The author of the passage mentions the occupations of those involved in civil litigation in early modern England most likely in order to A. suggest that most historians' assumptions about the participants in the civil legal system during that period are probably correct B. support the theory that more people participated in the civil legal system than the criminal legal system in England during that period C. counter the claim that legal issues reveal more about a country's ordinary citizens than about its elite D. illustrate the wide range of people who used the civil legal system in England during that period E. suggest that recent data on people who participated in early modern England's legal system may not be correct