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Latin was primarily associated with religion, diplomacy and academia, and only with aristocrats indirectly.
Large chunks of any language, including English, are really only used by a very small subgroup of speakers. This is especially true in an age before mass literacy. When intellectuals needed new poetic / technical terms, they would have reached for the language that they were used to using and would be easily understood by their correspondents abroad. I doubt they would have cared about excluding peasants, who were not literate and could not possibly be mistaken for one of them.
I think that class traps and an excess focus on manners became much more relevant as Britain got richer and the boundaries between the classes became more porous.
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