Every number of The Spectator devoted to Sir Roger de Coverley is gathered here: the old Worcestershire baronet at the club, at his country house among his servants and tenants, in church, at the assizes, hunting, and on his visits to Westminster Abbey and the theatre in London. Notes explain the allusions of 1711 and 1712.
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