LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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The Post-Boys Frontispiece 



Setting Out i 



The Lower Ship Inn at Reading 2 



Waiting for the Stage Coach. 5 



The Bear at Reading : " its days are gone ! " . . 6 



A Breakdown : Taking on the Mails . . . : I'i 



True — every word of it i - 



St. Mary's Butts, Reading 15 



A Winter Day's Amusement 19 



Newbury Bridge -i 



The Jack of Newbury 24 



The Sign of the Angel, Woolhampton 25 



Henry the Eighth and the Abbot of Reading 27 



Doctor Swift and Bolingbroke 30 



The Old Angel at Theale V- 



Courtyard of Angel, Woolhampton 34 



The King's Head, Thatcham 35 



Shaw House, Newbury 36 



Littlecote 37 



The White Hart, Thatcham 38 



Great Chatfield Manor, near Bath 39 



Littlecote Hall 4^ 



Haunted Room, Littlecote 44 



