GUARDS' TIME-BILLS. 



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The " Defiance " coach from London to Exeter 

 had a similar time-bill, with the exception that there 

 was a column for the enumeration of the passengers in 

 and out of town. This coach started at a quarter 

 past three in the afternoon, from the " Bull Inn," 

 Aldgate, and from Piccadilly at half-past four. It 

 stopped for tea at ten o'clock at night, and again for 

 breakfast in the early morning. Both for tea and 

 breakfast twenty minutes was allowed, both on the up 

 and down journey; the distance was 168^ miles, and 

 the time allowed nineteen hours. 



The writer whom I have mentioned gives a list of 

 the mails out of London, and the time in which the 

 journeys w^ere performed, and the amount paid to the 

 horseowners by the Postmaster-General for horsing 

 the coaches as follows : 



* This was the Edinbur:Th mail. 



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