ABSTRACT
It should seem to me, from my (trivial) observations, that noblemen and gentlemen have almost abandon’d the country … and that dowagers have gone away … and that as that encreasing Wen, the metropolis, must be fed the body will gradually decay … Many landowners, especially among the politically active magnates, spend only a modest amount of time on their estates, and in this respect were much more urban in character … than is commonly allowed.
