250 DRIVING. 



ALL that are desirous to pass from LONDON 

 to YORK, or any other place on their road, let 

 them repair to the 'BLACK SWAN,' HOLBORN, in 

 LONDON, and the 'BLACK SWAN' in CONEY 

 STREET, YORK, at both which places they may be 

 received in a STAGE COACH every MONDAY, 

 WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, which performs the whole 

 journey in four days (if God permits), and sets forth at 

 five in the morning, and returns from York to Stamford 

 in two days, and Stamford to Huntingdon in two days 

 more, and the other like stages on their return, allowing 

 each passenger 14 pounds weight, and all above 3 pence 

 per pound. 



C B. KINGMAN. 

 Performed by^ H. HAINSFORD. 



LW. BAYNES. 



affairs of the road, and were often seen 'at work.' The 

 natural outcome of the taste for driving was the founding of the 

 Bensington (Oxonice Benson) Driving Club, which was institu- 

 ted on February 28, 1807. 'Nimrod ' says that it consisted of 

 twenty-five members elected by ballot, each of whom paid io/. 

 on admission. To these enthusiastic coachmen, to whom long 

 journeys were of every-day occurrence, distance was at first of 

 no consideration. Accordingly, we find the club rules pro- 

 vided that members should drive twice a year to the White 

 Hart, Bensington, in Oxfordshire, fifty-six miles from London ; 

 and twice to the Black Dog, Bedfont, near Hounslow, fourteen 

 miles from town. This arrangement lasted for sixteen years, 

 when the Bensington gatherings were given up. Bedfont, 

 however, seems to have been the virtual head-quarters of the 



