Coaching days and coaching ways . Barry Lyndon Cracks a Bottle. was timed eighteen hours for the 175 miles, changedhorses at Salisbury, which is one of the mostpicturesque towns in the south of England, and will makea convenient halting-place for me, it being situatealmost exactly half way between Exeter and London. The town of Salisbury, which is eighty miles sevenfurlongs from Hyde Park Corner, is chiefly remarkablefor its cathedral ; and it owes this agreeable notoriety tothe north wind. This may sound strange in the earsof those who have not, attired as shepherds, highwaymen THE EXETER ROA
Coaching days and coaching ways . Barry Lyndon Cracks a Bottle. was timed eighteen hours for the 175 miles, changedhorses at Salisbury, which is one of the mostpicturesque towns in the south of England, and will makea convenient halting-place for me, it being situatealmost exactly half way between Exeter and London. The town of Salisbury, which is eighty miles sevenfurlongs from Hyde Park Corner, is chiefly remarkablefor its cathedral ; and it owes this agreeable notoriety tothe north wind. This may sound strange in the earsof those who have not, attired as shepherds, highwaymen THE EXETER ROAD 117 or huntsmen, braved the elements in the surroundingplain. Those however who have enjoyed this fortune,will not be surprised to learn, that when the winds *s ?r--< * -^. A Christmas Visitor raged in the good old days of 1220 round the originalchurch of Old Sarum, which was quite unprotected andperched upon a hill, the congregation were utterly unable u8 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS to hear the priests say mass ; and no doubt they were un-able to hear the sermon too. This fact much exercised thegood Bishop Poore; and so, a less windy site having oppor-tunely been revealed to him in a dream by the Virgin—he got a licence from Pope Honorius for done—with a mediaeval disregard for the safetyof the local cowherd or government inspector—heaimlessly shot an arrow into the air from the rampartsof Old Sarum, and (unlike Mr. Longfellows hero),having marked where it fell, there laid the foundationsof the existing beautiful church. To pass from ecclesiastical matters, with which wehave really little to do, Salisbury, from the fact of itsposition on the great thoroughfare to the west of England,has always played a prominent part in the histo
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