SUBJECT INDEX. 580 A SOURCE BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY FOOTNOTES: [1] Allyn and Bacon. 1913. [2] Bradford's _Plymouth Plantation_, the main source for this topic, is quoted so extensively in the _American History and Government_ that it is not used here in this connection. I. ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 1. Classes of Englishmen William Harrison, in Holinshed's _Chronicle_ (1577). Cf. No. 75 on like social divisions in early New England; and see _American History and Government_, # 65. We in England divide our people commonlie into foure sorts, as gentlemen, citizens or burgesses, yeomen, ... or [and] laborers. Of gentlemen the first and cheefe (next the king) be the prince, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons: and these are called gentlemen of the greater sort, or (as our common usage of speech is) lords and noblemen: and next unto them be knights, esquiers, and last of all they that are simplie called gentlemen, ... Who soever studieth the lawes of the realme, who so abideth in the universitie giving his mind to his booke, or professeth physicke and the liberall sciences, or beside his service in the roome of a capteine in the warres, or good counsell given at home, whereby his commonwealth is benefited, can live without manuell labour, and thereto is able and will beare the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall for monie have a cote and armes bestowed upon him by heralds (who in the charter of the same doo of custome pretend antiquitie and service, and manie gaie things) and, thereunto being made so good cheape, be called master, which is the title that men give to esquiers and gentlemen, and reputed for a gentleman ever after.... ... our merchants [are] to be installed, as amongst the citizens (although they often change estate with gentlemen, as gentlemen doo with them, by a mutuall conversion of the one into the other)....