Coaching days and coaching ways . a fewmiles, just to get us clear of London, when I shall go offthe York Road, so far as its history is concerned, andtell here of some great northern coachmen, and somegreat northern catastrophes. The York Road then, which goes by way of Ware,runs through Shoreditch, Stoke Newington, StamfordHill to Tottenham, and so into Edmonton, throughwhich place John Gilpin, Esq., passed at the rate ofsixty miles an hour. The world has made itself ac- U 290 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS quainted with that famous ride. But now Edmontongains as much fame perhaps from havi
Coaching days and coaching ways . a fewmiles, just to get us clear of London, when I shall go offthe York Road, so far as its history is concerned, andtell here of some great northern coachmen, and somegreat northern catastrophes. The York Road then, which goes by way of Ware,runs through Shoreditch, Stoke Newington, StamfordHill to Tottenham, and so into Edmonton, throughwhich place John Gilpin, Esq., passed at the rate ofsixty miles an hour. The world has made itself ac- U 290 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS quainted with that famous ride. But now Edmontongains as much fame perhaps from having been the resi-dence of Charles Lamb as from Cowpers humorous few miles further on and we are at Enfield Highway,and in the neighbourhood of that celebrated Chasewhere once our kings and queens used to disport them-selves, but where now the jerry builder and the credulousagriculturist who believes in small holdings labour dayby day. James I. was here hunting on an extremelywet day, on his royal progress up to London, and. t \ 1 , V rlij\\ » I The George and Vulture, Tottenham. curiously, as it seems to me for such an acute sportsman,was much disconcerted by the showers. I had thoughtthat a southerly wind and a rainy sky realized thehunters ideal ; but I suppose that Jamess padded saddlegot wet, certain it is that he broke up the hunt longbefore he had a chance of breaking up the stag, andretired to London in the worst of moods. And I hopethe Earl of Northumberland, who rode on his right hand,and the Earl of Nottingham who rode upon his left,properly appreciated their positions. THE YORK ROAD 291 The first of the Stuarts (so far as England is con-cerned) was in Enfield Chase again in 1606, but he hada better time on this occasion. He was entertained atTheobalds by Cecil, and was in the company of a first-class boon companion in the person of the King ofDenmark. These two often, I apprehend, woke thenight owl with a catch in Cecils lordly halls, which theKing already ha
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