HACKNEY COACH FARES.

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General Rules for Distances.

     s. d.         s. d.
Not exceeding one mile ...   1  0    Seven miles ...   8  6
One mile and a half ...   1  6    Seven miles and a half ...   9  0
Two miles ...   2  0    Eight miles ...   9  6
Two miles and a half ...   3  0    Eight miles and a half ...  10  6
Three miles ...   3  6    Nine miles ...  11  0
Three miles and a half ...   4  0    Nine miles and a half ...  11  6
Four miles ...   4  6    Ten miles ...  12  0
Four miles and a half ...   5  6    Ten miles and a half ...  13  0
Five miles ...   6  0    Eleven miles ...  13  6
Five miles and a half ...   6  6    Eleven miles and a half ...  14  0
Six miles ...   7  0    Twelve miles ...  15  0
Six miles and a half ...   8  0         
 
And so on at the rate of 6d. for every half mile, and an additional
6d. for every two miles completed.
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For Time.

 s. d.
Not exceeding thirty minutes ...   1  0
Forty-five minutes ...   1  6
One hour ...   2  0
One hour and twenty minutes ...   3  0
One hour and forty minutes ...   4  0
Two hours ...   5  0
Not exceeding two hours and twenty minutes ...   6  0
Two hours and forty minutes ...   7  0
Three hours ...   8  0
Three hours and twenty minutes ...   9  0
Three hours and forty minutes ...  10  0
Four hours ...  11  0
And so on at the rate of sixpence for every fifteen minutes
further time.
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The Commissioners’ List for Regulating the Price and Measurement of One Shilling, Eighteen-penny, and Two Shilling Fares, according to the late Act of Parliament.

ONE SHILLING FARES.
 
The distance not exceeding one mile.
 
          Palace Yard, Westminster.    m. f. p.
First coach, to the end of Catherine Street, Strand    0  7  28
Ditto, to Derby Court, Piccadilly    0  7  26
Charing Cross.
The Golden Cross, to White Horse Street, Piccadilly    0  7  27
Ditto, to Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet Street    0  7  22
Strand.
Catherine Street, to Watling Street, St. Paul’s    0  7  33
Temple Bar.
To the second Scotland Yard, Whitehall    0  7  21
Ditto, to Mercer’s Chapel, Cheapside    0  7  30
Bridge Street, Fleet Street.
First coach, to St. Peter’s Church, Cornhill    0  7  34
Ditto, to Newcastle Street, Strand    0  7  26
St. Paul’s Church-yard.
First coach, to Beaufort Buildings, Strand    0  7  25
Ditto, to Billiter Lane, Leadenhall Street    0  7  26
Cheapside.
Gutter Lane, to Featherstone Buildings, Holborn    0  7  29
Ditto, to Whitechapel Bars    0  7  30
Cornhill.
The centre of the Royal Exchange, to Great Garden }  
  Street, Whitechapel  0  7  27
Ditto, to Water Lane, Fleet Street    0  7  32
Ditto, to Hatton Garden, Holborn    0  7  33
Whitechapel.
First coach, next the Three Nuns, to Cheapside conduit    0  7  28
Ditto, to the Old ’Change, Cheapside    0  7  22
Holborn.
The end of Hatton Garden, to the Royal Exchange    0  7  33
The end of Red Lion Street, to Buckingham St., Strand    0  7  30
Oxford Street.
The end of Rathbone Place, to Orchard Street    0  7  16
Ditto, to Gray’s Inn Gate, Holborn    0  7  20
The end of Park Street, to Dean Street, Holborn    0  7  26
Piccadilly.
The Golden Lion, to Panton Street, Haymarket    0  7  32
The end of St. James’s Street, to Cecil Street, Strand    0  7  28
King Street, Cheapside.
Gatestone Street, to St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet Street    0  7  32
Clerkenwell.
Opposite the Close, to Bread Street, Cheapside    0  7  29
Buckingham Gate.
Opposite the Gate, to the Treasury, Whitehall    0  7  17
EIGHTEEN-PENNY FARES.
 
The distance not exceeding one mile and a half.
 
