来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代早期英国社会 第2集 第2集》
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Only a gentleman could be called Mister,只有绅士才能被尊称为先生 -
and they had the right also to bear a coat of arms.才能有特权佩戴盾徽 -
Collectively, the nobility,英格兰和威尔士的地主 -
both the peerage and the church leaders and the gentry,大部分是贵族阶级 教堂领导人 -
were the principal landowners of England and Wales.以及绅士阶级 -
In the county of North Yorkshire for example--以北约克郡为例 -
it's up here in the north of England--它位于英格兰北方 -
in the early sixteenth century a study十六世纪早期的一次调查显示 -
has been done which shows that the nobility,贵族阶级占有全国 -
the peerage, owned 27% of the land,27%的土地 -
the gentry owned 46%,绅士阶级占有46% -
and nearly all of the rest belonged to the church.其余的土地几乎都归教会所有