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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng carriages and carts -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - jennifer kietzman sampled and proofread - jennifer kietzman text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the meaning of the embleme . the deuill , the flesh , the world doth man oppos● and are his mighty and his mortall foes : the deuill and the whorish flesh drawes still , the world on wheeles runs after with good wille for that which wee the world may iustly call ( i meane the lower globe terrestriall ) is ( as the deuill , and a whore doth please ) drawne here and there , and euery where , with ease those that their liues to vertue heere doe frame , are in the world , but yet not of the same . some such there are , whom neither flesh or deuill can wilfully drawe on to any euill : but for the world , as 't is the world , you see it runnes on wheeles , and who the palfreys bee ▪ which embleme , to the reader doth display the deuill and th● flesh runnes swift away . the chayn'd ensnared world doth follow fast ▪ till all into perditions pit be cast . the picture topsie-turuie stands kew waw : the world turn'd vpside downe , as all men kn●● the world runnes on vvheeles : or oddes , betwixt carts and coaches . london printed by e. a. for henry gosson . . ¶ to the noble company of cordwainers , the worshipfull company of sadlers & woodmongers ; to the worthy , honest and lawdable company of water-men , and to the sacred society of hackney-men , and finally , to as many as are grieued , and vniustly impouerished , and molested , with the worlds running on wheeles . gentlemen and yeomen , maruell not that i writ this pamphlet in prose now , hauing before times set forth so many bookes in verse ; the first reason that mooued me to write thus , was because i was lame , and durst not write verses for feare they should be infected with my griefe , & be lame too . the second reason is , because that i finde no good rime for a coach but broach , roach encroach , or such like : and you knowe that the coach hath ouer-throwne the good vse of the broach & broch-turner , turning the one to rackes and the other to iackes , quite through the kingdome : the roach is a drie fish , much like the vnprofitable profit of a coach : it will cost more the dressing and appurtnances then 't is worth : for the word encroach i thinke that best befits it , for i think neuer such an impudent , prowd sawcie intruder or encroacher came into the world as a coach is : for it hath driuen many honest families out of their houses , many knights to beggers , corporations to pouerty , almes deedes to all misdeedes , hospitality to extortion , plenty to famine , humility to pride , compassion to oppression , and all earthly goodnes almost to an vtter confusion . these haue beene the causes why i writ this booke in prose , and dedicated it to all your good companies , knowing that you haue borne a heauy share in the calamitie which these hyred hackney hell-carts haue put this common-wealth vnto : for in all my whole discourse , i doe not enueigh against any coaches that belong to persons of worth or qualitie , but onely against the catterpiller swarme of hyrelings ; they haue vndone my poore trade , whereof i am a member , and though i looke for no reformation , yet i expect the benefit of an old prouerbe ( giue the loosers leaue to speake : ) i haue imbroadered it with mirth , quilted it with materiall stuffe , lac'd it with similitudes ; sowed it with comparisons , and in a word , so playd the taylor with it , that i thinke it will fitte the wearing of any honest mans reading , attention , and liking : but howsoeuer , i leaue both it and my selfe to remayne yours as you are mine : iohn taylor . ¶ the vvorld runnes on wheeles . what a murraine , what piece of work haue we here ? the world runs a wheeles ? on my conscience my dung-cart will be most vnsauourly offended with it : ihaue heard the wordes often ▪ the world runs on wheeles ; what , like pompeies bridge at ostend ? the great gridyron in christ-church , the landskips of china , or the new found instrument that goes by winding vp like a iacke , that a gentleman entreated a musitian to rost him sele●●ers round vpon it ? ha! how can you make this good master poet ? i haue heard that the world stands stock still , & neuer stirres , but at an earth-quake ; and then it trembles at the wickednes of the inhabitants , and like an olde mother , groanes vnder the misery of her vngracious children : well , i will buy this volume of nuention for my boyes to read at home in an euening when they come from schoole , there may be some goodnes in it ; i promise you truely i haue found in some of these bookes very shrewd items ; yea , and by your leaue , somewhat is found in them now and then , which the wisest of vs all may be the better for : though you call them pamphlets , to tell you true , i like em better that are plaine and merrily written to a good intent , then those who are purposely stuffed and studyed , to deceiue the world , & vndo a country , that tells vs of proiects beyond the moone , of golden mines , of deuices to make the thames run on the north side of london ( which may very easily be done , by remouing london to the banke-side ) of planting the i le of dogs with whiblins , corwhichets , mushromes & tobacco . tut i like none of these , let me see , as i take it , it is an inuectiue against coaches , or a proofe or tryall of the antiquitie of carts and coaches , t is so , and gods blessing light on his heart that wrote it , for i thinke neuer since phaeton brake his necke , neuer land hath endured more trouble & molestation then this hath , by the cōtinual rumbling of these vpstart . wheel'd tortoyses , as you may perhaps find anone : for as concerning the antiquity of the cart , i think it beyond the limmits of record or writing , besides , it hath a reference or allusion to the motion of the heauens , which turnes vpon the equinoctiall axeltree , the two wheeles being the articke and antarticke poles . moreouer , though it be poetically feygned , that the sunne ( whom i could haue called phoebus , tytan , apollo , soll , or hiperion ) is drawne by his foure hot and headstrong horses ( whose names as i take it are ) aeolus , aethon , phlegon , and pyrois , yet doe i not finde that triumphant , refulgent extinguisher of darknes is coach'd , but that he is continually carted through the twelue signes of the zodiaque . and if copernicus his opinion were to be allowed , that the firmament with the orbs and planets did stand vnmoueable , and that onely the terrestriall globe turnes round daily according to the motion of time , yet could the world haue no resemblance of a foure-wheel'd coach ; but in all reason it must whirle round vpon but one axeltree , like a two wheeld cart. nor can the searching eye , or most admirable art of astronomie , euer yet finde , that a coach could attaine to that high exaltation of honour , as to be placed in the firmament : it is apparently seene , that charles his cart ( which we by custome call charles his waine ) is most gloriously stellifide , where in the large circumserence of heauen , it is a most vsefull & beneficiall sea-marke ( and somtimes a land-marke too ) guiding and directing in the right way , such as trauaile on neptunes waylesse bosome , and many which are often benighted in wilde and desert passages , as my selfe can witnesse vpon newmarket heath , where if that good waine had not carted me to my lodging , i & my horse might haue wandred i know not whither . moreouer , as man is the most noblest of all creatures , and all foure-footed beasts are ordayned for his vse and seruice ; so a cart is the embleme of a man , and a coach is the figure of a beast ; for as man hath two legges , a cart hath two wheeles : the coach being ( in the like sense ) the true resemblance of a beast , by which is parabollically demonstrated vnto vs , that as much as men are superior to beasts , so much are honest and needfull carts more nobly to be regarded and esteemed , aboue needlesse , vpstart , fantasticall , and time-troubling coaches . and as necessities and things whose commodious vses cannot be wanted , are to be respected before toyes and trifles ( whose beginning is folly , continuance pride , and whose end is ruine ) i say as necessity is to be preferred before superfluity , so is the cart before the coach ▪ for stones , timber , corne , wine , beere , or any thing that wants life , there is a necessity they should be caried , because they are dead things and cannot goe on foot , which necessity the honest cart doth supply : but the coach like a superfluous bable , or an vncharitable mizer , doth sildome or neuer cary or help any dead or helplesse thing ; but on the contrary it helps those that can help themselues ( like scoggin when he greazd the fat sow on the butt-end ) and carries men and women , who are able to goe or run ; ergo the cart is necessary , and the coach superfluous . besides , i am verily perswaded , that the proudest coxcombe that euer was iolted in a coach , will not be so impudent but will confesse that humility is to be preferred before pride ; which being granted , note the affability and lowlines of the cart , and the pride and insoleney of the coach , for the carman humbly paces it on foot , as his beast doth , whilst the coachmā is mounted ( his fellow-horses & himself being all in a liuery ) with as many varieties of laces , facings , cloath and colours as are in the rainebowe , like a motion or pageant rides in state , & loades the poore beast , which the carman doth not ; and if the carmens horse be melancholly or dull with hard and heauy labour , then will he like a kinde piper whistle him a fit of mirth , to any tune from aboue eela to belowe gammoth , of which generosity and courtesie your coachman is altogether ignorant , for he neuer whistles , but all his musicke is to rap out an oath , or blurt out a curse against his teame . the word carmen ( as i finde it in the dictionarie ) doth signifie a verse , or a song , and betwixt carmen and carmen , there is some good correspondencie , for versing , singing , and whistling , are all three musicall , besides the carthorse is a more learned beast then the coachhorse , for scarce any coach-horse in the world doth know any letter in the book , when as euery carthorse doth know the letter g. very vnderstandingly . if adultery or fornication bee committed in a coach , it may be grauely and discreetely punished in a cart , for as by this meanes the coach may be a running bawdy-house of abhomination , so the cart may , ( and often is ) the sober , modest , and ciuill pac'd instrument of reformation : so as the coach may be vices infection , the cart often is vices correction . it was a time of famous memorable misery , when the danes had tyrannicall insulting domination in this lard : for the flauery of the english was so insupportable , that he must plowe , sowe , reape , thrash winnow , grinde , sift , leauen , knead , and bake , and the domineering dane would doe nothing but sleepe , play , and eate the fruit of the english mans labour ; which well may be alluded to the carefull cart ▪ for let it plough , carrie & recarrie , early or late , all times & weathers , yet the hungry coach gnawes him to the very bones : oh beware of a coach as you would doe of a tyger , a woolfe , or a leuiathan , i 'le assure you it eates more ( though it drinkes lesse ) then the coachman and his whole teeme , it hath a mouth gaping on each side like a monster , with which they haue swallowed all the good housekeeping in england : it lately ( like a most insatiable deuouring beast ) did eate vp a knight , a neighbour of mine , in the county of n. a wood of aboue . akers , as if it had beene but a bunch of radish : of another , it deuoured a whole castle , as it had beene a marchpane ; scarcely allowing the knight and his lady halfe a colde shoulder of mutton to their suppers on a thursday night ; out of which reuersion the coachman and the footeman could picke but hungry vailes : in another place ( passing through a parke ) it could not be content to eate vp all the deere , and other grazing cattell , but it bit vp all the oakes that stoode bareheaded , there to doe homage to their lord and maister euer since the conquest , crushing their olde sides as easily as one of our fine dames ( with a poysoned breath ) will snap a cinamon stick ; or with as much facility as a bawde will eate a pippin tart , or swallow a stewed pruine . for ( what call you the towne ) where the great oysters come from ? there it hath eaten vp a church , chauncell , steeple , bells and all , and it threatens a great common that lyes neere , which in diebus illis hath relieued thousands of poore people ; nay , so hungry it is , that it will scarcely endure , in a gentlemans house , a poore neighbours childe so much as to turne a spit ; nor a yeomans sonne to enter the house , though but in good will to the chamber-maide , who anciently from . to . was wont to haue his breeding either in the buttry , celler , stable , or larder , and to bid good man hobs , good-wife grub , or the youth of the parish welcome at a christmasse time ; but those dayes are gone , and their fellowes are neuer like to be seene about any of our top-gallant-houses . there was a knight ( an acquaintance of mine ( whose whole meanes in the world was but threescore pounds a yeare , and aboue . of the same went for his wiues coach-hire ; now ( perhaps ) you shall haue an irish footman with a iacket cudgell'd downe the shoulders and skirts , with yellow or orenge tawny lace , may trot from london . or . score miles to one of those decayed mansions , when the simpring scornfull pusse , the supposed mistresse of the house ( with a mischiefe ) who is ( indeed ) a kinde of creature retired for a while into the countrey to escape the whip in the citie ) she demaunds out of the window scarce ready , and dressing her selfe in a glasse at noone : fellow what is thine errand , hast thou letters to me ? and if it be about di●ner , a man may sooner blow vp the gates of bergen ap zome , with a charme then get entrance , within the bounds of their barr'd , bolted , and barracadoed wicket : about . a clocke , it may be after walking an houre or twaine , sir sellall comes downe , vntrust with a pipe of tobacco in his fist to know your businesse , hauing first peeped through a broken pane of glasse , to see whether you come to demaund any money , or olde debt , or not , when after a few hollow dry complements ( without drinke ) he turnes you out at the gate , his worship returning to his stove : what townes are layde waste ? what fields lye vntilled ? what goodly houses are turn'd to the habitations of howlets , dawes , and hobgoblins ? what numbers of poore are encreased ? yea examine this last yeare but the register bookes of burials , of our greatest townes and parishes of the land , as winondham in norfolke , white chappell neere london , and many other , and see how many haue beene buried weekely , that haue meerely perished for want of bread ; whilst pride and luxurie dam vp our streetes , barracado our high wayes , and are ready euen to driue ouer their graues , whom their vnmercifull pride hath farnished . whence comes leather to be so deare , but by reason ( or as i should say against reason ) of the multitude of coaches , and carroaches , who consume and take vp the best hides that can be gotten in our kingdome , insomuch that i cannot buy a payre of boores for my selfe vnder an angell , nor my wife a payre of shooes ( though her foote be vnder the seauenteenes ) vnder eight groates or three shillings ; by which meanes many honest shoomakers are either vndone or vndoing , and infinite numbers of poore christians , are enforced to goe barefooted in the colde winters , till with very benummednesse , some their toes , and some their feete are rotted off , to the numberlesse encrease of crooched cripples , and wooden legg'd beggers , of which sort of miserable dismembred wretches , euery streete is plentifully stored with , to the scorne of other nations , and the shame and obloquy of our owne . the saddlers ( being an ancient , a worthy and a vsefull company ) they haue almost ouerthrowne the whole trade , to the vndoing of many honest families ; for whereas within our memories , our nobility and gentry would tide well mounted ( and sometimes walke on foot ) gallantly attended with three or foure score braue fellowes in blew coates , which was a glory to our nation ; and gaue more content to the beholders , then forty of your leather tumbrels : then men preseru'd their bodies strong and able by walking , riding , and other manly exercises : then sadlers were a good trade , and the name of a coach was heathen-greeke . who euer saw ( but vpon extraordinary occasions ) sir philip sidney , sir francis drake , sir iohn norris , sir william winter , sir roger williams , or ( whom i should haue nam'd first ) the famous lord gray , and willoughby , with the renowned george earle of cumberland , or robert eatle of essex : these sonnes of mars , who in their times were the glorious brooches of our nation , and an admirable terrour to our enemies : these i say did make small vse of coaches , and there were two maine reasons for it , the one was that there were but few coaches in most of their times : and the second reason is , they were deadly foes to all sloath and effeminacie : the like was sir francis vere , with thousands others : but what should i talke further ? this is the ratling , rowling , rumbling age , and the world runnes on wheeles . the hackney-men who were wont to haue furnished trauellers in all places , with fitting and seruiceable horses for any iourney , ( by the multitude of coaches ) are vndone by the dozens , and the whole common-wealth most abhominably iaded , that in many places a man had as good to ride vpon a wodden post , as to post it vpon one of those poore