Coaching days and coaching ways . The Two Brewers, Ponders End. justed rakishly, his melting glances fastened, now on hisnext team already fuming in the traces, now on theBarnet Hebe as hopelessly, alas ! in the toils. Take your seats, gentlemen, please. And Barnet is soon a memory on the great north memory however which shows some claim to recollec-tion dear, fixing as it does the site of a great battle,and of a highwaymans exploits, which have occupiedalmost the same space in history—I mean fiction—No !I mean history. To come to details :—On HadleyGreen, half-a-mile to the north of th
Coaching days and coaching ways . The Two Brewers, Ponders End. justed rakishly, his melting glances fastened, now on hisnext team already fuming in the traces, now on theBarnet Hebe as hopelessly, alas ! in the toils. Take your seats, gentlemen, please. And Barnet is soon a memory on the great north memory however which shows some claim to recollec-tion dear, fixing as it does the site of a great battle,and of a highwaymans exploits, which have occupiedalmost the same space in history—I mean fiction—No !I mean history. To come to details :—On HadleyGreen, half-a-mile to the north of the town, was fought 288 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS. At the Cross Roads. THE YORK ROAD 289 on a raw, cold and dismal Easter Day, in the year 1471,the famous battle between the Houses of York andLancaster which ended in the death of the king-maker,and established Edward IV. upon the throne ; and behindan oak tree, which still stands opposite the Green Manat the junction of the York and Holyhead Roads, theimmortal Dick Turpin used to sit silent on his mare,Black Bess, patiently waiting for some traveller to speakto. The battle has been celebrated by Lord Lytton inThe Last of the Barons, perhaps as fine an account of amediaeval set to as can be found out of Scott. Thenoble author lived at Copped Hall, near Totteridge, andoften used to pay visits to the scene. The Highwaymanhas been immortalized by Harrison Ainsworth. Did henot write in one nights sitting the whole series of chapters—I dont know how many there are—should not like tosay how many there are not—in which is set forth insuch stirring form the celebrated ride to York ? Cert
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