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upper quarters, four devices eloquent of the majesty 

 of the united kingdoms and their knightly orders. 

 There shone the cross of St. George, with its 

 encircling garter and the proud motto, " Koni soit 

 qui uial y ijense'' \ the Scotch thistle, with the 

 warning " Nemo me impune lacessit " ; the sham- 

 rock and an attendant star, with the Quis 

 separahit ? query (not yet resolved) ; and three 

 Royal croAvns, with the legend of the Bath, 

 " Tria juncta in uno.'^ The Royal arms were 

 emblazoned on the door-panels, and old prints 

 show that occasionally the four under quarters 

 had devices somewhat similar to those above. 

 The name of each particular mail appeared in 

 unobtrusive gold letters. The under-carriage and 

 wheels were scarlet, or " Post Office red," and the 

 harness, Avith the exception of the Hoyal cypher 

 and the coach-bars on the blinkers, was perfectly 

 plain. 



One at least of the mail-coaches still sur- 

 vives. This is a London and York mail, built 

 by "Waude, of the Old Kent Road, in 1830, and 

 now a relic of the days of yore treasured by 

 Messrs. Holland & Holland, of Oxford Street. 

 Since being run off the road as a mail, it has 

 had a curiously varied history. In 1875 and the 

 following season, when the coaching revival was 

 in full vigour, it appeared on the Dorking Eoad, 

 and so won the affections of Captain " Billy " 

 Cooper, whose hobby that route then was, that 

 he had an exact copy built. In the summer of 

 1877 it was running betAveen Stratford-on-Avon 



