The million-peopled city
Garwood, John
1853
On other Classes beginning the use of Coaches, the higher Classes continued to add to the Number of the Horses by which their Coaches were drawn, in order to retain a Superiority.
" The proud , seeing that coaches with two horses were used by all, and that the nobility had only the exclusive honour of four horses, set up a coach with six horses; and then the 'stout ' established one with eight horses."[1] The middle classes soon got to use four horses; and in a well-known play, written at this period, is made to demand of her admirer- | |
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Footnotes: [1] Knight's " London," vol. i., p. 26. [2] Massinger's "Court Madam." |