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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



To complete the chronicle of the guests at the Anchor 

 — for I am still twenty-six miles and two furlongs from 

 Portsmouth — maybe named King George the Third and 

 Queen Charlotte, the Duke of Clarence, afterwards 

 William the Fourth. The allied sovereigns after the 

 campaign of 18 15, in company with Blucher and the 

 Duchess of Oldenburg. The Queen of Spain and the 

 Queen of Portugal. Liberty Wilkes, who used to lie 

 here on his journeys to and from Sandown, and lastly 

 the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria. There 







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The Anchor, Liphook. 



is a Court Circular flavour about this list which entitles 

 the Anchor, I think, to its epithet of Royal, and Mr. 

 Peake thinks so too. 



To leave him and his fine old house behind us, and to 

 descend from kings to coachmen, the eight miles between 

 Liphook and Petersfield — the next change — was the 

 scene of a race between two coaches, or rather between 

 three, which might have ended in a casualty of no 

 common order, but didn't, thanks about equall}% I should 

 suppose, to good luck and good management. Mr. 



