Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . nscription to him as a token of gratitude forbenefits received from his system. A thirdtribute was the j)aintini; by George Robertson,engraved l)y Januvs bitthn, and inscribed, curi-ously, to him as Comptroller-G(MUMal, in ISOo,eleven years after he had ceased to hold thatposition. He also rectMved the freedom of (Mi;hteencities and towns in recognition of his publicservices, was ]\layor of Hath in 171X) and ]S01,and rejncsented that city in tin* four Parliamentsof 1801, 1802, 1800, and 1807. il(^ died at]?rii;h
Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . nscription to him as a token of gratitude forbenefits received from his system. A thirdtribute was the j)aintini; by George Robertson,engraved l)y Januvs bitthn, and inscribed, curi-ously, to him as Comptroller-G(MUMal, in ISOo,eleven years after he had ceased to hold thatposition. He also rectMved the freedom of (Mi;hteencities and towns in recognition of his publicservices, was ]\layor of Hath in 171X) and ]S01,and rejncsented that city in tin* four Parliamentsof 1801, 1802, 1800, and 1807. il(^ died at]?rii;hton in 1818, in his seventy-sixth year. Hisbody was conveyed to Eath and laid in the AbbeyChurch ; but no monument marks the spot, andit is only recently that his residence at RoyalCircus, and his birthplace in his native city, havebeen ideutitled to the wayfarer by inscribedtablets. The very earliest mail-coaches were ill made,and were continually breakin;;- down. Althoui^hthe coaches themselves were supplicnl by thecontractors, and the Post Othce was not concerned ^ - v^^<. J^aJ^^u^^ JOHN 1AJ,AIJ;U IN HIS ToTJI YKAK. lu-o,n an ,,tdd,;j hy Ihi lion. Martha Jtrvu. THE EARL V MAIL- CO A CHES 17 7 in their cost, it was very closely interested intheir efficiency; and so, early in 1787, Palmerhad already represented to the contractors thatthe mails mnst be conveyed by more reliablecoaches. The Comptroller-General, he wrote to onecontractor, has to complain not only of thequality of the horses employed on the Bristol Mail,but as well of their harness and the accoutrementsin use, whose defects have several times delayedthe Bath and Bristol and London letters, and haveeven led to the conveyance Ijeing overset, to theimminent peril of the passengers. Instructionshave been issued l)y the Comptroller for new setsof harness to be supplied to the several coaches innse on this road, for which accounts will be sentyou by the harness-makers. Mr. Palmer has alsounder consideration, for the
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