Yeomen: the rural equivalent of citizens, who owned (or in some cases had the use of) agricultural or grazing lands from which they made more than a subsistence wage --sometimes even handsome profits. Servants, laborers, or peasants: persons who owned little but made their living working for others, either-on farms or in households (those who lived in the city tended to be better ,off financially than their rural counterparts). The indigent: beggars and others who, from geographical or social circumstances, injury, or personal temperament, found themselves unable to work