The London Inns, Though They Are As Commodious For The Most Part As
Those We Meet With In Other Places,
Yet few people choose to take up
their quarters in them for any long time; for, if their business
requires
Them to make any stay in London, they choose to leave their
horses at the inn or some livery-stable, and take lodgings in a
private house. At livery stables they lodge no travellers, only
take care of their horses, which fare better here than usually at
inns; and at these places it is that gentlemen hire saddle-horses
for a journey. At the best of them are found very good horses and
furniture: they will let out a good horse for 4s. a day, and an
ordinary hackney for 2s. 6d., and for 5s. you may have a hunter for
the city hounds have the liberty of hunting; in Enfield Chase and
round the town, and go out constantly every week in the season,
followed by a great many young gentlemen and tradesmen. They have
an opportunity also of hunting with the King's hounds at Richmond
and Windsor: and such exercises seem very necessary for people who
are constantly in London, and eat and drink as plentifully as any
people in the world. And now I am speaking of hired horses, I
cannot avoid taking notice of the vast number of coach-horses that
are kept to be let out to noblemen or gentlemen, to carry or bring
them to and from the distant parts of the kingdom, or to supply the
undertakers of funerals with horses for their coaches and hearses.
There are some of these men that keep several hundreds of horses,
with coaches, coachmen, and a complete equipage, that will be ready
at a day's warning to attend a gentleman to any part of England.
These people also are great jockeys.
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