Lord Clarendon relates that his mother (though her husband sat as a burgess in Parliament) never was in London in her life, “the wisdom and frugality of that time being such, that few gentlemen made journeys to London, or any other expensive journeys, but upon important business, and their wives never.” Addison’s Tory Fox Hunter would never have come to London “unless he had been subpoenaed to it.”
Source: A Handbook for London, Past and Present. Peter Cunningham. Published by John Murray 1849.
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