Coaching days and coaching ways . - - ^. t r* The An^cl, Grantham. (to come to details), the Knights Templars are supposedto have been at the foundation of the whole affair. This THE YORK ROAD 327 however I think is an allegory—but what is quite certainabout the place is that it was undoubtedly one of thoseMaisons du Roi, as they were called, which in days goneby, when the roads still had life in them, were placed atthe special service of kings and their retinues as theypassed here and there through England on royal pro-gresses or quelling insurrections. Perhaps indeed aswell-known an hi
Coaching days and coaching ways . - - ^. t r* The An^cl, Grantham. (to come to details), the Knights Templars are supposedto have been at the foundation of the whole affair. This THE YORK ROAD 327 however I think is an allegory—but what is quite certainabout the place is that it was undoubtedly one of thoseMaisons du Roi, as they were called, which in days goneby, when the roads still had life in them, were placed atthe special service of kings and their retinues as theypassed here and there through England on royal pro-gresses or quelling insurrections. Perhaps indeed aswell-known an historical event as can be chronicled—(not an important historical event because they are as arule not well known)—took place in the three fine sittingrooms, which were then one room, over the entrancegateway of this celebrated inn. For here, on October19th, 1485, Richard the Third signed the death-warrantof the Duke of Buckingham. This in itself is an appe-tizing fact to an imaginative traveller. > It is not often Ifancy that on
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