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History Assessment Thursday 7th October The Four Sorts of People 2.a.) Who Gained? Who Lost? Price Rise Gentry The Fourth Sort Yeomen Beggars Population Rise Gentry Poor People/ Fourth Sort Yeomen Younger Sons Farming for Profit Gentry Husbandman Yeomen Enclosure Gentry Labourers and anyone Yeomen who depended on the Common Land. b.) In the price rise between 1500 and 1650, the Gentry and Yeoman benefited and the Fourth Sort lost out. This is because the Gentry and Yeomen owned a lot of land. If you owned a lot of land, you became richer and those with smaller amounts of land, didn't. This is because agricultural prices and wages went up, although wages did not go half as much as the prices. From 1500 to 1650 agricultural wages tripled, but agricultural prices went up by just over six times its original amount. Although it wasn't until 1550 that there was a noticeably large difference between the two, by 1650 agricultural prices were around double the wages. People like the Yeomen or Gentry owned enough...

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