London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
If any coachman abuses a passenger; exacts more for his fare than he
ought to receive; or refuses to go at the following rates, whether by
day or night, foul or fair weather; upon complaint belong made to the
Commissioners, and the number of the coach delivered in, such coachman
will be summoned to appear, and fined for each offence twenty or forty
shillings, according to the nature of his crime.
Rates of Hackney Coachmen.
For a day of twelve hours, 10_s._
For one hour, 1_s._ 6_d._
For every hour after the first, 1_s._
For any distance nor exceeding a mile and a half, 1_s._
For any distance not exceeding two miles, 1_s._ 6_d._
For the better ascertaining the fares between the most remarkable
places of this city and suburbs, the Commissioners of the Hackney
Coach office have caused the distance between the following parts to
be measured, and the several rates fixed accordingly.
Rates for Hackney Coaches, one shilling.
From any of the Inns to Court to any part of St. James’s or
Westminster, except beyond Tothill street.
From any of the Inns of Court, or thereabouts, to the Royal Exchange.
From Westminster Hall to Marlborough street, Albemarle street, Bolton
street, Bloomsbury square, Soho square, or Little Queen street,
Holborn.
From St. James’s gate to Queen Anne’s square, Westminster; or the
nearest corner of Red Lion square.
From Golden square to Red Lion square.
From the Haymarket play house to Red Lion square, Queen’s square
Westminster, Thavies Inn, or Bloomsbury square.
From Guildhall to Red Lion square.
From the upper end of Fetter lane, Holborn, to Aldgate.
From the Royal Exchange to Hoxton square.
From Newgate to the middle of Greek street near Soho square.
From the Bridge foot, Southwark, to Sir William Walworth’s Head at
Walworth.
From Gray’s Inn gate to Sadler’s Wells near Islington.
From Covent garden to Clerkenwell church.
From Temple Bar to Billingsgate.
From Aldgate to Shadwell church.
Rates for Hackney Coaches, eighteen pence.
From Drury lane play house to Queen square, Westminster.
From Westminster Hall to St. Paul’s.
From Westminster Hall to Queen square, Red Lion fields.
From St. James’s gate to Hatton garden.
From the New Exchange in the Strand to the Royal Exchange.
From the Haymarket play house to Hatton garden.
From Red Lion square to Westminster hall.
From any of the Inns of Court to the Tower, Aldgate, Bishopsgate
street, or thereabouts.
From St. James’s to Marybone church.
From the Royal Exchange to Bloomsbury square.
From the Royal Exchange to the watch house at Mile-end.
From the outside of Aldgate to Stepney church.
From Bedford street, Covent garden, to Coleman street.
From Bread street to Hoxton square.
From the middle of Broad street to Hart street, Bloomsbury.
From St. Martin’s lane in the Strand to Gold street, by Wood street.
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