Coaching days and coaching ways . ore her bedroom windows. After the virgin queencame James I., who liked the solitudes which surroundedthe Salisbury of those days, for the two-fold reason, firstly,because they saved him in a large measure from the in-vasion of importunate suitors (who were afraid of havingtheir purses taken on Salisbury Plain before they couldproffer their supplications), and, secondly, because theywere well stocked with all sorts of game on which hecould wreak his royal and insatiable appetite for open nature of the country might perhaps beadded as another reason
Coaching days and coaching ways . ore her bedroom windows. After the virgin queencame James I., who liked the solitudes which surroundedthe Salisbury of those days, for the two-fold reason, firstly,because they saved him in a large measure from the in-vasion of importunate suitors (who were afraid of havingtheir purses taken on Salisbury Plain before they couldproffer their supplications), and, secondly, because theywere well stocked with all sorts of game on which hecould wreak his royal and insatiable appetite for open nature of the country might perhaps beadded as another reason for the sporting kings liking THE EXETER KoAD 12 for the place : for James was no horseman, and as hewas in no danger of meeting a hedge in an area of thirtymiles, the going must have suited him down to the I do not doubt, but that in ghostly form he stillfollows the celebrated Tedworth on their down days,riding on an invisible horse, propped on a well-pillowedand invisible saddle, and having an invisible bottle of. ..; ^h ^\ Christmas Eve. Greek wine dangling on either side. His royal prefer-ence for Salisbury however drew a greater presence tothe place, and associated the old cathedral town with agenius whose head James cut off, but in whose presencehe was not worth}- to stand. For here came Raleigh onhis last journey to London, broken down by the shame-less ingratitude of princes, pining with the sickness of hope 124 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS deferred. Here he sought a last interview and explana-tion with James, who sent word that he was sorry, butwas hunting ; here he tried to gain time for his suit(foreseeing the Tower atthe end of his journey to London)by feigning sickness by the aid of a French quack ; failingof course to move his drunken and hunting masterscompassion in the least ; here he wrote his apology forthe voyage to Guinea ; and hence he started on hislast journey from Salisbury to London, the last of manyjourneys up the Exeter Road, from th
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