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… p. 205-226), p. 205. 2 . For a more detailed analysis of the Tabard, see Steven Earnshaw, The Pub in English Literature: England's Altered State (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), p. 18-21. 3 . Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: … A Social History, 1200 - 1830 (London: Longman, 1983), p. 4. John Chartres suggests that there were about 3,600 inns in England in 1577 and about 6,000 to 7,000 at the beginning of the eighteenth century (Chartres,'The Eighteenth Century … were necessarily new institutions, instead of merely refurbished or renamed inns. Around 30 new ‘hotels’ existed in England between 1810 and 1840, 11 places catering for well-to-do customers. Although the hotel as building type and as …
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