Answer:
a) he was a model among landed gentry
Explanation:
In the Canterbury Tales the presentation of Franklin says that he is a wealthy gentleman farmer, not specially saying that he was a farmer but that he had lands that were farms, in this matter he was Landed gentry which was a british middle class form that used to make reference to people that live out of their rentals of land, they had large lands and they´d rent them for people to work them, and they only lived from renting this lands, so the best description for Franklin, since he was not a lawyer nor a sheriff, and he didn´t live for pleasure would be a) he was a model among landed gentry
