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. They go to all the fairs in
the country and buy up horses, with which they furnish most of the
nobility and gentry about town. And if a nobleman does not care to
run any hazard, or have the trouble of keeping horses in town, they
will agree to furnish him with a set all the year round.

The principal taverns are large handsome edifices, made as
commodious for the entertaining a variety of company as can be
contrived, with some spacious rooms for the accommodation of
numerous assemblies. Here a stranger may be furnished with wines,
and excellent food of all kinds, dressed after the best manner:-
each company, and every particular man, if he pleases, has a room to
himself, and a good fire if it be winter time, for which he pays
nothing, and is not to be disturbed or turned out of his room by any