Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… satirical representations of diverse forms of meeting and mixing on the streets, at fairs, and in parks, taverns and coffeehouses . He wrote to entertain, and satirical exaggeration was germane to the endeavour, but his humour … five years later he relocated to Moorfields, where he ran a tavern until 1728 when he moved again, this time to open a coffeehouse on an alley running between Holborn and the entrance to Gray’s Inn. It was here that he died in June 1731. … worshippers’ appeared as though the ‘world was turned topsy-turvy’. 5 In another issue, the Spy retires to a nearby coffeehouse bristling with fops chewing over matters political. These ‘beau-politicians’ were ‘a very gaudy crowd of …
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