          Palace Yard, Westminster.    m. f. p.
First coach, to Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet Street    1  3  15
Ditto, to White Horse Street, Piccadilly    1  3  21
Charing Cross.
The Golden Cross, to the end of Grosvenor Place, Hyde }  
  Park Corner  1  3  19
Ditto, to Watling Street, St. Paul’s Church Yard    1  3  28
Strand.
Catherine Street, to Bank Street, Cornhill    1  3  30
Temple Bar.
To Little Abingdon Buildings, Westminster    1  3  19
To Billiter Lane, Leadenhall Street    1  3  31
Bridge Street, Fleet Street.
First coach, to Somerset Street, Whitechapel    1  3  27
Ditto, to Downing Street, Parliament Street    1  3  26
St. Paul’s Church Yard.
First coach, to the end of Pall Mall, Cockspur Street    1  3  35
Ditto, Brick Lane, Whitechapel    1  3  31
Cheapside.
Gutter Lane, to Dyot Street, St. Giles’s    1  3  29
Ditto, to Whitechapel Workhouse    1  3  27
Cornhill.
The centre of the Royal Exchange, to Dog-row, Mile-end    1  3  21
The centre of the R. Exchange, to Somerset-place, Strand    1  3  26
Ditto, to the Bull and Gate, Holborn    1  3  26
Whitechapel.
First coach, next the Three Nuns, to Ely Place, Holborn    1  3  31
Ditto, to Salisbury Court, Fleet Street    1  3  32
Holborn.
The end of Hatton Garden, to Houndsditch, Whitechapel    1  3  28
The end of Southampton Buildings, to the Treasury, }  
  Whitehall  1  3  28
Ditto, to St. Mary Axe, Leadenhall Street    1  3  27
The end of Red Lion St. to Downing St., Westminster    1  3  27
Oxford Road.
The end of Bond Street, to Brownlow Street, Holborn    1  3  29
The end of Park Street, to opposite the Coal Yard, }  
  High Holborn  1  3  30
Piccadilly.
The Golden Lion, to Adam Street, Strand    1  3  29
Ditto, to Whitehall Chapel    1  3  20
The end of St. James’s St. to Temple Lane, Fleet St.    1  3  28
Tower.
First coach, to Fetter Lane, Fleet Street    1  3  21
King Street, Cheapside.
Cateaton Street, to Burleigh Street, Strand    1  3  22
Ditto, to Newton Street, Holborn    1  3  30
Clerkenwell.
Opposite the Close, to opposite Leadenhall Market    1  3  31
Buckingham Gate.
Opposite the Gate, to Bedford Street, Strand    1  3   2

TWO SHILLING FARES.
 
The distance not exceeding two miles.
 
