386 THE COACHING AGE. 



account given by Lord William Lennox of the cost 



of a journey from London to Holyhead — 264 miles 



— which he gives thus : 



£ s. d. £ s. d. 

 ' Charge for four horses 38 11 4 



Post-boys - 9 6 10 



Gates * 9 5 1 



Ostlers 1 2 6 



58 5 9 



Expenses, on the road four nights : be(^, 

 dinners, and breakfasts for two persons 

 and one maid 5 8 



5 8 



7 3 

 Journey, expenses, and passage — Total 70 16 9 



' Now two first-class and one second by rail to 

 Holyhead, then best cabin-fares and refreshments, 

 about £9 — a sum under the amount paid to post- 

 boys under the old system in bygone days. Ten 

 miles an hour, including stoppages, was about the 

 average posting-pacQ, and the charge for a pair of 

 horses, boy, ostler, and turnpikes, amounted to about 



