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What led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization?
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The English law of Primogeniture
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Why have the fortunes of most of the English gentry degenerated?
The Fortunes of English gentry have degenterated because they have had to pay for domestic costs in England.
Among the English citizens most interested in colonization were unemployed yeomen and the younger sons of the gentry?
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What are the fortunes of much of the English gentry have degenerated and why?
Many English gentry have experienced a decline in fortunes due to changes in economic circumstances, such as the decline of traditional landed estates. Factors such as increased taxation, high maintenance costs for historic properties, and inheritance taxes have also contributed to the diminishing wealth of the gentry. Additionally, shifts in social attitudes and the rise of a more meritocratic society have reduced the privileges and advantages traditionally enjoyed by the gentry.
The English law of primogeniture led to?
Primogeniture is the common law right of the first born son to inherit the estate of his ancestors to the exclusion of his younger siblings. It was intended to maintain the estate intact rather than parcel it off to each child and eventually diminishing the holdings.Younger sons had to go into the military or the ministry in order to make their own living. Some became adventurers who traveled the seas to new places to make their fortunes. It motivated many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization. Many of the plantations of colonial America were founded by younger sons who through the system of slavery attempted to recreate the grand life they enjoyed as children of aristocrats living in the grand estates in Old England. Daughters had to marry, enter a convent or live at the courtesy of their eldest brother.A related legal principal was fee tail or an entailed estate. Under common law the recipient of the estate by primogeniture could not sell it or freely give it away during his life nor after his death by will. The estate was said to be entailed. Fee tails were intended to keep the family land intact and in the family line, generally through the male line. Some may remember the popular Downton Abbey series on PBS was based on an entailed estate.There were different variations of entailment at various times and in different places. Where primogeniture was not the practice an entailment could be restricted to male heirs or to female heirs.
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Jonathon Gentry's birth name is Gentry, Jonathon.
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Who were the gentry in southern society?
who were gentry in southern society
