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seemed that nobody else had any conveyance. The 

 short distances rendered extraordinary speed un- 

 necessary, and hence several of his coaches were of 

 the slow six inside order. 



His coach-office was a good deal resorted to, as 

 it afforded the only means of reaching the places I 

 have mentioned, as well as many others situated in 

 the same district ; but except for having one of the 

 mails, I should not have included him in the list of 

 the principal coach-proprietors of London. 



Robert Fagg, of the Bell and Crown, Holborn, had 

 two mails only from his inn ; the ' Louth,' which he 

 horsed jointly with Mountain, and the ' Lynn,' jointly 

 with Chaplin. The gateway where his coaches used 

 to drive in, like that at the Bull and Mouth, has 

 been thrown into the house, and the yard built 

 over, so that the old yard and stables are done away 

 with. 



The premises being very limited, when three or 

 four night-coaches which had arrived in the morn- 

 ing had been washed and made ready to go out 

 again in the afternoon, they remained in the yard, 

 while Her Majesty's two mails remained in Holborn 

 all day, in front of the inn. An old man with one 

 horse and the pole-hook of one mail attached to the 

 back of the coach he was driving, brought up two 

 clean mails in the morning from Vidler's at Millbank, 



