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The contrasting lives of rich, middling and poor Elizabethans - Coggle…
The contrasting lives of rich, middling and poor Elizabethans
Gentry
Houses
Surrounded by gardens, orchards, and estate farms.
Edward Phelps - Montacute House, Somerset
William Cecil - Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Lived in huge 'prodigy houses', built to make a statement about their wealth (e.g. Bess of Hardwick - Hardwick Hall)
Food
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Feasts
Wide variety of meats including beef, pork, venison, goose, swan, pheasant and a wide range of small birds.
Fish course including salmon, eel, cod, pickled herring and pike (pike cost 30 times the daily wage of Elizabethan labourer.
Up to 20 servants formed a long procession, carrying food on silver and pewter platters.
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Wealth and Power
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Around 2% of population were gentry, but they owned half of the land in England.
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A nobleman (e.g. a duke, earl or baron) would own tens of thousands of acres in different estates across the country.
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