hunger-staru'd hirelings : which enormity can be imputed to nothing , but the coaches intrusion , is the hackney-mans confusion . nor haue we poore watermen the least cause to complaine against this infernall swarme of trade-spillers , who like the grashoppers or caterpillers of egipt haue so ouer-runne the land , that we can get no liuing vpon the water ; for i dare truly affirme that euery day in any tearme ( especially if the court be at whitehall ) they do rob vs of our liuings , and carry . fares daily from vs , which numbers of passengers were wont to supply our necessities , and enable vs sufficiently with meanes to doe our prince and countrey seruice : and all the whole fry of our famous whores , whose ancient lodgings were neere s. katherines , the bankside , lambeth-marsh , westminster , white friers , coleharbar , or any other place neere the thames , who were wont after they had any good trading , or reasonable commings in , to take a boate and ayre themselues vpon the water , yea ( and by your leaue ) be very liberall to , and i say as a mercer said once , a whores money is as good as a ladies , and a bawdes as current as a midwiues : tush those times are past , and our hackney coaches haue hurried all our hackney customers quite out of our reach towards the north parts of the citie , where they are daily practised in the coach , that by often iolting they may the better endure the cart vpon any occasion , and indeede many times a hired coachman with a basket hilted blade hang'd or executed about his shoulders in a belt , ( with a cloake of some py●e colour , with two or three change of laces about ) may man , a brace or a leash of these curu●tting cockatrices to their places of recreation , and so saue them the charge of maintaining a sir pandarus or an apple-squire , which seruice indeede to speake the truth , a waterman is altogether vnfit for ; and the worst is , most of them are such loggerheads , that they either will not learne , but as i thinke would scorne to be taught : so that if the sculler had not bene paide when hee was paide , it is to be doubted that he should neuer haue beene paide , for the coachman hath gotten all the custome from the scullers pay-mistris . this is one apparent reason , why all the whores haue forsaken vs , and spend their cash so free and frequent vpon those ingenious , well practiz'd , and seruiceable hired coachmen : but ( a pox take em all ) whither doth my wits runne after whores and knaues ? i pray you but note the streetes , and the chambers or lodgings in fleet streete , or the strand , how they are pesterd with them , especially after a masque or a play at the court , where euen the very earth quakes and trembles , the cazements shatter , tatter and clatter , and such a confused noyse is made , as if all the deuils in hell were at barly-breake ; so that a man can neither sleepe , speake , heare , write , or eate his dinner or supper quiet for them : besides , their tumbling din ( like a counterfeit thunder ) doth sowre wine , ale and beere most abhominably , to the impairing of their healths that drinke it , and the making of many a victualer and tapster trade-falne . a wheelewright or a maker of carts , is an ancient , a profitable , and a trade , which by no meanes can be wanted ; yet so poore it is , that scarce the best amongst them can hardly euer attaine to better then a calueskin sute , or a piece of neck beefe & carret-rootes to dinner on a sunday ; nor scarcely any of them is euer mounted to any office aboue the degree of a scauenger , or a tything man at the most . on the contrary , your coachmakers trade is the most gainefullest about the towne , they are apparelled in sattens and veluets , are maister of their parish , vestry men , who fare like the emperours heliogabalus , or sardanapalus , seldom without their mackeroones , parmisants , iellyes and kickshawes , with baked swannes , pasties hote , or c●ld red deere pyes , which they haue from their debtors worships in the countrey : neither are these coaches onely thus cumbersome by their rumbling and rutting , as they are by their standing still , and damming vp the streetes and lanes , as the blacke friers , and diuers other places can witnesse , and against coach-makers dores the streetes are so pesterd and clogg'd with them , that neither man , horse , or cart can passe for them ; in so much as my lord maior is highly to be commended for his care in this restraint , sending in february last many of them to the counter for their carelesnesse herein . they haue beene the vniuersall decay of almost all the best ash trees in the kingdome , for a young plant can no soouer peepe vp to any perfection , but presently it is felled for the coach : nor a young horse bred of any beauty or goodnesse , but he is ordained from his foaling for the seruice of the coach ; so that whereas in former ages , both in peace and warres , we might compare with any nation in the world for the multitude and goodnes of our horses : wee now thinke of no other imployment for them , then to draw in a coach , and when they are either lamed by the negligence of the coachman , or worne out after many yeares with trotting to playes and bawdy houses , then are they ( like olde maymed souldiers ) after their wounds and scarres , preferd to woodmongers , ( where they are well billited ) or to draymen , where they turne tapsters , and draw beere by whole barrels , and hogsheads at once ; and there they weare out the remainder of their dayes , till new harnei● for others , are made of their olde skins . the last proclamations concerning the retiring of the gentry our of the citty into their countreyes , although my selfe , with many thousands more were much impouerished and hindred of our liuings by their departure ; yet on the other side how it cleared the streetes of these way-stopping whirligiggs , for a man now might walke without being stand vp hoe , by a fellow that scarcely can either goe or stand himselfe . prince , nobilitie , and gentlemen of worth , offices & quality , haue herein their priuiledge , and are exempt , may ride as their occasions or pleasures shall indite them , as most meete they should ; but when euery gill turntripe , mrs. fumkins , madame polecat , and my lady trash , froth the tapster , bill the taylor , lauender the broker , whiff the tobacco seller , with their companion trugs , must be coach'd to s. albones , burntwood , hockley in the hole , croydon , windsor , vxbridge , and many other places , like wilde haggards prancing vp and downe , that what they get by cheating , swearing , and lying at home , they spend in ryot , whoring , and drunkennesse abroade . i say by my hallidome , it is a burning shame ; i did lately write a pamphlet called a thiefe , wherein i did a little touch vpon this point ; that seeing the heard of hireling coaches are more then the whirries on the thames , and that they make leather so excessiue decre , that it were good the order in bohemia were obserued here , which is , that euery hired coach should be drawne with ropes , and that all their harnesse should be hemp and cordage : besides if the couer and bootes of them were of good rosind or pitched canuas , it would bring downe the price of leather , and by that meanes a hired coach would be knowne from a princes , a noble mans , ladies , or people of note , account , respect and quality . and if it be but considered in the right kue , a coach or carroach are meere engines of pride , ( which no man can denie to be one of the seauen deadly sinnes ) for two leash of oyster-wiues hired a coach on a thursday after whitsontide , to carie them to the greene-goose faire at stratford the bowe , and as they were hurried betwixt algate and mile-end , they were so be-madam'd , be-mistrist , and ladifide by the beggers , that the foolish women began to swell with a proud supposition or imaginary greatnesse , and gaue all their money to the mendicanting canters ; insomuch that they were feigne to pawne their gownes and smocks the next day to buy oysters , or else their pride had made them cry for want of what to cry withall . thus much i can speake by experience ; i doe partly know some of mine owne qualities , and i doe know that i doe hate pride , as i hate famine or surfetting ; and moreouer , i know my selfe to be ( at the best ) but iohn taylor , and a mechanicall waterman , yet it was but my chance once to be brought from whitehall to the tower in my maister sir william waades coach , and before i had beene drawne twentie yards , such a timpany of pride puft me vp , that i was ready to burst with the winde chollick of vaine glory . in what state i would leane ouer the boote , and looke , and pry if i saw any of my acquaintance , and then i would stand vp , vayling my bonnet , kissing my right clawe , extending my armes as i had beene swimming , with god saue your lordship , worship , or how doest thou honest neighbour or good-fellow ? in a word , the coach made me thinke my selfe better then my betters that went on foote , and that i was but little inferiour to tamberlaine , being iolted thus in state by those pampered iades of belgia : all men of indifferent iudgement will confesse , that a cart is an instrument conformable to law , order , and discipline ; for it rests on the sabaoth dayes , and commonly all other holy dayes , and if it should by any meanes breake or transgresse against any of these good iniunctions , there are informers that lye in ambush ( like carefull scowtes ) to informe against the poore cart , that in conclusion my lady pecunia must become surety and take vp the matter , or else there will be more stirre about the flesh then the broath is worth : whereas ( on the contrary ) a coach like a pagan , an heathen , an infidel , or atheist , obserues neither sabaoth , or holiday , time or season , ●obustiously breaking through the toyle or net of deuine and humane law , order , and authority , and as it were contemning all christian conformity ; like a dogge that lyes on a heape of hay , who will eate none of it himselfe , nor suffer any other beast to eate any : euen so the coach is not capable of hearing what a preacher saith , nor will it suffer men or women to heare that would heare , for it makes such a hideous rumbling in the streetes by many church dores , that peoples eares are stop'd with the noyse , whereby they are debard of their edifying , which makes faith so fruitlesse , good workes so barren , and charity as cold at midsommer , as if it were a great frost , and by this meanes soules are rob'd and starued of their heeuenly manna , and the kingdome of darknesse replenished : to auoyd which , they haue set vp a crosse post in cheapside on sundayes neere woodstreet end , which makes the coaches rattle and iumble on the other side of the way further from the church , and from hindering of their hearing . the nagaians , iughonians , and the vngodly barbarous tartarians , who knew no god or deuill , heauen nor hell , and who indeede are nations that haue neither townes , citties , villages , or houses ; their habitations are nothing but coaches : in their coaches they eate , sleepe , beget children , who are also there borne , and borne from place to place , with them the world runnes on wheeles continually , for they are drawne in droues or heards . . or . together , to any fruitfull place or champion plaine , where they and their beasts doe stay till they haue deuoured all manner of sustenance that may maintaine life , and then they remoue to a fresh place doing the like ; thus wearing out their accursed liues like the broode of caine , they and their houses being perpetuall vagabonds , and continuall runnagates vpon the face of the earth . they are so practized and inured in all kinde of barbarisme , that they will milke one mare and let another blood , and the blood and the milke they will charne together in their hats or caps , till they haue made fresh cheese and creame ( which the deuill will scarce eate ) from these people our coaches had first originall , and i doe wish with all my heart that the superfluous number of all our hireling hackney carrie-knaues and hurrie-whores , with their makers and maintainers were there , where they might neuer want continuall imployment . for their antiquity in england , i thinke it is in the memory of many men when in the whole kingdome , there was not one , and there was another principall vertue , as good as themselues came with them : for the prouerbe saith , that mischiefe or mischances seldome come alone : and it is a doubtfull question , whether the deuill brought tobacco into england in a coach , or else brought a coach in a fogge or mist of tobacco . for in the yeare . one william b●ouen a dutchman brought first the vse of coaches hither , and the said boonen was queene elizabeths coachman , for indeede a coach was a strange monster in those dayes , and the fight of them put both horse and man into amazement : some said it was a great crab-shell brought out of china , and some imagin'd it to be one of the pagan temples , in which the canibals adored the deuill : but at last all those doubts were cleared , and coach-making became a substantiall trade : so that now all the world may see , they are as common as whores , and may be hired as easie as knights of the post. the cart is an open transparent engine , that any man may perceiue the plaine honesty of it ; there is no part of it within or without , but it is in the continuall view of all men : on the contrary , the coach is a close hipocrite , for it hath a couer for any knauery , and curtaines to vaile or shadow any wickednesse : besides , like a perpetuall cheater , it weares two bootes and no spurres , sometimes hauing two paire of legges in one boote , and often times ( against nature ) most preposterously it makes faire ladies weare the boote ; and if you note , they are carried backe to backe , like people surpriz'd by pyrates , to be tyed in that miserable manner , and throwne ouer boord into the sea. moreouer , it makes people imitate sea crabs , in being drawne side-wayes , as they are when they sit in the boote of the coach , and it is a dangerous kinde of carriage for the common-wealth , if it be rightly considered ; for when a man shall be a iustice of the peace , a serieant , or a counsellour at law ; what hope is it that all or many of them should vse vpright dealing , that haue beene so often in their youth , and daily in their maturer or riper age , drawne aside continually in a coach , some to the right hand , and some to the left , for vse makes perfectnesse , and often going aside willingly makes men forget to goe vpright naturally . the order of knighthood is both of great antiquity and very honourable , yet within these later times there is a strange mysterie crept into in , for i haue noted it that when a gentleman hath the sword laid vpon his shoulder , either by his prince , or his deputy or generall in the field , although the blow with the sword , be an honour to the man , yet ( by a kinde of inspiration ) it cripples his wife , though she be at that time . miles from her husband , for if you but note her , you shall see her lamed for euer , so that shee can by no meanes goe without leading vnder the arme , or else shee must be carried in a coach all her life time after ; forgetting in a manner to goe on her feete so much as to church , though it bee but two quoytes cast ; for i haue heard of a gentlewoman that was lamed in this manner , who sent her man to smithfield from charing-crosse , to hire a coach to carrie her to whitehall ; another did the like from ludgate hill , to be carried to see a play at the blacke friers : and in former times when they vsed to walke on foote , and recreate themselues , they were both strong and healthfull ; now all their exercise is priuately to sawe billets , to hang in a swinge , or to rowle the great rowler in the alleyes of their garden , but to goe without leading , or riding in a coach is such an impeachment and derogation to their calling , which flesh and blood can by no meanes endure . euery man knowes , that were it not for the cart the hay would rot in the medowes , the corne perish in the fields , the markets be emptily furnished , at the courts remoue the king would bee vnseru'd , and many a gallant would bee enforced to bee his owne sumpter-horse to carrie his luggage , bag and baggage himselfe ; and finally , were it not for the mannerly and courteous seruice of the cart , many a well deseruing ill condition'd braue fellow might goe on foote to the gallowes . a cart ( by the iudgement of an honourable and graue lawyer ) is elder brother to a coach for antiquity ; and for vtility and profit , all the world knows which is which , yet so vnnaturall and vnmannerly a brother the coach is , that it will giue no way to the cart , but with pride , contempt bitter curses and execrations , the coachman wishes all the carts on fire , or at the diuell , and that carmen were all hang'd , when they cannot passe at their pleasures , quite forgetting themselues to be sawcy vnprofitable intruders , vp starts , and innouators . when i see a coach put vp into a house ( mee thinkes ) the pole standing stiffely erected , it lookes like the image of priapus , whom the libidinous and leacherous whores and knaues of egypt were wont to fall downe and worship ; and i pray you what hinderance hath it but it may vse the paphean or priapean game ? for it is neuer vnfurnished of a bed and curtaines , with shop windowes of leather to buckle bawdry vp as close in the midst of the street , as it were in the stewes , or a nunnery of venus votaries . what excessiue waste doe they make of our best broad-cloath of all colours ? and many times a young heire will put his old fathers old coach in a mourning gowne of cloth or cotton , when many of the poore distressed members of christ , goes naked , staruing with cold , not hauing any thing to hide their wretched carkasses ; and what spoyle of our veluets , damaskes , taffataes , siluer and gold lace , with