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he enjoyed the luxury of a "spacious and clean parlour", he was often in the "public parlours"; and this was all the more remarkable because of the great disparity which then existed between the grand bedrooms and dining-rooms of historic houses and the cold, draughty, ill-lit "gallery chamber" where
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1148:“If my journals should remain legible, or be perused at the end of 200 years", he writes elsewhere, "there will, even then, be little curious in them relative to travel, or the people; because our island is now so explored; our roads, in general, are so fine; and our speed has reach'd the summit".
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England and Wales in the summer months of 1781–1794. After this time he gave up his journeyings, feeling he was too old to cover so many miles on horseback with only a servant to accompany him and sometimes to ride on ahead to book the inn for the next night's stay. This
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and expressed a strong dislike for
Scotland. He lamented that Scotland seemed to be taking over England: “like their native thistles, they never can be weeded out”. He was a countryman at heart, far happier fishing and shooting than endeavouring to adapt himself to the airs and graces of polite
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Byng had not only his own parlour, where he could eat privately, but was also provided with his own lockable chest of drawers (complete with "nightcap, shirts, fishing-tackle") and with grazing for his horse while he was in London. Though at
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On his travels Byng displays the training and attitude of a retired Army officer (subsequently, from 1782 to 1799, a
Commissioner of Stamps) together with the intellectual outlook of an antiquary steeped from his schooldays in
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Scotland though he may have been acquainted with that country. He travelled through the Midlands in 1774 without leaving any record of his impressions, returning there in 1789/90.
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it is called a "gentleman's supper", at 1/9d. Wine, the cost varying with the quantity consumed, was an additional charge. Also additional were the horses' hay and corn, which generally cost 3/6d to 4/-.
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Now I should be glad to ask of our
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and decided not to have any of it – plastering it down "for the next comer", and adding caustically that "it was not the first time of the lids being removed". A good "
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he so frequently had to spend the night. In the era of inns and alehouses, hotels had scarcely come into existence (though there was one at
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and, when they are lighted up on a dark night, look most luminously beautiful". Politically, however, he dreaded revolution or even
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Elizabeth Byng (15 August 1770 – July 1843), who on 31 October 1805 married Robert Gregge-Hopwood
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A Tour into Bedfordshire, 1790, Luton Central Library.
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Tour to the West, 1781, Bodleian Library, Oxford (
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636:21) June 1788, Cambridge University Library (
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173:for most of his lifetime (until 1812), was a
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2115:Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain
1873:, ed. Bothaina Abd-El-Hamid Mohamed, 1958.
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667:A Tour into Kent, 1790, in private hands.
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