1. See J. McEwan & P. Sharpe, ‘“It Buys Me Freedom”: Genteel Lodging in Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London’, Parergon 24. 2, (2007), 139–61.
2. F. Place, The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771–1854), ed. by M. Thale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972), p. 111.
3. See N. Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), esp. pp. 9–11.
4. S. J. Wright, ‘Sojourners and Lodgers in a Provincial Town: The Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Ludlow’, Urban History Yearbook 17, (1990), 27.
5. On subdivision and ad-hoc building, see M. J. Daunton, ‘Housing’, in F. M. L. Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), II, p. 202.