A Hackneyman’s allowance for Two Horses is a Sack of Oats per week, which give, if good measure, Four good feeds a day; Country measure, will run nearly five feeds.

£ s. d.
The above is the Annual Expense—exclusive of Stable Rent—Interest of Money paid for the purchase of the Horses—Saddles—Bridles—Horse Cloths, &c.—Farrier’s Bills for Physic—Turnpikes—Travelling Expenses—Groom’s Wages and Livery, &c., which, excepting the difference of charge between a Coachman’s Box Coat, and a Groom’s Great Coat, and the difference of Rent and Taxes on a Single Stall Stable, (which it is often excessively difficult to obtain contiguous to your House), and on Two Stalls and a Coach-house, is, according to the Expense of keeping a Groom or Coachman given in Estimate No. 4, about 95 0 0
Annual Keep 24 6 11
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Total £119 6 11
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N.B.—The Hackneyman’s Charge for Jobbing a Saddle Horse, and finding Stabling, &c. is, per Annum, about £70.

ESTIMATE No. II.

EXPENSE OF KEEPING ONE HORSE AT A LIVERY STABLE.

At some Livery Stables, your Horses will be taken as much care of as they can be in your own: at others, they fare very sadly;—therefore, cautiously inquire into the Character of the person keeping them;—moreover, if his Rent is in arrear, your Carriage and Horses may be seized and sold by his Landlord.

£s. d.
Four Feeds per Day, at £1. 1s. per Week 54 12 0
Hostler, 1s. or 1s. 6d. per Week—a Gratuity of a shilling now and then to the Under Hostler, who looks after the Chaise, or attends to the Horse, together, perhaps, equal to about 4 00
Shoeing, and Duty per Annum 4139
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£63 59
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ESTIMATE No. III.

A CABRIOLET AND HARNESS,