30 This question is separate from that of the accuracy of King’s estimates. It is thought by some historians that King undercounted the upper ranks and underestimated incomes of those at the bottom. See G. S. Holmes, “Gregory King and the Social Structure of Pre-Industrial England,” RHST (1977).
31 Daniel Defoe, Review, 14 April 1705.
32Ibid., 25 June 1709, quoted in Dorothy George, London Life in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1965), 370n.
33 Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (New York, 1976), 51.