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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[ No. 5. 
more than three Passengers an extra Chaise to be 
provided. 
Fare to and from London £1 8s. Od. Trowbridge, 
£1 6s. Od. Devizes £1 2s. 6d. One half to be paid 
at Booking, the other at entering the machine. Inside 
passengers allowed 10lb. wt., all above Three Half- 
pence per pound from Frome as usual. The Coach 
will set out from the Crown Inn in Frome, at Ten 
o’clock in the evening of every Sunday, Tuesday, and 
Thursday ; and from the Bull Inn, in Holborne, Lon- 
don, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evening, 
at the same Hour. — Books are kept, Plaees taken, 
and Parcels received, at the Christopher in Wells, the 
George in Shepton, the Crown in Frome, the Wool- 
pack in Trowbridge, and the Bull in Holborne, Lon- 
don; calls going in and coming out, at the White 
Bear Inn, Piccadilly, and the new White Horse Cellar. 
Perform’d by 
R. Messerer, at the Crown, at Thatcham, 
and 
J. Hircucock, at the Catherine Wheel, Beckhampton. 
“N. B. No Jewels, Plate, Money, Writings, or 
other things of Value, will be paid for if lost, unless 
enter’d as such, and paid for accordingly.” 
With regard to G.G.’s Query as to the time 
occupied in the journey of Schultz from Colchester 
to London, do not the circumstances sufficiently 
prove that by some means siz must have been 
written for sixteen? Sixteen hours would give a 
rate of travelling nearer the average of those days, 
and was about the time occupied on the return to 
Colchester. For if we allow a due time after 
twelve for dinner, settling accounts, and going to 
the inn whence the “ Stats-Kutsche” started, and 
for partaking of the meal there provided, we shall 
very easily get to seven or eight in the evening ; 
sixteen hours after that time would be * towards 
noon” in the following day. A. D. M. 
PRISON DISCIPLINE AND EXECUTION OF JUSTICE. 
Sir, —I am glad that you devote some part of 
your columns to the good work of bringing for- 
ward facts and anecdotes which, though not gene- 
rally known, your readers individually may have 
happened to notice, and which illustrate the 
manners of our ancestors. I dare say few of your 
correspondents have met with the London Magazine 
for the year 1741. An imperfect copy fell into 
my hands when a lad; ever since which time I 
have been in a state of great wonderment at the 
story contained in the leaf which I enclose. I need 
hardly say that the italics are mine; and perhaps 
they are hardly necessary. Yours, &e., | Burra. 
* Tuxspay, 21 [June]. 
“A very extraordinary Affair happen’d at the 
County Gaol in Hertford, where four Highwaymen, 
very stout lusty Fellows, viz. Theophilus Dean, Charles 
Cox (alias Bacon-Face), James Smith, and Luke 
Humphrys, lay under Sentence of Death, pass’d on 
them the last Assizes, and were intended to have been 
executed the following Day; Mr. Oxenton, the Gaoler, 
who keeps an Inn opposite to the Prison, went into the 
Gaol about four a Clock in the Morning, as was his 
Custom, attended by three Men, to see if all was safe, 
and, having lock’d the outward Door, sent one of his 
Men down to the Dungeon, where the four Felons had 
found means to disengage themselves from the Pillar 
and Chain to which they had ‘been lock’d down, and 
one of them, viz. Bacon-Face, had got off both his 
Hand-Cuffs and Fetters; on opening the Door, they 
disabled the Man and all rush’d out; then coming up 
Stairs they met the Gaoler and his other two Men, of 
whom they demanded the Keys, threatening to murder 
them if their request was not immediately comply’d 
with: they then forced his men into the Yard beyond 
the Hatchway, and a Battle ensu’d, in which the 
Gaoler behay’d so manfully, tho’ he had but one Man 
to assist him, that he maintain’d the Possession of his 
Keys till he was heard by his Wife, then in Bed, to 
eal! out for Assistance, who fortunately having another 
Key to the Gaol, ran to rescue him; the Fellows saw 
her coming and demanded her Key, threatening to 
murder her if she offer’d to assist her Husband: By 
this ‘Time the Neighbourhood was alarm’d, and several 
Persons got to the Gaol Door, when Mrs. Oxenton, 
notwithstanding their Threats, at the utmost Hazard 
of her Life, open’d the same and caught hold of her 
Husband, who was almost spent, and, with the Assist- 
ance of some Persons, got him out and lock’d the Door 
without suffering the Fellows to escape: They con- 
tinued cursing and swearing that they would murder 
the first Man that attempted to enter the Gaol. In 
the mean Time Robert Hadsley, Esq., High-Sheriff, 
who lives about a Mile from the Town, was sent for, 
and came immediately; he parley'd with them some 
Time to no Purpose, then’ order’d Fire-Arms to be 
brought, and, in ease they would not submit, to shoot 
at them, which these Desperadoes refusing to do, they 
accordingly fired on them, and Theophilus Dean re- 
ceiving a Shot in the Groin, dropt; then they surren- 
der’d, and the Sheriff instantly caus’d Bacon-Face to 
be hang’d on the Arch of the Sign Iron belonging to the 
Gaoler’s House, in the Sight of his Companions and 
great Numbers of People; the other three were directly 
put into a Cart and carried to the usual Place of 
Execution, and there hang’d before seven a Cloek that 
Morning.”——Lond. Mag. July, 1741, p. 360. 
SATIRICAL MEDAL OF THE PRETENDER. 
T am well acquainted with the medal described 
by Mr. Nightingale, and can confirm his state- 
ment of the difficulties which numismatists have 
experienced in attempting to explain the circum- 
stances alluded to by the lobster which is the 
badge of “the order of the pretended Prince of 
Wales,” and upon which, on the other side of the 
medal, Father Petre is represented as riding with 
the young prince in his arms. Upon other medals 
also the Jesuit appears carrying the prince, who 
is decorated, or amusing himself, with a windmill. 
There is likewise 2 medal on which a Jesuit is 
represented concealed within a closet or altar, and 
