103 Though these bodies were nothing more than talking shops for the elite, they did galvanise the Han The netsuke and the pipe, with all that pertained to it, were for the commoners what the sword-hilt and guard were for the Above these shops resided the Grub Street The fair days of the early years were occasions when only the Hoyle's rebellions were revolts of the commons, taken over and defused by the It was spoken in the law courts, schools, and universities and, in due course, in at least some sections of the But the new rich, particularly the young, tend to be more progressive, or at least In Greater Poland the middle class and part of the local I suppose you have no objection this time to bestow a few bullets on these A few other minor Welsh nobles submitted in time to retain their lands, but became little more than The programme was designed primarily to create a landed On 5 May 1761 he married Sarah Clitherow, a member of a family of lesser Despite this, the Pearl Poet must have been educated and probably of a certain social standing, perhaps a member of a family of landed This was an effort to curb monopolization of power by landholding West Chester, to say no more than she deserved, was a county with a spirited Even America has its aristocracy, the landed In medieval tower houses and castles, the The code of gentility was far more pervasive and important than the influence of the group of self-styled These are the people who make up the country, in his eyes, not the scheming They did not cope well with increasing volumes of cargo, and they were perceived as monopolistic, and the preserve of the landed The school was set up as an episcopal foundation to spread the ideas of Anglicanism in Scotland, and to educate the sons of the An effect of this language clause was to lay the foundation for creating a thoroughly Anglicised ruling class of landed Contacts with England led to a conscious attempt to improve agriculture among the Then councils could have upper chambers with locally ennobled Blairite members, an appointed This profession scandalizes her mother, a member of the local With judgment like that, would you trust any of these In the reign of Henry VIII surnames became hereditary amongst the Welsh The highest percentage of subscribers were often landed proprietors, They also abused the liang because they were against the The source of ruling-class opposition was a distinct sector of the class, the landed In fact, as a baby, he was discovered in a Gladstone bag in the left luggage office at Victoria station and adopted by a kindly couple from the landed She's a keen rambler, not always a fan of the landed Horse racing was especially important for knitting together the The same seems clearly true of the conception of pedigree that came to loom so large in the social thinking of the Cromwell's father Robert was of modest means but still a part of the In 1871, the building was taken over by the East Devon and Teignmouth Club which had an exclusive membership taken from the Among thirty-eight or so individuals with whom he had direct dealings are included a member of the local In the past, the country manor house welcomed This place is, besides, a place of great resort with the whiskered More numerous than the gentry-become-townsmen were the burgesses who fraternised with the The peerage has traditionally been associated with high The uprising was suppressed but conflict remained between villagers, The place is, besides, a great resort with the whiskered Society was still ruled by the aristocracy and the Much as in England, Wales, and Scotland, the franchise was always limited to the property owning classes, which favoured the landed However it did have a royal governor appointed by the king, as well as a powerful landed Still, that must be better than causing an uproar by taking the landed But throughout the early modern period, men from the labouring poor, and women of all ranks below the Death duties probably appeal to old Labourites as a way to punish the landed Here is your aristocrat, one of your silk-stocking Even in Britain a distinction was made between the peers of the realm and the Now, when I say fox hunting I mean the pack hounds and mounted Provided that the barbarians remained amenable, any of these arrangements might suit the Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the The parsonage here's a tumble-down place, sir, not fit for There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or The hunt once the exclusive sport of the landed The heritage publishing specialist is also changing the way it chooses entries to reflect that the celebrities are now more likely to be role models than the landed Some fine gun dogs will show off genetic skills that both the old Irish In 1825 his promotion of the new Zoological Society courted the landed Over time the issue was complicated by the idea of the gentleman, a social construct which could incorporate all members of the peerage and It was also a class-bound, inegalitarian society, dominated by a numerous The Newton Rebellion was one of the last times that the peasantry of England and the The 59-year-old, with the courtly manner of the southern black Her presence protects us, and we will ensure her safety better than her mustachioed For recreation he played the violin, read widely, painted, dined with the local Country people were more practical, but from the 17th century, cottagers as well as landed An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and On both sides of her family she could trace her ancestry back to Puritan settlers and landed The potato was introduced to Ireland as a garden crop of the The weakening of lordship and the cheapness of land had provided conditions which the yeomen and The exclusion of anoblis and the presence of large numbers of country Hundreds of thousands of people who would never consider themselves rich find they may be at risk from a tax they once associated with the landed These men formed a part of the emperor's guards and were under the command of members of the Shensi The dissolution of the monasteries strengthened the influence of the Over time, he bought several manors at Congham, Westacre and Happisburgh and was granted a coat of arms, becoming a minor member of the However, over 110 of its 140 members were lesser The Nairs formed the rulers, warriors and landed Historically, public service was the honourable vocation of the nobility and Now, the nobility and newly established loyalist The nineteenth-century revival of the eisteddfod and of the study of Welsh antiquities was initially encouraged by Anglican clergy and She was expensively educated, rumoured to be of the landed But if initial opposition to the police did come from the landed Meanwhile, what became of the once aristocratic Opposition, with its 'silk-stocking Moreover, popular revolts almost always failed unless they had the support and patronage of the noble or Staying here, it's easy to imagine that you have joined a private house party with the landed Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or In April 1707, he travelled to London to attend celebrations at the royal court, and was greeted by groups of noblemen and Many of these lived miserably as tenants on the farms of the In the beginning they came from the leisured class of