Coaching days and coaching ways . execution is to be seenon one of the gables of the Bell. But this dream instone must date far further back than 1649 (when nodoubt a slight restoration was here commemorated), mustdate far back I should say into the early days of theTudors ; must have seen much of the gorgeous life ofthat period of pageant pass and repass its hospitabledoors. There is an inn at Tuxford, sixty-two milesfurther on the road to York, which stands on the site ofan old house called the Crown, which must very greatlyhave resembled the Bell at Stilton. I make mention ofit here because
Coaching days and coaching ways . execution is to be seenon one of the gables of the Bell. But this dream instone must date far further back than 1649 (when nodoubt a slight restoration was here commemorated), mustdate far back I should say into the early days of theTudors ; must have seen much of the gorgeous life ofthat period of pageant pass and repass its hospitabledoors. There is an inn at Tuxford, sixty-two milesfurther on the road to York, which stands on the site ofan old house called the Crown, which must very greatlyhave resembled the Bell at Stilton. I make mention ofit here because some of the Crowns history has been 33° COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS preserved, and the Bell must have had as full and verysimilar a record. To this Crown then at Tuxford (itwas destroyed by a violent tempest in 1587) cameMargaret Tudor on her journey to the north. She wasmet by the vicar and churchmen near where the rebelstone is now standing, the bells rang merrily tillmidnight, and large fires kept burning in the market-.
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