As for driven game shooting and its origins. It grew along with SXS design in a mutually influencing spiral. It was not always so. A look at muzzle loading period paintings shows British folk hunting, as opposed to shooting, over dogs, equipped with game bags to carry their game themselves, with no help from servants. It is hard to condemn someone who hunts alone and bags reasonable numbers of game for the pot. Also hard to depict him as a "class enemy".