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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
22
We
could
not
well
exaggerate
the
difficulties
which
encompassed
travellers
at
this
early
period.
As
yet
there
were
but
one
or
two
main
roads.
Even
in
the
neighbourhood
of
the
metropolis,
and
certainly
in
all
the
remote
parts
of
the
country,
the
roads
were
not
unlike
broad
ditches,
much
waterworn
and
strewn
with
loose
stones.
Travellers
had
no
choice
but
to
ride
on
horseback
or
walk.
Everybody
who
could
afford
it
rode.
The
sovereign
and
all
gentlefolk
rode.
Judges
rode
the
circuit
in
jackboots.
Ladies
rode
on
pillions
fixed
on
the
horse,
and
generally
behind
some
relative
or
serving-man.
In
this
way
Queen
Elizabeth,
when
she
rode
into
the
city,
placed
herself
behind
her
Lord
Chancellor.
The
wagon
was
an
invention
of
the
period.
It
was
a
rude
contrivance;
nothing,
in
fact,
but
a
cart
without
springs,
the
body
of
it
resting
solidly
upon
the
axles.
The
first
conveyance
of
this
sort
was
constructed
for
the
Queen's
own
use,
and
in
it
she
journeyed
to
open
Parliament.[8]
Elizabeth
rode
in
it
but
on
this
one
occasion,
and
has
left
behind
her
a
curious
and
most
graphic
account
of
her
sufferings
during
the
journey,
in
a
letter,
written
in
the
old
French
of
that
period,
to
the
French
ambassador
at
her
court,
who
seems
to
have
suggested
the
improvement
to
her.
The
wagon,
which
had
been
originally
contrived
for
ladies,
now
that
the
Queen
discarded
it,
was
not
brought
into
great
use
during
her
reign.
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