84 THE COACHING AGE. 



Warsop said his custom consisted entirely of 

 travellers going direct from north to south. He 

 was not in a town, and had no other business 

 whatever — no drinking company of any description. 

 His business had depended totally on the nobility 

 and gentry travelling; and sometimes, even if he 

 had not much posting on the roads for several days 

 and, nights, his stabling was full of horses belonging 

 to noblemen travelling with their own carriages 

 from north to south, who subsequently journeyed 

 by rail or steamboat. 



To show the connection between Warsop's coach- 

 ing and posting business, he said that if he had not 

 been connected with coaching — which some years 

 previously had cost him a great deal of money, and 

 would have caused the sacrifice of an enormous 

 amount if then given up — he could not have sup- 

 ported his posting establishment. 



Without wishing to have the burthen of taxation 

 removed from his own shoulders and placed on those of 

 another, Warsop desired to be put on such a footing 

 that he could convey noblemen and gentlemen and 

 all travelling direct from the north. He had no 

 other trade or business but that of occupier of the 

 soil, and if he could not use the provender that he 

 grew upon it, he could not live at his inn. 



His opinion was that nothing but an entire abolition 



