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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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He
was
clothed
in
black,
and
appointed
in
all
things
like
another
St
George.
He
had
a
brave
Montero
on
his
head,
and
was
a
merry
fellow,
fancied
he
made
a
figure,
and
seemed
mightily
pleased
with
himself."
Unlike
travelling
in
the
present
day,
when
one
may
go
100
miles
in
a
railway
carriage
without
speaking
to
a
fellow-passenger,
the
journey
in
the
old-fashioned
waggon
brought
all
the
travellers
too
close
and
too
long
together
to
admit
of
individual
isolation,
for
the
passengers
might
be
associated
for
days
together
as
companions,
had
to
take
their
refreshment
together,
lived
as
it
were
in
common,
and
it
was
even
the
custom
to
elect
a
chairman
at
the
outset
to
preside
over
the
company
during
the
journey.
But
the
stage-coach
gradually
became
the
established
public
conveyance
of
the
country,
improving
in
its
construction
and
its
rate
of
progression
as
the
improved
state
of
the
roads
admitted
of
and
encouraged
such
improvement.
Still,
compared
with
the
stage-coaches
of
the
best
period,
travelling
by
the
earlier
stage-coaches
was
a
sorry
achievement.
Here
is
an
advertisement
of
stage-coaches
of
the
year
1658:--
"From
the
26th
April
there
will
continue
to
go
stage-coaches
from
the
George
Inn,
without
Aldersgate,
London,
unto
the
several
cities
and
towns,
for
the
rates
and
at
the
times
hereafter
mentioned
and
declared:--
"Every
Monday,
Wednesday,
and
Friday--To
Salisbury,
in
two
days,
for
xx.
s.;
to
Blandford
and
Dorchester,
in
two
days
and
half,
for
xxx.
s.;
to
Burput,
in
three
days,
for
xxx.
s.;
to
Exmister,
Hunnington,
and
Exeter,
in
four
days,
for
xl.
s.;
to
Stamford,
in
two
days,
for
xx.
s.;
...
to
York,
in
four
days,
for
xl.
s."
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