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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 a lady's woman from being called my lady, and the valet from being calle