Social hierarchy

Question 1

Social hierarchy of countryside and population

Answer 1

90% of EE lived in countrysides

Nobility
Gentry - wealthy, landowning individuals
Yeomen farmers - small landowning, family farmers
Tenant farmers
Landless/ labouring poor
Vagrants and homeless

Question 2

Social hierarchy of Towns and population

Answer 2

10% of EE lived in towns

Merchants - townsmen, who frequently owned or part-owned the ships they traded in
professionals
Business owners
Craftsmen
Unemployed