This is a list of carriers from provincial
Bodleian (Tanner 192 (7) 270f 781a)
Carriers Cosmologie or a Brief
Relation, of the Innes, Ordinaries, Hostelries and other Lodgings in, and near
London, where the Carriers, Waggons, Foote posts & Higglers, doe usually
come, from any partes, townes, shires and counties of the Kingdomes of England,
Principality of Wales, as also from the Kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland.
With nomination of what daies of the weeke they doe come to
by John Taylor,
Printed by A.G.
The preamble complains about not being paid and mentions that connecting
services will carry passengers on from the destinations listed here.
Normal form is "The carriers of Abington doe lodge at the George in
Town |
Means |
London Inn |
Days |
carrier |
Peacock, |
F |
|
St Albanes |
coach |
|
FTu |
Abington |
carrier |
George, Bred Street |
W |
Aylsbury, Bucks |
carrier |
George neere |
* |
Aylsbury, Bucks |
carrier |
Swan in the |
* |
Aylsbury, Bucks |
carrier |
Angel behind St |
* |
Aylsbury, Bucks |
carrier |
|
* |
* one of them every other day |
|||
Ashbur |
carrier |
Castle, |
ThFS |
carrier |
Chequer neere Charing Crosse |
Th/2 |
|
Blandfourd |
carrier |
Rose neere |
|
Brayntree & Bocking, Essex |
carrier |
Tabbard, |
Th |
Bathe |
carrier |
Three Cups, Bred Street |
F |
Bristow |
carrier |
Three Cups, Bred Street |
|
Bristow |
carrier |
Swan neere |
Th |
Brewton, Dorset |
carrier |
Rose neere |
Th |
Bucks & Beds |
carrier |
Saracens head without Newgate |
daily |
Broomsbury |
carrier |
Maidenhead, |
Th |
Bingham, Notts |
carrier |
Black Bull, |
F |
Bramley, Staffs |
carrier |
Castle neere |
Th |
Burfuord, Oxon |
carrier |
|
Th |
Buckingham |
carrier |
Kings Head, Old Change |
WTh |
Buckingham |
carrier |
Saracens head, |
FS |
Bewdley, Worcs |
carrier |
Castle, |
ThFS |
Buckingham |
carrier |
George neere |
WThF |
Brackley, Northants |
carrier |
George neere |
WThF |
Banbury |
carrier |
George neere |
WThF |
|
carrier |
Three Horseshooes, |
Th |
Bridge-north |
carrier |
Maidenhead, |
|
Bury (St |
carrier |
Dolphin without Bishopsgate |
Th |
Bury ( |
waggon |
Four Swans, Bishopsgate |
Th |
Bury ( |
foote-post |
Green Dragon, |
W |
|
carrier |
Starre, Bred Street |
F |
Bampton & Buckland |
carrier |
Mermaid, |
ThF |
Brill, Bucks |
carrier |
Saint Pauls head, |
TuW |
Bampton & parts of Lancs |
carrier |
Beare at Bashingshaw |
ThF |
Batcombe, |
carrier |
Crowne or Iarrets Hall, end of |
F |
Broughton, Leics |
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
F |
carrier |
Crosse Keyes, Gracious Street |
Th |
|
Chessam, Bucks |
carrier |
White Hart, High Holborne, end |
2 /week |
Cogshall, |
carrier |
Spread Eagle, Gracious Street |
ThF |
Chipping anger, |
waggons |
Crowne without Aldgate |
W |
|
waggons |
Blew Boare without Aldgate |
W |
|
carrier |
Three Cups, Bred Street |
F |
Cambden, Glos. |
carrier |
Three Cups, Bred Street |
ThFS |
Chipping norton |
carrier |
Three Cups, Bred Street |
ThFS |
|
carrier |
Castle, |
ThFS |
Chard, |
carrier |
Queenes Armes neere |
F |
Chard, |
carrier |
George, Bred Street |
