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 and Sentiments. 495 tranfition period between his Iwathes and his breeches is reprelented in our cut No. 316, of a boy riding upon his wooden horle. It is taken from a German woodcut of the date of i549- In the fixteenth century little improvement had taken place in the means of locomotion, which was Hill per- formed generally on horfeback. Coaches, by that name, are laid to have been introduced into England only towards the middle of the fixteenth century. They were made in various forms and lizes, according to falliion or caprice, and towards the end of the century they were divided into two claffes, known by the foreign names of coaches and caroches. The latter appear to have been larger and clumfier than the former, but to have been conlidered more ttately; and from the old play of "Tu Quoque," by Green (a drama of Elizabeth's reign), we learn that it was conlidered more appropriate to the town (and probably to the court), while the coach was left to the country : — Nny,for a need, out of hh eajy nature, Mafli draiv him to the keeping of a coach For country, and carroch for London. Ben Jonfon, in his comedy of " The Devil is an Afs," gives us a great notion of the buftle attending a caroch : — Have luith them for the great caroch, fx horjes. And the two coachmen, with my ambler bare. And my three women. No. 316. A Boy a-cock-horfe. Coaches of any kind, however, were evidently not in very common ufe until after the beginning of the feventeenth century. Women in general, at leaft thofe who were not Ikilful horfewomen, when the dillance or any other circumftance precluded their going on foot, rode on a pillion or (ule-faddle behind a man, one of her relatives or friends, or ibmetinies a fervant