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… 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 … at the beginning of the eighteenth century (Chartres,'The Eighteenth Century Inn', 207). They were of various sizes: London had about 200 major inns by the early eighteenth century, some of which were fairly large (Chartres, 'The … sociable experience, which was fictionalized in novels. 4 . Chartres goes on to give more figures. For illustrations of London inns, see J. A. Chartres, ‘The Capital's Provincial Eyes: London's Inns in the Early Eighteenth Century‘, London …
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