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time at the latter place was 1 1 o'clock both in Piccadilly ; 

 then on to Slark's office, Knightsbridge, after which stoppage 

 they fairly began to go, and travelled quickly along through 

 Richmond, Kingston, Leatherhead, Dorking, Horsham, Cow- 

 fold, and Henfield, arriving at Brighton at 6 P.M., returning 

 from Castle Square on the alternate days. The distance was 

 sixty-two miles, which makes the time look slow ; but it must be 

 remembered that there were five stoppages before the London 

 stones were left behind, and a good deal of time was lost in 

 picking up parcels and passengers ; while in older days heavily 

 laden coaches, like the Royal Sovereign to Leamington, and 

 many others, used to be allowed an hour from the City to the 

 Marble Arch. 



In the year 1854, Mr. Charles Lawrie, who at that time 

 horsed the coach from Kingston to Dorking with bays and 

 browns, had a picture of the Age painted, and it was engraved 

 for Clark's benefit through the kindness of the same gentle- 

 man. The off-side leader had originally run in Kershaw's 

 Baldock and Hitchin coach, but was bought when the concern 

 was sold off, after the road had been for a century occupied 

 by the Kershaw family. One of the wheelers had been em- 

 ployed in the duty of drawing an old lady's carriage, but having 

 one day run away, and, it was said, caused the death of its 

 owner, it came to coach-work. The team, as represented in 

 the picture, was the property of Dick Carpenter, who used to 

 drive the original Age with Sir St. Vincent Cotton, and who it 

 is believed died in Hapwell Asylum. What next became of 

 the picture is not known ; but, soon after the Brighton road 

 was revived, a picture of the new coach made its appear- 

 ance, in which the grouping, &c., was identical with that 

 of Mr. Lawrie's picture, only the colours were changed. 

 In the November of the year 1888, however, the original 

 painting turned up at Albert Gate, its price being, it is be- 

 lieved, 35/. 



After the Duke, Sir George, and Clark had hung up their 

 whips in 1862, coaching seemed to be, in the expressive 



