302 THE COACHING AGE. 



Stacey related the story with great glee to me, 

 especially as the difficulty had been got over without 

 any breach of his duty or his being involved in any 

 row about it. 



Driving, although for several years a good deal of 

 it was night-work, does not seem to have disagreed 

 with Stacey, who died at Newbury about two years 

 since at the age of eighty. 



A partnership of coach-proprietors at Speenham- 

 land (or, as it was better known on the Bath road, 

 Newbury, of which place it, in fact, formed part), like 

 the coach proprietors on some other lines of road, 

 issued a printed form similar to a bank-note, announc- 

 ing the starting and arrival of some of their coaches ; 

 it ran in this way : 



Greyhound, | KB. — Mercury in fourteen hours. 

 Market Place. J George Masters, Bank, Speenhamland. 



Chippenham, Marlborough, Newbury, Eeading, Maidenhead 

 and London post-coaches set out from the Greyhound, Market 

 Place, Bath, every day, at four, afternoon, to Hatchetts Hotel, 

 Piccadilly, and Saracen's Head, Snow Hill, London. Coaches also 

 from the Pope's Head, and Pelican. Bristol every day to the 

 above inns in London, by 



May and Mountain. 



Royal Blue. 



Fare — inside, one guinea ; outside, twelve shillings. 



In the left-hand corner was a drawing of a grey- 

 hound, with some building representing the inn 

 known by that sign. 



