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31 Moreover, some of the riots were incited by local High Church clergy and gentry.

32 The traditional founts of charity, the church and the local gentry, had dried up.

33 The most sought after positions were at the front, where the gentry families had their seats.

34 The landed gentry abandoned the parish, selling off their land to speculative developers.

35 In feudal society, a superior status was accorded to the land-owning aristocracy and gentry.

36 But both say the loan was paid off by December 1993, almost a year before Gentry was elected to the council.

37 It was part of the way of life for the gentry, and not the political issue it is today.

38 The version of emancipation which became law made many concessions to the interests of the gentry.

39 A hundred pounds and above covered knights and other leading gentry as well as merchants in overseas trade.

40 Upwards of ￡40 there were the landowners, or gentry, though a good many below this point might have been counted as gentlemen.

41 Elsewhere in the county Quakerism emerged in the 1650s to be fairly firmly suppressed by a gentry worried about its revolutionary tendencies.

42 She added that when Gentry refused to acknowledge the loan publicly, she resigned as his treasurer and broke off their engagement.

43 Everyone in period costume - meet the Gentry; servants; soldiers; craftsmen.

44 Leland added: Since none the less the gentry of the vicinity were anything but affluent, the profits may have been largely illusory.

45 The Nottingham bank attracted the business of neighbouring nobility and gentry as well as that of local hosiery manufacturers and traders.

46 In the closely knit ranks of the Sussex gentry such a royal action could only further enhance growing doubts of Stuart intentions.

47 From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.

48 Not surprisingly, many gentry and clergy modified their public pronouncements accordingly, surviving both Parliamentary rule and the Restoration.

49 Even the gentry, then, were having to eat pheasant without bread; what was the world coming to?

50 Gentry was handcuffed and taken to the Baltimore County Detention Center.

51 Most families prominent in the iron trade came from the yeomanry and lesser gentry, though there were a few bigger men.

52 BIn his 1968 profile of California, disguised as a novel about an apocalyptic earthquake, Curt Gentry saw this passage coming.

53 Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.

54 The new men were not aping the landed gentry; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain.

55 The first, in the West End, had as its clients the peerage and gentry rather than the mercantile classes.

56 There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers,[sentencedict.com] merchants and colonial administrators rather than landed gentry.

57 More valuable, and usually more visible, were the regional gentry attracted to the duke's service.

58 Dorset gentry were irritated at Dorchester folk's disregard of their social superiors; national politics brought disaster.

59 The rest of his men fled with the servants and the local gentry.

60 They relied heavily on the readiness of the local aristocracy and gentry to go along with them.