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… In their most basic form, assemblies promoted the mixing of polite strata in Georgian society, from the nobility to the middling sort. 1 . Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), p.150; T.B. Burr, A History of … rooms as elite, exclusive spaces open to those who could afford to pay. The subscribers were typically drawn from the middling sort up through the gentry and nobility residing in the area. Those families who formed part of polite society …
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