INDEX

Ailesbury, Marquis of, [183-185]
Allen, Ralph, [242-250]
“Allen’s stall,” [34-38]
Anne, Queen, [6], [237], [238]
Apsley House, [34-38]
Arlington, Earl of, [90]
Avebury, [198-203]
Banks, Sir Joseph, [93]
Bath, [2-15], [228-270]
Batheaston, [227], [242]
—— Vase, [241]
Bathford, [227]
Bathampton, [228]
Bath stone, [223-227], [268]
Bathwick, [246]
Beckhampton, [203-205]
Berkeley, Earls of, [82-84], [87], [89]
“Berkshire Lady,” the, [141-145], [158]
Bladud, Prince, [231], [243]
Box, [203], [223-227]
—— Hill, [224], [227]
—— Tunnel, [223]
Brentford, [70]
Calcot, [141-145]
Calne, [203], [206], [209]
Cherhill, [205-207]
Chippenham, [17], [203], [210-215], [253]
Chiswick High Road, [58], [65]
Church Speen, [153], [165], [166]
Coaches:—
“Beaufort Hunt,” [26], [204]
“Flying Machines,” [5], [69], [260]
“Light Post” coach, [30]
Mail coaches, [10], [11], [17-19], [27]
“Regulator,” [16]
“York House,” [26]
Coaching era, [4-33], [204]
—— fares, [5], [28]
—— miseries, [9], [15-19]
Coaching notabilities:—
Chaplin, Edward, [21], [90]
—— and Horne, [90]
Cooper, Thomas, [21]
Everett, Jack, [204]
Colnbrook, [97-103]
Colne, River, [96-98], [103]
Corsham Regis, [218], [221-223], [224]
Cranford, [82], [85], [86-89]
—— Bridge, [29], [84], [97]
Cross Keys, [218]
Cycling records, [215-218]
Darell, William, [173-182]
Froxfield, [182]
Fyfield, [192]
Great Western Railway, [27], [74], [108-110], [124], [134], [149], [221], [227]
Gunnersbury, [63], [68]
Hammersmith, [58], [63]
Hare Hatch, [134]
Harlington, [89-91]
—— Corner, [89]

Harmondsworth, [94-96]
Henry VIII., [13-138]
Highwaymen, [40-45], [56], [67-69], [71], [74-84], [87], [91-94], [111-116], [118], [129]
Hock-tide, [167-173]
Hounslow, [19], [71-74], [92]
—— Heath, [69], [71], [74-84], [86], [92], [111]
Hungerford, [146], [166-173]
Hyde Park Corner, [33-40], [74], [94], [166]
Inns (mentioned at length):—
“Bear,” Maidenhead, [25], [129]
“Bell and Bottle,” Knowl Hill, [133]
“Black Bull,” Holborn, [31]
“Castle,” Marlborough, [17], [21], [187], [192]
——, Salt Hill, [92], [107]
“Greyhound,” Maidenhead, [127]
“Halfway House,” Kensington, [40], [43], [45]
“Hercules’ Pillars,” Hyde Park Corner, [34]
“King’s Head,” Longford, [97]
“Magpies,” [90]
“Old Bell,” Holborn, [31-33]
“Old Magpies,” [91]
“Old Pack Horse,” Turnham Green, [66-68]
“Old Windmill,” Turnham Green, [65]
“Ostrich,” Colnbrook, [99-103]
“Pack Horse and Talbot,” Turnham Green, [59], [66]
“Peggy Bedford,” Longford, [97]
“Pelican,” Speenhamland, [15], [150], [253]
“Red Cow,” Brook Green, [56-58]
“Robin Hood,” Turnham Green, [63-65]
“Waggon and Horses,” Beckhampton, [203-205]
“White Bear,” Piccadilly, [26]
“White Bear,” Fickles Hole, [26]
“White Hart,” Bath, [260]
“White Horse,” Fetter Lane, [16], [30]
“White Lion,” Bath, [22], [26], [260]
“York House,” Bath, [26]
Jack of Newbury, [150-154], [157-161]
Kennet, River, [146], [152], [166], [186], [193]
Kensington, [34], [40], [44], [46-55]
Kew Bridge, [68]
Kiln Green, [133]
Knightsbridge, [34], [40], [44]
Knowl Hill, [133]
Langley Broom, [104]
—— Marish, [104]
Littlecote, [173-182]
Longford, [94], [96]
Maidenhead, [33], [122], [124-130]
—— Thicket, [111], [129-133]
Mail coaches established, [10]
Manton, [194]
Marlborough, [22], [26], [182], [186-193], [204]
—— College, [188], [192]
—— Downs, [17], [197-201], [205], [253]
Maud Heath’s Causeway, [213-215]

Nash, Beau, [238-240], [243], [250]
Newbury, [18], [138], [146], [150-166], [253]
——, battles of, [161-165]
Old-time travellers:—
Campbell, Rev. Thomas, [252-255]
Moritz, Pastor, [116-123]
Palmer, George, [135]
——, John, [10], [242], [243]
Pickwick, [218-221]
Postage of letters, [10-15], [167]
Prior Park, [243], [246]
Quemerford, [206]
Reading, [18], [29], [130], [134-138]
Salt Hill, [92], [106-111], [122]
Savernake Forest, [182-185], [194]
Sham Castle, [249]
Silbury Hill, [198-203]
Sipson Green, [91]
Speen, [153], [165], [166]
Speenhamland, [150], [253]
Stackhouse, Rev. Thomas, [153]
Taplow, [108], [124]
Tetsworth water, [105]
Thatcham, [21], [146], [149], [153]
Theale, [145], [162]
Turnham Green, [58-68]
Turnpike gates, [11], [34], [45], [73], [166]
Twyford, [130], [134]
Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths, [59]
Walcot, [228]
West Kennet, [197]
—— Overton, [197]
“Wild Darell,” [173-182]
Woolhampton, [146-149]
Wyatt’s Rebellion, [38]
“Young’s Corner,” [58]

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Footnotes:

[1] Stranger still, the chief informer was named Porter.

[2] Tawell had poisoned his sweetheart, who, before dying, had time to denounce him to her friends. They pursued him to the station, but when they arrived there the train had gone. The telegram sent was in these words:—

“A murder has just been committed at Salt Hill, and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7.42 p.m. He is in the garb of a Quaker, with a brown great-coat on, which reaches nearly to his feet. He is in the last compartment of the second-class carriage.”

At Paddington he took a City omnibus, but the conductor was a policeman in disguise, and dogged his footsteps from one coffee-house to another, which he is supposed to have entered for the purpose of setting up an alibi. At length, as he was stepping into a lodging-house in the City, the police tapped him on the shoulder, with the question, “Haven’t you just come from Slough?” Tawell confusedly denied the fact, but he was arrested, with the result already recounted.