. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ta 214 OLD ENGLAND, [Book VI. From the same curious collection of originals whence our cut ofthe mountebank is taken, we present to the readers view an oldEnglish Raree-showman (Fig. 2061), whose name, Caulfield tells us,was Old Harry. The contents of his raree-show were various andwonderful, especially to the eyes of the rising generation. Therew ere— The fleas that run at tiltUpon a tahle; a tame hedgehog, a wonderful snake, and other such specimens ofthe marvellous. About the reign of
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ta 214 OLD ENGLAND, [Book VI. From the same curious collection of originals whence our cut ofthe mountebank is taken, we present to the readers view an oldEnglish Raree-showman (Fig. 2061), whose name, Caulfield tells us,was Old Harry. The contents of his raree-show were various andwonderful, especially to the eyes of the rising generation. Therew ere— The fleas that run at tiltUpon a tahle; a tame hedgehog, a wonderful snake, and other such specimens ofthe marvellous. About the reign of James I. the drivers of both private andpublic vehicles had no other accommodation than a bar, or driverschair, placed very low behind the horses: in the following reign(Charles I.) they ride more after postilion fashion; after the Re-storation they appeared with whip and spurs (Fig. 2059); and to-wards the end of the century mount to a coachmans box covered with a hammer-cloth, was often in realitya box; and within it, or in a leather pouch attached to it, weretools for mending broken whee
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