COACH PROPRIETORS. 1S9 



up and down every day, including Sundays, through 

 Calne and Chippenham, and also of a night-coach 

 running in a similar way ; they were called the ' New 

 Company's ' coaches. Her house being just fifty-' 

 three miles from London, was nearly equi-distant 

 from each end of the journey, and hence was a con- 

 venient place for the down and up day-coaches to 

 stop at for dinner, and the down and up night-coaches 

 for supper ; a by no means inconsiderable advantage 

 to a middle-ground proprietor, who frequently had 

 nothing but the actual sharing to look to. Four 

 coaches, if loading well, stopping at an inn for dinner 

 and supper daily or nightly, brought no small amount 

 of grist to the mill under ordinary circumstances ; but 

 the passengers by Maria Fromont's coaches were not 

 of a class to spend much on the road, and many would 

 carry provisions with them, so as to avoid altogether 

 the expense of a meal at an inn during the journey. 



More particulars as to the coaches she was connected 

 with will be found in the coaching arrangements 

 appearing in the Eummer hotel bill ; but the fares 

 being considerably less than any of the other coaches, 

 she naturally got all the lower-class passengers, a 

 great number of whom, nothwithstanding even the 

 reduced charge announced in the bill for a dinner 

 or supper, would not, I dare say, take a meal. 



The fares by the night-coach being very low, did 



