Smithfield -- Horse coursers -- Waggons -- Stage coaches -- Travelling in them described -- Bad roads -- Posting -- Hackney coaches -- Their fares -- Hackney coachmen -- State coaches -- Other carriages -- Suburban drives -- Mechanical coach -- Mourning coaches -- Harness -- Sedan chairs -- Chairmen 372 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE MOHOCKS. Scourers, etc. -- Bully Dawson -- Two outbreaks -- That in 1712 -- Hawkubites -- Exploits of the Mohocks -- Sir Roger de Coverley -- Swift's fear of them -- Emperor of the Mohocks -- Gog and Magog -- The Queen's proclamation -- Decline of the scare -- Constables and watchmen 382 CHAPTER XXXVIII. DUELLING. Its prevalence -- Bullying -- Fielding's duels -- Favourite localities -- Its illegality -- Col. Thornhill and Sir Cholmley Dering -- Their quarrel and duel -- Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun -- Story of their duel 390 CHAPTER XXXIX. THE ARMY AND NAVY. Sale of commissions -- General practice -- Its illegality -- Arrears of pay -- Descriptions of officers -- Army chaplains -- The rank and file -- Description of them -- Irregularity of pay -- Rations -- Recruiting -- Bounty -- Gaol birds -- Vagrants -- Desertions -- Story of seditious drummers -- Train bands -- The navy -- Its deeds -- Unpopularity of the service -- Pressing -- Desertion -- Rewards for capture -- Pay -- Description of Admiralty -- Mercantile marine 396 CHAPTER XL. CRIME. Capital punishment -- Its frequency -- An execution described -- Behaviour on the scaffold and way to execution -- Revival after hanging -- 'Peine forte et dure' -- Hanging in chains -- Highwaymen -- Claude du Val lying in state -- Ned Wicks and Lord Mohun -- Their swearing match -- A highwayman hanged -- Highwaymen in society -- Highway robberies -- Footpads -- Burglars -- John Hall -- Benefit of clergy -- Coining -- Pickpockets -- Robbery from children -- Perjury -- Sharpers -- Begging impostors -- Gipsies -- Constables -- Private detectives -- Commercial frauds -- 'Society for the Reformation of Manners' -- Statistics of their convictions -- The pillory -- Ducking stool 407 CHAPTER XLI. PRISONS. Dreadful condition of prisons -- Bridewell -- Description of -- Flogging -- Houses of Correction -- Compters -- Description of the Poultry Compter -- 'Garnish' -- Newgate -- Description of -- Marshalsea -- Queen's Bench -- Fleet and Ludgate -- Poor Debtors -- Kidnappers -- Country prisons -- Bankrupts 425 CHAPTER XLII. WORKHOUSES, HOSPITALS, ETC.