 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 1070 pagina’s
...would he a mere bagatelle." COACHES AND COACH-MAKING. It is stated by Stow, that in '1564, lîoonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's coachman, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England.1 Л long time elapsed before this luxury was attained by more than a few very rich and distinguished... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 pagina’s
...which was to change the face of English society: "In the year 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, beeame the queen's coachman ; and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England. After a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches,... | |
 | Michael Angelo Garvey - 1852 - 236 pagina’s
...that Queen Elizabeth indulged in the luxury of a coach. At that time, says the old chronicler, "one Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's coachman, and...first that brought the use of coaches into England." These first coaches were vast, unwieldy structures of timber and iron, which rested on the axle without... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pagina’s
...thus describes the introduction of this novelty, which was to change the face of English society : "In the year 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became...first that brought the use of coaches into England. After a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches,... | |
 | Benjamin Scott (Chamberlain of the City of London.) - 1854 - 92 pagina’s
...coaches. In the year 1564, William Boonen, a Dutchman (as Stow tells us), became Queen Elizabeth's coachman, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England. " After a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them... | |
 | Benjamin Scott - 1854 - 92 pagina’s
...coaches. In the year 1564, William Boonen, a Dutchman (as Stow tells us), became Queen Elizabeth's coachman, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England. " After a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1856 - 620 pagina’s
...of wagons. According to Stowe, " in the yeere 1564, Guylliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the qneene's coachman, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England. And after a while divers great ladies, with as great jealousie of the queene's displeasure, made them... | |
 | 1857 - 330 pagina’s
...Earl of Arundel, about 1580. But elsewhere Stowe (in his Chron. ed. 1631, p. 867) relates that in " 1564, Guilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the Queen's...first that brought the use of coaches into England. After awhile divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the Queen's displeasure, made them coaches,... | |
 | 1857 - 330 pagina’s
...Arundel, about 1580. But elsewhere Stows (in his Chron. ed. 1631, p. 867) relates that in "1564, Gnilliam Boonen, a Dutchman, became the Queen's coachman, and...first that brought the use of coaches into England. After awhile divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the Queen's displeasure, made them coaches,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1858 - 568 pagina’s
...may trust to 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...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... | |
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... to the great admiration of all the beholders ; but then by little and little they grew usual among the nobility and others of sort, and within twenty... 
