CHAP. II. 



EARL? MODKS or rnXVKYAN'CK. 



which tin.' judges imposed upon them as a set-oft' against 

 their bruises and other damages while on circuit. 



For a long time the roads continued barely practi- 

 cable for wheeled vehicles of the rudest sort, though 

 Fynes Morison (writing of the time of James I.) gives 

 an account of " carryers, who have long covered wag- 

 gons, in which they carry passengers from place to 



THE OLD STAGE WAGGON. 

 [By Louis Husrd, after a Print by Eowlandscu.] 



place; but this kind of journeying," he says, "is so 

 tedious, by reason they must take waggon very early 

 and comr very late to their innes, that none but women 

 and people of inferior condition travel in this sort." 

 The waggons of which Morison wrote, made only from 

 ten to fifteen miles in a long summer's day : that is, 

 supposing them not to have broken down by pitching 

 over the boulders laid along the road, or stuck fast in a 

 quagmire, when they had to wait for the arrival of the 

 next team of horses to help to drag them out. The 

 waggon, however, continued to be adopted as a popular 



