“When our _Stratford_ Tub,” writes Ned Ward, “by the Assistance of its Carrionly Tits of different colours, had outrun the Smoothness of the Road, and enter’d upon _London_-Stones, with as frightful a Rumbling as an empty _Hay-Cart_, our Leathern-Conveniency[39] being bound in the Braces to its good Behaviour, had no more Sway than a _Funeral Hearse_, or a _Country-Waggon_, that we were jumbled about like so many _Pease_ in a Childs-Rattle, running, at every Kennel-Jolt, a great hazard of a Dislocation: This we endured till we were brought within White-Chappel Bars, where we Lighted from our Stubborn Caravan, with our Elbows and Shoulders as Black and Blew as a _Rural Joan_, that had been under the Pinches of an Angry _Fairy_. Our weary Limbs being rather more Tir’d than Refresh’d, by the Thumps and Tosses of our ill-contriv’d Engine, as unfit to move upon a Rugged Pavement as a Gouty Sinner is to valt o’er _London Bridge_, with his Boots on. For my part, said I, if this be the Pleasure of Riding in a Coach thro’ _London-Streets_, may those that like it enjoy it, for it has loosen’d my Joynts in so short a Passage, that I shall scarce recover my former Strength this Fortnight; and, indeed, of the two, I would rather chuse to cry _Mouse-Traps_ for a Livelihood, than be oblig’d every day to be drag’d about Town under such uneasiness; and if the Qualities Coaches are as troublesome as this, I would not be bound to do their Pennance for their Estates. You must consider, says my Friend, you have not the right Knack of Humouring the Coaches Motion; for there is as much Art in Sitting in a coach finely, as there is in riding the Great Horse; and many a younger Brother has got a good Fortune by his Genteel Stepping in and out, when he pays a Visit to her Ladyship.” In Fleet Street, it seems, things were very bad. “The Ratling of Coaches,” says Ward, “loud as the _Cataracts_ of _Nile_ Rob’d me of my Hearing, and put my Head into as much disorder as the untunable Hollows of a Rural Mob at a Country _Bull-Baiting_.” More trouble followed later in the day.