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gentry

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Birth; condition; rank by birth.

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Players will be able to snap up Craster's Keep (Old Kent Road) and the Fist of the First Men (Whitechapel) for a song, or collect the debts of the landed gentry in King's Landing (Mayfair) for the cost of an Iron Throne.

I was four in 1979 (long before the landed gentry created The People's Army) and remember huge Conservative posters where the Ukip ones now stand.

Among the thousands of Holocaust diaries, Madi's is a rare account written in English by a non-Jewish member of a local gentry, the museum said.

We're not the landed gentry.

Buried in these bundles you will find not simply a new take on national matters the civil war, the Great Fire of London, the Protestant invasion from the Netherlands of William and Mary but also the small, everyday details of cheesemaking, sword-buying and scandal-mongering that constituted gentry life in Stuart England.The Verneys were a variable lot.

He was descended from Hudson Valley landed gentry and millionaire New York merchants, and went to Groton and Harvard.

But in booting out the landed gentry, it also ditched many of those who came from the provinces.

As the local gentry grew in importance, however, Wang Geon, the founding king of the Goryeo dynasty (918 1392), tried to mollify it by granting surnames as a way to distinguish faithful subjects and government officials.

Congregations have shrunk to an elderly tenth of what they were when churchgoing was a public duty often enforced by the local gentry on their servants and staff.

There is scarcely a family that is long established in the peerage or baronetage which has not married into the non-titled but sometimes more solidly upper-class gentry.

Elsewhere the gentry hang on; in Sindh, landed families got out the votes for the PPP.

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