|
|
carrier |
Blossomes (or Bosomes Inne) St Lawrence L |
Th |
Coleashby, Northants |
carrier |
|
|
Northants |
carrier |
|
Th |
|
carrier |
Beare & Ragged Staffe, |
Th |
|
carrier |
Ram, Smithfeld |
WTh |
|
carrier |
Rose, Smithfeld |
ThF |
Creete, Leics |
carrier |
Rose, Smithfeld |
|
|
carrier |
|
Th |
|
coach/waggon |
Bull, |
ThF |
|
carrier |
Axe, St Mary Axe or Aldermansbury |
Th |
|
foote-poste |
Two necked Swanne at Sommerskey, Billsgt |
WS |
Crookhorne, |
carrier |
Queenes Armes neere |
Th |
carrier |
Saracens Head, Gracious Street |
Th |
|
Dunmow, Essex |
waggon |
Crowne without Aldgate |
W |
Ditmarsh, Berks |
carrier |
George, Bred Street |
|
Doncaster, |
carrier |
|
F |
|
carrier |
Rose neere |
Th |
Denbigh in |
carrier |
Bosomes Inne |
Th |
Daintree |
carrier |
Cross Keyes, |
F |
Duncehanger nre Stony Stratford |
carrier |
Three Cups, |
|
Derby & Derbyshire |
carrier |
Axe, St Mary Axe or Aldermansbury |
F |
|
carrier |
Castle, |
Th |
carrier |
Prince his Arms, |
Th |
|
|
carrier |
Star, Bred Street |
F |
|
carrier |
Rose neere |
Th |
Evesham, Worcs |
carrier |
Castle, |
F |
carrier |
Crowne, High Holborne |
|
|
Feckingham forrest in Worcs |
carrier |
Queenes Head, St Giles in the Fields |
|
Faringdon, Berks |
carrier |
St Pauls Head, |
Tu |
carrier |
St Pauls Head, |
TuW |
|
Glocester |
carrier |
Saracens Head without Newgate |
F |
Glocester |
carrier |
Saracens Head, |
F |
** clothiers doe come every weeke out of divers parts of
Glostershire to the Saracens Head in Friday Street. The waines or waggons doe
come every weeke from sundry places in Glostershire and are to bee had at the
Swan neere |
|||
Hadley, |
carrier |
George, |
Th |
Huntingdon |
carrier |
White Hinde without Cripplegate |
Th |
|
carrier |
Kings Head, Old Change |
F |
Hallifax, Yorks |
carrier |
Greyhound, |
monthly |
Hallifax, Yorks |
carrier |
Beare, Basingshaw |
W |
Hallifax, Yorks |
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
|
Hallifax, Yorks |
carrier |
White Hart, |
|
Hatfield, Herts |
carrier |
|
Th |
Harding, Herts |
carrier |
Cock, |
TuWTh |
Hadham, Herts |
carrier/waggon |
Bull, |
MTuFS |
Hartfourd Towne |
waggon/coach |
Four Swans without Bishopsgate |
F |
Hatfield, Herts |
waggon/coach |
|
F |
Ipswich, |
carrier |
George, |
Th |
|
post |
Cross Keyes, |
Th |
Ingarstone, Essex |
waines |
Kings Armes, |
W |
Ivell, Dorset |
carrier |
Jarrets Hall or Crowne, Basing Lane |
|
carrier |
|
Th |
|
|
post |
Bull over against Leadenhall |
|
carrier |
White Horse without Cripplegate |
F/2 |
|
Laighton Boudefart (corruptly LB) |
carrier |
Harts Hornes, |
MTu |
|
carrier |
Saracens Head without Newgate |
Th |
|
carrier |
Castle neere Smithfield-barres |
Th |
Leics (passing through) |
carrier |
Ram, |
|
Leics |
carrier |
Rose, |
|
Lewton, Herts |
carrier |
Cocke, |
TuW |
Leeds, |
carrier |
Beare, Bassingshaw |
W |
|
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
|
|
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
|
Loughborough |
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
|
Leics & Lancs |
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
