estate

But when I came to mans eſtate,

With hey ho, [the winde and the raine],

Gainſt Knaues and Theeues men ſhut their gate.

God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.

And anone came oute of a chamber to hym the fayrest lady that euer he sawe & more rycher bysene than euer he sawe Quene Gueneuer or ony other estat Lo sayd they syre Bors here is the lady vnto whome we owe alle oure seruyse / and I trowe she be the rychest lady and the fayrest of alle the world

I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.

It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.

Professor Loretta Lees from King's College London's geography department says, "The word 'estate' has become synonymous with the term 'ghetto'. It's become a dirty word. Back in the '20s and '30s it didn't carry the same stigma."

I call matter of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever […] concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.

This time, however, it only includes the static parameters that you expect to be consistent across your estate.