Nobility

• What percentage of the population were the nobility?

  Less than 5%
• How many nobility were there in 1633?


  122
• What are examples of the nobility’s maintained wealth?

  • The Marquis of Newcastle donated £900,000 to the royalist cause in 1642.
  • Earl of Worcester donated £700,000 to the royalist cause in 1642.
• How was the nobility’s political power reduced?

  There was no House of Lords from March 1649 and from 1653 a gentryman was head of state.
• How much did some nobility family fortunes decline to?

  As little as £200 a year
• What did many nobility manage to establish by 1688?

  Town houses or London residences as well as country seats.
• What percentage of power and land was controlled by the nobility?

  15%
• What was one example of a nobility family?

  The L'Estrange family based in Norfolk
• What happened upon the civil war ending?

  The family had their estates confiscated
• What happened to the family during the Republic?

  Despite not being involved in the Penruddock's uprising they were taxed by the decimation tax
• What happened to the L'Estranges by 1688?

  They had become self-sufficient and wealthy again
• What could not be done to nobility?

  Their houses couldn't be searched for arms without a warrant from the monarch
• What were Nobles exempt from?

  They were not obliged to take the Test Act
• What were Lords able to do when tried?

  Request to be tried by peers which normally resulted in them being acquitted