imp.
** Franklyn, p.

5 See also Lord Herbert's Memoirs.
Liberty of commerce between the sexes was indulged, but without any licentiousness of manners.

The court was very little an exception to this observation.

James had rather entertained an aversion and contempt for the females; nor were those young courtiers, of whom he was so fond, able to break through the established manners of the nation.
The first sedan chair seen in England was in this reign, and was used by the duke of Buckingham; to the great indignation of the people, who exclaimed, that he was employing his fellow-creatures to do the service of beasts.
The country life prevails at present in England beyond any cultivated nation of Europe; but it was then much more generally embraced by all the gentry.

The increase of arts, pleasures, and social commerce, was just beginning to produce an inclination for the softer and more civilized life of the city.