The clergy had responsibilities of their office, to the Church and their superiors. Secular clergy were responsible for the spiritual well being of their parishioners, and regular clergy had responsibilities within their orders, which could include anything from transcribing manuscripts to growing vegetables, washing dishes, or singing in a choir.
Peasants had the responsibility of doing their work, which was usually raising crops. They had to pay rent or do labor for their lords. Sometimes they had other responsibilities on their manors, but these varied. On some manors, the peasants had to elect their own reeves. It was possible they would be called to do duties for the manorial court.
The responsibilities of the nobility were most like those of the secular clergy, in the sense that they were responsible to their superiors but also had people for whom they were responsible. They had to support and obey they king and superior nobles, but they also had the responsibility to protect the peasants who lived on their manors. This went a good deal farther than the work secular clergy did, however, because it required them to attend to things that were physical, social, legal, military, official, where the secular clergy were only engaged in things spiritual. Unlike the nobility, the peasants and regular clergy usually had now one at a lower station for whom they had responsibilities.
The First Estate, speaking in terms of the Kingdom of France, was comprised entirely of The Clergy.
Any class or group in society other than the nobility, the clergy, the middle class, and the press.
In the pre revolutionary France, the most under priviledges classes of the peasantry and bourgeoisie were the only tax payers while the most priviledged claasses of the clergy and the nobility were except from it
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The House of Lords included members of nobility and clergy.
clergy,nobility,peasants
There were serfs, who fed everyone. There were the nobility, who protected everyone. And there were clergy, who prayed for everyone to save their souls.
The three estates were usually some variant of those who prayed (the clergy) those who fought (the nobility) and those who worked (everybody else, but usually agricultural workers).
A huge gulf opened between revolutionaries in Paris and the peasantry in the province
The clergy, the nobility, and the peasants.
The French working class. It includes the peasants, the bourgeois, and the merchants. Essentially, the Third Estate was everyone who was not a part of the noble class (Second Estate) or the clergy (First Estate).
About 1% is my guess. They were the priests and clergy and some nobility. Other than that very few people could read.