not pay their debts without the assistance of Parliament. The alternative to an increase of tolls was carried so far that it became customary for the trusts to set up a toll-gate wherever there was the slightest excuse for so doing.

“In some places,” says J. Kearsley Fowler, in “Records of Old Times,杭州小丫头足浴正规吗” “as, for instance, my native town of Aylesbury, the place was literally hemmed in like a fortified city,—not even an outlet to 杭州品茶群上课 exercise a horse without paying a toll.” There were, he tells us, seven different trusts to maintain at Aylesbury alone.

Mr George Masefield, a solicitor 杭州下沙是炮城 residing at Ledbury, Herefordshire, said when giving evidence before the select Committee on Turnpike 杭州足浴哪家好 Trusts in 1864 that in the twenty-one miles between Ledbury and Kingston, a journey he frequently made, he had to go through eight turnpike gates. In the eight miles’ journey to Newent he passed through four gates and paid three times; and in the thirteen miles to Worcester he went through six gates and paid at five.

In Gloucestershire, said the “Morning Star” of September 30, 1856, “it sometimes happens you have to pay five turnpikes in twelve miles”; 杭州不正规的足浴店还有吗 though such were the inequalities of the burden that in some other counties, said the same paper, one could go for miles without 杭州好的水疗会所推荐 paying anything.

These inequalities had been previously pointed

out in the “Westminster Review” article. In speaking of the practice followed in the location of 杭州洗浴桑拿寻欢 turnpikes, the writer declared that “gates are sometimes placed so as to tax one portion and 杭州夜生活指南 exempt another, so as to make strangers and travellers pay, while those who chiefly profit by the roads, and who destroy them most, are exempted.” He further said that “the Welsh, with their characteristic cunning, have contrived to exempt their own heavy carts and to levy their tolls on the light barouches of unlucky visitors”; that one might see, in Scotland, three toll-gates, and all to be paid, in the space of a hundred yards; that one might, as against 杭州品茶吧 this, ride thirty miles without paying one toll; and that “the inhabitants of Greenwich pay the tolls for the half of 杭州丝袜兼职 Kent.”

London in 1818 had twelve turnpike trusts for 210 miles of {316}road. The tolls they collected in that year amounted to ￡97,482; the expenses were ￡98,856, and the accumulated debt of the dozen trusts was ￡62,658.

On the Middlesex side of London there were 87 turnpike gates and bars within four miles of Charing Cross, or, including the Surrey side, a total of 100 within a four-mile radius. “Let the traveller drive through the Walworth gate southward,” says J. E. Bradfield, in his “Notes on Toll Reform” (1856), “and note how every road, every alley, every passage has its ‘bar.’ The inhabitants cannot move north, east, south, or west without paying one toll; and some of them cannot get out of the parish without two 杭州龙凤地图论坛 tolls. The cry at every corner of Camberwell is ‘Toll.'” The position of Walworth and Camberwell does not, 杭州不正规足浴店地址 however, appear to have been at all exceptional. In Besant’s “Survey of London” it is stated that a map of London and its environs, published in 183