Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . periments with newly-designed carriages with springs, and again onSeptember 5th, finding them go not quite so easyas their inventor claimed for them. Yet, sinceprivate carriages were clearly becoming thefashion, Mr. Secretary-to-the-Admiralty Pepysmust needs have one; and accordingly, onDecember 2nd, 1668, he takes his first ride: Al)road with my wife, the first time that Iever rode in my own coach. Pepys always delighted in being in the would not be in advance of it, and not, if hecould help it, behi
Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . periments with newly-designed carriages with springs, and again onSeptember 5th, finding them go not quite so easyas their inventor claimed for them. Yet, sinceprivate carriages were clearly becoming thefashion, Mr. Secretary-to-the-Admiralty Pepysmust needs have one; and accordingly, onDecember 2nd, 1668, he takes his first ride: Al)road with my wife, the first time that Iever rode in my own coach. Pepys always delighted in being in the would not be in advance of it, and not, if hecould help it, behind. The fact, then, of hissetting up a carriage of his own is sufiicient toshow how largely the moneyed classes had begun 12 STAGE-COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE to go about on wheels. But better evidence stillis found in the establishment, May 1677, of theWorshipful Company of Coach and HarnessMakers, whose arms still bear rej)resentations ofthe carriages in use at that period. The armorialbearings of the Coach-makers are, when dulytricked out in their proper colours, somewhat. ARMS OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF COACH ANDHARNESS MAKERS. striking. Stated in plain terms, done into Englishout of heraldic jargon, they consist of a blueshield of arms with three coaches and a chevronin gold, sup23orted on either side by a golden horse,harnessed and saddled in black studded with gold;with blue housings garnished with red, andfringed and j^urfled in gold. The horses arefurther adorned with plumes of four feathers ingold, silver, red, and blue. A crest above displays THE INTRODUCTION OF CARRIAGES 13 Plicebiis driving his chariot, and the motto beneathdeclares that After clouds rises the sun. The hackney-carriages of London in 1669, theyear following Pepys establishment of his ownprivate turn-out, numbered, according to thememoirs of Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, whotravelled England at that time, eight age of public vehicles was come. CHAPTER II THE HORSEMEN The single gentl
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