Note 266 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
Thus, the editor of Thorndike, vol. vi. 170, speaks of Cambridge between 1613 and 1646. It applies up to the year 1654, when the regular post began. The first coach from Cambridge to London was set up in 1653. It is scarcely needful to say that the well-known carrier was Hobson, who died of the plague in 1630; but carriers afterwards would convey letters.
From Antony Wood's Diary, 1667, it appears that the Oxford coach took two days to get to London.