Flipping Nora, I sit down to read some stuff about bridges in Newport and a pub in London pops up in the following chapter. An interesting advertisment of an early stage-coach to London. From: The Whitehall Evening Post, 9 November, 1756
‘Brecknock and Monmouth Machine, in four days; begins going from the Bolt and Tun Inn in Fleet Street on Wednesday, the 27th instant October, at three o’clock in the morning; stays the first night at Oxford, the second night at Gloucester, the third at the Kings head at Monmouth, and arrives at the Golden Lion at brecknock on Saturday evening; and returns from thence evry Monday morning at five o’clock and keeps the same stages as above, into London on Thursday evening. Each passenger from Londonto Brecknock to pay £2, to Monmouth £1 10s. 6d., and to Gloucester £1 3s., to be allowed 20lbs each; all above pay to Brecknock 2d. half penny, and to Monmouth 2d. Performed (if God permits) by William and John Turner. Note- As this machine is set up at the request of several gentlemen, &c., in the counties of Brecknock and Carmarthen, &c., the proprietors are in hopes to meet with encouragement,’ %c.