|
carrier |
Crosse Keyes, Gracious Street |
Th |
|
Monmouth in |
carrier |
Pauls Head, |
F |
|
carrier |
White Swan neere |
Th |
Great Marlow, Bucks |
higglers, demi-car |
Swanne in the |
Tu |
|
carrier |
Beare, Bassinshaw |
ThF |
|
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
Th |
Manchester & Lancs |
carrier |
Two necked Swan, |
Th/2 |
Melford, |
carrier |
Spread Eagle, Gracious Street |
ThF |
carrier |
George, Bred Street |
WTh |
|
Netherley, Staffs |
carrier |
Beare & Ragged Staff, |
Th |
Northampton & Northants |
carrier |
Ram, |
daily |
|
carrier |
Rose, |
|
|
carrier |
Crosse Keyes, |
S/2 |
|
foot post |
Swan, |
Th/2 |
|
carrier |
Dolphin without Bishopsgate |
MTu |
|
carrier |
Peacocke, |
MTu |
Nantwich, |
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
WThF |
|
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
F |
carrier |
Saracens Head without Newgate |
near daily |
|
Onty, Bucks |
carrier |
Cocke, |
MTuW |
carrier |
|
F |
|
carrier |
George, Bred Street |
ThF |
|
|
carrier |
Ram, |
weekly |
carrier |
Saracens Head, Gracious Street |
ThF |
|
Sabridgeworth, Herts |
carrier |
Princes Arms, |
Th |
Stock, |
waines |
Kings Armes, |
W |
Stroodwater, Glos. |
carrier |
|
ThF |
Sisham, Northants |
carrier |
Saracens Head, |
F |
Sheffield, |
carrier |
Castle, |
ThF |
|
carrier |
Queenes Armes neere |
Th |
|
carrier |
Mayden-head, |
Th |
Shrewsbury & Salop |
carrier |
Bosomes Inne |
Th |
Stony-Stratford |
carrier |
Rose & Crowne, |
Tu |
Saffron Market, |
footpost |
Chequer, Holborne |
|
Stampfoord |
carrier |
|
WTh |
Saffron Walden |
wagon |
Bull within Bishopsgate |
TuW |
Shaftesbury & Sherbourne |
carrier |
Crowne or Iarretts Hall, |
F |
Stopfoord & Cheshire |
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
|
Staffourd |
carrier |
Swan with two necks, |
Th |
carrier |
Three Cups, Bred Street |
FS |
|
Tiverton, |
carrier |
Starre, Bred Street |
F |
Tame, Oxon |
carrier |
Saracens Head, |
FS |
Torceter, Northants |
carrier |
Castle neere Smithfield Barres |
Tu |
carrier |
Swanne neere |
Th |
|
carrier |
Blacke Swanne, Holborne |
TuW |
|
Wittham, Essex |
carrier |
Crosse Keyes, Gracious Street |
ThF |
Wallingfield, |
carrier |
Spread Eagle, Gracious Street |
ThF |
|
carrier |
George, Bred Street |
WThF |
Winchcombe, Glos. |
carrier |
Three Cups, Bred Street |
FS |
The clothiers of sundry parts of Wiltshire doe weekly come and lodge at the Saracens Head in Friday Street. |
|||
Warwicke |
carrier |
|
ThF |
|
carrier |
Mermaid, |
ThF |
Wantage, Berks |
carrier |
Mermaid, |
ThF |
|
carrier |
Castle, |
FS |
Winsloe, Bucks |
carrier |
George neere |
WThF |
|
waggon |
Swanne neere |
Th |
Bucks |
carrier |
Swanne neere |
|
|
carrier |
Maydenhead, |
Th |
Worcs & Warksd |
carrier |
Rose & Crowne, High Holborne |
|
Warwicke |
carrier |
Queenes Head neere St Giles in the fields |
Th |
Walsingham, |
carrier |
Chequer, Holborne |
Th/2 |
Wendover,Bucks |
carrier |
|
|
Walsingham |
poste |
|
Th/2 |
Ware, Herts |
carrier |
Dolphin without Bishopsgate |
MTu |
Walsingham |
foote-poste |
Crosse Keyes, Holborne |
