THE INTRODUCTION OF CARRIAGES 13 



Plicebiis driving his chariot, and the motto beneath 

 declares that "After clouds rises the sun." 



The hackney-carriages of London in 1669, the 

 year following Pepys' establishment of his own 

 private turn-out, numbered, according to the 

 memoirs of Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who 

 travelled England at that time, eight hundred. 

 The age of public vehicles was come. 



