A small hamlet was at no great distance, and I betook myself thither, in the hopes of hiring a trap to convey me to the Posthouse, but I was disappointed.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould
Eschar to be gone, I sent my letters by a porter to the Posthouse in Southwark to be sent by despatch to the Downs.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
By and by, when he could not see Martinswand by turning his head back ever so, he came to an inn that used to be a Posthouse in the old days when men traveled only by road.
"Bimbi"
Louise de la Ramee