INDEX 355 



])rospective travellers, i. 63 ; Oxford coach, 1661, i. 63 ; 

 Preston, Lancashire, 1662, i. 63 ; horses went whole 

 journey, i. 63 ; changed once a day, i. 63 ; Norwich coach, 

 1665, i. 64 ; lack of full information, about 1660-80, i. 64-74; 

 early stages described by Taylor, the Water Poet, i. 65 ; 

 described, i. 65-7, 82 ; first provided Avith glazed windows, 

 about 1710, i. 67 ; agonies of travelling in, i. 63, 67, 72 ; 

 Bath Flying ^lachine, 1667, i. 68 ; De Laune's Present State 

 of London, 1681, contains first lists of, i. 77-9 ; general in 

 1681, i. 77 ; opposition to, dies down, i. 79; fares moderate, 

 1684, i. 79 ; winter still, in 1731, largely a season of no 

 coaches, i. 82 ; easily outpaced by pedestrians, about 1750, 

 i. 82-85 ; six horses and a postilion generally used, 1754- 

 1783, i. 85, 86, 90 ; horses changed oftener than once a day, 

 i. 87 ; consequent acceleration, i. 88 ; beginnings of com- 

 petition and rivalry, i. 89 ; agreements between pro])rietors, 

 i. 89 ; consequent decelei-ation of coaches, i. 90 ; Edinburgh 

 stage a " glass machine on steel springs," 1754, i. 89 ; of 1750, 

 described by Sir Walter Scott, i. 97 ; outside passengers 

 first provided with seats, about 1800, i. 181 ; fore and hind 

 boots introduced, about 1800, i. 181 ; contempt of insides 

 for outsides, i. 181, 210 ; " Land Frigate," London and 

 Portsmouth, i. 182 ; springs under driving-boxes introduced 

 about 1805, i. 185 ; ii. 240 ; shorter stages adopted, about 

 1800, i. 186 ; travel at night, from about 1780, i. 186 ; ii. 66; 

 speed increased, i. 189 ; duty levied, 1776, i. 205 ; duty 

 increased 1783 and 1785, i. 206 ; accidents increase, i. 206 ; 

 Gamon's Acts, regulating number of passenger;, 1788-90, 

 i. 206-9; severity of Acts of 1806 and 1811, regulating, 

 i. 209-12 ; the law constantly broken, i. 212 ; rise and pro- 

 gress of the professional informers, i. 213-18 ; duties reduced, 

 1839, i. 218-20 ; provincial coaches despised, i. 245 ; first 

 begin to be named, i. 282 ; opposition and rivalry of, 

 i. 282-8 ; " machine " becomes a favourite term, about 1754. 

 i. 286; introduction of "diligences," about 1776, i. 287; 

 " diligences," originally fast, become slow, i. 288-92 ; Shilli- 

 beer's Brighton Diligence, i. 290-92 ; the Post-Coaches and 

 Light Post-Coaches, a fast and exclusive type, i. 292-5 ; 

 objectionable company in, i. 294 ; " Accommodation " 

 coaches, slow and capacious, introduced about 1800, i. 295 ; 

 generally acquire names from about 1780, i. 295 ; the 

 principles and system of naming described, i. 295-317 ; the 

 public alarmed by increasing accidents, 1810-20, i. 310 ; 

 " patent safety," i. 309-16 ; Waude's coaches, ii. 16 ; fast day 

 coaches begin, 1824, ii. 173-87 ; attain speed of eleven and 

 twelve miles an hour, ii. 179, 185; Cobbett on, ii. 182; 



