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Pospolite

A kind of militia in Poland consisting of the gentry which in case of invasion was summoned to the defense of the country

Ragmans roll

The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I of England A D 1296

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of Japan the class or a member of the class of military retainers of the daimios constituting the gentry or lesser nobility They possessed power of life and death over the commoners and wore two swords as

VerbarShizoku

The Japanese warrior gentry or middle class formerly called samurai also any member of this class

Armorial bearings

Armorial bearings, a device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from

Clerk

letters, whence the term is appropriated to churchmen who were called clerks and now clergymen, the nobility and gentry being bred to the exercise of arms, and none left to cultivate the sciences but ecclesiastics. Where the

Lord Lieutenant of a County

power of presenting to the sovereign the names of deputy-lieutenants, who are to be selected from the best gentry in the county, and act in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant. Their jurisdiction and privileges in relation

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