7 sentences with 'gentry'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gentry and other words derived from it.
• « The landed gentry had the right to extract financial dues, fees and rents from the peasants in the west. »
• « Moreover, the leaders of these cities were often merchants who grew rich from trade, rather than traditional landed gentry. »
• « The only way to raise revenue from the rest of the country was to raise royal taxes, which was opposed by the very proud and defensive noble class (the landed gentry), as well as the titled nobility. »
• « The other main reason why Britain enjoyed such an early and enduring lead in industrialisation is that British elites, especially the powerful landed gentry, were not hostile to commercial enterprise. »
• « In the early modern era, luxury goods were basically reserved for the nobility and the gentry. There was simply not enough social wealth for the vast majority of Europeans to buy many things they did not need. »
• « In Britain, the latter were called the gentry and controlled the House of Commons in parliament; the House of Lords was occupied by the "peers of the realm", the elite noble families often descended from the ancient Normans. »
• « There was limited representative government in parliament, and the electorate represented mostly the landed gentry class. Moreover, the constituencies were either totally out of sync with the British population or were, in fact, complete nonsense. »
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