A treatise on the use and abuse of the second, commonly called, the steward's table, in families of the first rank. In four parts. Containing, I. An Explanation of the Misteries of that sacred Divan; with a full Account of the several Arts, Lies, and Contrivances therein used to distress, and, if possible, starve the lower Class of Servants; together with the Compliments and Enquiries that pass in the giving and receiving Characters, whether from House-Keepers, House-Stewards, or Clerks of the Stable, of the separate Servants under their Inquisition. II. An Account of their Routs, Cards, Visits, and private Pleasures; kept Mistresses by the Men, and kept Husbands, or Gallants, by the Females. III. An humble Proposal to the Nobility and Gentry, who think a Nest of these Sycophants a necessary Piece of Grandeur, to place on them certain Hieroglyphical Badges, distinguishing the several Places they fill, to prevent the Lady's Woman from being called my Lady, and the Valet from being called my Lord. IV. An Attempt to prove such an Order of People to be intirely useless, and through whose Means many of the greatest Estates have been reduced, the Credit of the Nobility and Gentry diminished, and several reputable Tradesmen ruined. Concluding, with an earnest Request to every Man of great Fortune to be his own Steward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coachman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Household employees--Early works to 1800.

Household employees.

England--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.

England.

Steward--Early works to 1800.

Steward.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70p.,plate )

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Carter, the Bottom of Clerges-Street, Piccadilly; and by all the booksellers in London and Westminster, [1758]

Notes:

Signed at the end: 'A coachman'.

The plate is dated 1758.

Price from imprint: price 1s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T77173.

OCLC:

642692936