"At night at Newport Pagnell and there a good pleasant country town with but few people in it......Lay here well and rose next day by four o'clock and so away. Reckoning for supper 19/6, Poor 6d. Mischance to the coach but no time lost."
This contrasts with Mrs Sarah Siddons, the famous actress, who recorded in 1796
"Here I am sitting close, in a little dark room in a wretched little inn, in a little poking village called Newport Pagnell."
Charming!