I^WEX 353 



Coaches : — 



Mail-coaches, general account of, i. 146-80 ; to be exempt from 

 tolls, i. 156 ; Post Office officials resist introduction of, i. 157 ; 

 established 1784, i. 158 ; originally diligences, or light post- 

 coaches, i. 160 ; system extended 1785, i. 163 ; continually 

 breaking down, i. 174 ; new type of, introduced, i. 178 ; 

 Besant's patent coach, i. 178 : Besant's coach condemned by 

 Matthew Boulton 1798, i. 179 ; always four-horsed, i. 180 ; 

 coachmen of, subject to severe penalties for misdemeanours, 

 i. 211; used for illegal sale of game, i. 254; for smuggling, 

 i. 256 ; outside passengers of, limited to three, i. 258 ; bring 

 early news, i. 260 ; cross-country, shabby, ii. 2 ; increased 

 number of, injure roads, ii. 5 ; stage-coaches unable to 

 compete with, ii. 5 ; exemption of from tolls injurious 

 to Turnpike Trusts, li. 4-9; paid toll in Ireland from 1798 

 ii. 9 ; exemption repealed as regards Scotland, 1813, ii. 9 ; 

 tyrants of the road, ii. 10 ; exposed to dangers, ii. 10 ; 

 pre-eminence of declines from 1824, on introduction of fast 

 day-coaches, ii. 11 ; additional number of passengers per- 

 mitted, ii. 12 ; mileage paid to contractors for, ii. 12-15 ; 

 contractors disinclined to do business with Post Office, 

 ii. 15 ; railways begin to supplant, 1830, ii. 16 ; procession 

 of, on King's birthday, ii. 17-22 ; list of, starting from 

 London 1837, ii. 23 ; the fastest, 1836, ii. 27 ; number of, 

 1838, ii. 27 ; West of England routes cut up by railways, 

 ii. 36-9 ; horses sold off, ii. 39 ; last of the mails, ii. 40 ; 

 described, ii. 40-47 ; Waude's mail-coach, 1830, ii. 43-7 ; go 

 seven days a week, ii. 148 ; freedom of from attack, ii. 148 ; 

 robberies of, frequent, ii. 149 ; attacked by lioness, ii. 151 ; 

 adventures of, in snow, ii. 152-5, 159-62, 166-9, in Hoods 

 ii. 162-6, 169 ; West of England, started from Piccadilly^ 

 ii. 207. 



Mail-coaches :— 



Banff and Inverness, ii. 165 

 Bath, ii. 22, 23 

 Birmingham, ii. 23 



„ and Liverpool, ii. 169 



Brighton, ii. 23, 24, 101 



Day, ii. 313 

 Bristol, established 1784, i. 158-60 ; ii. 1, 17, 22, 23, 149, 207 

 Cambridge Auxiliary, ii. 215 

 Canterbury and Deal, ii. 27 

 Carlisle and Edinburgh, ii. 27 



„ „ Glasgow, ii. 23, 24, 27, 108 



Carmarthen and Pembroke, ii. 15, 215 

 Cheltenham and Aberystwith, i. 264 ; ii. 119 



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