Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . ) 233 17. In Time for the Coach. (After C. Cooper Henderson, 1848) 243 18. Stuck Fast. {After C. Cooper Henderson, 1834) . 267 19. The Reading Telegraph passing Windsor Castle. (After J. Pollard) 297 20. The Exeter Mail, 1809. (After J. A. Atkinson) . 301 21. The Brighton Comet, 1836. (After J. Pollard) . 307 22. Matthews Patent Safety Coaches on the Brighton Road 3^3 23. A Coach-Breakfast. (After J. Pollard) . . 349 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT FAGF. Vignette (Title-page) Preface .......... vii List of Illustrations x
Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . ) 233 17. In Time for the Coach. (After C. Cooper Henderson, 1848) 243 18. Stuck Fast. {After C. Cooper Henderson, 1834) . 267 19. The Reading Telegraph passing Windsor Castle. (After J. Pollard) 297 20. The Exeter Mail, 1809. (After J. A. Atkinson) . 301 21. The Brighton Comet, 1836. (After J. Pollard) . 307 22. Matthews Patent Safety Coaches on the Brighton Road 3^3 23. A Coach-Breakfast. (After J. Pollard) . . 349 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT FAGF. Vignette (Title-page) Preface .......... vii List of Illustrations xi Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore . . iArms of the Worshipful Company of Coach and Harness Makers 12 Epigiam Scratched with a Diamond-ring on a Window-pane by Dean Swift . . . .46 Old Coaching Bill, Preserved at the Black Swan, York 75Old Birmingham Coaching Bill . . .81Coaching Advertisement from the Edinburgh Courant, 1754 89 One of Three Mail-coach Halfpennies struck at Bath, 1797 173 Moses James Nobbs, the Last of the Mail-guaids . 265 /A\KiB/;jA\/ao[!3. CHAPTER I THE INTRODUCTION OF CARRIAGES Ah! sure it was a coat of steel,Or good tough oak, he wore,Who first unto the ticklish wheelGan harness horses four. The lines quoted above are not remarkably goodas poetry. Nay, it is possible to go farther, and tosay that they are exceptionally bad—the productof one of those corn-box poets who were accus-tomed to speak of steam as a demon foul ; butif his lines are bad verse, the central idea is man who first essayed to drive four-in-handmust indeed have been more than usually To form anything at all like an adequate ideaof the Coaching Age, it is first necessary todiscover how people travelled before that agedawned. As a picture is made by contrastedlight and shade, so is the story of the coachingyoL. I, 1 1 2 STAGE-COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE period only to be properly set forth by firstnarrating how journeys were made from place toplace before the continuous h
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