The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . of families, and that thence arises the term Hackney Coaches. This appears quite futile ; the word Hackney, as applied toa hireling, is traced to a remote British origin, and was cer-tainly used in its present sense long before that village becameconspicuous for wealth or population. In 1637 the number of Hackney Coaches in London wasconfined to 50, in 1652 to 200, in 1654 to 300, in 1662 to 400,in 1694 to 700, in 1710 to 800, in 1771 to 1000, and in 1802to 1100. In imitation of our Hackney Coaches,
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . of families, and that thence arises the term Hackney Coaches. This appears quite futile ; the word Hackney, as applied toa hireling, is traced to a remote British origin, and was cer-tainly used in its present sense long before that village becameconspicuous for wealth or population. In 1637 the number of Hackney Coaches in London wasconfined to 50, in 1652 to 200, in 1654 to 300, in 1662 to 400,in 1694 to 700, in 1710 to 800, in 1771 to 1000, and in 1802to 1100. In imitation of our Hackney Coaches, NicholasSauvage introduced the Fiacres at Paris, in the year hammer-cloth is an ornamental covering of the S. Pegge says, The Coachman formerly used to carry ahammer, pincers, a few nails, &c. in a leathern pouch hangingto his box, and this cloth was devised for the hiding of themfrom public view. See Pegges Anonymiana, p. 181. It is said that the sum of £1500, arising from the duty onHackney Coaches, was applied in part of the expense in re-building Temple VII. Those persons who remember old Newgate, the GateHouse at Westminster, and other places of confinement, willrecollect how small and inconvenient those buildings were,and must acknowledge the very great improvements as tothe extensive accommodation of aU our Prisons, not onl)^in London, but in almost every county in England; and forthese very great improvements no one could have stood moreforward than the benevolent Howard. It is to him the publicowe extensiveness of building, separations in the prisons forthe various criminals, and most liberal supply of fresh his time there have been few jail distempers, as theprisoners have spacious yards to walk in, and by thus beingexposed to fresh air are kept free from fevers and otherdisorders incidental to places of confinement. Let any onewho recollects old Newgate survey the present structure, andhe will be highly gratifie
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