Money,
Plate, Bank Notes, or Jewels will be insured unless delivered as such,
perform'd by
JOSEPH CLAYEY.
N.B. His other Waggons keep their Stages as usual."
From Cruttwell's _Sherborne, Shaftesbury, and Dorchester Journal_, or
_Yeovil, Taunton, and Bridgewater Chronicle_, of Friday, February 6th,
12th, and 20th, 1767.
"Taunton Flying Machine,
Hung on Steel Springs, in Two Days
Sets out from the Saracen's Head Inn in Friday Street, London, and
Taunton, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at Three o'clock in the
morning: and returns every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, lays at
the Antelope in Salisbury, going Up and Down; To carry Six inside
Passengers, each to pay
L s. d.
To Taunton 1 16 0
Ilminster 1 14 0
Yeovil 1 8 0
Sherborne 1 6 0
Shaftesbury 1 4 0
Outside Passengers and Children in the Lap, Half-Fare as above, each
Inside Passenger allowed Fourteen Pounds Luggage; all above, to
Taunton Two-pence per Pound and so in Proportion to any Part of the
road.
_Note_. No Money, Plate, Jewels, or Writings, will be accounted for
if Lost, unless Entered as such, and Paid for accordingly.
Performed by {JOHN WHITMASH, THOMAS LILEY.}"
From the same Paper of Friday, April 17th, 24th, and May 1st, 1767:--
"Frome, 1767.
The Proprietors of the
FROME STAGE MACHINE
In Order to make it more agreeable to their Friends in the West,
have engaged to set out Post Chaises from the Christopher Inn, in
Wells, every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday Evenings, at Five
o'clock, to stop at the George Inn, at Shepton Mallet, and set out
from thence at a Quarter past Six, to carry Passengers and Parcels
to Frome, to be forwarded from thence to London in the One Day
Flying Machine, which began on Sunday the 12th of April, 1767; Also
a Chaise from Frome every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings
to Shepton and Wells, as soon as the Coach arrives from London, if
any Passengers, &c. go down, at the following Prices:--from Wells to
Frome Four Shillings, from Shepton Three Shillings, small parcels
from Wells to Frome 6d. each, from Shepton 4d., large ditto a
Halfpenny per Pound from each place. All Passengers who intend
taking the Advantage of this method of t
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