Digressive references to estates are given in brackets

Rather of Verona: Praeloquia

I Christians: knights: craftsmen: doctors: merchants: advocates: judges: witnesses: public ministers: nobles: hired employees and vassals: counsellors: lords: serfs: teachers: pupils: the rich: people of moderate income: beggars.

II men: women: husbands: wives: celibates: mothers and fathers: sons and daughters: widows: virgins: children: boys: adolescents: old men.

III king.

Speculum Stukorum 2495ff.

Court of Rome: kings: spiritual pastors: abbots and priors: laity.

Chessbook

King: queen: judges: knights: vicars and legates of the king: peasants: smiths and mariners: notaries and cloth makers: merchants and changers: physicians, spicers and apothecaries: taverners, inn-keepers and victuallers: keepers of towns, customs men and toll-gatherers: ribalds, dice-players, messengers and couriers.

Apocalipsis Goliae

Bishops (pope: bishop: archdeacon: deacon): archdeacon: deacon: officials of ecclesiastical courts: priests: clergy: abbots and monks.

‘Frequenter cogitans’

Bishops: (usurers): merchants: knights: peasants: bishops, priests, presbyters: monks, abbots.

‘Virifratres, servi Dei’

Pope: cardinals: bishops: priests: canons regular: monks and nuns: friars: emperor: kings: counts, earls, barons, knights: citizens, nobles: commons: sailors and landholders: merchants.

‘Totum regit saeculum’

Pope: cardinals: king: bishops: abbots: monks: friars: knights: rectors and priests: clerks: burgesses: merchants: peasants: beggars.

Sermones nulli parcentes

Pope: cardinals: patriarchs: bishops: prelates generally: monks: crusaders: lay-brothers: wandering monks: secular priests: lawyers and physicians: scholars: wanderers: nuns: emperor: kings: princes and counts: knights: nobles: squires: citizens: merchants: tradesmen: messengers, usurers, hucksters, gamblers, thieves and pimps: peasants: women: friars.

Vox Clamantis

III Prelates: priests, clergy generally: pope: curates: clerks.