Saint James's [ Cities ]
… near to one another that in less than an hour, you can see the company of them all’. 13 13 . John Macky, Journey through England [1714] (2nd ed., London: J. Hooke, 1722), p. 168. First located on the east side of St James’s Street, White’s … making it an extraordinarily vibrant centre of sociability. As George A. Selwyn would put it, ‘a small society governed England and gambled in St James’s Street’. 18 18 . George Selwyn, his Letters and his Life, ed. E. S. Roscoe and Helen …
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