 | Samuel Hopkins - Great Britain - 1875 - 580 pages
...305, note). Stow, who lived in Elizabeth's day, and to whom Hume often refers, says: " In the year 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's...first that brought the use of coaches into England." (Annals, 8G7, 868.) Probably Arundel introduced both the Dutchman and the coach. The chariot, or whirlicote,... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - Transportation - 1877 - 652 pages
...fixes the first use of coaches in England eleven years later. He says — "In the year 1564 William Boonen, a Dutchman, became the Queen's coachman, and...that brought the use of coaches into England. After a while divers great ladies, with as great jealousie of the Queen's displeasure, made their coaches... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1888 - 440 pages
...imitators. Says the quaint chronicler Stow, — " After awhile divers great ladies, with as great jealousie of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches and rid in them up and down the country, to the great admiration of all the beholders ; but then by little and little they grew usual... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - 1879 - 348 pages
...the authority of Stow, this is the year when coaches were first introduced, thus : — " In the year 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's...England. After awhile, divers great ladies, with as greut jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made their coaches, and rid up and down the countries in... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 624 pages
...remains, among which is a theatre 400 feet in diameter. COACH. It is stated by Stow, that in ' 1564, Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's coachman, and...first that brought the use of coaches into England.' Anderson ('History of Commerce'), on the other hand, says that 'about 1580 the use of coaches was introduced... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 pages
...driver, and first English coachmaker. "In the year 1564 Guilliatn Boonen, a Dutchman, became the qaeeu's coachman, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England. After a while divers great ladies, with as great jealouaie of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches,... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 654 pages
...said that the first in England was made in the year 1555, and Stow mentions that " in 1564 Boonen, » Dutchman, became the queen's coachman, and was the...first that brought the use of coaches into England." Anderson (" History of Commerce "), on the other hand, says that '• about 1680 the use of coaches... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1885 - 426 pages
...an authority about to be quoted, such a convenience was as yet unknown even in England. 'In the year 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's...first that brought the use of coaches into England. And after a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them... | |
 | Celts - 1888 - 920 pages
...the bodv resting on solid axles, and it must have been thoroughly uncomfortable, "and after a while divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the...made them coaches, and rid in them up and down the countries to the great admiration of the beholders, ,unl then by little and little they grew usual... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1888 - 452 pages
...imitators. Says the quaint chronicler Stow, — il After awhile divers great ladies, with as great jealousie of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches and rid in them up and down the country, to the great admiration of all the beholders ; but then by little and little they grew usual... | |
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In the year 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's coachman, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England. And after a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches, and... 
