Ailesbury, Marquis of, 183-185
Allen, Ralph, 242-250
“Allen’s stall,” 34-38
Anne, Queen, 6, 237, 238
Apsley House, 34-38
Arlington, Earl of, 90
Avebury, 198-203
Banks, Sir Joseph, 93
Bath, 2-15, 228-270
Batheaston, 227, 242
—— Vase, 241
Bathford, 227
Bathampton, 228
Bath stone, 223-227, 268
Bathwick, 246
Beckhampton, 203-205
Berkeley, Earls of, 82-84, 87, 89
“Berkshire Lady,” the, 141-145, 158
Bladud, Prince, 231, 243
Box, 203, 223-227
—— Hill, 224, 227
—— Tunnel, 223
Brentford, 70
Calcot, 141-145
Calne, 203, 206, 209
Cherhill, 205-207
Chippenham, 17, 203, 210-215, 253
Chiswick High Road, 58, 65
Church Speen, 153, 165, 166
Coaches:—
“Beaufort Hunt,” 26, 204
“Flying Machines,” 5, 69, 260
“Light Post” coach, 30
Mail coaches, 10, 11, 17-19, 27
“Regulator,” 16
“York House,” 26
Coaching era, 4-33, 204
—— fares, 5, 28
—— miseries, 9, 15-19
Coaching notabilities:—
Chaplin, Edward, 21, 90
—— and Horne, 90
Cooper, Thomas, 21
Everett, Jack, 204
Colnbrook, 97-103
Colne, River, 96-98, 103
Corsham Regis, 218, 221-223, 224
Cranford, 82, 85, 86-89
—— Bridge, 29, 84, 97
Cross Keys, 218
Cycling records, 215-218
Darell, William, 173-182
Froxfield, 182
Fyfield, 192
Great Western Railway, 27, 74, 108-110, 124, 134, 149, 221, 227
Gunnersbury, 63, 68
Hammersmith, 58, 63
Hare Hatch, 134
Harlington, 89-91
—— Corner, 89

Harmondsworth, 94-96
Henry VIII., 13-138
Highwaymen, 40-45, 56, 67-69, 71, 74-84, 87, 91-94, 111-116, 118, 129
Hock-tide, 167-173
Hounslow, 19, 71-74, 92
—— Heath, 69, 71, 74-84, 86, 92, 111
Hungerford, 146, 166-173
Hyde Park Corner, 33-40, 74, 94, 166
Inns (mentioned at length):—
“Bear,” Maidenhead, 25, 129
“Bell and Bottle,” Knowl Hill, 133
“Black Bull,” Holborn, 31
“Castle,” Marlborough, 17, 21, 187, 192
——, Salt Hill, 92, 107
“Greyhound,” Maidenhead, 127
“Halfway House,” Kensington, 40, 43, 45
“Hercules’ Pillars,” Hyde Park Corner, 34
“King’s Head,” Longford, 97
“Magpies,” 90
“Old Bell,” Holborn, 31-33
“Old Magpies,” 91
“Old Pack Horse,” Turnham Green, 66-68
“Old Windmill,” Turnham Green, 65
“Ostrich,” Colnbrook, 99-103
“Pack Horse and Talbot,” Turnham Green, 59, 66
“Peggy Bedford,” Longford, 97
“Pelican,” Speenhamland, 15, 150, 253
“Red Cow,” Brook Green, 56-58
“Robin Hood,” Turnham Green, 63-65
“Waggon and Horses,” Beckhampton, 203-205
“White Bear,” Piccadilly, 26
“White Bear,” Fickles Hole, 26
“White Hart,” Bath, 260
“White Horse,” Fetter Lane, 16, 30
“White Lion,” Bath, 22, 26, 260
“York House,” Bath, 26
Jack of Newbury, 150-154, 157-161
Kennet, River, 146, 152, 166, 186, 193
Kensington, 34, 40, 44, 46-55
Kew Bridge, 68
Kiln Green, 133
Knightsbridge, 34, 40, 44
Knowl Hill, 133
Langley Broom, 104
—— Marish, 104
Littlecote, 173-182
Longford, 94, 96
Maidenhead, 33, 122, 124-130
—— Thicket, 111, 129-133
Mail coaches established, 10
Manton, 194
Marlborough, 22, 26, 182, 186-193, 204
—— College, 188, 192
—— Downs, 17, 197-201, 205, 253
Maud Heath’s Causeway, 213-215

