Lifestyles of the RIch and Poor

Groups of people in the social heirarchy(don’t memorise but have a good idea of it)

nobles and lords

gentry

wealthy merchants and professionals

yeomen and tenant farmers

cottagers and slkilled artisans

landless unskilled labourers and the poor and unemployed

nobles and lords

great landowners(around 50 families) with an income of up to £6k per year

gentry

lesser landowners

around 10k families

an income of up to £200 per year

wealthy merchants

successful in the business of buying and selling goods (about 30k families)

professionals

the emerging middle class e.g. lawyers physicians apothecaries clergy schoolmasters

yeomen

owned their own property

few servants

farmed sum land

tenant farmers

rented between 10 to 30 acres from a landowner(about 100k families)

cottagers

had small gardens to farm and carried out small scale industry in home i.e. spinning

skilled artisans

men with a trade(craftsmen)

landless unskilled labourers

seasonal workers

unemployed during certain times of the year

The poor and unemployed

Self explanatory

bunch of loser chuds like omer

What percentage of the population lived on the edge of starvation?

between 20-30%

How did landowners