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taken off the road by the Great Western Eail way, and 

 he died within the last few years a good deal over 

 eighty years of age. 



The London and Bath mail, which ran through 

 Devizes and Melksham, was horsed by different persons 

 from the Bristol below Newbury, and having to travel 

 only fifty-two miles from there to Bath, adopted the 

 same plan as the coaches having four coachmen only, 

 and changed them both up and down at Newbury. 



