My 19th-century blogger, Miss Frances Williams Wynn, is today musing on how manners of the day have declined from those of the 18th century, and in the process reproduces a couple of little gems from that era.
The first expresses concern about the danger of the road between St Albans and London in 1714 – with word around that “Prichard the Highwayman” is on the prowl.
The second is from 1729, early in the reign of George II, when much scorn is being expressed about the “German” economies being practiced at court.
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