282 COACHING. 



and the Ghibellines, the Red and White Roses ; 

 eventually, through the interference of the law, 

 peace was restored. 



Wilson thus refers to the sedan-chair named 

 after Sedan on the Mouse. In his Life of 

 James I., this passage, in speaking of the Earl 

 of Northumberland, occurs : " The stout old 

 Earl, when he was got loose (he had been im- 

 prisoned), hearing that the great favourite, 

 Buckingham, was drawn about with a coach 

 and six horses (which was wondered at then 

 as a novelty, and imputed to him as a masterino- 

 pride), thought, if Buckingham had six, he 

 might very well have eight in his coach ; with 

 which he rode through the city of London to 

 Bath, to the vulgar talk and admiration; and, 

 recovering his health there, he lived long after 

 at Petworth in Sussex ; bating this over-topping 

 humour, which shewed it rather an affected fit 

 than a distemper. 



" Nor did this addition of two horses, by 

 Buckingham, grow higher than a little murmur. 

 For in the late Queen's time (Elizabeth), there 

 were no coaches, and the First Lord had but 

 two horses; the rest crept in by degrees, as 

 men at first ventured to sea. And every new 

 thing the people disafifect, they stumble at; 



