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coach, and I did not like it as well as travelling by the Defiance 

 or the Alert to Oxford and posting the rest of the way. Old Sir 

 Henry Peyton, grandfather of the late Sir Algernon and uncle 

 of the present Sir Thomas, presented Holmes with a silver 

 cup. The poor fellow committed suicide by jumping off a 

 steamer into the Thames. 



The longest route to Oxford is through Hounslow, Slough, 

 and Maidenhead, turning off to the right on Maidenhead 

 Thicket and through Henley fifty-eight miles. The very 

 steep hill into Henley was an objection to this road, however, 

 particularly on the up-journey. The shortest road, through 

 Tetsworth and Uxbridge, is fifty-four miles. 



On the Edinburgh Mail were Blackmore, W. Edlington, 

 George Leach, Tom Page, and Tom Holtley ; Glasgow Mail, 

 Jack Campson; Louth Mail, White, Ringrove, Lumm; Lincoln 

 Mail, Gambler ; Huntingdon coaches, Clarke, Carter, Sam 

 Speller, Rowland Berkeley ; Colchester and Norwich, Joe 

 and Tom Wiggins, Jem Flack, and Jem Fenn ; Southampton, 

 Robinson and Wignell ; Portsmouth Telegraph coach, A. 

 White, Jack Parsons, and Jack Peer. These last two men were 

 said to be able to drive the ground from London to Hounslow 

 with fewer horses than any other coachman that drove that 

 road and their name was legion for all Devonport, Exeter, 

 Bristol, Bath, some Portsmouth, Southampton, many Oxford, 

 and other coaches went that way. Some Portsmouth coaches 

 went by Kingston-on-Thames and Esher, and some Oxford 

 notably the Age, Royal William, and Old Blenheim to Wood- 

 stock went by Uxbridge. Robinson on the Blue coach to 

 Alton ; to Basingstoke, Henry Thumwood, Thomas Goodchild ; 

 Exeter, * Tim ' Carter (whose real name is Philip) ; Harbridge, 

 Hennessy; Weymouth Magnet, Matcham and W. Dove; Bath, 

 York House, Edwards, from Bath to Maryborough in morning 

 and back at night sixty-four miles a day ; Jem Adlam and 

 Jack Sprawson from Marlborough to London, or vice versa ; 

 the latter quite first class always kept his time, and neither 



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