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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



Here after a brief consultation with Robert Winter, 

 who was staying in the house (it still stands in all its 

 gloomy suggestiveness, this home of England's most 

 desperate conspirator), they rode off hastily on the same 

 tired horses to join Sir Everard Digby and the pretended 

 hunting gathering on Dunsmoor Heath which the direct 



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road to Holyhead still crosses at the eighty-fifth mile- 

 stone from London. 



Their further wild course through Warwickshire to 

 Holbeach on the Staffordshire border calls here for no 

 telling, as it is no longer associated with the Road. But so 

 intimately associated with the Gunpowder Treason does 

 the way to Holyhead seem that though its history is 