fringes of all sorts , and how much consumed in guilding , wherein is spent no small quantity of our best and finest gold : nor is the charge little of maintaining a coach in reparation , for the very mending of the harnesse , a knights coachman brought in a bill to his master of . pounds : besides there is vsed more care & diligence in matching the horses and mares , then many fathers and mothers doe in the marriage of their sonnes and daughters : for many times a rich lubberly clowne , the sonne of some gowty extortioner , or rent-racking rascall , ( for his accursed muckes sake ) may bee matched with a beatifull or propper well qualified and nobly descended gentlewoman , and a well fac'd handsome esquire or knights sonne and heire may be ioyn'd with a ioyners puppet , or the daughter of a sexton ; but for the choyce of your coach-horses there is another manner of prouidence to be vsed , for they must be al of a colour , longitude , latitude , cressitude , height , length , thicknesse , breadth , ( i muse they doe not weigh them in a paire of ballance ) and being once matched with a great deale of care and cost , if one of them chance to die ( as by experience i know a horse to bee a mortall beast ) then is the coach like a maimed cripple , not able to trauell , till after much diligent search , a meete mate be found whose correspondency may be as equiualent to the suruiuing palfrey , and in all respects as like as a broome to a bee●ome , barme to yeast , or quodlings to boyld apples . the mischiefes that haue beene done by them are not to be numbred , as breaking of legges and armes , ouerthrowing downe hills , ouer bridges . running ouer children , lame and old people , as henrie the fourth of france , ( the father to the king that now reigneth ) he and his queene were once like to haue beene drowned , the coach ouerthrowing besides a bridge , & to proue that a coach owed him an vnfortunate tricke , he was some few yeares after his first escape , most inhumanely and traiterously murdred in one , by rauiliacke , in the streets at paris : but what neede i runne my inuention out of breath into forreigne countreys for examples , when many of the chiefe nobilitie and gentrie of our owne nation haue had some triall and sad experience of the truth of what i write ? sometimes the coachman ( it may be hath bin drunk , or to speake more mannerly stolne a manchet out of the brewers basket ) hath tumbled besides his box of state , and coach running ouer him hath kild him , the whilst the horses ( hauing the reines loose ) haue runne away with their rattle at their heeles ( like dogges that had bladders of dryed beanes , or empty bottles at their tailes ) as if the deuill had beene in them , and sometimes in the full speed of their course a wheele breakes , or the naue slips off from the axletree , downe leapes the coachman , and away runs the horses , throwing their carriage into bushes , hedges , and ditches , neuer leauing their mad pace , till they haue torne to tatters their tumbling tumbrell , to the manifest perill , danger , and vnrecouerable hurt to those whom they carry , and to all men , women , children and cattell , as hogges , sheepe , or whatsouer chanceth to be in their way : besides the great cost & charge of mending and reparations of the coach. there is almost nothing , but when it is worne out , it will serue for some vse , either for profit or pleasure ( except a coach ) of the bottome of an old cart , one may make a fence to stop a gap , of the raues one may make a ladder for hennes to goe to roost : of an olde bores franke , a new dogge-kennell may be founded ; of a decayed wherry or boat , a backe part of a house of office may be framed ( as you may see euery where on the bankside ) of an old barrell , a bolting hutch , an ouer-worne old whore will make a spick and span new bawde ; and a rotte● bawde may make a new witch . i knew a neighbour of mine ( an olde iustice ) that of the bald veluet lyning of his cloake , made him a paire of new breeches , and those breeches being worne past the best , with the best of them he made his wife a new french hoode ; and when that was bare and past her wearing , it made him facing for his new boote tops : but an old coach is good for nothing but to cousen and deceiue people , as of the olde rotten leather they make vampies for high shooes , for honest country plow-men , or belts for souldiers , or inner lynings for girdles , dogge-chollers for mastiffes , indeede the box if it were bored thorow , would be fittest for a close stoole , and the body would ( perhaps ) serue for a sow to pigge in . if the curses of people that are wrong'd by them might haue preuailed , sure i thinke the most part of them had beene at the deuill many yeres agoe . bu●●hers cannot passe with their cattell for them . market folkes which bring prouision of victuals to the citie , are stop'd , stay'd , and hindred . carts or waynes with their necessary ladings are debard and letted : the milke-maydes ware is often spilt in the dirt ▪ and peoples guts like to be crushed out being crowded and shrowded vp against stalls , & stoopes . whilst mistres siluerpin with her pander , and a paire of ●●amd pullets ride grinning and deriding in their h●ll-cart at their miseries who goe on foote : i my selfe haue beene so serued when i haue wished them all in the great breach , or on a light fire vpon hownslow heath , or salisburie plaine : and their damming vp the streets in this manner , where people are wedged together that they can hardly stirre , is a maine and great aduantage to the most vertuous mysterie of purse-cutring , and for any thing i know the hired or hackney coachman may ioyne in confederacy and share with the cut-purse , one to stop vp the way , and the other to shift in the crowd . the superfluous vse of coaches hath been the occasions of many vile and odious crimes , as murther , theft , cheating , hangings , whippings , pillories , ●●ockes and cages ; for house-keeping neuer decaied 〈◊〉 coaches came into england , till which time those were accounted the best men who had most followers and retainers ; then land about or neere london was thought deere enough at an noble the aker yearely , and a ten-pound house-rent now , was scarce twenty shillings then , but the witchcraft of the coach quickly mounted the price of all things ( except poore mens labour ) and withal transformed ( in some places . . . . . . or . proper seruingmen , into two or three animals ( videlicet ) a butterfly page , a trotting footman , a stiff-drinking coachman , a cooke , a clarke , a steward , and a butler , which hath enforced many a discarded tall fellow ( through want of meanes to liue , and grace to guide him in his pouertie ) to fall into such mischieuous actions before named , for which i thinke the gallowses in england haue deuonred as many lusty valiant men within these . or . yeares , as would haue beene a sufficient armie to beate the foes of christ out of christendome , and marching to constantinople , haue pluck'd the great turke by the beard : but as is aforesaid , this is the age wherien the world runnes on wheeles . it is a most vneasie kinde of passage in coaches on the paued streetes in london , wherein men and women are so tost , tumbled , iumbled , rumbled , and crossing of kennels , dunghills , and vneuen-wayes , which is enough to put all the guts in their bellies out of ioynt , to make them haue the palsey or megrum , or to cast their gorges with continuall rocking and wallowing : to preuent which , there was a gentleman of great note , found fault with his coach-horses , because his coach iolted him , commanding his man to sell away those hard trotting iades , and to buy him a paire of amblers , that might draw him with more ease : another , when hee saw one of his horses more lusty and free then his fellow , hee commanded his coachman to feede him onely with bread & water , till he were as tame and quiet as the other , which wise command was dutifully obserued . the best vse that euer was made of coaches was in the old warres betwixt the hungarians and the turkes , ( for like so many land gallies ) they carried souldiers on each side with crosbowes , and other warlike engines , and they serued for good vse being many thousands of them , to disrowte their enemies , breaking their rankes and order , making free and open passage for their horse and foote amongst the scattered squadrons and regiments , & vpon occasion they serued as a wall to embarricado and fortifie their campe : this was a millitarie imployment for coaches , and in this sort onely i could wish all our hirelings to be vsed . it is to be supposed that pharaohs charriots which were drowned in the red sea , were no other things in shape and fashion then our coaches are at this time , and what great pitty was it that the makers and memories of them had not been obliuiously swallowed in that egiptian downfall ? mowntaigne , a learned and a noble french writer , doth relate in his booke of essayes , that the ancient kings of asia , and the easterne parts of europe , were wont to be drawne in their coaches with foure oxen , and that mark anthony with a whore with him was drawne with lyons . heliogabalus the empero●r was drawne with foure naked whores , ( himselfe being the coachman ) and the coaches in these late times ( to shew some sparke of gratitude or thankfulnes ) in remembrance that naked whores once drew 〈◊〉 of them , they doe in requitall very often carrie whores halfe naked to the belly , and gallantly apparelled ; besides only but foure whores drew one coach , and . coaches hath carried . of them for it : but sometimes they were drawne with stagges , as it is the vse in lapland at this day . the emperour firmus was drawne with foure estridges , and to requite those fauours , they doe now often carrie men as rauenous as lyons , as well headed as oxen or stagges , and as the estridges did once draw , so the feathers of them doe daily ride in plumes and fannes . in the citie of antwerp in brabant i haue seene little coaches , which men send their children to schoole in , each of them drawne by a mastiffe dogge , not hauing any guide : for the dogge himselfe doth exercise three offices at one time , being as the horse to draw , the coachman to direct , and an honest labouring dogge besides . i remember that in one place aforesaid , i haue written , that coaches doe seldome carrie any dead things , as stones , timber , wine , beere , corne , &c. but ▪ in so writing i finde that i haue done many of them great wrong , for i perceiue that they carrie oftentimes diuers sorts of rye , as knaue-rye , foole-rye , leache-rye , rogue-rye , vsue-rye , bawde-rye , braue-rye , slaue-rye , and begge-rye . sometimes ( by chaunce ) they may hap to carrie good husband-rye , and housewife-rye , but such burthens are as scarce , as money or charity : and one thing more comes into my minde about their multitude , for though a coach doe 〈◊〉 to be a dead or sencelesse thing , yet when i se 〈…〉 consider how they doe multiply and encrease : i am doubtfull but that they are male and female , and vse the act of generation or begetting , or else their procreation could neuer so haue ouer-spread our nation . to conclude , a coach may fitly be compared to a whore , for a coach is painted , so is a whore : a coach is common , so is a whore : a coach is costly , so is a whore ; a coach is drawne with beasts , a whore is drawne away with beastly knaues . a coach hath loose curtaines , a whore hath a loose gowne , a coach is lac'd and fring'd , so is a whore : a coach may be turn'd any way , so may a whore : a coach hath bosses , studs , and guilded nailes to adorne it : a whore hath owches , brooches , bracelets , chaines and iewels to set her forth : a coach is alwaies out of reparations , so is a whore : a coach hath need of mending still , so hath a whore : a coach is vnprofitable , so is a whore : a coach is superfluous , so is a whore : a coach is insatiate , so is a whore : a coach breakes mens neckes : a whore breakes mens backes : this oddes is betwixt a coach and a whore , a man will lend his coach to his friend , so will hee not his whore : but any mans whore will saue him the labour of lending her ; for she will lend her selfe to whom shee pleaseth . and thus my booke and comparisons end together ; for thus much i know , that i haue but all this while bark'd at the moone , throwne feathers against the winde , built vpon the 〈…〉 ●●ackmore , and laboured in vaine : 〈…〉 or enormitie hath pleasure in it , 〈…〉 profit , and power to defend it , 〈…〉 speake , and weakenesse may babble of reformation , though to no end : and so i end . finis . whereas i am informed that some evil disposed persons (upon pretence of imployment or authority from me, to hire and bring in teams of draught horses and carts, for the service of the king and parliament) ... richardson, thomas, waggon-master-general. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing r thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) whereas i am informed that some evil disposed persons (upon pretence of imployment or authority from me, to hire and bring in teams of draught horses and carts, for the service of the king and parliament) ... richardson, thomas, waggon-master-general. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] signed at end: thomas richardson wagon-master generall. title from first lines of text. a notice from thomas richardson, wagon-master general, of certain persons having fraudulently received money from some of his majesty's subjects, upon pretence of employment by him. dated at end: "dated at plumbers-hall, london, this . of may. . imprint from wing. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng carriages and carts -- england -- london -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . london (england) -- history -- th century -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no whereas i am informed that some evil disposed persons (upon pretence of imployment or authority from me, to hire and bring in teams of draug richardson, thomas, waggon-master-general a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion whereas i am informed that some evil disposed persons ( upon pretence of imployment or authority from me , to hire and bring in teams of draught horses and carts , for the service of the king and parliament ) have by colour thereof ( extorsively and corruptly ) taken and received money from divers of his majesties subjects , to release some teams , and protect others from doing service ; which hath tended to the great prejudice of the parties so extorted from , the hinderance of the publike service , and scandall ( as much as in them lay ) of my office , and the due execution thereof . i have thought fit hereby to give publike notice , that i shall take it for a favour of any man that will inform me of the particular name or names , and offences of any person or persons that have been , or hereafter shall be offenders in this kinde ; and i will readily contribute my best and utmost endeavours , not onely to bring them to condigne punishment , but also to procure the parties wronged restitution of their moneys ; with such other reparation , as to the wisdom of the committee of the honorable house of commons for examinations shall be thought meet . dated at plumbers-hall , london , this . of may . . thomas richardson wagon-master generall . to the honorable assembly of the commons house of parliament, and to the committees for grieuances of the same house: the answere of the master, wardens and fellowship of woodmongers, london, to the complaint of some few wharfingers and others, whereof, some are forraine, and some free of the same citie company of woodmongers (london, england) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a stc . estc s this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) to the honorable assembly of the commons house of parliament, and to the committees for grieuances of the same house: the answere of the master, wardens and fellowship of woodmongers, london, to the complaint of some few wharfingers and others, whereof, some are forraine, and some free of the same citie company of woodmongers (london, england) sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] a responce to a petition of the london wharfingers (stc . ) against abuses by the woodmongers in regulating use of carts--stc. imprint from stc. reproduction of original in the guildhall library, london, england. