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I don't think anybody has a clear idea what sort of accent the everyday Englishman had 250 years ago. I mean, there aren't any tape recordings from the period, are there? And you can't trust written records, because most people write more properly than they speak.
Chances are the English themselves speak substantially differently now than they did then. Plus they're more likely to have teeth now, and that can aid pronunciation.