![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() London soon became the centre of a burgeoning demand for foreign delicacies, and new and tantalizing tastes. The proclamations were largely ignored, though, and the well-to-do flocked to fashionable London - to its theatres, coffee shops and markets. This absence from home provoked Parliament to issue proclamations urging landowners not to shirk their duties, but to to return home. From the beginning of the seventeenth century this affluence (for the few at least) enabled more trade and travel abroad, and more visits to the capital, allowing foreign influences and the fashions of the Court to spread. Medieval monastic ideas of managing the land were swept away, and new and prosperous estates created. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the previous century, vast swathes of land were sold off and developed by landowners, creating a new breed of landed gentry. ![]()
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