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder 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characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng company of woodmongers (london, england) -- england -- london -- early works to . carriages and carts -- early works to . wharves -- england -- london -- early works to . london (england) -- history -- th century -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the honorable assembly of the commons house of parliament , and to the committees for grieuances of the same hovse : the answere of the master , wardens and fellowship of woodmongers , london , to the complaint of some few wharfingers and others , whereof , some are forraine , and some free of the same citie . the gouernment of carres and carremen within the cittie of london was ancientlie time out of mind in the maior and aldermen of the cittie of london . at a court holden before the said maior and aldermen xj . octobris anno . eliz. it was ordered that the gouernment of the said carres and carremen should from that time be in the master and vvardens of the companie of vvood-mongers of the citie of london . after , his maiestie by his letters patents dated the xxix . of august and in the third yeare of his raigne did incorporate the said woodmongers and carremen by the name of the master , wardens and fellowship of woodmongers of london . after the xxi . of october in the said third yeare of his maiesties raigne the gouernement of all carres and carremen , within the said cittie was by act of common councell confirmed vnto the said master wardens and fellow-shipp and their successors . they paying to christs hospitall for the reliefe of the poore there li. per annum , and it was by the same act further enacted that from thenceforth all persons vsing the trade of carremen should be translated to the company of woodmongers . after the said master vvardens and fellowshipp did make diuers ordinances for the gouernment of the said carres and carremen which ordinances the xviii . of may anno , . iacobi were confirmed by the late lord chauncellor ellesmere , sir iohn popham , knight , then chiefe iustice of the kings bench , and sir edward coke knight then chiefe iustice of the common plees according to the statute of . henrie . xxx . nouembris anno . iacobi , it was ordered by the lords of the councell that all persons vsing the trade of carres should be ordered and gouerned according to the before recited act of common councell . and that the nomber of carrs within london should not exceed . and that none of them should be vsed but by the licence of the company of vvoodmongers and carremen . xi . octobris anno . iacobi , the before recited charter and ordinances were decreed in the court of star-chamber . after diuers disordered persons not conforming themselues according to the said ordinances the lords of the councell were pleased to direct their honorable letters to the lord maior and court of aldermen requiring them to call the said persons before them and to cause them presently without delay or excuse to submit themselues to the said ordinances or else to commit them to prison vntill they should so conforme themselues . the . of november anno . iacobi regis , a second decree was made in the starr-chamber , whereby the decree of the xi of october in the ix . yeare of his maiesties raigne the order of the lords . nouembris anno . iacobi , the letters of the lords of the councell before mencioned the ordinances of the said companie of vvoodmongers , the before mencioned act of common councell and all other ordinances established for the gouernment of the said companie of vvood-mongers & carremen were decreed to be after trulie obserued performed and kept according to the purport and true meaning thereof . after the xv . of october anno . iacobi , the said last mencioned decree was in all the points afore-said confirmed by a third decree in the said court of starr-chamber & diuers persons that is to say robert wright thomas newton thomas guy william barwell edward hopkines and robert violet , and also mathew kimpster and william sligh should be restrained and prohibited to vse or worke any carre or carres within the said citie liberties & suburbes thereof without allowance of the said vvood-mongers vpon paine of punishment to bee inflicted vpon them by the censure of the said honorable court : and it was then further decreed by the said court that such persons as then did or should after vse carres and were free of any other companies in london then of the said vvood-mongers should forthwith bee translated ouer to the said company of vvood-mongers in manner and forme as by the said act of common councell is set downe and prescribed . and that such person or persons as did or should refuse or neglect to be translated after request made vnto them according to the said act should vndergoe and be subiect to the censure and punishment of the said most honourable court of starr-chamber for his or their contempt in that behalf : and lastlie it was ordered by the said high court that the said robert wright for his contempt should be committed to the prison of the fleet there to remaine vntill he should conforme himself and shew obedience to the decrees orders and ordinances established as aforesaid . all which notwithstanding the said robert wright and the other persons before mencioned and diuers others by their example doe not onelie continue contemners of the said act of common councell ordinances and decrees but doe also become suitors to the high court of parliament to put in vse diuers things contrarie to the said act of common councell ordinances and decrees . to the honorable assembly of the commons house of parliament, and to the committees, for grieuances of the same house. the humble petition of edward hopkins, william barwell, iohn bellamy, robert vilet, iohn walter, robert wright, and other wharfingers in and neere the cittie of london approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a stc . estc s this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) to the honorable assembly of the commons house of parliament, and to the committees, for grieuances of the same house. the humble petition of edward hopkins, william barwell, iohn bellamy, robert vilet, iohn walter, robert wright, and other wharfingers in and neere the cittie of london hopkins, edward, fl. . sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] against abuses by the woodmongers in regulating use of carts--stc. imprint from stc. in this edition, lines - of title have: "... robert vilet,/ iohn walter, ...". reproduction of original in the guildhall library, london, england. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng company of woodmongers (london, england) -- controversial literature -- early works to . carriages and carts -- early works to . wharves -- england -- london -- early works to . london (england) -- history -- th century -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the honorable assembly of the commons house of parliament , and to the committees , for grieuances of the same house . the humble petition of edward hopkins , william barwell , iohn bellamy , robert vilet , iohn walter , robert wright , and other wharfingers in and neere the cittie of london . whereas the petitioners and all others vsing wharfes for sale of fuell within and neere the cittie of london , haue time out of minde had the vse of a competent number of carts and carres as necessarily incident to their trade , to carry wood and cole for the necessary vse of his maiesties subiects in and about the said citie , vntill some of the woodmongers in an. . iac. ( without the consent of the rest ) did not onely procure themselues to be incorporated by his maiesties letters patents , with power to make ordinances for gouernment thereof , but also for their owne lucre , and to the intent to oppresse his maiesties subiects and make a monopoly thereof , vpon pretence of better gouernment , haue by colour of the said letters patents made ordinances , whereby they haue drawne the gouernment of carres into their owne hands , and so prouided that neither wharfinger nor other might vse a carre without licence from the said companie ; and vpon such as had licence for vse thereof , laid an imposition of . s. . d. per annum , and other great taxes , as sometimes . s. and at other times . lib. a man. and the said companie hauing so setled their said gouernment , did denie the vse of carres to diuers owners of ancient wharfes vsing the trade of woodmongers , and either sold them out to others for . and . lib. a car-roome , or else did farme them for s and . s. the weeke ; by which meanes the said car-roomes are appropriated to tapsters , ale-house-keepers , scriueners , hostlers , bakers , and such like , not vsing themselues either wharfe or carre , and become priuate interests , and go as chattels to executours . and when wharfingers ( in case of necessitie ) vsed any carres for vse of their trade , themselues and their seruants haue at seuerall times beene ( by colour of the said letters patents ) committed to prison by the master and wardens of the said companie , and there detained sometimes or dayes ; at other times their carres haue beene by the said companie or their ministers taken from them ; and when they haue endeuoured by course of law to relieue themselues , they haue beene vnduly staid . by which vniust courses the petitioners and diuers others being free of the citie of london , haue beene most vniustly denied the free vse of carres , and thereby hindred from vsing their said trade , and inforced either to buy diuers car-roomes , or to farme them at the seuerall rates aforesaid , to the vtter vndoing of themselues , wiues and children , to the great inhansing and raising of the price of fuell , and the great grieuance and oppression of his maiesties subiects in and neere about the said citie , and to the raising of the price of cariages , with many other inconueniences . in tender consideration whereof , and for that the said grant ( accompanied with ordinances as aforesaid ) is not onely a monopoly , but the execution thereof tends to depriue his maiesties subiects of their libertie , by vnlawfull imprisonment , contrary to the great charter of the liberties of england , and to the hinderance of legall proceedings and stop of iustice for their goods vniustly and against law taken from them , and to the destruction of their trade , and is otherwise enormous and extreme grieuous to the petitioners and others his maiesties subiects , and may with the like colour be put in execution against brewers , scauingers , and diuers other trades ; and for that the petitioners are ready to make good each of the said generals , with diuers particulars of euery sort . may it therefore please this honorably assembly and high counsell to take the premisses into consideration , and to appoint some time for the hearing thereof , and to take such course to reforme the said abuses , and punish the said offenders , as to iustice shall appertaine : and the petitioners ( as most bound ) shall euer pray for the long continuance and happie prosperitie of this honorable assembly , and all the members thereof , &c. by the king, a proclamation for restraining the number and abuses of hackney coaches in and about the cities of london and westminster, and the suburbs thereof, and parishes comprised within the bills of mortality england and wales. sovereign ( - : james ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing j estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) by the king, a proclamation for restraining the number and abuses of hackney coaches in and about the cities of london and westminster, and the suburbs thereof, and parishes comprised within the bills of mortality england and wales. sovereign ( - : james ii) james ii, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) ; x cm. printed by charles bill, henry hills, and thomas newcomb ..., london : . broadside. caption title. royal arms (steele ) at head. "given at our court at whitehall the th day of november . reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng carriages and carts -- england -- london. broadsides -- england -- london -- th century - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion i r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king , a proclamation for restraining the number and abuses of hackney coaches in and about the cities of london and westminster , and the suburbs thereof , and parishes comprised within the bills of mortality . james r. whereas complaint hath been made unto vs by divers of our loving subjects of the great grievance and annoyance , which the multitude of hackney coaches lately set up , and now driven about the streets of our city of london and westminster , and suburbs of the same , are to them in their respective trades and businesses ; and also of the great want of some good rules and orders to be observed by all such persons , as are or shall be permitted to keep and drive hackney coaches about the said streets . and whereas the undoubted power of punishing , removing , correcting and restraining all publick nusances , annoyances and disorders in the common streets , high-ways and passages both of right belong unto vs , and having taken the same into our princely consideration , and being desirous to remove all grievance and annoyance from our loving subjects , and to provide against the same in the best manner that we can , vve have thought fit , inorder to the remedying the mischiefs and grievances aforesaid , to constitute and appoint by letters patents under the great seal of england , our trusty and vvelbeloved john phelipps , colonel thomas napier , thomas price , richard sheldon , and jerome nipho , esquires , to be our commissioners for the licensing regulating , ordering , and governing , according to the instructions thereunto annexed ; all hackney coaches to be let and driven for hire about the said cities of london and westminster , and the suburbs thereof , or within the several parishes comprized within the weekly bills of mortality : and to the end the regulation intended by our said commission may be effectual for the benefit of our subjects , we do by th●s our proclamation , with the avice of our privy council , strictly prohibit and forbid all and every person and persons whatsoever , from and after the tenth day of december next ensuing the date hereof , which shall not be licensed by our said commissioners , or three or more of them , to stand with , or drive for hire any hackney coach in any the streets or passages in or about the cities or places aforesaid , upon pain of incurring our high displeasure , and receiving condign punishment , as contemners of our royal will and command , and be further prosecuted and punished for the said abuses and annoyances , by fine , and such other ways as by the laws of this our realm are provided against such as commit publick nusances in the publick streets and high-ways : and for the due execution of our pleasure herein , we do further charge and command the lord mayor and aldermen of our city of london , that they in their several vvards , and our iustices of peace within our said cities of london and westminster , and the liberties and suburbs thereof , and all other our officers and ministers to whom it appertaineth , do take especial care in their respective limits , that this our command be duly observed , and that they from time to time return the names of all those who shall wilfully offend in the premisses , to the commissioners for licensing and regulating hackney coaches for the time being , to the end that they may be proceeded against by ind●cements and presentments for the nusance , and otherwise according to the severity of the law , and demerits of the offenders . given at our court at whitehall the th day of november . in the third year of our reign . god save the king . london , printed by charles bill , henry hills , and thomas newcomb , printers to the kings most excellent majesty , . a proclamation to restrain the excessive carriages in wagons and four-wheeled carts to the destruction of high-ways england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng carriages and carts. roads -- great britain -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - john latta sampled and proofread - john latta text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion by the king. a proclamation to restrain the excessive carriages in wagons and four-wheeled carts , to the destruction of high-ways . charles r. whereas it appertaineth to us to have special care , that the common high-ways , and bridges , leading from place to place within this realm , might be kept in due repair for the ease and good of our loving subjects ; and observing notwithstanding the good provision of our laws in that behalf made , and the conformity and forwardness of our subjects in so publique and necessary a work , that our high-ways and bridges are at this present grown into great decay , and very dangerous for passage , we have upon due examination found , that the said decays are occasioned by the common carriers of this realm , who for their singular and private profit , do now usually travail with carts and wagons with four whéels , drawn with eight , nine , or ten horses or more , and do commonly therein carry sixty and seventy hundred weight at one burthen at one time , which burden and weight is so great and excessive , as that the very foundations of bridges are in many places thereby shaken , and the high-ways and cawseys furrowed and ploughed up by the whéels of the said carts and wagons so overladen , and made so déep , and full of dangerous slows and holes , as neither can passengers travail thereby in safety , nor the inhabitants or persons by law bound to repair them , be able to undergo so great a charge : where heretofore all common carriers usually went with carts of two whéels onely , wherewith they could not well carry above twenty hundred weight at once , or there abouts , which the bridges , cawseys , and ordinary high-ways , did and might well bear without any great damage to the same : we therefore intending the reformation of the premisses , and it having béen resolved by the advice of the iudges formerly taken herein , that by the law of this our realm , the said excessive and extraordinary kind of carriages , whereby our high-ways are thus destroyed , are common nusances and annoyances against the weal-publique , and an offence against our crown ; do hereby streightly charge , require and command , that no common carrier , or other person or persons whatsoever , shall hereafter use , go , or travail with any cart or wagon made with four wheels , to be drawn with above five horses at once along their iourney , unless they go all two abrest , in which case they are limited to no number , that the high-ways and bridges may hereafter receive the less damage thereby , upon pain of incurring our high displeasure , and to receive condign punishment , as contemners of our royal will and commandment , and to be further prosecuted and punished for the said nusances and annoyances , by fine and such other ways , as the laws of this our realm have provided against offenders in that kind : to which end , we do hereby expresly charge , as well our iudges , as our atturney-general , to exact and require the extremity of our laws in that behalf ; and that every offender contrary to this our proclamation shall for his contempt be prosecuted in our court of kings bench , and other courts whereunto the cognisance thereof shall belong , by information or indictment , and thereupon be fined and procéeded against according to their demerit ; nevertheless , our intent , will , and commandment is , and we do hereby streightly charge , command , and prohibite , that no common carrier whatsoever shall by colour hereof take occasion to inhance or raise the prices of carriage from any part or place within our said realm , under pain of our displeasure , and upon complaint thereof to us , or our privy councel made , to be further punished ; as shall be thought fit and just according to law. and lastly , we do hereby will and require all majors , sheriffs , iustices of peace , and other our officers and ministers in all counties and priviledged places whatsoever within this our realm , that they , and every of them in their several offices and places , do from time to time provide and see to the due execution of this our pleasure and royal commandment ; and that they discover and make known all offenders herein , that they may be severely punished for their contempts , as also that they neglect not , but continue the repaire and maintenance of high-ways , bridges and cawseys within this our realm , according to the laws , statutes and ordinances now in force , as they tender our pleasure , and will answer the contrary at their utmost perils . given at our court at whitehall , the sixteenth day of august , . in the thirteenth year of our raign . god save the king . london , printed by iohn bill and christopher barker , printers to the king' 's most excellent majesty , . at the king's printing-house in black-fryars . coach and sedan, pleasantly disputing for place and precedence the brewers-cart being moderator. peacham, henry, ?- ? approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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[ ] p. printed by robert raworth, for iohn crowch; and are to be sold by edmund paxton, dwelling at pauls chayne, neere doctors-commons, london : . dedication signed: mis-amaxius, i.e. henry peacham. with a title-page woodcut. signatures: a-g⁴. running title reads: a pleasant dispute between coach and sedan. reproduction of the original in the henry e. huntington library and art gallery. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng carriages and carts -- early works to . sedan chairs -- early works to . england -- social life and customs -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - tcp staff (michigan) sampled and proofread - olivia bottum text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion coach and sedan , pleasantly disputing for place and precedence the brewers-cart being moderator . spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici ? london : printed by robert raworth , for iohn crowch ; and are to be sold by edmund paxton , dwelling at pauls chayne , neere doctors-commons . . to the valorous , and worthy all title of honor , sr. elias hicks , knight , and one of the honorable band of his majesties gentlemen pensioners in ordinarie . noble sir , that i prefixe so deserving and eminent a name before such light stuffe : i doe n● more then tavernes and innes doe , with us heere in england , and in other countreys , to credit their houses , hang up at the porch , the pictures ( for signes ) of kings ; queenes , princes and other eminent persons , under whose subjection they live , or unto whom they stand most affected . the great turk sets his own stampe upon terra lemnia , an earth , or clay ; virgil thought his gnat not unworthy the view of octavius caesar : and with the same confidence i offer thes● few lea●es unto your view ; who are so belov'd at home , and honor'd ●br●ad , especially for that your memorable service somtime at mount auban in france , that towne even to this day acknowledging her safety , and preservation to your valour onely , and whom for your resolution and forwardnesse in our late fleete , your noble admirall , the earle of lindsey honored with the dignitie of knighthood : if your selfe , sir , or any else shall aske mee , if i had no better imployment to set my selfe about then this , i could answere them ; the wisest counsellers and greatest scholars have ever season'd , and sweetened their profoundest studies , and greatest employments , with these and the like passages of inoffensive mirth . erasmus commended the foole. homer writing his illiads , wrote also the battell betweene froggs and mise . fannius extolled the nettle ; sir phillip sydney made good sport with rhombus his countrey schoole-master : and the like many others . besides , wee live in that age , wherein difficile est satyram non scribere . but the trueth is , i being at this time in hand with a serious and laborious work for the presse , ere long to see light ; my printer desired of mee , that hee might not sit idle in the meane time . sir i take my leave , desiring to bee remembred and recorded among the number of those , who for your owne worth and goodnesse , truely love and honour you . february . . yours ever , mis●maxi●s . to the reader . as it is usuall in countrie , and homely houses , when guests come upon the suddaine , to tell them at the porch before hand , what they shall find within ; so i heere at thy entrance ( ingenious reader ) tell thee there is not so good provision for thy entertainement , as i could wish ; wherefore resolvedly with the cynick i say ( who inviting great personages to a dinner of radishes , salt and bread , and being by some blamed ) answered , if they bee my friends they wil bee content with any thing , if onely to fill their bellies , this is too good for them . and to say truth , i am sorry i come forth no better provided , i am no ordinary pamphleter , i would have thee to know ; onely in mirth i tried what i could doe upon a running subject , at the request of a friend in the strand : whose leggs not so sound as his iudgement , enforce him to keepe his chamber , where hee can neither sleepe or studie for the clattering of coaches : i shew'd him the booke ; he smil'd , and onely wrote underneath out of martial . dum vernat rosa , dum madent capilli tunc te vel rigidi legant catones . vale quisquis es . to my worthy friend the author . who is it ( under thirty ) that beleeves big-bellied-dublets , made with cloak-bag-sleeves , that would hold pecks a peece ? wings , that belowe the elbowe reach't ? and for the better shewe , every large button that went downe the brest , ( broade as an halfe-crowne piece ) to grace the rest ? when the short breech , not reaching past the knee , ( crosse-garter'd at the hamme ) a man might see the calfe apparant ; with the anckle-joynts , not frenchified ( as now ) with aglet points to hide their gowtie shin-bones ; when the ruffe wide , as a fore coach-wheele , with starch enough , weare onely in the fashion ? a●d ( friend ) than some coaches w●re in use , but no sedan : nor doe i thinke , but if the cust●m● were t'●ee hurryed in wheele-barrowes , t'w●ld appeare ( in processe ) well : and they would take the wall of carres , of coaches , of sedans and all . and wh● can tell , whether 't bee now a breeding ? and may perhaps pr●●e so in times succeeding . n●● when wee l●st discourst , close by the mill , which over-lookes the towne from hamst●d-hill , thou told'st mee of this project ; i then said , this thy dispute there t●lk't of , and since made , i thought would apt this age , and further v●w'd , 't should bee no sooner finish't , and alow'd . but that i would commend ( as all may se● ) it , to the world first : next myselfe to thee . anonymos . a pleasant dispvte betwene coach , and sedan . it was just , about the time , when the cu●kow ( not daring to come neerer to the citie then ●slington ) warned the milk-maides , it was high time to bee gone with their pailes into finsburie : and nodding to the cheshire carriars , told them if they made no more hast , they would not reach dun●table that night ; when my selfe with an english-tailor , and a french-man ( who newly were come out of france ) where they had spent halfe a yeere to learne , and bring home the newest fashions there , to their ladies heere in england ) comming downe iack-●●●apes lan● , wee perceived two lustie fellowes to justle for the wall , and almost readie to fall together by the eares , the one ( the lesser of the two ) was in a suite of greene , after a strange manner , windowed before and behind with isen-glasse , having two handsome fellowes in greene coats attending him , the one even went before , the other came behind ; their coates were lac'd downe the back with a greenē-lace sutable , so were their halfe sleeves , which perswaded me at first they were some cast s●i●●● of their masters ; their backs were harnessed with leather cingles● cut out of a hide , as broad as dutch-collops of bacon , whereat i wondred not a little , being but newly come out of the countrie , and not having se●ne the like before . the other was a thick burly square sett fellow , in a doublet of black-leather , brasse-button'd downe the brest , backe , sleeves , and winges , with monstrous wide bootes , fringed at the top , with a n●t fringe , and a round breech ( after the old fashion ) guilded , and o● his back-side an atcheivement of sundry coats in ●heir propper colors , quarterd with crest , ●helme and mantle , besides heere and there , on the sides a single es●ut●hion or ●rest , with some emble●aticall word or other , i supposed , they were made of some pendants , or ba●ners that had beene stollen , from over some monument , where they had long liuing in a church . hee had onely one man before him , wrapt in a red cloake , with wide sleeves , turned up at the hands , and cudgell'd thick on the backe and shoulders with broad shining lace ( not much unlike that which mummers make of strawen hatts ) and of each side of him , went a lacquay , the one a french boy , the other irish , all sutable alike : the french-man ( as i learned afterward ) when his master was in the countrey , taught his lady , and her daughter french ; vshered them abroad to publike meetings , and assemblies , all saving the church , whither shee never came : the other went on errands , help'd the maid to beate bucks , fetch in water , carried up meate , and waited at the table . i seeing them so hot , and hearing such rough , and disgracefull words to passe betwixt them , and fearing they would presently have mischief'd one another , i earnestly desired the tailor and french-man , to make haste along with me , to part them , and to see the peace keept , as it is the dutie of every honest subject ; the tailor fearing his skinne , and not having ( as the saying is ) halfe the heart of a man , tooke him to his heeles , and runne away ; the french-man , under a colour to fetch the tailor backe againe , ranne as fast as hee , whom to this day i could never set eye on . seeing my selfe left to my selfe , i stepped in to them , and in coole and friendly manner , thus i began . gentlemen , albeit i am a stranger unto you both , yet the law of nations , yea and of nature too , requireth that humane societie should be maintained , the life of man preserved , and the peace of that common-wealth , wherein wee live , by all possible meanes advanced ; wherefore let me intreate you to forbeare one another , if either of you bee pleased to intimate unto mee , the ground and occasion of your grevance , i will doe my best to compose your strife : quarrells , both in this age and kingdom , are growne poore and ridiculous ; and to chalenge the field of any man , is either to choose his owne death , or an halter : it is true my my friends ( quoth i ) the times were , if one man had slaine another , hee might presently have taken sanctua●y ( usuall also among the iewes ) or being taken , have put in baile , or fled unto some private friend , where he might have kept out of the way , and have beene sheltred , untill by meanes of a courtier , hee had procured his pardon , for a small matter ; or else , as in germanie and the low-countr●ys , have gotten some handsome young wenc● to have begged him for her husba●d ( for if i bee not deceived , they love english-men well ) but those dayes are gone , and the necessitie of our times , require stricter courses to bee taken ; otherwise our streets of london , like leig● , venice , paris , pad●● , millan , rome , and other places , would every night , ring with out-cries of blood-shed and murder , especially , being pestered at this time , with such varietie of sundry nations , which till of late was strange to london , but as good lucke was , they had no weapons ( save one whip ) betwixt them both . they hearing mee talke sensibly , and but reason , they began to bee som-what pacified ; hee in the leather , with brasse studds and buttons , demanding what i was ; i told him i was a peece of a schollar , and had seene the world abroad in my travells , in many countreys , and was now returned to make use ( for the good of my selfe , and countrey ) of whatsoever i formerly had knowne , or seene ; and here-upon i required his name . my name sir ( quoth hee ) is coach , who am a gentleman of an auncient house , as you may perceive by my so many quarter'd coates , of dukes , marquises , earles , viscounts , baro●s , knights , and gentlemen , there is never a lord or lady in the land , but is of my acquaintance ; my imployment is so great , that i am never at quiet , day or night : i am a benefactor to all meetings , play-houses , mercers shops , taverns , and some other houses of recreation , for i bring them their best customers , as they all know well enough . this other that offers mee the wrong , they call him mounsier sedan , some mr. chaire ; a greene-goose hatch'd but the other day ; one that hath no leggs to stand upon , but is faine to bee carried betweene two , and whereas hee is able with all the helpe and furtherance hee can make and devise , to goe not aboue a mile in an houre ; as grosse as i am , i can runne three or foure in halfe an houre ; yea , after dinnner , when my belly is as full as it can hold , ( and i may say to you ) of daintie bitts too . sedan . sir , the occasion of our difference was this ; whether an emptie coach , that had a lords dead painted coate and crest , as lion , bull , elephant , &c. upon it without , might take the wall of a sedan that had a knight alive within it : coach swore hee would proove by the law of armes , and all he●aldry , hee ought to doe it . i stood against him , and told him , it was against all law whatsoever , and that our master would avouch : hereupon , hee threatned to have us all put downe , and that i should not passe whe●esoever hee came , much lesse have any precedence . it is true , my name is sedan , and i am ( i confesse ) a meere stranger , till of late in england ; therefore if the law of hospitalitie be observed ( as england hath beene accounted the most hospitable kingdome of the world , ) i ought to be the better entertained , and used , ( as i am sure i shall ) and find as good friends , as coach hath any , it is not his bigge lookes , nor his nimble tongue , that so runnes upon wheeles , shall scare mee ; hee shall know that i am above him both in esteeme , and dignitie , and hereafter will know my place better ; but in the meane time , i will doe nothing without good advice . neither i hope , will any thinke the worse of mee , for that i am a forreiner ; hath not your countrey coach of england beene extreemly enriched by strangers : who in your own opinions , have attained to perfection in any excellent art , or science , but they ? who makes all your delicate , and most excellent pommanders and perfume for our ladies here , but italians ? who fits our lords and ladies so exactly with varietie of fashions , even from the perruke to the pumpe , and pantofle , as the french ? and who so curiously skilfull ( to the great benefit of this kingdome ) in painting of paving-tiles for chimneys , making conceited babies for children , hobby-horses , rattles , bristle-brushes checkered blacke and white , for which wee are much beholden to the wes●phalian swine , and spanish black hoggs : with such varietie of drinking-pots , beades , and whistles ; to making of which , neighbour coach , you know not how to turne your hand : nay , whereas you , five or sixe houres together , are faine to stand wayting at the court gate , play-house , or you wot where ; i am many times admitted into a ladies chamber , had to the fire , dried , rub'd , and made cleane both within and without ; but the plaine troath is ( coach ) i will no longer bee made a foole by you ; i will have it tried , though it cost me a fall , whither i bee as fit to walke the streets as you , or no , and to take my place ever next to the wall , when all the world knoweth , the kennell is your naturall walke . i would ( quoth i , it is true ) have strangers well intreated , but not so to doate on them as ordinarily wee doe , as if we were guilty to our selues of such grosse ignorance , and asinine stupidity , wee should thinke nothing well done , except an italian , french , or dutch-man have a hand in it , ( the best is ) sounder judgements are not infected with this opinion ; these are but the fancies of fooles , and women . but i now beleeve sedan you are made a free denizen , and may safely passe wh●re you please with-out any cont●oule , or question about your freedome , and think your selfe as good as coach , saving that hee hath more liberty then you , going abroad in the countrey at his pleasure . for my part i am acquainted with neither of you , onely signior coach , some twenty , or fowre and twenty yeares since i knew you , by the same token your guide was drunke , and had not certaine noble ladyes by my advice , walked on foote over those little bridges betweene gormanchester and huntington on foote , they had layne ( where you , and your man lay ) over the head and eares in a river very deepe of mud : these mischances i confesse befall you but