When first the marriage knot was tied, betwixt my love and me,
My age did then her’s exceed us three times three doth three.
But when we ten and half ten years we man and wife had been,
Her age came up as near to mine, as eight is to sixteen.

Solution.—The man was 45, the woman was 15.

EXPENCES OF WITNESSES IN COURTS OF JUSTICE, AT ASSIZES, &c.

From

To

£.

s.

d.

£.

s.

d.

Travelling expences per mile one way

0

1

0

0

7

0

Journeymen, labourers, &c., while detained, perday

0

5

0

0

15

0

Tradesmen, yeomen, farmers, while detained, per day

0

10

0

0

15

0

Merchants, gentlemen, auctioneers, clerks if residing inLondon, and the trial be there

1

1

0

altogether.

If at assizes

1

1

0

per day.

Professional men from

1

1

0

£2

2

0 per day.

Attornies’ clerks

0

15

0

1

0

0

Families, according to rank

0

5

0

1

0

0

COACHES, WAGGONS, CARTS, PACKETS,
AND OTHER PUBLIC CONVEYANCES TO AND FROM HORNCASTLE.

The Pelham arrives at the Bull Inn, Horncastle, from Boston, every morning, (Sundays excepted) at 8 o’clock; proceeds at half-past to New Holland and Hull: returns to Horncastle at half-past 6, and proceeds to Boston immediately.

The Defiance arrives at the George Inn Horncastle, from Louth, every morning (Sundays excepted) at half-past 8 o’clock; proceeds at 9 to Lincoln: returns in the afternoon at 6, and proceeds immediately to Louth.

The Mail Cart leaves the Post Office Horncastle, for the North, every evening at half-past 6, and returns the following day at 2 in the afternoon:—the Mail from the South, arrives at 11 o’clock in the morning, and leaves at half-past 2 in the afternoon:—the Letter Bags from Conningsby and Tattershall, arrive by a foot-post at 11 in the morning, are dispatched at half-past 1 in the afternoon.

Read’s Packet leaves Horncastle every Tuesday morning, for Boston, at 7 o’clock, where it arrives in the evening; leaves Boston the following Friday morning at the same hour, and arrives at Horncastle a the evening.

Slack’s Packet leaves Horncastle every Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock, for Lincoln, where it arrives in the evening; and returns the following Saturday morning at 7.