82 History of the Company. 



" This day upon request made unto the Wardens and 

 Assistants both by the Clothing and Coaltie of this 

 Fellowship and also by divers Country Sadlers that they 

 would be pleased to p'fer a Bill in P'liament to re- 

 dresse the multitude of coaches interlopers and hawkers 

 It is ordered by this Court that there shall be a Bill 

 drawne and p'ferred in P'liament for redresse of the 

 same inconveniences and there is appoynted for the 

 following of the same business Mr. Robt. Labourne 

 Tho. Porter Tho. Mills John Lawney Nathaniell Burt 

 and Cyprian Morse. At the same assemblie Henry 

 Gardiner of Maidstone and Solomon Bishop of Cran- 

 brook in the Countie of Kent, Sadlers, undertooke to 

 send unto o'" M"" betweene this and this dale fortnight 

 the some of X* towards the said charge." 



great crab shell brought out of China, and some imaginde it 

 to be one of the pagan temples in which the cannibals adored 

 the devill ; but at last all these dowbts were cleared, and 

 coachmaking became a substantiall trade. . . . The cart 

 is an open transparent engine that any man may perceive the 

 plain honesty of it, there is no part of it within or without 

 but it is in the continual view of all men. On the contrary, 

 the coach is a close hipocrite, for it hath a cover for any 

 knavery, and curtaines to raile or shadow any wickedness. 

 Moreover, it makes people immitate sea-crabs in being drawne 

 side-wayes, as they are when they sit on the boote of the 

 coach ; and it is a dangerouse kinde of carriage for the 

 commonwealth if it be rightly considered, for when a man 

 shall be a Justice of the Peace, a Serjeant, or a Counsellour at 

 Law, what hope is it that all or many of them should use 

 upright dealing, that have beene so often in their youth and 

 daily in their maturer or riper age drawne aside continually in 

 a coach, some to the right hand and some to the left, for use 

 makes perfectnesse, and often going aside willingly makes 

 men forget to goe upright naturally." 



