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Rules of Bath (1771) [ Practices ]
… do not dance minuets, not to take up the front seats at the balls. That no lady dance country-dances in a hoop of any kind and those who chuse to pull their hoops off, will be assisted by proper servants in an apartment for that purpose. … Chapels, and other Edifices... Bath: Publisher: printed by R. Cruttwell, for W. Taylor, Bookseller, in Church-Street, Kingston-Buildings. Sold also by all the other booksellers in Bath; and R. Baldwin, Bookseller, in Pater-Noster-Row, …
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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… violent culture which presided over seventeenth-century England: ‘Physical combat, of a more or less ritualized kind, was a part of masculine culture at every social level. Just as the upper classes had their ‘roisters’, ‘hectors’, … the seventeenth century in England certainly saw a number of debates and efforts to legislate and prevent duels from taking place. Sir Edward Coke insisted that to kill a man in a duel was a murder. In 1615, the court of Star Chamber … the years to come. They placed duels in the wider context of a country which needed peace rather than war, and commended King James for having worked for peace in the international arena. For Middleton, for instance, there is a continuity …
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… authorize (by and under the Rules, Conditions and Restrictions by the Law prescribed) all manner of Gaming within this Kingdom”, The London Gazette (5-6 Dec. 1705). Gambling as Social Performance Gambling had an important social function. … of young and inexperienced men being enticed to play a variety of games (cards and dice, mainly, sometimes chess), drinking too much and finding themselves in debt. For instance, Thomas Fellows, sugar baker of London, claimed he was drawn against his will into drinking and gaming by an old school friend. He lost his money at hazard, passage, 26 dice and hustlecap. 27 The plaintiffs …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Speech to the electors of Bristol (1774) [ Practices ]
… as I said to you individually, simply and plainly, I thank you—I am obliged to you—I am not insensible of your kindness. This is all that I am able to say for the inestimable favour you have conferred upon me. But I cannot be … very act of parliament, which was made to regulate the elections by freemen, and to prevent all possible abuses in making them. I do not intend to argue the matter here. My learned counsel has supported your cause with his usual ability; … if I had ransacked, with the most unremitting industry, and the most penetrating research, the remotest corners of the kingdom to discover them; if I were then, all at once, to turn short, and declare, that I had been sporting all this …
Elections | Conduct | Gentleman
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Chesterfield Letter 139 (1765) [ Concepts ]
… which in reality they never had. Their conversation is in the decisive and minatory tone; they are for breaking bones, cutting off ears, throwing people out of the window, etc., and all these fine declarations, they ratify with … unfavourable insinuations; as it makes them hope that they may in their turns find an advocate in you. There is another kind of offensiveness often used in company, which is to throw out hints and insinuations, only applicable to and felt by …
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Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… Image ‘The Spectator’, April 8th 1712 ; 1891 new edition. Image John Simon, ‘Four Indian Kings of Canada’, Magazine of American History, c. 1700. Abstract Falling into a long tradition of violent gatherings … Spring of 1712. While little evidence exists for the Mohocks being an organized group with a shared motif of mischief-making, rumors nevertheless put the violent outbursts attributed to them into the context of a club-like structure, thereby … the French’. 5 A few weeks later, the Tatler similarly reported about the ‘Emperor of the Mohocks and the other Three Kings’ at court. 6 The state visit was sophisticated and highly publicized, yet prevailing attitudes towards ‘savagery’ …
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Conversation [ Communication / Education / Social interaction / Language & Speech ]
… Gentlemen (London: J. Hoyles, 1738), p. 90. As conversation was not just talk and ‘could function as a metonym for all kinds of social interaction’, it could be defined in a variety of ways. 3 Ideally, conversation was polite and pleasing, … echoing the ongoing desire to fashion an English politeness. Polite conversation could now be regarded as a ‘specious kind of Lies', an ‘enslavement to foreign manners’, alien to the British character, while English conversation was characterised by plain speaking and sincerity. Such critiques occasioned debates about language, masculinity and identity and fuelled the cultural …
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Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… in the second half of the eighteenth century: ‘London clubs [provided] the world of fashion with a central office for making wagers, and a registry for recording them.’ 4 Famous aristocratic gambling clubs started to keep betting books for … recorded in 1771. 5 Some members of minor eighteenth-century clubs met in taverns to indulge in betting and drinking. For example, the ‘Board of Brothers’, afterwards the ‘Board of Loyal Brotherhood’, was a Tory-Jacobite drinking club founded in 1709 by Henry Somerset, 2 nd Duke of Beaufort. 6 The first bets recorded date back to 1735, then …
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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
Civility | Cosmopolitanism | Fellowship | France | Gentleman | Science
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