Various. Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850
NOTES
GRAVESEND BOATS
NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON
DEVOTIONAL TRACTS BELONGING TO QUEEN KATHERINE PARR
SUGGESTIONS FOR CHEAP BOOKS OF REFERENCE
RIB, WHY THE FIRST WOMAN FORMED FROM
MINOR NOTES
QUERIES
P. MATHIEU'S LIFE OF SEJANUS
THE ANTIQUITY OF SMOKING
SIR GREGORY NORTON, BART
MINOR QUERIES
REPLIES
DERIVATION OF NEWS
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES
MISCELLANEOUS
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS
Отрывок из книги
While so much has been said of coaches, in the early numbers of "Notes and Queries" and elsewhere, very little notice has been taken of another mode of conveyance which has now become very important. I think it may amuse some of your readers to compare a modern Gravesend boat and passage with the account given by Daniel Defoe, in the year 1724: and as it is contained in what I believe to be one of his least known works, it may probably be new to most of them. In his Great Law of Subordination, after describing the malpractices of hackney coachmen, he proceeds:
We are not bound to suppose that this is plain relation of matter of fact, any more than the History of Robinson Crusoe; but it is a graphic sketch of life and manners worth the notice of those who study such things. It forms at least a little contribution to the history of travelling in England. A passenger who had just landed from a Gravesend boat, to pursue his journey by land, might well be thankful to "be received in a coach" like that which had been started at York near half a century before.
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6. Thavie's Inn. A small brass plate fixed up against the first house on the west side, has the following inscription:
7. Old Bailey. Peter Bales, the celebrated writing master of Queen Elizabeth's reign, was master of a school "at the upper end of the Old Bailey" in 1590. It was here he published his first work, entitled, The Writing School Master.
