WHAT BECAME OF THE COACHMEN 317 



present of silver plate, subscribed for by Sir Henry 

 Peyton and many otJier gentlemen, committed 

 snicide by tlirowing liiraself off a steamer into 

 the Thames. 



The question, " "What became of the coach- 

 men ? " is jiartly answered in the subjoined col- 

 lection of epitaphs and eulogies got together from 

 far and near. Pirst comes the early and curious 

 one at lladdiscoe, near Lowestoft, to William 

 Salter, said to have lost his life by falling from his 

 coach at the foot of the hill near the churchyard, 

 shown on the page opposite. 



To this succeeds the highly interesting examjile 

 in Over AYallop churchyard, Hampshire, to Skinner, 

 the coachman of the Auxiliary Mail, U2:>set at 

 Middle Wallop, on the Exeter Koad, by one of 

 the wheels coming off. Skinner was killed on the 

 spot, and the passengers injured. The inscription 

 runs : — 



Sacn d 



to tlie Memory of 



HENRY SKINNER, a. Coachman, 



Avho was killed neai- this place 



July 13th, 1814, 



Aged 35 years. 



With i)a8sengers of every age 

 With cai'e I drove from Stage to Stage, 

 Till Death's sad Hearse pass'd by unseen, 

 And stoi)t the course of my machine. 



Then comes a Latin passage: — 



Dum socios summa per vicos arte vehebam 

 Mors nigi'a prteteriit — 

 Machina cassa mea est. 



