Note 78 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
Some of these servants, however, must have been exceedingly active. In the London Evening Post for December 31, 1735, we are told that ‘General Churchill’s Running Footman ran against the Lady Molesworth’s, from the upper end of St. James’s Street to Edgworth Gate,’ and won, performing the distance, computed to be about eleven miles, in an hour and five minutes.