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-- _ Stage Coach begins on Friday , the 18th of April , 1706 . _ All that are desirous to pass from London to York , or from York to London , or any other place on that road , let them repair to the Black Swan , in Holborn , in London , or to the Black Swan , in Coney Street , in York . At both which places they may be received in a _ Stage Coach _ , every Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , which performs the journey in four days -- if God permits ! -- and sets forth at five in the morning . And returns from York to Stamford in two days , and from Stamford , by Huntingdon , in two days more . And the like stages in their return . Allowing each passenger fourteen pounds ' weight , and all above , three pence per pound .