somtimes , and that is , when your horses have beene watered in a noble-mans-buttery , or a marchants cellar . beeing in this discourse comes whistling by with his carre , a lus●ie tall fellow red-hayr'd , and cheekes puffed and swolne as if hee had beene a li●colne-shire-baggpiper , or a dutch-trumpeter under grobbendonck , in a canvas frocke , a red-cap , a payre of high-shooes , with his whip in his hand : i calling ●nto him , hee stayed , and asked me what i would , i craved his name , hee told me roger dudgin , and that his dwelling was at puddle-wharfe ; in good time , ( quoth i ) you may stand us in good stead to end a controversie heere betweene two strangers , yet i doubt not but you know them well-enough ; what are they ( quoth he ? ) why coach and sedan , said i , cannot agree for place and precedence . you are a dweller in the citie , and may soone end the difference ? car. the divell agree them for me , i can never goe in quiet for them , by day nor by night ; they talke of rattle snakes in new-england , i am sure these bee the rattle snakes of old england , that keepe the whole citie from their naturall rest ; it is long of them that poore prentices are raysed vp ( before their houre ) to their worke , when their masters who have bin hard at it , at the taverne overnight , would ( but for their ratling ) have lyen till nine or tenne ; poore maids who were raised out of their beds to washing or skowring of their brasse and pewter , cannot take a nap in their shops : children that goe in a morning to schoole , or of errands in the streete , goe in danger of their lives . noe man having his chamber neere to the streete , can be private , or followe his studie , coach , for your noyse ; and in streets about the suburbs , and places unpaved , you so bee-dash gentle-mens cloakes or gownes , without all shame and civilitie ; that let a man but come from st. iames to charing-crosse and meete you in his way , one would sweare by his dirtie cloake , he had come po●t from st. michaels-mount in cornwall . i marvell whence we had you at first coach ; if you and all your fellowes were on a light fire upon hounslowe-heath , the matter were not great ? coach. it were better a hundred such rascally carmen as you were hang'd ? carman . sirrah , you robin-redbrest , wish your lady to pay my master for foure loade of billets , which hath beene owing him ever since the great snow a twelue-month agoe . coach. well iack-sauce , we shall talke with you , when you come back from tyborne . car. nay i prithy coach goe along with me . and i will have done with thee there presently . coach. sirrah , goodman rogue , pay my master for an old coach-horse , you had to put in your carre ; and heere 's your companion sedan , almost in as good credit in the citie , as your selfe . powel . does i● talk against i● master ; pray you master stay heere a little while , while i● runne to shrewsbury , to fetch a welch-hooke , her great grand-father gave her father , when her was a great souldier to sir rice ap thomas , at milford haven , when i● countrey-man , king henry the s●ven came into wales , it is in shrewsbury , and lies over her hostesses beds head , at the signe of the goate and the greene leeke . sedan● powell ; you welch-men are well t●mper'd , but you smell a little too much of the fire : mr. coach of hackney , hath a cooling-card dealt him already ; hee may walke now whither he will , to vtopia , new england , or the amazons ; for those ladies , after they are weari● of riding , love to bee carried . wee sedans ma● now goe quietly by you , without nick-names , nor shall wee ever have halfe those curses of the people , you are wont to have ; in every streete and lane , wee take up lesse roome as wee goe along ; wee are of an easier charge , our journeys are short , we carrey no lackquies , or foot-boyes , when we are emptie , nor have we to doe with d●● turn-up , and peg burn-it , your ●ilken wenches of hackney , to car●y them to the red-bull , and other play-houses , to get trading , or citizens wives to st. albanes , south-mimme , barnet , hatfeild , waltham , i●ford , croidon● brainford , and other places , under a colour of seeing their children at nurse to banquet with their sweet-hearts and companions , the match being agreed upon a moneth before ; wee pleasure the lame , sicke , weake , and impotent , women with child , and such as are corpulent and unweldly , and are not able to endure the jolting of a coach , wee defend , and keepe gentlemen , and ladies from the fogge , and rotten mistes , that morning and evening arise in townes and cities , neere to great rivers , and many other stinking and grose exhalations , which corrupt the lungs ( as dewes and mistes rot sheepe ) breed long and dangerous coughs , and catarrhes ; the very breath wee breath , being nothing else then ra●ified water : moreover , wee are places fit for privacie , or meditation , where a man may reade or studie , even in the midst of the throng , and open street , which men in law-suites , and businesse of weightie importance , oft times stand in great need of ; beside , we have our name from sedanum , or sedan , that famous citie and vniversitie , belonging to the duke of bovillon , and where h●e keepes his court. powell . nay , doe you heare mee master , it is from sedanny , which in our british language , is a brave , faire , daintie well-favoured ladie , or prettie sweete wench , and wee carrie such somtime master ; but tou sone . carman . well , may a man now passe quietly by you both ; hayt , stand up there . coach. carman be gone , and keepe a good tongue in your head , and while you live , give way to your betters . carman . never to the devills carter , while i live . coach. well well sirrah , there is a place called bridewell . carman . yes marrie , where some of your fine carriage hath beene lodg'd many a time and often . powel . this rogue will never have done , shall i beate him master . sedan . powell by no meanes , for that 's the next way to bee beaten our selves ; they are sturdie companions , and there is a world of them about the citie . being all this while in such like discourse as this , the morning began to be well up , and people in the streetes to cluster about us , like the ballet-singers auditorie , when by chance , came by a plaine countrie farmer , who newly it seemed , had passed the thames ( for a waterman followed him with a bag full of writings or such like ) and demanded of mee what the matter was , i told him in briefe that there were two ( well knowne in the citie , coach and , sedan ) fallen out about superioritie , and place , and in a contention , which of them should deserue best of the common-wealth . water-man . deserve ( quoth the water-man ) they deserve both to bee throwne into the theames , and but for stopping the channell i would they were ; for i am sure where i was woont to have eight , or tenne , fares in a morning , i now scarce get two in a whole day , our wives and children at home are readie to pine , and some of us are faine for meanes to take other professions upon us , as some in frostie weather to gather dog-wood for butchers , to get burch and broo●●e for beesomes , and sometimes to catch birdes with lime , or set springes in the marshes for water fowle , honest shifts , it is true , in necessitie . but wee are an auncient companie , and though the last in the ranke of companies , yet are wee the first and chiefe in getting our livings honestly ( and as god commandeth ) with the sweate of our browes , our profession is free from deceit and lying , which many trades are subject unto , and being the most of us strong of bodie , and skilfull upon the water , wee are able ( and as ordinarilie we doe ) to serve our soveraigne in his fleete royall , or armies by land , many of us being westerne men , of somerset , glocester , wiltshire , and and other places there abouts , who generally are esteemed the strongest , and most active men of england , when take one of your common , or hackney coachmen from his boxe , hee is good for nothing except to marry some old ale-wife , and bid his old acquaintance welcome , to turne horse-courser , become a gentlemans baylie or butler in the countrie , or by meanes of some great man , get a place in an hospitall ; i speake to shew the incertaintie of service : not onely in regard of them , but others . wee serve god and our king onelie , and some of us for countenance sake , or affection , weare the coates and badges of noble-men , which dependance impeacheth not our liberties , no whit at all . the coach upon the least error committed , either mistaking his way in an evening , the falling lame of an horse , though not his fault , breaking of a wheele , overthrowing his coach against an hill side , tree-roo●e , or the like , hee is presently sent to seeke a new master , yet are some of them growne so proud because they are advanced i● the streete above their lord and master , they cannot afford us inferior water-men ( that labour beneath them in the liquid element ) a good looke , or a good word . as for you , master sedan , you are the hu●bler , and i beleeve the honester of the two , i heare no great ill of you , nor have i had any acquaintance with your cowcummer-cullor'd men , onely i beleeve you are a close companion : and that you conceale most of our delicate feminine fares , in your boxes by land , that were woont to bee our best customers by water , for coach his seentence is past , and except you tread evenly you may follow after . countrey-man . nay honest water-man give not so rash a censure , wee must not gainesay what the state tolerateth , for some reasons perhaps unknowne to us , neither will i enquire ; my sedan in the countrey is a plaine wheel●barrow , and my coach my cart , wherein now and then for my pleasure i ride , my maides going along with me , with their forkes , rakes , and a bottle or two of good bee●e , with an apple-pastie , potted butter , churne-milke , bread and cheese , and such like , into the fields in summer-time to cocke corne , make hay , and the like ; and now and then , on faire and market-dayes i walke with a neighbour or two to the faire or market , to buy , or sell , and having drunke a dozen of ale amongst us , wee come home the same night , scarse feeling the ground wee tread on : and if our great lords and knights would use their leggs as wee doe , they would not ( so many of them ) bee troubled with the goute , dropsies , and other diseases , which grow upon them , through ease , fulnesse of diet , drinking many sorts of wine , and want of bodily exercise ; i won●er in my heart , why our nobilitie and gentrie cannot in faire weather , walke the streets as they were wont , as i have seene the earles of shrewsbury , darbie , sussex , cumberland , essex , northampton , with most of our barons , without any disparagement to their honours . beside those unimitable presidents of courage and valour , sir francis drake , sir philip sydney , sir martine frobisher , sir thomas bas●ervile , with a number others ; when a coach was as rare almost to bee seene as an elephant : i would our coached and caroched gallants , who think their feet too ●ood to tread upon mother earth , had , or were ever likely to deserue so well of their king and countrey , or could but shew those scarres , leave such a testimonie of their vertues to after-ages , as these foot-men have done , who were the true sonnes of honour : yea and many times have i seene some of them walke to the farthest part of the citie and to invite them s●lves in love to di●ne● to ●n alderman or mer●hants table , and other private houses as they thought good , as the noble george e. of cumberland to master garrets an apothecarie in lime-street , sir francis drake to alderman martines in cheap side , and the rest in like manner , where they were content with such as they found , and were each with other heartily merrie , and as truely welcome ; having perhaps learned this of a●gustus caesar , who would leave his court , and goe eate and drinke familiarly in the private houses , of his romane citizens : for majestie and greatnesse ( like a bow ) cannot stand so long extent but must have ( by fits ) a relaxation , and as the most daintiest dishes of flesh or fish , have commonly their sauces prepar'd of meane and course things , as onions , vineger , water and the like , so privacie and converse with inferiors among great persons , as also homely sports , and exercises , take off and sweeten the teadiousnesse of rugged cares and high emploiment : as when i was a grammar-scholler our master to revive our spirits dulled with studie , would make us comoedies , and because even now i spoke of onions i will repeat the prologue of one of our plaies , which i my selfe spoke upon the stage , and it was this . even as the duck in river navigable , is serv'd with onions to a great mans table ; so , will wee doe our best to give co●te●t , to the meanest of this rascall ●ablement . which i pronouncing distinctly , and with a good grace i was mervailously applauded ( by clapping of hands ) of the multitude ; maides tossed apples to mee , and our schoole-masters wife offered me her bottle of rosa-solis to drink , and i well remember too , at that time a knight of our countrie ( who this last yeere married his mothers chamber-maide , ( and birladie , maintaines her in her coach , with foure horses ) plaid the foole most admirably ; yea , i knew a lord , who journeying in the countrey , would leape out of his coach , to play a game at stoole-ball with country wenches ; and one time above the rest ; when a gentleman of his told him it was past three a clock , and that they had yet twenty miles to ride , hee called for a watch , and set it backe to twelve , now said my lord , wee shall have time enough ; i will have the other game . and one thing ( coach ) i am sure of , it was never good world with us in the country , since you and your fellowes have so multiplied ; the devill of good house is any where kept , where you have to doe ; and i have observed , where a coach is appendant , but to two or three hundred pounds a yeere , marke it , the doggs of that house are as leane as rakes , you may tell all their ribbs lying by the fire , and tom-a-bedlam may sooner eate his horne , then get it fill'd with small dri●ke , and for his old almes of bacon , there i● no hope in the world ; i may tell you , some houses of thousands by the yeere , are become little better ; when a poore labouring man that hath perhaps liv'd all his time in the parish , shall hardly get a loade or two of hay to keepe his cow al winter , but the baily tells him his lady cannot spare it from her owne ki●e , and coach-horses , and now adaies , wee must pay two shillings for a pecke of oate-meale , which wee were wont to have for sixteene , or eighteene pence , and all long of coach-horses : before ( coach ) you came into request , one of these houses maintained sixteene , or twenty propper tall fellowes , to march from the kitchin to their masters table , in their blew coates and cognisances , every man carrying a dish of good meat , either boyld , or roast , now the case is so altered , that the coach-man alone must take upon him three or foure of the prime offices about the house ; without dores , hee is gentleman of my ladies horse , and coach-man ; within , hee is butler and chamberlaine ; and if strangers come , perhaps some poore boy of the towne is sent for to assist him , for the scraping of trenchers , and emptying chamber-pots ; who within a day or two must returne to the place from whence he came ; and if ( coach ) your man have ever beene versed in brewing , or baking , hee must undertake that too ; i heard my boy , who is now at cambridge , say out of aristotle ( which is well observed in your great houses now adayes ) frustra fit per plur● , quod fieri p●test per p●●●ci●ra . and by the logicall fallacie , compositionis et divisionis , they will make two eggs pa●se for three , and many times turne away their cooke for roasting a whole brest of mu●ton to break-fast , when he should have roasted but halfe ; as a great man both of ranke and revenue , some one or two and thirty yeeres since , set his cooke in the stocks at huntingdon upon the very same occasion , as the cooke ( fast by the heeles ) told me himselfe , all this coach i can impute to none other then your selfe , and your appurtenances ; nay , let a man have never so earnest an occasion of businesse with your knight or ladie , at your houses , let him come at dinner time , hee may knocke his heart out ere any body will heare ; and indeed , to speake truely , i blame them not , for , venter non habet aures , saith the old proverbe . i knew a knight , an especial friend of mine , of himselfe a free and and a noble gentle-man● who lay sicke of a burning-feaver , or causos ( as the phisicians call it ; ) and a very skilfull gentleman , both a phisitian and a chyrurgian , being sent unto him by a iustice of peace ( his loving friend and neighbour by , in the countrey ) who much tendred his health , the physitian came at night , wringing wet in snow and raine , when his ladie was at supper , where hee continued knocking , and could not be let in , but was faine that night to take his supper , and lodging at the next ale-house in the towne , and before morning the good gentleman was dead , whom blood-le●ting ( the present remedie in hot-feavers ) that night , by all likelyhood might have saved , hee being in his best yeeres , strong and able of body , of sanguine complexion , and his spirits not yet spent , or decayed by the vigor of the disease : and most lamentable it is , to see ( upon fasting-dayes , or in time of lent ) how closely , the poore eele , haddock , and herring are imprisoned , and so strongly kept up , within barred and bolted gates ; that if a man would give ●ever so much , as but to speak in private with any one of them , or whisper in his eare , hee should not bee admitted . and now i speake of whispering , i remember a good fellow