Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
uous vehiclesin use during the fourteenth century. From ancient rolland wardrobe accounts we are able to obtain some curiousfacts relative to the cost and construction of these statelychariots. In the reign of Edward the Second we find thatthe sum of 3/. 18s. 3d. was paid to Vanne Ballard, for… … CARRIAGES. 141 chariots of the queen and the ladies of the court1. Amagnificent carriage was built for the lady Eleanor, sister toEdward the Third. Master la Zouche of the great ward-robe received from the exchequer the enormous sum ofone thousand pounds for money paid by him for makinga chariot…
Architecture, Domestic
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