gentrie

Now also of such among the Nobilitie or gentrie as be very well seene in many laudable sciences, and especially in making of Poesie, it is so come to passe that they haue no courage to write & if they haue, yet are they loath to be a knowen of their skill.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Chaucer's Parson that 'to have pride in the gentrie of the bodie is right gret folie; for oft-time the gentrie of the bodie benimeth the gentrie of the soul; and also we be all of one fader and one moder.'

The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

Pitie it is but evermore wit should be vertuous, vertue gentle, gentrie studious, students gracious.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

Be comforted my Girles, your hopes stand faire, vertue breedes gentrie, she makes the best heire. both daugh.

Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

Now also of such among the Nobilitie or gentrie as be very well seene in many laudable sciences, and especially in making or Poesie, it is so come to passe that they haue no courage to write & if they haue, yet are they loath to be a knowen of their skill.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

"the Kinges wants might be much relieved out of the vanities and ambition of the gentrie" (in Chamberlain's words), he granted, in 1616, the further privilege that the heirs apparent of baronets should be knighted on coming of age.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

"With vs the nobilitie, gentrie, and students, doo ordinarilie go to dinner at _eleuen before noone_, and to supper at fiue, or between fiue and six at afternoon." (vol.i. page 171. edit.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

"The furniture of our houses also exceedeth, and is growne in maner even to passing delicacie; and herein I do not speake of the nobilitie and gentrie onely, but even of the lowest sorte that have anything to take to.

Vanishing England 1892