COACH PROPRIETORS. i6i 



In consequence of the narrowness of Ludgate Hill, 

 when a coach was coming out of the yard the horse- 

 keeper always went out first to signal to any approach- 

 ing vehicles, so that they might be stopped, or the 

 coachman might wait till they had gone by. 



After nearly, if not all, the coaches had been taken 

 oif the western road, a coach called the ' Eival ' was 

 started by Nelson and ^ome other coach-proprietors, 

 to run to Cheltenham ; but it was eventually obliged 

 to be taken off, after a not very long or prosperous 

 career, I fancy. 



Although Nelson had a good many coaches on 

 the western road through Hounslow, and a sufficient 

 number of horses standing there^to have an enclosed 

 square yard with stabling on every side of it, he had 

 not any West-end booking-office to himself, as Chaplin, 

 Sherman, and Home had ; but his coaches stopped 

 and took up their passengers at the general booking- 

 offices, such as the old and new White Horse Cellar, 

 the White Bear, or Gloucester Cofiee House, in Picca- 

 dilly, at each of which places they booked p^assengers 

 and parcels for several different proprietors. 



I have now noticed all the London coach-proprie- 

 tors who were also mail-coach proprietors ; but there 

 remains one who was a very celebrated person as a 

 coach-proprietor only, and who carried on a very ex- 

 tensive coaching business with great spirit and success 



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