Abstract
This study is focused on a social situation in the country between the 17th and 19th century, which is explained on the example of the West Bohemian domain Horšovský Týn. There are described general partition and the rural inhabitants including characteristics of particular social categories and the factual transformation of social stratification in domain Horšovský Týn from the mid-17th till the mid-19th century.
The research is based on the information obtained from the evidential sources and the primary literature. The main contribution of this work is the description of social stratification transformation in domain Horšovský Týn on the grounds of its general characterization.