alowing each 20 lbs. weight,.and all above to pay
6d. per lb. The coach sets off at six in the morning.
Performed by Henry Hamson, Nich. Speighl,
Rob. Garbe, Rich. Croft?
When we consider the cost of food on a thirteen
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8, Moray House; 30, Canongate Cross; 32, Canongate Tolbooth.
Canongate, every other Tuesday. In the winter
to set out from London and Edinburgh every
other Monday morning, and to go to Burrowbridge
on Saturday night ; and to set out from thence on
Monday morning, and to get to London and Edinof
Anne and Victoria seems great indeed.
In July, 1754, the Ertinburgh Courant advertises
the stage-coach, drawn by six horses, with a postillion
on one of the leaders, as ?a new, genteel,
two-end glass machine, hung on steel springs;
exceeding light and easy, to go in ten days in
summer and twelve in winter,? setting out from
Hosea Eastgate?s, at the Coach and Horses, Dean
Street, Soho, and from John Somerville?s, in the
parcels, according fo their vahe.?
A few years before this move in the way of progress,
the Canongate had been the scene of a little
religious persecution; thus we find that on a
Sunday in the April of 1722 the Duchess Dowager
of Gordon, Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the
Duke of Norfolk, venturing to have mass celebrated
at her house in the Canongate for herself and
some fifty other Roman Catholics, Bailie Hawthorn,
