The Book of carriages; or, A short account of modes of conveyance, from the earliest periods to the present time (1853)
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) · London, Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 209
and before thattime, she was accustomed to ride on horsebackbehind her Lord Chancellor, on state occasions. An old author, who seems to have looked uponthe introduction of coaches with no very friendlyeye, writing about this period, says :— 202 QUEEN ELIZABETHS COACH. The first coach ever seen… … Queen Elisabeths Coach. mischief, and ruined all the best housekeeping,to the undoing of the watermen by the multitudesof hackney coaches. But they never swarmedso much to pester the streets as they do nowtill the year 1605; and then was the gunpowder HACKNEY COACHES. 203 treason hatched, and at…
Transportation · Carriages and carts
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