INDEX. 



409 



CHA 



Chariot races, 24 



Chariots, 24, 25 



Chars-a-bancs, 368, 383 



Chars-a-cote, 358 



City and Guilds of London 

 Institute, 393 



Clarence, the, 367 



Clocks, coach, 151 



Clothing for horses, 115 



Clubs, 248 ; Oliver Cromwell on 

 the box, 248 ; contemporary 

 satire on his failure as a coach- 

 man, 248 ; advent of Me Adam 

 and road improvement, 249 ; 

 advertisement of the London to 

 York coach, 250 ; founding of 

 the Bensington Driving Club, 



250 ; its colloquial name, 251 ; 

 the Benevolent Whip Club, 

 25 1 ; its modern representative, 



251 ; the Four-Horse Club, 

 251 ; the Vis landau, 252 ; 

 dress of the F.-H. C, 252; 

 Mathews and Grimaldi's 

 caricatures of it, 253 ; meet- 

 ings of the F.-H. C, 253 ; 

 rival hotels at Salt Hill, 253, 



254 ; a critical detail in cater- 

 ing, 254 ; charge of furious 

 driving against members of 

 F.-H. C., 254 ; proposed new 

 club, the Defiance, 254 ; dis- 

 solution of the F.-H. C., 255 ; 

 the B. D. C. changes its name 

 to Bedfont, 255 ; the King 

 thought he knew his 'holloa,' 



255 ; the bacchic and terpsi- 

 chorean displays of Mr. 

 Prouse, 256 ; the Richmond 

 Driving Club founded by Lord 

 Chesterfield ' the magnificent,' 



256 ; members and coaches of 

 R. D. C. , 256 ; contemporary 

 satire of the R. D. C., 257; 



COA 



Charley Sheridan, 258 ; reck- 

 less Angerstein, 258 ; break- 

 up of the R. D. C., 259 ; and 

 of the B. D. C., 259 ; George 

 the Fourth, 259 ; Sir Henry 

 Peyton, ' the solitary chario- 

 teer,' 259 ; formation of the 

 Four-in-Hand, 260 ; its mem- 

 bers, 260 ; its rules, 260, 264 ; 

 club-day rules, 261 ; meetings, 

 261, 262 ; Count Munster a 

 member, 263 ; change of hour 

 of meeting, 263 ; list of mem- 

 bers in 1888, 264 ; the Blues 

 old coach, 265 ; establishment 

 of the Coaching Club, 266 ; 

 its uniform, 267 ; its rules and 

 regulations, 267 ; list of mem- 

 bers, 268 ; regimental coaches, 

 270 ; clubs at Ascot, Sandown, 

 Kempton, and Lord's, 270 ; 

 in Hyde Park, 271 ; the Road 

 Club, 271, 287 ; the Badmin- 

 ton Club, 272 ; New York 

 Four-in-Hand Club, 272 



Coaches, 49 ; cost of, 114, 115 ; 

 build of, 195 



Coach-box, 9, 31 



Coach-horses, 77 ; kind pre- 

 ferred, 77 ; heights of wheelers 

 and leaders, 78 ; buying, 79 ; 

 throroughbreds, 79 ; appor- 

 tioning exercise, 80 ; groom- 

 ing, 8 1 ; strapping, 82 ; supply 

 of water, 82 ; best sizes, 192 ; 

 prices, 300, 301 



Coach-houses, 83 ; importance 

 of dryness, 84 ; airing and 

 dusting, 85 ; pole supports, 

 84 ; washing carriages, 86 ; 

 examination of carriage gear, 



87 



Coaching Club, 266-70 

 Coaching songs, 187, 188 



