Apr 2016
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Land and society in the 16th and 17th centuries. Aristocracy: the situaion into which one was born was also very important in the tudor and stuart age. English society had its 1% and its 99%, with the 1% governing and controlling much of the wealth, land and power, while the 99% did much of the laboring. Gentry: designated as gentlemen, were the upper and lower gentry. Knights of the shire, oten the younger sons or cadet branches of the nobility. These families possessed coats of arms, and they claimed genility, usually a long-deined posiion of wealth and status in one"s county. With increasing urbanizaion, the middling sorts take on an increasingly urban quality. They become tradesmen, shopkeepers, master manufacturers, and in some cases, doctors, teachers, lawyers, some army and navy oicers. They had litle poliical clout, and for this reason they do not it well into the.
