Society

• countryside


  -the nobility

  -the gentry

  -the yeoman farmers

  -tenant farmers

  -the landless and labouring poor

  -homeless and vagrants
• the nobility


  major landowners; often lords, dukes and earls
• the gentry


  owned smaller estates
• the yeoman farmers


  owned a small amount of land
• tenant farmers 


  rented land from the yeoman farmers and gentry
• the landless and labouring poor


  people did not own or rent land and had to work and had to labour to provide for themselves and there families
• homeless and vagrants.


  moved from place to place looking for work
• 90% of elizabeten England lived in the country side
• towns 


  -merchants

  -professionals

  -buisness owners

  -craftsmen

  -unskilled labourers and the unemployed
• merchants 


  traders who were very wealthy
• professionals 


  lawyers, doctors and clergymen
• business owners 


  often highly skilled craftsmen
• craftsmen


  skilled employees including apprentices
• Unskilled labourers and the unemployed 


  people who had no regular work and could not provide for themselves and there families