Coaching days and coaching ways . and that is a fair average of crime formileage, as I think most people will admit. The old Portsmouth Road, as appears above, is mea-sured from the Surrey side of the water ; and it wasfrom the Surrey side that old-fashioned visitors toPortsmouth started. Pcpys, in 1668, having receivedorders to go down to Portsmouth in his official capacity,and having gone through the usual formalities of goingto bed, waking betimes, &c, &c, discovered suddenlythat his wife (who no doubt suspected junketings onthe part of the susceptible Samuel) had resolved at anhours warnin
Coaching days and coaching ways . and that is a fair average of crime formileage, as I think most people will admit. The old Portsmouth Road, as appears above, is mea-sured from the Surrey side of the water ; and it wasfrom the Surrey side that old-fashioned visitors toPortsmouth started. Pcpys, in 1668, having receivedorders to go down to Portsmouth in his official capacity,and having gone through the usual formalities of goingto bed, waking betimes, &c, &c, discovered suddenlythat his wife (who no doubt suspected junketings onthe part of the susceptible Samuel) had resolved at anhours warning to go too. So Samuel first of all senther mentally to the deuce, and then to Lambeth, whereshe embarked in a coach. Samuel, after having ad-journed to St. Jamess and remarked God be withyou to a Mr. Wren (who surely ought to have remarkedit to Samuel, considering the state of the PortsmouthRoad), went over the water to what he calls Fox Mall,where he ingeniously intercepted the coach containing THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD i5». The Angel, Guildford. 152 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS his wife ; and in due course lost his way for three orfour miles about Cobham, at the very moment when hewas hoping to be seated at dinner at Guildford. In 1668 the Portsmouth and Guildford Machines leftLondon (as the South-Western Railway leaves it now,but not quite so quickly) by Vauxhall, Battersea,Wandsworth, and so on to Putney Heath ; and so theroute is marked in Careys Itinerary. In more moderntimes however the Portsmouth coaches felt it incumbentupon them to appear (like everything else that wasfashionable) in Piccadilly, and, starting from the WhiteBear, made the best of their way to Putney withouttroubling to cross the Thames till they got there. Most of us connect Putney in our minds with theOxford and Cambridge boat-race, and attempts more or-less successful to see it ; but the place has a historyother than an aquatic one—was indeed the birthplace oftwo very celebrated men, and the scene o
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