Coaches:-- Mail-coaches, general account of, i. 146–80; to be exempt from tolls, i. 156; Post Office officials resist introduction of, i. 157; established 1784, i. 158; originally diligences, or light post-coaches, i. 160; system extended 1785, i. 163; continually breaking down, i. 174; new type of, introduced, i. 178; Besant’s patent coach, i. 178; Besant’s coach condemned by Matthew Boulton 1798, i. 179; always four-horsed, i. 180; coachmen of, subject to severe penalties for misdemeanours, i. 211; used for illegal sale of game, i. 254; for smuggling, i. 256; outside passengers of, limited to three, i. 258; bring early news, i. 260; cross-country, shabby, ii. 2; increased number of, injure roads, ii. 5; stage-coaches unable to compete with, ii. 5; exemption of from tolls injurious to Turnpike Trusts, ii. 4–9; paid toll in Ireland from 1798 ii. 9; exemption repealed as regards Scotland, 1813, ii. 9; tyrants of the road, ii. 10; exposed to dangers, ii. 10; pre-eminence of declines from 1824, on introduction of fast day-coaches, ii. 11; additional number of passengers permitted, ii. 12; mileage paid to contractors for, ii. 12–15; contractors disinclined to do business with Post Office, ii. 15; railways begin to supplant, 1830, ii. 16; procession of, on King’s birthday, ii. 17–22; list of, starting from London 1837, ii. 23; the fastest, 1836, ii. 27; number of, 1838, ii. 27; West of England routes cut up by railways, ii. 36–9; horses sold off, ii. 39; last of the mails, ii. 40; described, ii. 40–47 Waude’s mail-coach, 1830, ii. 43–7; go seven days a week, ii. 148; freedom of from attack, ii. 148; robberies of, frequent, ii. 149; attacked by lioness, ii. 151; adventures of, in snow, ii. 152–5, 159–62, 166–9, in floods ii. 162–6, 169; West of England, started from Piccadilly, ii. 207 Mail-coaches:-- Banff and Inverness, ii. 165 Bath, ii. 22, 23 Birmingham, ii. 23 ” and Liverpool, ii. 169 Brighton, ii. 23, 24, 101 ” Day, ii. 313 Bristol, established 1784, i. 158–60; ii. 1, 17, 22, 23, 149, 207 Cambridge Auxiliary, ii. 215 Canterbury and Deal, ii. 27 Carlisle and Edinburgh, ii. 27 ” ” Glasgow, ii. 23, 24, 27, 108 Carmarthen and Pembroke, ii. 15, 215 Cheltenham and Aberystwith, i. 264; ii. 119 Chester, ii. 15, 23, 215 Derby and Manchester, ii. 40 Devonport (Quicksilver), i. 246, 264, 303; ii. 22, 23, 28, 31–6, 39, 122, 182, 207, 227, 252, 295, 308, 312 Dover, ii. 15, 23, 24, 150 ” Foreign, ii. 215 Edinburgh, ii. 23, 24, 39, 75, 295 ” and Glasgow, ii. 166