EARLY COACH-TRAVELLING. 



or coach in common use, in which the furniture or 

 movables were conveyed, or perchance, the domestic 

 servants of the family. The Lord and Lady usually 

 rode on horseback. They had slow-paced heavy horses, 

 perhaps not much unlike the carriage horses of a century 

 ago, which drew the plough all the week and took the 

 family to church on Sunday. It must not be forgotten that 

 the chariot-man or coachman then used to ride by the side 

 of the horses, and so conducted them and the carriage). 



In the twenty-second year of Queen Elizabeth the 

 use of coaches l (private carriages) became more general, 

 The heads of noble houses, nevertheless, in their travels, 

 almost from one end of the kingdom to the other, still 

 rode on horseback, except when they took refuge, as they 

 occasionally did, in the cars generally appropriated to their 

 household. Even the Oueen when she went in state to 

 St. Paul's rode behind her Master of the Horse. The 

 convenience of the new mode of carriage caused it to 

 be immediately adopted by all who could afford it ; and 

 horses were so rapidly bought up for this purpose, and 

 became so exorbitantly dear, that the question was dis- 

 cussed in Parliament whether the use of carriages should 

 not be confined to the higher classes. 



Stowe, in his ' Surveye,' speaking of the same era, 



1 The word coach, if derived frorh caroche {carosse, caroccio), signifies a 

 large car or waggon. Menage makes it Latin, and by far-fetched derivations 

 traces it from vchiailiim. Junius derives it from o^fo), to carry. Wachter 

 seeks its origin in the obsolete German word kutten, to cover. Some say the 

 word is of Hungarian extraction, taking its origin from the village of Kitsee 

 (Kotsee or Cotzi). There certainly was a Hungarian carriage known in 

 the sixteenth century, and it was a covered carriage too. 



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