6. Gentlemen, neither of blood nor coat-armour, are of three orders; namely, 1, _Apocrafat_--Students of common law and grooms of the sovereign's palace, having no coat-armour; 2, _Spiritual_--A churl's son made a priest, canon, &c.; and 3, _Untriall_--He who being brought up in the service of a bishop, abbot, or baron, enjoys the bare title of gentleman; and he that having received any degree of the schools, or borne any office in a city so as to be saluted _Master_. As Saracen-killing has long ceased to be a favourite amusement,--as the winning of standards is an undertaking as rare as it is perilous,--as few in protestant England have the good fortune to serve abbots and bishops,--and, as a grant of arms by the heralds is a somewhat expensive affair,--how very few have now the chance of becoming _gentlemen_ in the heraldrical sense of the term. Widely at variance with the courtesies of every-day life are these antiquated laws of chivalry! We have seen that nearly every man, from the throne to the stable, each in his own sphere, is recognized as a gentleman; yet how few, notwithstanding, like to be so described in a legal, formal manner. Formerly, it was customary to add GENT., as an honourable distinction to one's name, in the address of his letters, in his will, or upon his tombstone; but in these days nothing short of ESQ. is deemed respectful. This foible, however, is not a thing of yesterday; for so long ago as 1709, Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff, of the Tatler, says: "I have myself a couple of clerks; one directs to Degory Goosequill, _Esquire_, to which the other replies by a note to Nehemiah Dashwell, _Esquire_, with respect."