iS8 THE COACHING AGE. 



Bury. He horsed it thirty-three miles from London 

 to Hockerill ; but it was not a very prosperous 

 concern, as the Post Office was obliged to pay the 

 high price of eightpence a mile in order to induce 

 anyone to work it. 



His establishment consisted of about four hundred 

 horses, and he had a considerable number of coaches, 

 with some of the fast and fashionable ■ day-coaches 

 amongst them, as the ' York House ' to Bath, and 

 ' Berkeley Hunt ' to Cheltenham ; the ' Eed Eover ' 

 to Brighton, and at one time a coach of that name to 

 Manchester ; on its removal for some cause from his 

 inn, he started the ' Beehive ' to the same place. 



I have referred to the antiquity of some of the 

 London coaching inns, and must not omit what I 

 find in the ' History of Signboards ' about the Belle 

 Sauvage : ' Once the property of Lady Arabella Savage, 

 familiarly called " Bell Savage," which name was 

 represented in a rebus by a wild man and a bell, and 

 so it was always drawn on the panels of the coaches 

 that used to run to and from it. . . . In the six- 

 teenth century the Bell Savage appears to have been 

 a place of amusement .... it existed in the reign 

 of Henry VI.' 



The ' Spectator ' states that it was named after the 

 French play, ' La Belle Sauvage.' 



Among the coaches from the Belle Sauvage was the 



