Such were, in the middle of the fourteenth century, the only expressions for designating the third order.
"Under Louis XI., Juvenal des Ursins, in his harangue, addresses the deputies of the third by the title of _burghers and inhabitants of the good towns_.

At the States of Tours, the spokesman of the estates, John de Rely, says, _the people of the common estate, the estate of the people_.

The special memorial presented to Charles VIII.

by the three orders of Languedoc likewise uses the word _people_.
"It is in Masselin's report and the memorial of grievances presented in 1485 that I meet for the first time with the expression third estate (_tiers-etat_).

Masselin says, 'It was decided that each section should furnish six commissioners, two ecclesiastics, two nobles, and two of the third estate (_duos ecclesiasticos, duos nobiles, et duos tertii status._)' (_Documents inedits sur l'Histoire de France; proces-verbal de Masselin,_ p.