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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