Here are a few more Coaching items, starting with a bill from Pratt's London Inn in Exeter from 1825, with an embossed receipt dated 30th July 1825, signed by Joseph Pratt, the proprietor. The bill total £23 14s 9d including £5 10s for 4 chaises. Allowing for inflation this is equivalent to £1,944 or about £280 per day for bed, meals and transport.
I also found an image of another bill dated July 1838 from Pratt's London Inn on the internet, for £11 9s 6d for a Hearse with 4 horses, 2 coaches and pairs, Duty, Pall, Cloaks and Turnpikes. This works out at about £1,120 in today's money.
This next item is a ticket for Carriage and Porterage from the Bull & Mouth Western Coach Office from c.1839.
Here is an image from the internet of "The Cambridge Coach leaving the Belle Sauvage yard into Ludgate Hill" by James Pollard.




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