          Palace Yard, Westminster.    m. f. p.
First coach, to the end of Watling Street, St. Paul’s }  
  Church Yard  1  7  32
Ditto, to opposite the Horse Guards at Knightsbridge    1  7  25
Whitehall.
From the Horse Guards, to Mercer’s Chapel, Cheapside    1  7  28
Ditto, to Bear Court, Knightsbridge    1  7  28
Charing Cross.
The Golden Cross, to Smith’s Manufactory, Knightsbridge    1  7   4
Ditto, to Bank Street, Cornhill    1  7  27
Strand.
Catherine Street, to Poor Jewry, Aldgate    1  7  30
Temple Bar.
To the end of Millbank Street, Westminster    1  6  13
To the Red Lion and Spread Eagle, Whitechapel    1  7  16
Bridge Street, Fleet Street.
First coach, to New Road, Whitechapel Road    1  7  32
Ditto, to the turning to Queen Square, Westminster    1  7  33
St. Paul’s Church Yard.
First coach, to St. James’s Palace Gate    1  6  25
Ditto, to the sign of the London Hospital    1  7   3
Cheapside.
Gutter Lane, to the end of Poland Street, Oxford Street    1  7  34
Ditto, to the end of Mutton Lane, Mile-End Road    1  7  26
Cornhill.
The centre of the Royal Exchange, to the Rose and }  
  Crown, Mile-End Road  1  7  30
Ditto, to the end of St. Martin’s Lane, Strand    1  7  21
Ditto, to the end of Denmark Street, St. Giles’s    1  7  21
Whitechapel.
First coach, next to the Three Nuns, to the Bull and }  
  Gate, Holborn  1  7  33
First coach next to the Three Nuns, to Somerset House    1  7  33
King’s Road, Gray’s Inn Lane.
First coach, to the Blue Bear, Whitechapel    1  7  20
Ditto, to Park Street, Oxford Road    1  7  27
Holborn.
The end of Hatton Garden, to the end of Garden Street, }  
  Whitechapel Road  1  7  25
Ditto, to the end of Duke Street, Oxford Road    1  7  31
The end of Red Lion Street, to the King’s Head, Lambeth }  
  Marsh  1  7  33
The Vine Tavern, to the end of Poor Jewry, Aldgate    1  7  30
Oxford Street.
The end of Rathbone Place, to the end of Bigg’s Lane, }  
  in the road to Bayswater  1  7  19
Ditto, to the end of the Old Jewry, Poultry    1  7  31
The end of Bond Street, to the end of Cow Lane, }  
  Snow Hill  1  7  26
The end of Park Street, to Gray’s Inn Gate, Holborn    1  7  25
Piccadilly.
The Golden Lion, to Palsgrave Head Court, Temple Bar    1  7  28
Ditto, to the end of Wood Street, Millbank Street, }  
  Westminster  1  7  33
End of St. James’s Street, to the first coach in St. }  
  Paul’s Church Yard  1  7  28
Tower.
To the centre of Exeter ’Change, Strand    1  7  31
King Street, Cheapside.
Cateaton St. to the end of Suffolk Street, Cockspur St.    1  7  25
Ditto, to the Boar and Castle, Oxford Road    1  7  15
Clerkenwell.
Opposite the Close, to the Talbot Inn, Whitechapel    1  7  29
Buckingham Gate.
Opposite the Gate, to the end of Essex Street, Strand    1  7  29
FARES FROM REMARKABLE PLACES.
 
