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 neighbors, not the public in general.

In monarchist terminology, aristocracy and nobility are included in the term. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Letter to Viscount Milton on the ordinance of the Earl of Durham / by Commoner

    Published 1839
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    A letter to the sheriffs, commons, and citizens, of the city of Dublin by Commoner

    Published 1749
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    A letter to the commons of the city of Dublin by Commoner

    Published 1758
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    The hour of danger, or, Public distress and public remedy / by Commoner

    Published 1816
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    A letter from a commoner in town, to a noble lord in the country by Commoner in Town

    Published 1760
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    A letter from a commoner in town, to a noble lord in the country by Commoner in Town

    Published 1760
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    An honest commoner's speech by Honest commoner

    Published 1694
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