J. Bradshaw.]

[Footnote 147: Anthony a Wood's Life of himself.]

[Footnote 148: Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684. See also the list
of stage coaches and waggons at the end of the book, entitled Angliae
Metropolis, 1690.]

[Footnote 149: John Cresset's Reasons for suppressing Stage Coaches,
1672. These reason were afterwards inserted in a tract, entitled "The
Grand Concern of England explained, 1673." Cresset's attack on stage
coaches called forth some answers which I have consulted.]

[Footnote 150: Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684; North's Examen,
105; Evelyn's Diary, Oct. 9,10, 1671.]

[Footnote 151: See the London Gazette, May 14, 1677, August 4, 1687,
Dec. 5, 1687. The last confession of Augustin King, who was the son of
an eminent divine, and had been educated at Cambridge but was hanged at
Colchester in March, 1688, is highly curious.]

[Footnote 152: Aimwell. Pray sir, han't I seen your face at Will's
coffeehouse? Gibbet. Yes sir, and at White's too.--Beaux' Stratagem.]

[Footnote 153: Gent's History of York. Another marauder of the same
description, named Biss, was hanged at Salisbury in 1695. In a ballad
which is in the Pepysian Library, he is represented as defending himself
thus before the Judge:

"What say you now, my honoured Lord
What harm was there in this?
Rich, wealthy misers were abhorred
By brave, freehearted Biss."]

[Footnote 154: Pope's Memoirs of Duval, published immediately after the
execution. Oates's Eikwg basilikh, Part I.]

[Footnote 155: See the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Harrison's
Historical Description of the Island of Great Britain, and Pepys's
account of his tour in the summer of 1668. The excellence of the English
inns is noticed in the Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo.]

[Footnote 156: Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 36; Chamberlayne's State of England,
1684; Angliae Metropolis, 1690; London Gazette, June 22, 1685, August
15, 1687.]

[Footnote 157: Lond. Gaz., Sept. 14, 1685.]

[Footnote 158: Smith's Current intelligence, March 30, and April 3,
1680.]

[Footnote 159: Anglias Metropolis, 1690.]

[Footnote 160: Commons' Journals, Sept. 4, 1660, March 1, 1688-9;
Chamberlayne, 1684; Davenant on the Public Revenue, Discourse IV.]

[Footnote 161: I have left the text as it stood in 1848. In the year
1856 the gross receipt of the Post Office was more than 2,800,000L.; and
the net receipt was about 1,200,000L. The number of letters conveyed by
p