CONTENTS 



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I. The Introduction of Carriages . 



II. The Horsemen .... 



III. Dawn of the Coaching Age 



IV. Growth of Coaching in the Eighteenth Centur\ 

 V. The Stage-Waggons and what they Carried 



How the Took Travelled ... 



VI. The Early Mail-Coaches .... 



VII. The Nineteenth Century : 1800—1824 



VIII. Coach Legislation 



IX. The Early Coachmen 



X. The Later Coachmen 



XI. Mail-guards 



XII. Stage-coach Guards 



XIII. How THE Coaches were Named . 



XIV. Going by Coach : Booking Offices . 

 XV. How the Coach Passengers Fared: Manners 



AND Customs down the Road 



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