of goose-toft , neere boston , came to a fish-monger in that market , who had mackerels to sell ( a fish very rare in those parts ) and taking up a mackerell in his hand , whispered in the mackerills eare , then he laid the mackerills mouth to his eare ; which the fish-monger observing , said ; friend doe you make a foole of my fish , and of your selfe too ? no , said the fellow , i make bold , but to aske him when hee was at sea , and hee tells mee not these three weekes , but this by the way . and coach , twice or thrice a yeare you must needes make a boone voyage to london with your ladie , under a cullor to bee new cullourd , guilded or painted , covered , seated , shod , or the like , when her errand indeede is as one saith well , speaking to such ladies , as love to visit the citie . to see what fashion most is in request , how is this countesse , that court ladie drest : while yee your beauteous faces , so disguise , wee neither see , your fore-head , nor your eyes , ( that woont the seates , and indices to bee , of spirit , love , and ingenuitie . like dutch boores houses , where the straw hangs over the low thatch'd ●aves , & doth th● windowes cover . hence it happens , coach , that by your often ambling to london , sir thomas , or sir iohn , sinks ( as in a quick-sand ) by degrees , so deep into the merchant , mercer , or taylors booke , that hee is up to the eares , ere hee be aware , neither can he be well drawne out without , a teame of vsurers , and a craftie scrivener to bee the fore-horse , or the present sale of some land , so that wise-men suppose this to bee one maine and principall reason , why within a co●ch journey , of a day or two from the citie , so many faire inheritances , as have beene purchased , by lord-majors , aldermen , merchants , and other rich citizens , have not continued in a name to the third , yea , scarce the second generation , when go farre north or westward , you shall find many families , and names , both of the nobilitie and gentrie , to have continued their est●tes two , three hundred yeeres and more , in a direct succession ( as in cumberland , and n●rthumberland , the families of the graies , groystocks , lowthers● musgraves , with many other in yorkeshire , of the dacres , scroopes , nevell● , huddlestones , savill● , &c. the like may bee said of lan●ashire cheshire , devonshire , sommersetshire , norfolke , suffolk , and many other places ●at remote from london ) without racking or raising of rents ; or inclosing of whole townes , and lord-ships : which every where ( neighbour coach ) they say is long of you , and your costlie carriage . as for you sedan , i heare no great complaint of you , save that my wife and daughter thinks that you have made say dearer then it was woont to bee , for whereas they used to buy it for sixteene pence a yard , you have brought it to two shillings● seven and eight groats , and and none of the best neither , and co●ch i entreat you if ( you beeing now banished the citie ) happen to come into our countrie of lincolnshire ; let me know of it , that i may remove my selfe , tenne miles off from where you shall have to doe : sedan because you are a stranger you shal be the welcomer of the two ; for as yet you were never seene in our parts . but to be short , my masters agree as you can , i must follow my law occassions , and to tell you true i can skill of neither of you , and so fare-ye-well . sedan . coach doe yee see , how neither in coun●rie or citi● , any one can give you a good word , you have carried your selfe well in the meane 〈◊〉 , have you not● powell . her would hang i● selfe before shee would have so great deale of ill words in the world . coach-man . welch-man keepe you quiet , there is no great feare , or danger of you , but when our coach-ma●es and horses , are put to grasse . powell . sirrah you grimalkin , who was a knave and a foole , when your ladie being pig with schild , and could not endure the jolting of her coach up that s●eepe stonie hill beyonnd ferribrigges in york-shire , you made her sell two exellent stout mares , to buy a couple of ambling horses , beleeving as long as they ambled , shee could never bee jolted , where was her wit then . coach-man . well well wood-pecker , wee shall meete with you when time serves . powell . i le meete her where and when her dare . heere i interposed my selfe and said before the companie ; truely honest coach ( if i be not deceived in your name ) i cannot see but you may passe well eno●gh , concerning that plaine country man and his speach , you must know , that the common people of the countrie affect not , very well , the gentrie , nor the gentrie them , there beeing a kind of antipathy betweene them : first they envie gentlemen , as living more plentifully and at ease then themselues . invidus al●erius rebus macrescit ●pimis : againe they doe not greatly love them , because gentlemen hold them in a kind of aw , and they are fearefull to displease them . oderunt quem metuunt . thirdly if they bee tennants , their rents are often raised , if strangers , they ar● overlaid many times with leavies , and paiments either to the king , or some publique charg●s and occasion in the countrie , and sometimes extraordinarie curtesies by great men ( their neighbours ) are exacted of them , which grumblinglie they yeeld unto , as borrowing their carts , to fetch home ( five or tenne miles off ) stone , coales , timber , and the like , sometimes their cattaile to plough their grounds , or helpe home with harvest , sometime they are troubled with bringing up a whelp or two , till they become ravenous ●ounds , and undoe a poore man in his dayrie , and if they bee faulconers , they must afford them pigeons , from their dove-coates , besides new-yeers-gifts , which are conditioned in leases , and with the yeerelie paiments of rent , as capons , geese , henns , lambes , conies , neates-tongues , pigges , swannes , all manner of fish , and wild-●oule , with a thousand such . i ommit the generall murmur , and complaint of the whole countrie against them , for depopulation , inclosures , and encroaching upon publique commons ; nor is it to bee forgotten , how in levies , ceasements , and charges of armes at publique musters , they can befriend themselves , and in the last place ( as hee said truely , their miserable house-keeping , wherein had they beene , free and liberall , they might have made some part of amendes for the rest , but commonly the poore of parishes are faine to bee releeved , by the farmer , husband-man , and the middle ranke , or else they must starve , as many upon my knowledge did this last snowie-winter . i taxe not all , god-for-bid , there are numbers left , who with their fore-fathers landes , inherit their noble vertues , of loyaltie , fortitude , bountie , charitie , love , to learning ( learned themselves ) and whatsoever is good or excellent . i condemne not , neither , the lawfull use of coaches , in persons of ranke and qualitie , yea and in cases of necessitie : no more then i doe tilted boates and barges upon the water , they defend from all injurie of the skie , snow , raine , haile , wind , &c. by them is made a publique difference , betweene nobiliti● , and the multitude , whereby their armories without speaking for them , they are known and have that respect done to them , as is due to them : they are seates of honour for the sound , beds of ease for the lame , sick and impotent , the moving closets of brave ladies , and beautifull virgins , who in common sence , are unfit to walke the streets , to be justled to the ke●nell , by a sturdie porter , or breathed upon by every base bisogn● : they are the cradles of young children , to be convei'd with their nurses , too , or from their parents into the citie or countrie . and if all inventions have their just , and due praise from the goodnesse of their endes , whereto they were ordained ; surelie the coach invented for the necessarie use and service of man cannot bee condemned , if regard bee had to those circumstances , of person , time , and place . their first invention and use was in the kingdome of hungarie , about the time when prier george , compelled the● queene and her young sonne the king , to seeke to soliman the turkish emperour , for aid against the frier , and some of the nobilitie , to the utter ruine of that most rich &c flourishing kingdome , where they were fi●●t ●alled kotoze , and in the slavonian tongue c●riti , not of coucher the french to lie-downe , nor of cu●hey the cambridge carrier , as some body made master minsha● beleeve , when hee ( rather wee ) perfected that his etymologicall dictionarie , whence wee call them to this day 〈◊〉 ●the first ( they say ) that was seene in england was presented to q●eene eli●beth , by the ea●●e of a●undel● , but whether it were an open charriot , or covered over the head as our ●●●●●es now are i doubt , for such a one q●eene 〈◊〉 rode in , from sommerset-hou●e to s. 〈…〉 to heare a sermon , presently upon the victory obtained against the spaniard i● eightie-eight . master nowell deane of paules preaching at that time , when i remember ●being then a schoole-boy in london , abut tenne yeeres of age ) so many spanish-ensignes , in triumph were hung up , that the leades of the church , and houses round about , seemed to be veild or curtain'd round-about with gold , silk , and silver . sedan . it was a glorious sight indeede . but ( quoth i ) upon a more glorious occasion . talking in this manner , unexpected , there comes by a morrice-dance of countrey-fellows ; away goes powell , and takes the maide-marian , and the foole along to a taverne , the promiscuous by-standers left us to follow the morrice-dancers , when there steps in to mee , an honest plaine countrey-vicar , of mine old acquaintance , and claps me on the shoulder , calling mee by my name , and saying , it is a wonder to meet you heere in london , which i think you have not seene in these dozen yeeres . it is true ( said i ) and somwhat more , and i find my selfe to bee a great stranger heere , for whereas heretofore , i could walke in some one streete , and meete with a dozen of my acquaintance , i can now walk in a dozen streets and not meete one , yea both in people and building , i find , n●vam rerum faciem . vic●r . yes , i dare say since you and i were first acquainted in cambridge ( the world is altered ) it is a good while , i was laid hold on in an evening , by our vice-master d. r. for whistling in the court ; and i told him ( and told him truely ) i could never whistle in all my life ; you made answere , no sir , it was not hee ; for could hee have whistled , his father would never have sent him to cambridge● meaning , hee would have made a plough-boy of mee . let mee remember you likewise ( said i ) of another merrie accident when wee were boyes , and sophisters in the schooles , when you , and two more of your old acquaintance , went one frostie morning to eate blacke-puddings to break-fast , and wanting a penny of the reckoning to pay ●or an odde pudding ( having no more mony amongst you all three ) you venter'd on it , and spet out a single penny that was buried in the puddings end ; so that by wonderfull fortune , the pudding payd for it selfe ; and after you declaim'd upon , a●daces fortuna juvat . vicar . come , these merry passages are gone and past , i am heartily glad to see you alive and well . and in good faith ( quoth i ) i am glad to meete with any of my old acquaintance , they are so rare in these parts . heere is a gentleman , my friend , said the vicar , who much desireth your acquaintance , hee is an excellent surveior , limmer in oile , and water colours ; besides , a skilfull musician both for song and instrument , and you are met in a good time : so having saluted one another , i smilingly told them the occasion of mine idle stay there at that time , which was a neighbourly office of ●econciling coach and sedan , who in that place , fell fouly out with either , opposing each other to the utmost for place and precedence ; neither would they yeeld a jot one to the other , without the mediation of friends . vicar . is he in the black , with brasen studds on his sleeves , wings , backe , and brest , called coach ? surveyor . yes , and i am sure , the other in the greene is sedan ; let me entreate you ( quoth i to them both ) to talke with them , they will surely heare reason , if one of the church ( which i thinke neither of them cares for ) shall goe about to perswade them . vicar . i will. sir , i understand your name is coach. coach. men call me so about the court. vicar . out of my love , understanding the time of your execution is at hand , and that quickly you must expect to be turn'd off ; i come to give you the best admonition i can . first , you have beene these many yeeres a lewd liver , accompanying your selfe with pandars and common strumpets , bo●h of citie and countrey . secondly , you have beene suspected for many robberies ( i am sure you have heard of madam * sands ) for there is not an high-way , streete , back lane , or odde corner in the citie , or within five miles , but you are well acquainted with the same . thirdly , you bring many a one to the gallowes . fourthly , you never ca●ed for the church , since all sermon-time wee heare you hurrying up and downe the streetes , insomuch , that the reader of devine service , or the preacher , can hardly heare himselfe speake for you ; or say you bring your lord , knight , and their ladies to church , you stay in the streete , while your man commonly goes to the taverne , or ale-house , till service bee done . fiftly , you live not in love and charitie one with another , but give one another ( if you are crossed in the streete , or in a narrow lane ) the worst words you can ; and another great fault you are guilty of ( in the judgement of that late reverent iustice , sir edward cooke ) you will in no place give way to the carre and cart , your elder brethren . sixtly , if you have gotten your cup ( like iehu ) yee drive as if you were mad , and become very dangerous in the night . surveyor . mr. vicar , these are but personall faults , you conceive not what dammage the state receiveth by coaches , and how the whole common-wealth suffereth in their increase and multitud● ; now if it please you , i will shew you wherein . they first consume an infinite quantitie of ou● prime and best leathe● , which also by reason of the d●cay of woods , and consequently of barke for tanners ) leather is growne extreemely deere , and hardly that which is principall good , to be gotten for any money . againe , wee can hardly have a young ash grow till hee bee seven yeeres old , within forty miles of london , but hee is cut off before his time for the coach-makers use , in spokes for wheeles , beames , bodies , and the like . more-over a wonderfull quantitie , of our best broad-clothes is consumed and wasted , about the lining of coaches , and their seates . i ommit , other superfluities of lace , fringe , guilding , &c. last of all , and which is worst of all , and withall speed ( if it shall so please his majestie ) to bee redressed , the breede of o●r best horses in england , are reserved , or rather bought up in faires and markets , onely for the use of the coach , hence it comes to passe that at any generall muster taken of horse , you shall see so many arrant iades showne , scarce one in tenne serviceable , some send thither their ordinarie saddle geldings , and nagges , some their cart-horses , where you shall see their necks and sides miserably gall'd with collars & traces , and their riders serving-men or ploughmen , just answerable to their horses . i speake i confesse the more freely , because i know what belongeth to horse-manship , and have beene my ●elfe an horse-man , and in service beyond the seas , in somuch as i dare say , no nation in europe , is more back-ward and carelesse in breeding and managing horses , then we in england , god bee blessed for our peace , quid postera ferat di●s nescimus : if it would please his royall majestie ( which with my selfe all true subjects ought from their hearts to wish ) to command our coach-horses , instead of hearing a coach rattle at their heeles , to listen to the trumpet , i beleeve the poore beastes themselves would be better pleased , and since they cannot speake , expresse their joy by bounding and neighing , as they ordinarily doe , when they are to goe upon service , and are by the trumpet call'd to charge the enemie ; or if their noble owners are desirous , to get as good as they can for their coaches , they should provide as many other , as good fit and able , alwayes to bee in a readinesse , ●or his majesties service . i speake not as if i did altogether , condemne , and disallow of coaches in the generall , wee know that the kings , princes , and nobles , of israell , had their charriots , equivalent ( at the least ) to our richest caroches , it is most fit , ●nd requisite , that princes , nobilitie , the more eminent and abler among the gentrie should bee allowed their , c●●ches , and c●rr●●●es , and ●ll others who hold ●●y place of dignitie , either in church ●r common-wealth , a● our bishops , the reverend iudges , doctors of divinitie , law , phis●cke with the chief● m●gistrates of e●inent and honorable citie●●ith others of like and equall ranke , but what i pray you ●●e the coaches of these few , to that multi●ude at this day in england ? when in l●nd●n , the suburbes , and within fou●e miles comp●ss● without ; are reckoned to the ●umber of six ●housand and odd . i easilie ( quoth i ) beleeve it , whe● i● cert●ine places of the citie● as i h●ve often observed , i have 〈…〉 i have there , the w●y 〈…〉 with ● c●●●h , t●o o● th●●e , t●at wha● hast , or businesse soever a man hath● hee mus● wait● my ladie ( i know ●ot whose ) le●●●●e ( who is in the ne●t shop , buyi●g penda●●s for her eares or ● colle● for her ●ogge ) ●●e he● can find any passage . the mos● eminent places for stoppage , ●●e paul-ga●e into che●pside , lud-gat● , and lud-gate-hill , especially