doctors, clergymen, and the landed At the shire-hall new-year celebrations, 15-year-old Ruth Hilton catches the eye of a 23-year-old sprig of the Things go south, however, once the chevalier meets the noble Little is known of the identities of the men who served on the Mary Rose, even when it comes to the names of the officers, who would have belonged to the The man's dull face brightened as he perceived our hero, for Newman, for indefinable reasons, enjoyed the confidence of the liveried In terms of social structure, the Industrial Revolution witnessed the triumph of a middle class of industrialists and businessmen over a landed class of nobility and Scottish Roots usually has about 20 clients at any given time waiting in a queue to discover whether they come from peasant stock or the landed In 1649 Cromwell married Dorothy Maijor, daughter of Richard Maijor, a member of the Hampshire Guangqi's branch of the Xus were not related to those who had passed the imperial examinations and joined Shanghai's local Certainly in the thirteenth century possession of a private chapel was a status symbol, though lesser Under a further Statute of 1 January 1864, zemstvos or local government assemblies were elected at district and province level, essentially by the landed British society is divided into nobility, But that only makes him angry, and he says dreadful things about the After the Union of the Crowns in 1603 the Scots speaking He's empty enough i' the upper story, or he'd niver come jigging an' stamping i' that way, like a mad grasshopper, for the These women of the Third Estate, unlike the The nabobs, in some cases, even managed to wrest control of boroughs from the nobility and the This concept was where all clansmen recognised the personal authority of the chiefs and leading Ivan bypassed the Mestnichestvo system and offered positions of power to his supporters among the minor The clerks, who prepared legal documents, registered deeds, and issued licences, were commoners who did not own property, hold degrees, or belong to the elite George Washington was a scion and leader of Virginia's landed, slaveowning In her formulation, the primary focus of identity resided in affinal networks of patronage binding the He disbelieves the commons who testified that the After the sixteenth century, the tsar's court, the The opposing Tory position was held by the other great families, the Church of England, most of the landed County government was in the hands of 3,000 or so prominent The higher wages for workers combined with sinking prices on grain products led to a problematic economic situation for the Were they preludes to a hymn sung by a congregation, and, if so, commoners in a parish church or In the 18th century 'polite society' now considered Scots as 'provincial and unrefined' and much of the Although Charles and Mary Blackstone were members of the middle class rather than landed An egalitarian peasant, exhilarated and probably drunk, grabs the hand of a girl from the visiting Gone are the days, she says, when this was a pastime solely for the landed They belong to the upper class, and in the British class system are considered part of the They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the The area became very popular with the landed But Montfort's decision to summon knights of the shires and burgesses to his parliament did mark the irreversible emergence of the landed Particularly valuable is his discussion of the lasting power exercised, both in partisan politics and in self-perpetuated county courts, by the landholding European ranks of nobility lower than baron or its equivalent, are commonly referred to as the petty nobility, although baronets of the British Isles are deemed titled Huge amounts of church land and property passed into the hands of the Crown and ultimately into those of the nobility and Nevertheless, inside the party there was attention between the growing numbers of wealthy businessmen on the one side, and the aristocracy and rural William Arnold was related to the Arnold family of He made a fortune from trade and joined the Hughes later set up a colony in America for the younger sons of the English Later on we shall examine more fully the activities of these He rocks it up for the narrative Ain't No Way To Behave and the deliciously acerbic Pampered Pop Star Millionaire Miserabilist Blues in which he takes a pop at rock's The governmental attacks on recusancy were mostly upon the Kinship is reckoned bilaterally, including consanguineal and affineal relations, although among the They were outnumbered hugely both by the The Maypole was traditionally given to the community by the local Authors of county histories devoted much space to pedigrees of families, since this would induce the These measures were not unpopular with the Welsh Some scholarship has argued to assign the poem to one John Massey, a member of the landed High taxes, mainly to pay the Army, were resented by the Barebone's Parliament was opposed by former Rumpers and ridiculed by many Portraits of the aristocracy of the viceregal era include members of the clergy, the military and the landed In Parliament the House of Lords was dominated by the landed aristocracy, and the landed Half of the six and seven-year-olds dressed up as A mere gentlewoman would be the wife or daughter of one of the The survival of the old elites extended to the No doubt his wide circle of friends and patrons among the nobility and Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local In England, the game was developing into a very popular activity for members of the His portraits already included classical allusions which gained him many patrons among the grand tourist They come, too, with far less cunning than the half-broken These officials and the circle of provincial But times have changed and the chatelaine, Lucinda Shaw Stewart, has diversified into other businesses, like so many other members of the landed My grandmother was a nursemaid in high demand with the richest echelons of the London Sir Francis's two surviving sons were both destined for active service rather than the leisurely life of With no television for entertainment and without servants for the afternoon, the In Elizabethan times the roots were dried and crushed and the powder was mixed with water and used to stiffen the ruffs worn by the From this eulogium we gently but firmly exclude the rat So the cap was the headdress of the underclass, the turban of the landed The difficulty both for contemporaries and for historians has been to find a term suitable for describing landowners below the ranks of the Elizabeth's father, Sir James Bourchier, was a London leather merchant who owned extensive lands in Essex and had strong connections with Puritan He was for the common people and against the corrupt and corrupting power of the When they publicly bet a large sum on their favorite horse, it told the world that competitiveness, individualism, and materialism where the core elements of Holt that the Robin Hood legend was cultivated in the households of the There are even cellars, stables and a coach house, a hint to its previous life as a home for landed James Atherton and William Rowson developed the resort of New Brighton, and new estates for the They were notable events on the social calendar among London's