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1805.) 
tation de Ja bonne chére que l’on fe plaint 
des Vapeurs et des Migraines, et que les 
. differens efpéces de. pvtites “maladies fe 
font multipliées parmi les riches.” 
In Des Roches’s Hiftory of Denmark 
there are two paflages, which, though 
they fpeak of coaches, perhaps mean no- 
thing more than the covered carts which 
are itill ufed ia Weftphalia and its neigh 
bourhood. Under 151s, relating the re- 
ception given at Copenhagen fo Ifabella, 
fitter of Charles V. who was going to be 
married to Chriflian II. King of Den- 
mark, M. des Roches obferves :—** Chrift 
tian, averti de PArrivée de la Princeffe, 
deputa une partie de la Noblefle, qu'il 
avoit convequée a Copenhague, pour aller 
Ja recevoir, La Troupe etoit compolée 
des Seigneurs et des Dames de la premi- 
ere Diftinétion ; les premiers a Cheval, .et 
Jes autres en Carcffe, et tous en Equi- 
pages magnifiques”” (vol. vi. p. 3, 4).— 
And in the fame volume (p. 126), when 
the famous Sigibrite, favourite of Chrif- 
tian II. defired to fee a review at Stolberg, 
near Copenhagen, itis aid, “* ‘Elle’ fe 
mit en chemin, et marchoit a pied, ac- 
compagnée d’une feule Femme; mais 
lor{qu’elle fut auprés du Lac des Ecoliers, 
deux Soldats yvres, 4 ce qu’on prétend, 
Jui firent toutes fortes d’outrages, et la 
jetterent enfuite dans le Lac, Chriftian, 
en ayant été informé, y accouruf, et-ar- 
riva aflez tot pour la‘retirer du Peril ; il 
Ja fit monter dans fon. Caroffe, & il donna 
Ordre qu’on Ja conduifit 4 Copenhague.— 
Elle courut, avant que d’arriver, un nou- 
veau danger auffi grand que lé premier : 
car lor{q’ elle fut a la Porte de Ja Wille, 
les Soldats de la. Garde lui tirerent pluft- 
eures Fléches, au travers desquelles. elle 
entra néanmoins fans étre bleflée.”? - 
England, i¢ feems, is not) behind her 
neighbours in laying claim to avery early 
ufe of coaches ; byt all that can be difco- 
vered from the comparifon of writers, is, 
that cars, or a better fort of waggons, 
were the vehicles intended... From the 
Life of St. Erkenwald, in. Sir -William 
Diagdale’s Hiftory of St. Paul, he appears 
to have ufed fomething which approached 
to their confiru@tion, a fort of chaife with 
wheels, to preach in, at the time he was 
infirm and old.. This muft have been. at 
leat as early as 675. Brooke, in his Ca- 
‘talogue and Succeffion of Dukes, Earls, 
&c. fays, that William de Fersars, Earl 
of Derby, died of a bruife taken by a fall 
- from his coach in 1253. 
Mr. Dallaway, in his Inquiry into the 
Origin of Heraldry, affords an iniance 
{iil more curious. 
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Lhe Antiquarys 
561 
In a manufcript Regifter of the Abbey 
of Gloucefter, now preferved -in the ar- 
chives of Queen’s College, Oxford, the 
manner of ‘conduéting the body of Ed. 
ward II. from Berkeley Caftle isthus de- 
‘feribed :—** Ifte tum abbas fuo curr, 
honorifice ormato cum ermis ejufdem. Ec- 
clefie depiétis, cum a Caftello de Berke- 
ley adduxit et ad Monafterium Glouc. eft 
delatus :”? which Mr. Dallaway quotes as 
a very early proof that arms were painted 
on carriages and domeftic furniture. 
Strype, ' the. indefatigable editor of 
Stowe (voli. p. 343), however comes 
much nearer to their real origin.— 
His words are thefe :—‘* Of old time, 
coaches were not known in this jfland, 
but chariots or awirlicotes, then {9 called; 
and they were only ufed of princes, or 
men of great eflates, fuchras had their 
footmen about them. And for example 
to note, J read, that Richard II. being 
threatened by the rebels of Kent, rode 
from the Tower cf London to the Mile’s 
End, and with him his mother, becaufe 
fhe was fick ‘and weak, th a whirlicote, 
the Earls of Buckingham, Kent, War- 
wick, and Oxford, Sir Thomas Percie, Sir 
Robert Knowles, the: Maycr of London, 
Sit Aubrey de Vere, that bare the King’s. 
fword, with other knights and eiquires, at- 
tending on horfeback. But in the year 
next following, the faid Richard, took 
to wife Anns, daughterto the King of 
Bohemia, that fir& brought tither the rid- 
ing upon iide-faddles; and fo was the 
riding in thefe whirlicotes and chariots 
forfaken, except at coronations, and {uci 
like {pectacles.?" ey ae ee 
In 1471, after the famous battle of 
Tewkfbury, which was decifive not only 
of the fate of poor King Henry VI. but 
of the Houfe of Lancafter, we aretold by 
Rall (Chronicle, p. ecxxi.), ** fome fledd 
for fuccor.in the thycke of the parke, 
fome into the monafteries, fome into other 
places. The Quene was found. iz her 
chariot, almoit dead. for -forrew.” The 
Prynce was apprehended and kept clofe 
by Sir Richard Croftes.”’ aN 
~ In 1487, in a grand celebration of the 
feaft of St. George at Windfor, in the 
third year of King Henry WII, the Queen 
and the King’s mother rode in a chair, 
covered with a rich cloth of gold, drawn 
by fix courfers, harnefled with the fame 
cloth of gold; and twenty one ladies, 
habited in crimfon velvet, ‘rode on white 
palfries.. See Aflimole’s Ordéz of the 
Garter, p. §19. 
In “the Northumberland Houfehold- 
Book, p. 387, the Duke’s “ chapcll fui” 
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