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Updated: June 7, 2025
Let those who were not spectators of it judge what the inhabitants felt when they beheld at the same time the flames ascending and rolling in clouds from the King's Bench and Fleet Prisons, from New Bridewell, from the toll-gates on Blackfriars Bridge, from houses in every quarter of the town, and particularly from the bottom and middle of Holborn, where the conflagration was horrible beyond description. . . . Six-and-thirty fires, all blazing at one time, and in different quarters of the city, were to be seen from one spot.
We all know honest John Jones." After we had left the gate I asked John Jones whether he had ever heard of Rebecca of the toll-gates. "Oh, yes," said he; "I have heard of that chieftainess." "And who was she?" said I. "I cannot say, sir; I never saw her, nor any one who had seen her.
A large portion of the road is still kept in repair, so that one might take a carriage and trace the route through its entire length. To support such an expensive turnpike it was necessary to levy a tax on those who made use of it, and to that end several toll-gates were established, at which passengers were compelled to halt and pay their lawful reckoning.
"Turnpikes!" said Ellen "I thought turnpikes were high, smooth roads, with toll-gates every now and then that's what Mamma told me they were." "That's all the kind of turnpikes your Mamma knew anything about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete.
He belonged to the course of nature, like markets and toll-gates and dirty bank-notes; and being a vicar, his claim on their veneration had never been counteracted by an exasperating claim on their pockets.
"Well, sir, I might possibly tell eight lies for a dollar, but I wouldn't tell one for a shilling." He seemed much chagrined, when I put the matter before him as I did. He said, in explanation, that he never believed in toll-gates, anyhow, had always advocated free turn-pikes, and thought it little harm to economize at their expense.
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