Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… from society in general.’ The British Code of Duel: A Reference to the Laws of Honour and the Character of a Gentleman (London: Knight and Lacey, 1824), p. 9. 3 . See also The Spectator, n° 99 (23 June 1711). 4 . Donna T. Andrew, … Aristocratic Vice. The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 46. 5 . On the forms of duels and their political consequences, see Alexis … of duelling could be encountered throughout the kingdom, from Cornwall to Yorkshire, from Durham to Devonshire. In London, there were of course specific places for duelling encounters, such as Covent Garden , Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the …
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