|
Number
of families | Ranks, Degrees,
Titles, and Qualifications | Heads
per family | Number of
persons | Yearly income
per family |
| 160 | Temporal Lords | 40 | 6,400 | 2,800 |
| 26 | Spiritual Lords | 20 | 520 | 1,300 |
| 800 | Baronets | 16 | 12,800 | 880 |
| 600 | Knights | 13 | 7,800 | 650 |
| 3,000 | Esquires | 10 | 30,000 | 450 |
| 12,000 | Gentlemen | 8 | 96,000 | 280 |
| 5,000 | Persons in Offices | 8 | 40,000 | 240 |
| 5,000 | Persons in Offices | 6 | 30,000 | 120 |
| 2,000 | Merchants and Traders by Sea | 8 | 16,000 | 400 |
| 8,000 | Merchants and Traders by Sea* | 6 | 48,000 | 200 |
| 10,000 | Persons in the Law | 7 | 70,000 | 140 |
| 2,000 | Clergymen | 6 | 12,000 | 60 |
| 8,000 | Clergymen | 5 | 40,000 | 45 |
| 40,000 | Freeholders | 7 | 280,000 | 84 |
| 140,000 | Freeholders | 5 | 700,000 | 50 |
| 150,000 | Farmers | 5 | 750,000 | 44 |
| 16,000 | Persons in Sciences and Liberal Arts | 5 | 80,000 | 60 |
| 40,000 | Shopkeepers and Tradesmen | 4½ | 180,000 | 45 |
| 60,000 | Artisans and Handicrafts | 4 | 240,000 | 40 |
| 5,000 | Naval Officers | 4 | 20,000 | 80 |
| 4,000 | Military Officers | 4 | 16,000 | 60 |
| 511,586 | 5¼ | 2,675,520 | 67 | |
| 50,000 | Common Seamen | 3 | 150,000 | 20 |
| 364,000 | Labouring People and Out Servants | 3½ | 1,275,000 | 15 |
| 400,000 | Cottagers and Paupers | 3¼ | 1,300,000 | 6.5 |
| 35,000 | Common Soldiers | 2 | 70,000 | 14 |
| 849,000 | 3¼ | 2,795,000 | 10.5 | |
| Vagrants | 30,000 | |||
| 849,000 | 3¼ | 2,825,000 | 10.5 | |
| 511,586 | Increasing the Wealth of the Kingdom | 5¼ | 2,675,520 | 67 |
| 849,000 | Decreasing the Wealth of the Kingdom | 3¼ | 2,825,000 | 10.5 |
| 1,360,586 | 5,500,520 |
Source: Two Tracts by Gregory King, ed. G. E. Barnett (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1936).
* This second category of maritime merchants is what King wrote; versions in which it appears as ‘Merchants and Traders by Land’ are subsequent alterations, though it is possible that this is what King intended.