Nash, Beau, 238-240, 243, 250
Newbury, 18, 138, 146, 150-166, 253
——, battles of, 161-165
Old-time travellers:—
Campbell, Rev. Thomas, 252-255
Moritz, Pastor, 116-123
Palmer, George, 135
——, John, 10, 242, 243
Pickwick, 218-221
Postage of letters, 10-15, 167
Prior Park, 243, 246
Quemerford, 206
Reading, 18, 29, 130, 134-138
Salt Hill, 92, 106-111, 122
Savernake Forest, 182-185, 194
Sham Castle, 249
Silbury Hill, 198-203
Sipson Green, 91
Speen, 153, 165, 166
Speenhamland, 150, 253
Stackhouse, Rev. Thomas, 153
Taplow, 108, 124
Tetsworth water, 105
Thatcham, 21, 146, 149, 153
Theale, 145, 162
Turnham Green, 58-68
Turnpike gates, 11, 34, 45, 73, 166
Twyford, 130, 134
Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths, 59
Walcot, 228
West Kennet, 197
—— Overton, 197
“Wild Darell,” 173-182
Woolhampton, 146-149
Wyatt’s Rebellion, 38
“Young’s Corner,” 58

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Footnotes:

[1] Stranger still, the chief informer was named Porter.

[2] Tawell had poisoned his sweetheart, who, before dying, had time to denounce him to her friends. They pursued him to the station, but when they arrived there the train had gone. The telegram sent was in these words:—

“A murder has just been committed at Salt Hill, and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7.42 p.m. He is in the garb of a Quaker, with a brown great-coat on, which reaches nearly to his feet. He is in the last compartment of the second-class carriage.”

At Paddington he took a City omnibus, but the conductor was a policeman in disguise, and dogged his footsteps from one coffee-house to another, which he is supposed to have entered for the purpose of setting up an alibi. At length, as he was stepping into a lodging-house in the City, the police tapped him on the shoulder, with the question, “Haven’t you just come from Slough?” Tawell confusedly denied the fact, but he was arrested, with the result already recounted.

[3] Lord Iveagh’s name is Guinness. Unfortunately for the thoroughness of the jest, there are but thirteen chapters in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

[4] It was about 1630 that the town of Marlborough obtained a new grant of arms in place of its old shield of a “Castle argent, on a field sable.” The new shield, still in use, is heraldically described as—“Per Saltire, gules and azure. In chief, a Bull passant, argent, armed or. In fess, two Capons, argent. In base, three greyhounds courant in pale, argent. On a chief, or, a pale charged with a Tower triple-towered, or, between two Roses, gules. Crest—On a wreath, a Mount, vert, culminated by a Tower triple-towered, argent. Supporters: two Greyhounds, argent.” These arms are intended to perpetuate the memory of the ancient custom in Marlborough of the aldermen and burgesses presenting the mayor for the time being with a leash of white greyhounds, a white bull, and two white capons.

[5] “There are many pleasanter places, even in this dreary world, than Marlborough Downs when it blows hard; and if you throw in beside a gloomy winter’s evening, a miry and sloppy road, and a pelting fall of heavy rain, and try the effect, by way of experiment, in your own proper person, you will experience the full force of this observation.”

The traveller’s horse stopped before “a road-side inn on the right-hand side of the way, about half a quarter of a mile from the end of the Downs.... It was a strange old place, built of a kind of shingle, inlaid, as it were, with cross-beams, with gabled-topped windows projecting completely over the pathway, and a low door with a dark porch and a couple of steep steps leading down into the house, instead of the modern fashion of half a dozen shallow ones leading up to it.”

[6] That the Romans knew the city we call Bath as AquÆ Solis—the “Waters of the Sun”—we learn from the ancient history of Britain. A highly interesting light upon this is furnished by the sculptured stone discovered some years since, and now in the local museum, which shows a decorative representation of the head of the Sun God from whose face radiate sun-rays, alternately with serpents.

[7] Once the recognized pronunciation of the word. The great Duke of Wellington was probably the last who spoke it thus.

[8] He meant Chippenham.