      Admiralty to   s. d.     Bishopsgate Street Within to   s. d.
Islington Church          ...   4  0   Bermondsey Church         ...   1  6
India House     ...       ...   3  0   Charter-House Square      ...   1  6
Mile-End Turnpike         ...   4  6   Catherine Street, Strand   2  0
Ratcliffe       ...       ...   5  6   City Lying-in Hospital    ...   1  6
Shoreditch Church         ...   4  0   Chancery Lane   ...       ...   1  6
Tower ...       ...       ...   3  6   King’s Bench    ...       ...   1  6
Union Street, Borough     ...   3  6   Haymarket       ...       ...   3  0
Bank to   Bishopsgate Street Without to
Berkeley Square ...       ...   3  6   Bethnall Green  ...       ...   1  6
Haymarket       ...       ...   3  0   Hatton Garden   ...       ...   1  6
Hyde Park Corner          ...   4  0   Charing Cross   ...       ...   3  0
Islington Church          ...   3  0   Haymarket       ...       ...   3  0
Piccadilly      ...       ...   3  0   Leicester Square          ...   3  0
Pantheon, Oxford Street   ...   3  0   Clerkenwell to
Ratcliffe       ...       ...   3  0   Hyde Park Corner          ...   4  0
Tyburn Gate     ...       ...   4  0   Mile-End Gate   ...       ...   3  6
Berkeley Square to Ratcliffe       ...       ...   4  0
Clerkenwell Green         ...   3  6   Shoreditch Church         ...   3  0
Foundling Hospital        ...   3  0   Tyburn Gate     ...       ...   3  6
Guildhall       ...       ...   3  6   Union Street, Borough     ...   3  0
Islington Church          ...   4  0   Foundling Hospital to
India House     ...       ...   4  0   Hyde Park Corner          ...   3  6
Lincoln’s Inn (near side) ...   3  0   India House     ...       ...   3  0
Mile-End Gate   ...       ...   5  6   Mile-End Gate   ...       ...   4  0
Newgate         ...       ...   3  0   Ratcliffe       ...       ...   5  6
Obelisk, Fleet Street     ...   3  0   Shoreditch Church         ...   4  0
Ratcliffe       ...       ...   6  0   Tower ...       ...       ...   3  6
St. Paul’s (west end)     ...   3  0   Tyburn Gate     ...       ...   3  0
Shoreditch Church         ...   4  6   Union Street, Borough     ...   3  6
Tower ...       ...       ...   4  0   Temple Bar      ...       ...   3  0
Union Street, Borough     ...   4  6   Tyburn          ...       ...   6  6
Guildhall to Union Street, Borough     ...   3  0
Haymarket       ...       ...   3  0    
Hyde Park Corner          ...   4  0   Ratcliffe Cross to
Islington Church          ...   3  0   St. Paul’s (west end)     ...   3  6
Piccadilly      ...       ...   3  0   Shoreditch Church         ...   3  6
Pantheon, Oxford Street   ...   3  0   Temple Bar      ...       ...   4  0
Tyburn          ...       ...   3  6   Tyburn          ...       ...   6  6
Hyde Park Corner to Union Street, Borough     ...   3  0
Islington Church          ...   5  6   St. Ann’s Church, Dean St. to
India House     ...       ...   4  0   Ratcliffe       ...       ...   4  6
Lincoln’s Inn (west side) ...   3  0   Shoreditch Church         ...   3  6
Mile-End Gate   ...       ...   6  0   Bank  ...       ...       ...   3  0
Newgate         ...       ...   3  6   Whitechapel     ...       ...   3  0
Obelisk, Fleet Street     ...   3  0   India House     ...       ...   3  0
Ratcliffe Cross ...       ...   6  6   Islington Church          ...   4  0
St. Paul’s (west end)     ...   3  6   Mile-End Gate   ...       ...   4  6
Shoreditch Church         ...   5  6   Guildhall       ...       ...   3  0
Temple          ...       ...   3  0   Union Street, Borough     ...   3  0
Tower ...       ...       ...   4  6   Somerset House  ...       ...   1  6
Union Street, Borough     ...   4  6   Westminster Hall          ...   1  0
Islington Church to Temple Bar      ...       ...   1  0
India House     ...       ...   3  6   St. Paul’s      ...       ...   1  9
Lincoln’s Inn (west side) ...   3  0   Stones-End, Borough       ...   3  0
Mile-End Gate   ...       ...   4  6   Tyburn Gate     ...       ...   1  0
Piccadilly      ...       ...   4  0   Hyde Park       ...       ...   1  6
Haymarket       ...       ...   4  0   Grosvenor Gate  ...       ...   1  6
Pantheon, Oxford Street   ...   3  6   Horse Guards    ...       ...   1  0
Ratcliffe Cross ...       ...   5  6   Marsh Gate      ...       ...   1  6
Temple Bar      ...       ...   3  6  
Tower ...       ...       ...   4  0   From Paddington to
Tyburn Gate     ...       ...   4  6   St. Paul’s      ...       ...   3  6
Union Street, Borough     ...   4  0   Bank  ...       ...       ...   4  0
India House to Westminster Hall          ...   2  0
Piccadilly      ...       ...   3  6   India House     ...       ...   4  6
Haymarket       ...       ...   3  6   Islington Church          ...   3  0
Pantheon        ...       ...   3  6   Somerset House  ...       ...   3  0
Tyburn          ...       ...   4  0   Union Street    ...       ...   4  6
Mile-End Turnpike to Foundling       ...       ...   3  0
Newgate         ...       ...   3  0   Temple Bar      ...          3  0
Obelisk, Fleet Street     ...   3  0   Horse Guards    ...       ...   2  0
Piccadilly      ...       ...   4  6   Ratcliffe       ...       ...   5  6
Haymarket       ...       ...   4  6   Tower ...       ...       ...   5  6
Pantheon        ...       ...   4  6   Aldersgate      ...       ...   3  0

Fares to the Opera House, Drury Lane, and Covent Garden Theatres.
 
