… and T. Ward, 1720), book. VI, chap. VI, p. 89. During the first half of the eighteenth century, the flight of the aristocracy and gentry from the square accelerated, as they moved west to newer, more fashionable suburban developments …
… whose labour and service polite society rested. The subscribers of the 1712-13 edition were drawn from the ranks of the aristocracy, merchants, financiers, and officeholders. 19 Steele owned, through his first wife, a considerable …