Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Fare to and from London £1 8s. 0d. Trowbridge, £1 6s. 0d. Devizes £1
2s. 6d. One half to be paid at Booking, the other at entering the
machine. Inside passengers allowed 10lb. wt., all above Three
Half-pence per pound from Frome as usual. The Coach will set out
from the Crown Inn in Frome, at Ten o'clock in the evening of every
Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and from the Bull Inn in Holborne,
London, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evening, at the same
Hour.--Books are kept, Places taken, and Parcels received, at the
Christopher in Wells, the George in Shepton, the Crown in Frome, the
Woolpack in Trowbridge, and the Bull in Holborne, London; calls
going in and coming out, at the White Bear Inn, Piccadilly, and the
new White Horse Cellar.
Perform'd by R. MESSETER, at the Crown, at Thatcham, and J.
HITCHCOCK, at the Catherine Wheel, Beckhampton.
"N.B. No Jewels, Plate, Money, Writings, or other things of Value,
will be paid for if lost, unless enter'd as such, and paid for
accordingly."
With regard to G.G.'s Query as to the time occupied in the journey of
Schultz from Colchester to London, do not the circumstances sufficiently
prove that by some means _six_ must have been written for _sixteen?_
Sixteen hours would give a rate of travelling nearer the average of
those days, and was about the time occupied on the return to Colchester.
For if we allow a due time after twelve for dinner, settling accounts,
and going to the inn whence the "Stäts-Kutsche" started, and for
partaking of the meal there provided, we shall very easily get to seven
or eight in the evening; _sixteen_ hours after that time would be
"towards noon" in the following day.
A.D.M
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PRISON DISCIPLINE AND EXECUTION OF JUSTICE.
Sir,--I am glad that you devote some part of your columns to the good
work of bringing forward facts and anecdotes which, though not generally
known, your readers individually may have happened to notice, and which
illustrate the manners of our ancestors. I dare say few of your
correspondents have met with the _London Magazine_ for the year of 1741.
An imperfect copy fell into my hands when a lad; ever since which time I
have been in a state of great wonderment at the story contained in the
leaf which I enclose. I need hardly say that the _italics_ are mine; and
perhaps they are hardly necessary. Yours, &c., BETA.
"TUESDAY, 21 [June].
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