£. s.d.
Brought forward 259 9 0
A good full-made Box Coat, with six real Capes, and lined with Shalloon, about £7. (according to the number of Capes and the quality of the Cloth, the price varies from £5. to £8.), once in Three Years, at the end of which it is given to the Coachman, per Annum 2 7 0

Plain Liveries, without Lace, &c. one-third less, i. e.about £5. per Suit.

Two Plain Hats 2 10 0
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£264 6 0

With Gold Lace Binding, and a neat narrow Gold Band, they cost about double the above sum.

Some give, Annually, one plain Hat for common use, and one edged with Gold Lace and a Gold Band as a Dress Hat.

Those who like to see their Coachman neat and nice, give him a Clothes Box as well as a Clothes Brush, or, which is infinitely better, a Cupboard six feet high, about three feet deep, and three feet wide, with pegs to hang his Box Coat, Hat, and other Clothes on, which, without such a case, are soon spoiled by the Dust of the Hay Loft.

£.s.d.
Brought forward 264 6 0
The Yearly hire of a handsome new Chariot or Coach and Harness, from £70. to £84.: if it is hired for only three or four Years, and fitted up with Under-springs, Collinge’s Axles, &c., and finished in the best style, as described in Estimate No 9, it will be about 84 0 0
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Total 348 6 0

To the above Estimate is to be added the charges of Turnpikes—Short Baits[6]—Travelling Expenses, &c., extra Visiting, and numerous other Expenses, which would not be incurred without a Carriage to carry you to them: these will make the total amount of outgoings from keeping a Carriage come up to not less than £400 per Annum.

The Editor is aware that the foregoing Computations are rather higher than those random-guess Estimates, which some inexperienced persons have published: however, his Calculations are neither more nor less than the actual amount which he has himself paid; and he does not believe that the business can be done properly for less than the Sums set down;—therefore,

Prudent Peruser of the present Page,

To keep a Coach will add but Care to Age,

Unless your Annual Income is quite clear