CHAPTER XV. 



COMPILED BY 

 W. C. A. BLEW. 



THE old stage-coaches, except in very far-away districts, had 

 long been off the road, and Clark's Brighton coach, The Age, 

 was the last link left between the old days, when coaching was 

 in its zenith, and those to come, which were but little dreamed 

 of then, when we were once more to witness its revival, and 

 pretty nearly a dozen coaches rattling down Piccadilly every 

 day. The Age, of which Mr. Eden, who afterwards put on the 

 High Wycombe coach, was one of the supporters, after having 

 stopped for a year or two, was started again and ran through 

 1862, on alternate days, driven by the Duke of Beaufort, 

 Sir George Wombwell, or Clark, from the Globe, Baker 

 Street, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 10.30 A.M., 

 calling at the Gloucester, in Oxford Street ; Griffin's Green 

 Man and Still, also in Oxford Street ; the Universal Office 

 at Regent's Circus, and Hatchett's White Horse Cellar, the 



