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In [821, then, there set out for Salisbury, from the 

 Angel, St. Clement's, what was known as the Post Coach, 

 which started at 7 in the morning daily, and arrived at 

 the White Hart, Salisbury, at 7.30 in the evening ; from 

 the Bell and Crown, Holborn, the new and elegant Post 

 Coach, which left London every evening at 6.15, and 

 arrived at the Black Horse, Salisbury, at 6.15 next 

 morning ; from the same inn in Holborn also departed 

 at 3.30 daily, Saturdays excepted, what was known as 

 the Old Coach, which arrived at 7 the next morning at 

 the same Black Horse. Besides these, all more or less 

 known to fame, there passed through Salisbury the Royal 

 Auxiliary Mail, which started every afternoon at 6.15 

 from the Bell and Crown, Holborn, and arrived at the 

 New London Inn at Exeter at 7 next night ; the Eclipse, 

 which left the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, daily at 7.30 

 A.M. for Exeter, going by Salisbury, Blandford, 

 Dorchester, and Bridport ; also the Royal Mail to 

 Exeter, which left the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, 

 every evening at 7.30, and going by the same route as the 

 last coach, arrived at the New London Inn at Exeter at 

 9.30 next morning ; also the Regulator, whose acquaint- 

 ance we have made already, which reached Exeter from 

 London in twenty-six hours, starting daily at 3 o'clock in 

 the afternoon from the same celebrated London house. 

 Nor was the Weymouth Union, which left the Saracen's 

 Head, Snow Hill, every afternoon at 4, less known in 

 the streets of Salisbury than any of these former ; and with 

 it the Accommodation post coach from the Swan with 

 Two Necks entered into brilliant rivalry, and leaving 

 London an hour earlier in the afternoon, arrived at 9 

 o'clock next morning at the same seaside resort. 



The names of many celebrated coaches will be found 

 missing from this list, some of which were not running 

 at the time it was made, others of which were ; but it is 

 not in my design to compile coaching statistics, for 

 statistics I abhor ; and those on coaches, as on all other 

 subjects, whether in the heavens above or on the earth 



