the Earl of Devon and three others among his prisoners to be immediately beheaded and their heads to be placed there instead. Of such, and still more sanguinary, incidents is the ancient city of York composed. [Picture: Micklegate Bar. (From an old Print)] Micklegate, like the other “bars” of York, had its barbican, and equally with them, lost that martial outwork at the dawning of the nineteenth century. Its appearance then and now may with advantage be compared in the old print and the modern drawing, reproduced here, which also serve to show the difference between the road-surface of these times and of a century ago. [Picture: Micklegate Bar: present day] INDEX Alconbury, 2 Alconbury Hill, 2, 121 Askerne, 236 Ayot Green, 87 Austerfield, 225 * * * * * Balderton, 193 Baldock, 105 Barlby, 242 Barnby Moor, 209, 212–216 Barnet, 11, 75–79, 171 Barnet, Battle of, 80 Bawtry, 223–225 Bedford, Dukes of, 136 Beeston Green, 108 Bell Bar, 84 Bentley, 236 Biggleswade, 2, 107 Bloody Oaks, 157 Boulter, Edmund, 135 Bradford, William, 219, 225 Brampton, 105, 117 Brayton, 237 Brewster, William, 218–220 Brickwall, 87 Broadwater, 93 Brown’s Wells, 69 Buckden, 2, 114–117 Burghley House, 141–145, 149 * * * * * Cantley, 226 Carlton-upon-Trent, 205 Chicken Hill, 113 Coaches— “Amity,” Doncaster and Stamford, 212 “Courier,” Leeds, 41 “Edinburgh Mails” 15, 29–33, 184 “Edinburgh Express” 15, 114 “Edinburgh Stage” 34 “Express,” Leeds, 41 “Express,” York, 114 “Highflyer,” London and York, 76 “Highflyer,” London, York, and Edinburgh, 154 “Lord Nelson,” London and Edinburgh, 22, 233, 234 Mail Coaches, 30–33 “Nelson,” Wakefield and Lincoln, 232 “Post,” London and Carlisle, 22 “Royal Forester,” Doncaster and Nottingham, 232 “Royal Union,” London and Newcastle, 231 Stage Coaches, 33–49 “Stamford Regent” 18–21, 76, 107, 109, 138 “Stamford and Retford Auxiliary Mail” 212 “Union,” Leeds, 15, 41 “Wellington,” London and Newcastle, 15, 234 “York Four-Days Stage” 35 Coaching Accidents, 41 Coaching Notabilities— Barclay of Ury, 169 Barker, of Welwyn, 88–90 Barker, John, 138 Cartwright, of Buckden, 114 Chaplin, William, 16–18, 73 Clark, George, 212, 214, Dennetts, The, of Retford, 211 Hennesy, Tom, 88–90 Herring, J. F., 231–234 Horne, B. W., 17, 66 Mountain, Mrs., 18, 22–25 Nelson, Mrs., 18, 25 Percivals, The, of Wansford and Greetham, 138, 158, 211 Sherman, Edward, 14 Waterhouse, William, 16 Whincup, of Stamford, 149 Wood, Richard, 231, 232, 233 Colsterworth, 176 Cromwell, 205 Cromwell, Oliver, 188 Cross Hall, 113 Crow Park, 206 Cycling Notabilities— Badlake, F. T., 112 Butterfield, W. J. H., 112 Edge, T. A., 111 Edge, S. F., 111 Fontaine, C. C., 112 Goodwin, F. R., 112 Hobson, T., 112