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Mainly through trade or inhereitance. There were a fair amount of lawyers and doctors but trade was a growing market. Many wealthy englishmen came from a long line of wealthy englishmen so the majority of their fortune had been left to them by their late fathers. Sons inhereited the family fortune. Very few cases of women inhereiting. This is evident in Jane Austens "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice".

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