Aristocrats: Power, Grace, and Decadence: Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present by James Lawrence

Author:James, Lawrence [James, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781429982788
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

For the aristocracy and gentry, the enforcement of the Game Laws was the defence of their legitimate property rights, their prestige in the countryside and the sovereignty of the law. On a personal level, they were protecting what gave them infinite pleasure: hunting was still the aristocracy’s prime source of diversion. It was enjoyed to the full by Joseph Addison’s country squire Sir Roger de Coverley, who, in the pages of The Spectator, chased hares at least twice a week. Addison found the exercise invigorating:

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