THR LATER MAILS 



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TiME-BiLL, London, Exeter and Devonport ("Quicksilver") 

 Mail, 1837. 



Despatched from the General 



Post Office, the of , 



1837, at 8 p.m. 

 Coach No. / With timepiece 



sent out I safe. No. to . 

 Arrived at the Gloucester Cotf ee- 



House at 

 Hounslow. 

 iStaines. 



Bagshot. Arrived 10.47 p.m. 

 Hartford Bridge. 

 Basingstoke. 

 Overton. 



Whitchurch. Arrived 1.41 a.m. 

 Andover. Arrived 2.20 a.m. 

 Amesbury. Arrived 3.39 a.m. 

 Deptford Inn. Arrived 4.34 a.m. 

 Wiley. 



Chicklade. Arrived 5.15 a.m. 

 (Bags dropped for Hindon, 1 

 Mere. [mile distant.) 



Wincanton. 

 Ilchester. 



Cart Gate. Arrived 8.14 a.m. 

 Water Gore, 6 miles from South 



Petherton. 

 Bags dropped for that place. 

 Ilminster. Arrived 8.58 a.m. 

 Breakfast 25 minutes. Dep. 9.23. 

 Yarcombe, Heathfield Arms. 



Arrived 10.9 a.m. 

 Honiton. Arrived 11 a.m. 

 Exeter. Arrived 12.34 p.m. 

 Ten minutes allowed. 

 Chudleigh. 



Ashburton. Arrived 2.41 p.m. 

 Ivybridge. 

 Bags dropped at Eidgway for 



Plympton, 3 furlongs distant. 

 Plymouth. Arrived at the Post 



Office, Devonport, the of 

 , 1837, at 5.14 p.m. by 



timepiece. At by clock. 

 Coach No. / Delivered timepiece 



arr. . I safe. No. to . 



The time of ^vorking each stage is to be reckoned from the coach's arrival, 

 and as any lost time is to be recovered in the course of the stage, it is the 

 coachman's duty to be as expeditious as possible, and to report the horse- 

 keepers if they are not always ready when the coach arrives, and active in 

 getting it ofl". The guard is to give his best assistance in changing, whenever 

 his official duties do not prevent it. 



By command of the Postmaster-General. 



George Louis, Surveyor and Siq^erintendent. 



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