Th/2 |
Warks |
carrier |
Castle neere Smithfield Barres |
|
Ware, Herts |
waggon |
Vine, |
FS |
|
carrier |
Beare, Bashinshaw |
W |
Wells, Somerset |
carrier |
Crowne, Basing Lane |
FS |
|
carrier |
Axe, Aldermansbury |
Th |
|
carrier |
White Hart, |
Th/2 |
carrier |
|
F |
|
Yorke |
footepost |
Rose & Crown, |
Th/2 |
post |
Kings Armes (or Cradle), upper |
M |
|
Reygate, |
carrier |
Falcon, Southwark |
Th |
Tunbridge or Seavenoake |
carrier |
Katherine Wheele, Southwark |
Th |
|
carrier |
Katherine Wheele, Southwark |
Th |
|
carrier |
Greyhound, Southwark |
Th |
Darking & Ledderhead, |
carrier |
Greyhound, Southwark |
T |
|
carrier |
Spure, Southwark |
Th |
|
carrier |
Spure, Southwark |
Th |
|
carrier |
|
WTh |
Chichester & Havant |
carrier |
|
WTh |
Arundell, Billingshurst, Ssx |
carrier |
|
WThF |
|
carrier |
|
WThF |
Godstone & Linvill, |
carrier |
|
WThF |
Crambroke, |
carrier |
Tabbard, or Talbot, Southwark |
WThF |
Lewis, Petworth, Cuckfield, Ssx |
carrier |
Tabbard, or Talbot, Southwark |
WThF |
Gilford, Wennish, |
carrier |
George, Southwark |
Th |
Goudhurst, Chiddington, |
carrier |
George, Southwark |
Th |
Battell, Sindrich & Hastings, Ssx |
carrier |
George, Southwark |
Th |
|
carrier |
White Hart, Southwark |
Th |
Biddenden, Mayfield, Eatonbridge |
carrier |
White Hart, Southwark |
Th |
Hebsorne,Wimbbleton,Godaliman |
carrier |
White Hart, Southwark |
ThF |
Withersham, Shoreham, |
carrier |
White Hart, Southwark |
ThF |
Horsham, Hastlemoore |
carrier |
White Hart, Southwark |
ThF |
Chilington, Westrum, Penborough |
carrier |
Kings Head, Southwark |
Th |
Slonge, Wrotham |
carrier |
Kings Head, Southwark |
Th |
|
carrier |
Green Dragon, |
|
Here followeth certain directions for to find out Ships, Barkes, Hoyghs & Passage Baotes, that doe come to London, from most parts and places by sea within the Kings Dominions, either England, Scotland or Ireland.
hoigh |
Smarts Key neere Billingsgate |
weekly |
|
Ipswich, Linn, |
|
Dice Key |
|
|
ships |
Raphs Key, Porters Key |
|
Barwick |
passage |
for men & goods, Galley Key |
|
|
ship |
Chesters Key |
|
|
ship |
Chesters Key |
|
Dartmouth & Weimouth |
ship |
Chesters Key |
|
Sandwich, |
hoigh or barke |
Sabbs Key |
|
|
hoigh |
St Katherines Docks |
|
Faversham & Maydston |
hoigh |
St Katherines Docks |
|
|
ship |
Armitage or Heritage below St Katherines |
|
|
ship |
Custom House Key |
|
|
ship |
Brewhouse, St Katherines |
|
Deptford, |
tydeboat/wherry |
Lion Key |
twice daily |
Erith, Greenhith, Rainham |
tydeboat/wherry |
Lion Key |
twice daily |
Pufleet, Grayes |
tydeboat/wherry |
Lion Key |
twice daily |
Gravesend, |
barges |
lighthorsmen, tiltboats, werries, Billigsgate |
twice daily |
Passage boats & werries that do carry passengers &
goods from
|
great boats |
|
2-3 /week |
Colebrooke |
boat |
|
|
Maidenhead, |
great boat, Queenshith |
TuTh |
|
|
boat |
Queenshith |
weekly |
All those that will send letters to most parts of the habitable world or any
parts of our King of Great Britains Dominions, let them repaire to the General
Post-Master Thomas Withering at his house in