Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . on the road only eight nightsinstead of thirteen, innkeepers on that route musthave lost much custom in the course of the innkeepers on other roads gloomily heard ofthese improvements, thought the times moved agreat deal too rapidly, and talked of the good olddays when travelling was safe and respectable, andan honest licensed victualler could earn a these good folks were, no doubt, greatly re-lieved when this sudden burst of coaching enter- COACHING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 89 prise died
Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . on the road only eight nightsinstead of thirteen, innkeepers on that route musthave lost much custom in the course of the innkeepers on other roads gloomily heard ofthese improvements, thought the times moved agreat deal too rapidly, and talked of the good olddays when travelling was safe and respectable, andan honest licensed victualler could earn a these good folks were, no doubt, greatly re-lieved when this sudden burst of coaching enter- COACHING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 89 prise died away, as it presently did, either becausethe proprietors had undertaken to perform morethan they coukl do, or j^ossihly for the reason thatthey had come to an agreement not to force thepace or cut the fares. Such rivalries and suchsubsequent agreements were in after years themerest commonplaces of coaching history, and ifwe seek them here we shall probably lie by wayof explaining the falling-off that left its tracestwenty and thirty years later in the followingannouncement:—. THE EDINBURGHSTAGE-COACH,for the better Accommodation of Pailen-gers, will be altered to a new genteel Two-endGlafe Machine, hung on Steel Springs, exceedinglight and eafy, to go in ten Days in Summer andtwelve in VVinier, to fet out the firft Tuefday inMarch, and continue it from Hofea Eaftgates, theCoach and Horfes in Dean-ftreer, Soho, LON-DON, and from John Somervells in the Canongate, Edinburgh, every other Tuefday, and raeeiat Burrow-bndge on Saturday Night, and fet outfrom thence on Monday Morning, and get toLondon and Edinburgh on Friday. In the Win-terao fet out from London and Edinburgh everyother Monday Morning, and to get to Burrow-bridge on Saturday Night; and to fet out fromthence on Monday Morning, and get to Londonand Edinburgh on Saturday Night. ? PafFengers topay as ufual. Performd, if God permits, by yourdutiful Servant, HOSE A EASTGATE. Care is taken of fmall Parcels, paying according
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