From Opera
House.		 Drury Lane
Theatre.		 Cov. Gar.
Theatre.
 s. d.   s. d.   s. d.
Aldersgate Street   3  0    2  0    2  0 
Bishopsgate Street within   3  0    2  0    2  0 
Bishopsgate Street without   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Blackman Street, over London Bridge   3  6    3  0    3  0 
Ditto, over Blackfriars   3  6    3  0    3  0 
Ditto, over Westminster   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Bloomsbury Square   1  6    1  0    1  0 
Buckingham Gate   1  6    2  0    2  0 
Charing Cross   1  0    1  0    1  0 
Cheapside, Foster Lane end   2  0    1  6    1  6 
Cheapside, end of King Street   2  0    1  6    2  0 
Chelsea College   3  0    3  6    3  0 
Cornhill   3  0    2  0    2  0 
Fenchurch Street   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Fleet Street, Obelisk   1  6    1  0    1  0 
Gracechurch Street   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Hackney Church   5  6    5  0    5  0 
Holborn, end of Leather Lane   1  6    1  0    1  0 
Hyde Park Corner   1  6    2  0    2  0 
Islington   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Knightsbridge   2  0    2  6    2  6 
Mile-End Turnpike   3  6    3  0    3  6 
Minories   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Moorfields   3  0    2  0    2  0 
Oxford Street, Pantheon   1  0    1  6    1  6 
Oxford Street, end of Orchard Street   1  6    2  0    2  0 
Palace Yard and St. Margaret’s Church   1  0    1  0    1  0 
Ratcliffe Cross   5  0    3  6    4  0 
St. Anne’s Church, Soho   1  0    1  0    1  0 
St. James’s Palace Gate   1  0    1  0    1  0 
St. Paul’s Church Yard   2  0    1  0    1  0 
Shoreditch Church   3  6    3  0    3  0 
Smithfield   2  0    1  6    1  6 
Temple Bar   1  0    1  0    1  0 
Tottenham Ct. Road, end of Goodge St.   1  6    1  0    1  0 
Tower Gate   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Union Street, end of the Borough   3  0    3  0    3  0 
Whitechapel Bars.   3  0    3  0    3  0 

Fares to Vauxhall, Sadler’s Well’s, Astley’s, and the Circus.
 
From Vauxhall. Sad. Wells. Astley’s. Circus.
 s. d.   s. d.   s. d.  s. d.
Aldersgate Street   3  6    1  6    2  0    2  0 
Arundel Street, Strand   3  0    2  0    1  6    2  0 
Bedford Street, Covent Garden   3  0    3  0    1  6    2  0 
Bishopsgate Street within   3  0    3  0    3  0    2  0 
Blackman Street, Borough   2  0    3  0    1  6    1  0 
Bloomsbury Square   3  6    2  0    2  0    3  0 
Bond Street, Piccadilly   3  0    3  0    1  6    2  0 
Buckingham Gate   3  0    3  6    1  6    2  0 
Charles Street, Covent Garden   3  0    2  0    1  6    2  0 
Cheapside, end of Foster Lane   3  0    1  6    2  0    1  6 
Chelsea College   4  6    5  0    3  0    3  0 
Cornhill, Freeman’s Court   3  0    2  0    2  0    2  0 
Fleet Street Obelisk   3  0    1  6    2  0    1  6 
Gracechurch Street   3  6    2  0    2  0    2  0 
Haymarket, Piccadilly end   4  6    3  0    1  6    2  0 
Holborn, end of King Street   3  6    2  0    2  0    3  0 
Hyde-park Corner   5  0    3  6    2  0    3  0 
Islington   5  0    1  0    3  6    3  0 
Leicester Square   3  0    3  0    1  6    2  0 
Mile-End Turnpike   4  6    3  0    3  6    3  6 
Minories   3  6    3  0    3  0    3  0 
Moorfields   4  6    1  0    3  0    2  0 
Newgate   3  6    1  0    2  0    1  6 
Oxford Street, end of Charles Street   3  6    3  0    2  0    3  0 
Oxford Street, Pantheon   3  6    3  0    2  0    3  0 
Oxford Street, Bond Street   3  6    3  0    3  0    3  0 
Ditto, Orchard Street   4  0    3  6    3  0    3  6 
Palace Yard, & St. Margaret’s Church   3  0    3  6    1  0    1  6 
Ratcliffe Cross   5  6    3  6    4  6    3  6 
St. Ann’s Church, Soho   3  0    5  0    1  6    3  0 
St. James’s Palace   3  0    3  0    1  6    3  0 
St. Paul’s Church Yard   3  6    2  0    2  0    1  6 
Shoreditch Church   4  6    2  0    3  6    3  0 
Smithfield   3  6    1  0    3  0    2  0 
Strand, Catherine Street   3  0    3  0    1  6    2  0 
Temple Bar   3  6    2  0    2  0    2  0 
Tottenham-Court Road, Goodge St.   4  6    3  0    2  0    3  0 
Tower Gate   4  6    3  0    3  0    2  0 
Union Street, Borough   2  0    3  0    1  6    1  0 
Whitechapel Bars   4  0    3  0    3  0    2  0 

