The [food] was excellent, the parlour clean; and my horses now gave me no trouble....In short, I felt as much happiness as is to be found alone, without communication, and apart from those we love....After supper I felt as I shou'd do, contented and sleepy; and at 10 o'clock retired to my stucco'd floor chamber, to make up the arrears of the foregoing night.
The comfort of a good dinner and a good inn, even in the 1700s
From A Tour in the Midlands by the Hon. John Byng later 5th Viscount Torrington, for June 8, 1790, in the Turks Head Public House at Castle Donington:
