Traveller and innkeeper

I am a traveller, who have been for some time past in foreign parts, and am now returning to England, which I understand to be the native country of a person of my profession, good horses being necessary for the accommodation of a gentleman, who is to ride abroad for the purpose of observing the practices of other nations. I was bred up to the business of an innkeeper, and have been employed in managing the stables of a great inn, on the western road, which relates to the city of Exeter. I have the care of the horses, which are sent down to that city, in order to be forwarded to Plymouth, and am concerned in furnishing post-horses for the mail, which sets out from thence to Cornwall. I have the superintendance of the stables at Exeter, which are