Number of Passengers.—Coaches are not compellable to take more than four adults in the inside, and a servant out; but if the coachman agree to take more, the fare will be 1s. for each extra person, of whatever age he or she may be, not being a child in arms, or less; and if taken in the country, 1s. for going, and 1s. for returning.—Chariots are not compellable to take more than two adults or grown up persons, and children in arms or less, but if the coachman should agree to carry, or should actually carry, above that number, he shall be paid at the same rate as in the preceding article respecting coaches.

Abusive Language.—The drivers of coaches and carriers of chairs, on demanding more than their fare, or giving abusive language, are to forfeit not more than 5l., and in default of the payment, they are to be sent to the house of correction seven days.

Extortion.—Coachmen refusing to go on, or extorting more than their fare, are to forfeit not more than 3l., nor less than 10s. Not only commissioners, but also justices, may determine offences, and inflict punishments.

Returning from the Country.—Coaches hired to go into the country, in the day-time, are to have for their return empty, for ten miles 5s.; eight miles 4s.; six miles 3s.; and for four miles 2s.; but there is no allowance for less than four miles.

Obligation to go on.—They shall be compellable on every day, and at any hour of the night (unless they shall have been out twelve hours, or have other reasonable excuse), to go upon all turnpike roads, any where within two miles and a half from the end of the carriage-way pavement.

Tickets or Certificates.—By 54 Geo. III. c. 147, before any driver of a coach or chariot shall be entitled to receive the amount of his fare, he shall deliver as many tickets marked on some “one shilling,” and on others “one shilling and sixpence,” (and having his Majesty’s arms, with the words “Hackney-Coach Office,” the number of his coach and chariot, and dated,) as shall by the sums printed thereon, in the aggregate, make the full amount of such fare.

Option of Fares or Distance.—Fares to be calculated for time or distance, at the option of the coachman, and not by the day, as heretofore.

Time of Sunset.—As the period of sunset has been found constantly liable to dispute, it is therefore now regulated that the sunset hours shall be after eight in the evening between Lady-day and Michaelmas, and after five in the evening between Michaelmas and Lady-day; and the back-carriage after such hours shall be taken to the carriage-way pavement, or next standing beyond which the coach was hired from, (if hired at any stand off the pavement) at the full fare back to either, at the option of the party discharging.

Articles left in a Coach.—By a late Act, all parcels, &c. left in a hackney coach are to be taken to the Hackney-Coach Office, on pain of paying 20l.; to be recovered on application to the commissioners or a justice.

The coachman can demand his fare from the place he is taken from, either for time, if he be kept waiting, or for distance. He is to take the shortest way, and to charge accordingly; but if he, from choice or ignorance, does otherwise, he can make no extra charge.

The coachman may refuse to take heavy luggage, unless he be paid something more than the fare; but he must object to it before it be put into the coach; he cannot, however, object to take small trunks, or parcels that may be carried in the hand.

If a coach be drawn off the stand to the side of the pavement, the coachman may be made to go with you, if not hired, or if he refuses, he is liable to be fined.

Note—When a coach is intended to be kept waiting, notice should be taken of the time when it is called, in order to prevent disputes; and the coachman may demand a deposit.

Always take the number of the coach you hire, that, in case any thing be left in it, or the coachman conduct himself improperly, he may be summoned.