. How the world travels . mantic pictures ofscarlet-clad postilions, prancing horses, and arosy-faced driver with his long whip and quaintthree-tiered cape. We seem to hear the merrysound of the horns, the ring of hoofs, and therattle of harness, as the coach, with its passengersand piled baggage, clatters along a broad highroad or draws up at the open door of some old-fashioned English inn. Those are the eighteenth-century days that we call to mind, the days whencoaching was at its height, but we must go furtherback than that if we want to find the origin of thisform of conveyance, and to see
. How the world travels . mantic pictures ofscarlet-clad postilions, prancing horses, and arosy-faced driver with his long whip and quaintthree-tiered cape. We seem to hear the merrysound of the horns, the ring of hoofs, and therattle of harness, as the coach, with its passengersand piled baggage, clatters along a broad highroad or draws up at the open door of some old-fashioned English inn. Those are the eighteenth-century days that we call to mind, the days whencoaching was at its height, but we must go furtherback than that if we want to find the origin of thisform of conveyance, and to see how it developedout of the clumsy wagons and quaint whirlicotesand charettes of mediaeval times. We first hear of coaches in the reign of QueenElizabeth, and they are said to have been intro-duced into England in 1594 by a coachman whowas a native of Holland. 11 12 HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS There is an old picture of the great queenriding in one of her new equipages on some stateoccasion. It was open at the sides, had a high. A MEDIEVAL COACH. roof decorated with waving plumes, and wasdrawn by two richly caparisoned horses. At first, it appears, coaches were reserved forthe use of royalty, but Stowe tells us that aftera while divers great ladies made them coachesand rid in them up and down the country, to the COACHING DAYS 13 great admiration of all beholders. He goes onto say that within twenty years coach-makingbecame an important trade in England.
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