562 Obfervations on the Notes to Heyne’s Virgil. 
zs ordered ‘* to be fent afore by my Lord's 
chariot before his Lordfhip remove.”— 
This application of it, about 1512, for 
the conveyance of the more heavy part of 
the chapel furniture, feems to indicate 
that my Lord’s chariot bore very little re- 
femblance to the modern carriage of that 
name. What, in the old Tranflations of 
the Bible, were called cowered charettes, 
in the verfion ufed at prefent are called 
wagons. 
In the proceffion at the funeral of Tho- 
mas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, 1524, 
€¢ the body was laid in a chariot at Fram- 
Hingham Caftle, where he died, and the 
hories that drew it were handlomely capa- 
rifoned. ‘The order and proceffion to the 
fown of Difs, in the way to Thetford, 
where he was buried, was magnificent. 
Firfi went three coaches of friers.”-——Mar- 
tin’s Thetford, App. p. 38. 
he chariot, too, according to Holin- 
fhed, was ufed by Queen Elizabeth at a 
very early period, of her reign. ‘* On 
Monday the eyghte and twentieth of No- 
wember, about two of the clocke in the 
ter noone (3558), hir Grace remoueth 
agayne, and takyng hir eharet, rode from 
my Lord North’s houfe aiongft the Barbi- 
¢an”’—~in her way to the Tower. 
From all thefe, and an hundred other 
gaftances that might be quoted, the nature 
of the ancient coach may be eafily conjec- 
tured. Chairs, and horfe-litters er hang- 
ing-wagegons, may be met with in every 
period of Englifh hiffory, and appear to 
have been the moit common, as well as 
the moft eafy, conveyances our forefathers 
were acquainted with. 
Stowe’s ** Summarie of the Englith 
Chronicles” ftates, that, in 1555, “* Wal. 
ter Ripon made a coach for the Earl of 
Rutland, which was the firf that ever was 
ufed in England ; and in the year 1564, 
the fame Walter made the firft hollow 
turning-coach, with pillars and arches, for 
her Majeftie, being then her fervant; and 
in ‘the year 1584, he made a chariot 
throane, with fonre pillars behind, to 
beare a canopie with a crowne imperial! on 
the toppe, and before, two lower pillars, 
whereon ftood a licn and a dragon, the 
fupporters of the Arms of England.”— 
Strutt’s Manners and Cuitoms of the En- 
glith, vol. i. p. 90. 
* But the mof accurate account ftems to 
be that given in Stowe’s larger Chronicle 
(edit. fol. 1623, p. 867, col. 2). He 
fays, that, in the year 1564, Guylliam 
Boonen, a Dutchman, became the Queene's 
ccachmanne, and was the firft that brough¢ 
[July 1, 
the ufe of coaches into England. And 
after a while, divers great ladies, with as 
great jealoufie of the Queene’s difpleafure, 
made them coaches, and rid in them up 
and downe the countries, te the great ad—, 
miration of all the behoulders, but then 
by little and little they grew ufuall among 
the nobilitie, and others of fort, and with- 
in twenty yeares became a great trade of 
coach-making. And about that time be- 
gan long waggons to come in ufe, fuch as 
now come to London, from Canterbury, 
Norwich, Ipfwich, Glocefter, &c. with 
paflengers and commodities. Laftly, 
even at this time, 1605, began the ordi- 
nary ufe of caroaches.”” | 
Laftly, Mr. Strutt gathered another 
particular from the little work already 
quoted, that it was aiong time after the 
firlt inventien of coaches before a coach- 
box was added to the body: ‘for the 
coachman joineth a horfe fixt to match a 
faddle-horfe to the coach-tree, then he fit- 
teth upon the faddle, and when there was 
feur horfes he drove thofe which went be- 
fore him, guiding them with a rein.” 
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OBSERVATIONS cu the NOTES #8 
HEYNE's VIRGIL. (Continued from poge 
432 of our laff Number.) 
The Gates of Sleep. 
Hee readily acknowledges that 
the difmiffion of Eneas through the 
ivory gate after his infernal vifit, entirely 
deftroys and unrealizes all the beautiful 
fition; and he cannot account for it upon ° 
any other fuppofition but that of negli. 
gence and overfight in the Poet. Bue 
furely fo pointed and peculiar a terminas 
tion is not to be attributed to this caufe, 
efpecially in a writer of Virgil's charac- 
ter. He muft have meant fomething by ity 
and I think it will bear no other interpre- 
tgtion than that he intended to reprefent 
the whole {cene as paffing ina vifion ; tho” 
it will not be eafy to fay, in the narration 
of the previous circumftances, where re- 
ality ends and illufion begins. But the 
very fudden termination of the adventure 
which has been begun with fuch pompand 
variety of circumftance, feems to confirm 
this idea. It is like the more modern 
notions of enchantment, where wondrous 
‘cenes at once diffolve away in air, Ane 
chifes, after giving his fon a view of his 
future defcendants, turns him and the 
Sybill out at the gate of falfe dreams.— 
Eneas initantly finds himfelf on the fhore, 
and walks away to his thips. a 
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