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 * On average fewer than half the children born during the Renaissance survived to the age of 15 (Renaissance vol. 4).
 * Between 80 and 90 percent of the population lived in villages of fewer than a hundred people, fifteen or twenty miles apart, surrounded by endless woodlands (Thompson).
 * The everyday dinner of a man of rank ran from fifteen to twenty dishes (Renaissance vol. 4).
 * Some symbols of powerful families in the fifteenth century were surnames, and coats of arms which decorated houses, furniture, the clothing of servants, and a variety of other things (Grendler).
 * In poor families children had to help support the family and often began working full days by age seven (Renaissance vol. 4).