Transcriber’s Notes
Hyphenation has been standardised.
Footnotes were moved to the ends of the text they pertain to and numbered in one continuous sequence.
GOING TO BURY FAIR.
From Engraving, A.D. 1750.
EARLY CARRIAGES
AND
ROADS
BY
SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bart.
ILLUSTRATED
London
VINTON & CO., Ltd., 9, New Bridge Street, E.C.
1903
The use of carriages, coaches and wheeledconveyances have had an intimate relationshipwith the social life of English peoplefrom an early period in history.
Many instructive books have appeared onthe subject of carriages generally, but thesehave been for the most part written by expertsin the art of coach and carriage building.
In this publication, attention has been givento the early history of wheeled conveyances inEngland and their development up to recenttimes.
Elsenham Hall, Essex.
April, 1903.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| First Use of Wheeled Vehicles | 2 |
| Badness of Early Roads | 3 |
| Saxon Vehicles and Horse Litters | 4 |
| Continental Carriages in the 13th and 14th Centuries | 8 |
| Conveyances in Henry VI.’s Time | 11 |
| “Chariots” First Used on Great Occasions | 12 |
| First Use of Carriages: called Coaches | 13 |
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