whe● the play i● done 〈◊〉 the p●iers , then hol●or●e-gundoit ●nd holborne-bridge , ●●villanou●ly pe●●ered with them , no●●er-la●● , s●●ith-fi●l● , 〈◊〉 coe-l●ne ●ending all about their new or old mended coaches , then about the stocks and poultrie , temple-barre , fetter-lane and shooe-lane next to fleet-street ; but to see their multitude , either when there is a masque at white-hall , a lord-majors feast , a new play at some of the play-houses you would admire to see them , how close they ●tand together , like ( m●tton-pies in a cookes-oven ) that hardly you can thrust a pole betweene . my masters quoth i , wee have a great deale of talke , and discourse all this while about nothing , heere comes one that if you will be rul'd by mee , shall determin● the quarrell without more adoe , because our occasions call us away , about weightie● emploiments . with that , comes up unto us a lustie tall fellow , sitting upon 〈◊〉 axel●r●e betweene two mōstrous gr●at wheeles , drawne by a great old jade blind of an eie , in a leather pilch , two emptie beere-barrels upon a brewers sling● beside him , and old ble●-cap all bedaub'd , and stincking with yest , a●● the spurging of beere , him coach , and seda● knew , as soone as ever they saw him ( for it seem'd they had beene old customers of his masters , and true stakes to the beere-barrell ) ●ee seeing them familiarly talking together , i cra●● his name : my name is beere-car● quoth hee ; in good time , you may ( said i ) by me●●es of your 〈◊〉 acquainta●ce with these two , coach and seda● ; doe a good office and reconcile them , being fallen at difference , who should be the better man , and deserve the most respect , my selfe and these gentlemen , have laboured what we could herein , yet can wee doe no good . when according to our relati●n , hee had heard the whole substance of the busines , hee shooke his head , saying , will this never be otherwise , i made you friends once before , when you were together by the eares at charing-crosse , and you vow'd to either ( and dranke upon it ) you youl l never square , and fall-out againe , but live , and love as bretheren , but let that goe if you will once againe , wholy referre your selves to mee , and promise before to morrow at night to enter into bond , to stand to my censure and agreement , before these honest-gentlemen ( who are strangers to me ) i will set you straight , and make all quiet ; are you not mad men , to wrangle and fall out in the streete , to draw boyes and wenches and every rascall about you , to wonder and laugh at you ? coach this is your fault , you are cholerick and cannot forbeare ; and sedan , you thinke your selfe so countenanced at the court , that such a one as my selfe dare not speake or meddle with you , but i would have you know , i am of auncientes standing in england then both of you , i came into england in henry the seventh● time , what time i was brought into this land with musi●k : my brother al● , is farre auntienter then i , and was in england , as i have beene told by schollers , in the time of the brittans and romans ; but what doe we talke of our antiquitie , let us boast of our goodnesse and strength , which makes us to bee so well thought on , and beloved where ere wee come . but let these things passe , are you content to stand to , and heere my verdict , and will promise to observe what i in reason shall propound , and so to make a finall end of all controversies betwixt you . coach and sedan . with all our hearts . serveior . we are h●●re , th●ee or foure , witwitne●●es , and shall ca●rie the newes unto your best friends , who surely will bee glad of your reconcilement . vi●●● . now master beere-cart , since you have taken upon you to be ● moderator betwixt ●hem , let us heare th● conditions you meane to propound for their ●greement , because wee are not like altogether to meet againe . nay ( quoth i ) ho●e●t ●eere-c●rt , will have a c●re of his credit , a●d doe nothing but what shall bee just , and right , i dare say . beere-cart . nay , if i doe other-wise let mee never walke upon london stones , or see saint kathari●s againe , there●●re understand me well , and heare what i shall say . first , coach and sedan , you both shall reverence and ever give way to beere ( or brewers ) cart , wheresoever you shall meete him , either in citie or countrie , as your auncient and elder brother . secondly . you both againe shall be constant custome●s to cellars , innes and ale-houses , as being the upholders , and principall maintainers of brewers-cart . coach , you shall now and then give your man leave to take a nap at noone , especially , when your lord or lady , is to see a masque at the court , my reason is , when he is fast a sleep upon his box , his curtaines are commonly cut off , and his cushions stollen . thirdly . see your man give his horses their due allowance , in hay and oates , and that he beguiles them not , to maintaine his wench , or follow the taverne , beside charge him to keepe their manger cleane , without dust or feathers . fourthly . more-over give him especial commandement , that while he is drinking wine , his horses want not water . sixtly . againe coach , if your lord or master , bee disposed in an evening , or any other time , to goe to an house of good-fellowship ( the rude and unmannerly multitude call such baudie-houses ) and your lady or mistris , when you come home , aske where you have beene ; you shall say , your lord or master hath beene turning and looking over some bookes in a french liberarie . . you shall leave altogether your old wo●nt , that is , when your knight or ladie or both , are gone to the church , suffer your man to goe to the ale-house and there to stay , till prayer or sermon bee done , but see him a gods name goe to church , to learne to serve god better , and to mend his manners . . your man also shall leave that old knavish tricke , of tying a horse haire very straight , about the pastornes of your horse feete ( which presently will make him halt ) then to tell your master hee is lame , and will not serve his turne , procuring after some horse-courser to buy him at an under price ; then sell him againe , and after you two share the money betwixt you . . speake well of water-men , and offer them no wrong , besides know they are a corporation , and boats were before coaches ; i will undertake for them not to hurt you , they are my friends , and acquaintance , and i deale much in their element . . if your lord or knight , be invited to my lord majors , the sheriffes , or any other great or eminent mans house to dinner ( because wee know not in these times who wee may trust ) let your man be sure to search and examine the celler well , for feare of treason . . if coach , you happen to goe to a christening , or any publique banquet , see that you turne your man loose like an hogge , under an apple-tree , among the comfitts and sweete-meates , and let him shift . . leave in any case that ill custome yee have of running over people in a darke night , and then bid them stand up . . in terme times , you shall drive in the streetes faire and softly : for throwing dirt upon gentlemens clokes , and lawyers gownes going too , and comming from westminster . . you shall have an especiall ●are , of little children playing in summer time in the streets , greens , high-waies , and such places , you shall endeavour to keepe your selves sober , from over much drinking , for by coach-men overtaken with drinke , many have lost their limmes , yea some their lives . . you shall carrie none without leave , of your lord , lady , or master . . you shall not coach ( as you are accustomed ( take up into you every groome , and lacquay , to lie tumbling with his dirtie feete upon your lords velvet , or cloth seats , and cushions , but let their leggs carry them in the open streete , with a mischiefe . . you have a trick , and custome ( which i wish were amended and reformed ) that if your knight or lady be out of the way frō home , out of the citie , for some spending money to carrie tradesmens wives , waiting-maides and young-wenches : somtime to brainford , to barnet , tottenham , rumford and such places , to meete , and to be merry with their sweet-hearts , while all the way they goe , they sit smiling and laughing , to see how the poore inferior sort foote it in dirt and mire , and hereby they grow so prowd , that ever after they accoun● themselues companions for the best ladies . . coach , if you are to goe a journey , twenty , thirty , or more miles into the countrey ; see that you are provided of all necessaries● that your lady and her women may stand in he●d of by the way , you know what i meane , and never be unprovided of a bottle or two , of the best strong-waters . . you shall be no hindrance to poore people , who shall demaund and aske the charitable almes of your lord or ladie , much lesse revile them , or lash them over the fa●es with your whip . . and honest coach , at my request , be very careful in going over 〈◊〉 places , quick-sands , unknowne waters , and narrow bridges . . if a man of manlike behaviour and fashion , casually fall lame by the way , or by some accident be wounded , whereby he is unable to travell , you sh●ll out of christian charitie , imitating the good samaritane , take him up , helpe him wherein you can , & ●ar●y him ●o hi● inne . . you shall offer your brother sedan no manner of wrong , but intreat him with all love and friendship , giving him the wall , you keeping your naturall and proper walke , the middle of the streete . . lastly you shall be affable and curteous to all , endevouring to get the good will , and good word of every one , especially your fellows in the hovse , that having the love of your master and lady , they may settle you in a farme of theirs in your old age , and marrying the chamber maid , ever after give them leave to lash that will. so much brother coach for you ; now honest sedan , something i have to say to you , though not much . first as you tender the love and friendship of your brother beere-car● , observe these rules and admonitions . you shall from this time forward , live with coach in perfect love and amitie , to defend and helpe him in all casualties , and ever-more to speake well of him behind his backe . you shall never carrie any infected person . you shall never take into your charge , any one that is bea●tly drunke , at any taverne or ale-house , but rather give a porter leave to carrie him to his lodging , in his basket. you shall not meddle with any exchang-wenches , semsters , or hand-some laundr●sses , to carrie them to any gentle-mans private chamber or lodging , ther● to shew their wares and commodities . you shall never endanger your selves with carrying matters of great charge , as money , plate , iewells , boxes of evidences , writings and the like . you shall never carrie coach-man againe , for the first you ever carried was a coach-man , for which you had like to have sufferd , had not your master beene the more mercifull . you shall see your bottomes be sound , that grosse and unweldie men slip not thorow . you shall carrie no manner of beast for any mans pleasure , bears-whelp , surbated-hound , baboone , musk-cat , or the like . you shall have an esp●●iall care to keepe your chaires , cleane and sweet , both within and without ; suffer no tobacco , which many love not , to be taken in them , and wish the painter , to adde to his verd ' greace and linseed-oyle , in his painting , a small quantitie of the oyle of spike , for the better smell . and ●ince the w●akest goes to the wall , take you the wall i charge you , of all porters , bakers , costard-mongers , carm●n , coaches , and in a word , of all in generall , saving beere-car● , who after you are wearrie , and tired , will bee at hand to doe you any manner of servi●● , especially to revive your decayed spirits . and last of all with which i will conclude ; because at the court you are friendly used , and often times admitted within the gates , ( which your brother coach never is ) you shall take nothing at any time , for carriage of the kings great porter . surveyor . but master coach , what say you to a late proclamation , that is come out against you , and your multitude ? coach. it concernes not us who follow the court , and belong to noble-men , it is chiefly for the suppressing my neig●bours of hackney , who are a plague to citie and countrey ; it had beene the better for us , if it had come out seven yeeres ag●e , for being , wee shall ( i hope ) be better rewarded , and better respected . i have read i remember in herodotus , of sesostris , a tyrant , king of egypt , who causing foure kings whom hee had taken prisoners to be yoaked together by the necks , & to draw his charriot ; one of these kings , ever and anon cast backe his eye , and looked over his shoulder to the charriot-wheele , which the tyrant observing , demanding of him the reason why hee did so ; the captive king made answer , quia in rota , video statum humanum : because in this wheele , i see the state of man : the spoke of the wheele , that was even now aloft , is now at the bottome , and below ( as wee our selves are ) and that below , anon gets up to the top , sesostris knowing this to be true , and fearing his one estate ( being as others subject to change and mutabilitie ) forthwith released them of their bandes & set them at libertie . so coach , you men that were aloft , and above others , they must like ( the spokes of their wheeles ) come below ; and why not ? but by some other profession and calling , mount as high againe : — sic sors incerta vagatur , ferique ref●rtque vices , ●t hab●●t mortalia c●sum . serveyor . well gentle-men coach , and sedan , are you both pleased with those honest propositions ( tending to a perpetuall reconcilement , of one to the other ) made by beere-cart , so that here after you will beare no grudge , one to another , but speake kindly at your meeting , salute one another , as you passe , and in a word doe all good offices you can one for another , that yee may no more make your selves laughing stocks to the world . coach , and sedan . wee will with all our hearts , and gentle-men we thanke you hartily , for the paines you have taken , and especially , you master vicar . well gentlemen ( quoth i ) we have now done a good office , and beere-cart , they are much beholding unto you . surveyor . so are wee ; for you have made us wiser then wee were , in understanding the abuses , and misdemeanors either of them are subject unto , for which wee , and the world shall heartily thanke you . beere-ca . i could indeede say much more , but i am in good hope of their agreement , and they will not faile but visit our house three or foure times in the weeke , to see how their brother beere-cart does ; and with what liquor hee is laden . so now ( quoth i ) wee have made ( honest friends , and good-fellowes , coach and sedan ) an end of your businesse ; mr. surveyor , and honest master vicar , we will go dispatch our own : which way lies your way ? survey . to westminster-ward , wee both goe . and i into the strand ; and for this merry meeting , and old acquaintance sake honest vicar , and master surveyor , i have for you a quart of the best canary in westminster , which i think is at mr. thomas darlings ( a very honest man ) at the three-tunnes by charing-crosse . wee will beare you company ( quoth they ) and so wee three , ( leaving the other ) departed . but in going along , to beguile the way , wee fell i know not how , into discourse , what alteration in common-wealthes , cities , countreys , buildings , manners of men , and fashions in apparrell , the revolution of time , contrary to the opinion of man , brought forth ; the vicar earnestly maintaining the latter times to be the wisest ; as i stiffely maintained the contrary against him . his first argument was ; that wee in our age have more learning then ever , ergo , more wisedome . i denied his antecedent , replying , quod efficit , tale , majus est tali : meaning the auncients who were our masters , aledging chaucer : whence commeth this new corne , men have from yeare t● yeare , out of old fields , old men saith , and when●e commeth this new learning that men teere , out of old fields , in good faith . secondly , the inventions of latter times farre excelled those of former ; i denied that also . he instanced guns , printing , watches , wind-mills , &c. against these , as rare , i opposed archimedes his burning-glasses , wherwith he fired marcellus ships from syraecusa ; the perpetually burning lampe , made of the spirit of gold ; malleable glasse ; dying of that highly estemed purple ; that rare manner of guilding called * pyropus , mentioned in plinie , wherewith those round balles on the top of the romane houses , shone like fire ; with many other , which are lost and forgotten . surveior . and i am perswaded wee have had many rare inventions , even heere in england ; which are forgotten , or quite out of use . yes quoth the vicar , foure especially , daggers , flat-caps , french-hoods , and cod-peeces ; but heere wee brake of our discourse , beeing at the taverne dore , the period of our iourney . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a -e the end of travell . the benefit this land hath by strangers . powel a welch-man , one of sedans m●n . the amazons fought on horsebacke , with bowes a●d arrowes , & their semitars . a merrie tale of mackerell . in a funerall elegie , u●on the c●u●tesse of warwick , latelie printed . paule tomorree going to the young ki●g , lying at viceg●ade , to complaine of the frier , used coaches first , being so called f●om a towne where they were made whence they had there name kot●ze . * a lady that rob'd in her coach by the hie-way . mary are carried in their coaches to execution . beere and vlols de gamba came into englād both in one yeere , b●itāni , potus genus habent quod alicam vocant . plini . lucan . * let common schoolemasters observe this , who take pyropus in ovid , for a carbuncle or great rubie .