Merchants [ Commerce ]
… income, but to shared values concerning property, industry, improvement, leisure or fashion. Historians have therefore presented two different versions of the middling sort, those who emulated the gentry and aspired for gentlemanly status … group. 5 Merchants were active participants in what historians have called ‘polite and commercial society’. 6 In The Present State of Great Britain (1716), it was declared that: ‘next to the purity of religion we are the most … England 1727-1783 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). 7 . John Chamberlayne, Magnae Britanniae Notitia: Or, the Present State of Great Britain (London: Timothy Goodwin, Matthew Wotton, Benjamin Tooke, Daniel Midwinter, and Jacob …
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