Commoner

manuscript illustration A commoner, also known as the ''common man'', ''commoners'', the ''common people'' or the ''masses'', was in earlier use an ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status, especially a member of neither royalty, nobility, nor any part of the aristocracy. Depending on culture and period, other elevated persons (such members of clergy) may have had higher social status in their own right, or were regarded as commoners if lacking an aristocratic background.

This class overlaps with the legal class of people who have a property interest in common land, a longstanding feature of land law in England and Wales. Commoners who have rights for a particular common are typically neighbours, not the public in general.

In monarchist terminology, aristocracy and nobility are included in the term. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Honest commoner
    Published 1694
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    by Commoner of England
    Published 1688
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    by Honest commoner
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