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extensive farmer of turnpike tolls and post-horse 

 duties, and several stockbrokers and other men con- 

 nected with the Stock Exchange. He married three 

 old ladies in succession. He rebuilt the Bull and 

 Mouth, considerably enlarging it, and making stabling 

 underground for a large number of horses, indispens- 

 able for the numerous coaches starting from his inn. 

 These stables were kept nearly always full, day and 

 night ; for as the horses left them early in the morning 

 to go out of London with the day-coaches, those 

 bringing the mails and night-coaches into London in 

 the morning soon filled them up again, until their 

 departure with the night-coaches and mails left them 

 vacant for the day-coach horses, who occupied them 

 during the night. 



Unlike Chaplin, Sherman had only one coaching 

 establishment in the City; but he had the Oxford 

 Arms Inn, in Newgate Market, whence his vans and 

 waggons started, as he was engaged in this branch of 

 road business as well, but kept it quite distinct from 

 his coaching. 



The sign of his coaching-house was originally 

 Boulogne Mouth, signifying the harbour there, and it 

 was a sign very frequently used after the capture of 

 that place by Henry VHL Gradually, however, it 

 became Anglicised into the Bull and Mouth, a sign 

 so completely adopted that when Sherman rebuilt the 



