[161] Suite des Mémoires pour servir à l’Hist. de Brandenburg, p. 63, where the royal author adds, “The common use of carriages is not older than the time of John Sigismund.” [162] Annal. Ferdin. V. p. 2199; and vii. p. 375. [163] In Suite des Mém. pour serv. à l’Hist. de Brandenburg, p. 63, it is remarked that they were coarse coaches, composed of four boards put together in a clumsy manner. [164] Rink, Leben K. Leopold, p. 607. [165] Lünig’s Theatr. Cer. i. p. 289. [166] Ludolf, v. p. 416. Von Moser’s Hofrecht, ii. p. 337. [167] Lunig. Corp. Jur. Feud. Germ. ii. p. 1447. [168] An attempt was made also to prevent the use of coaches by a law in Hungary in 1523. [169] Histoire des Antiquités de Paris, par Sauval, i. p. 187. [170] Sauval; also Mezeray, Abregé Chron. de l’Histoire de France. Amsterdam, 1696, iii. p. 167. [171] This ordinance is to be found also in Traité de la Police, par De la Mare, i. p. 418. [172] Valesiana. Paris, 1695, 12mo, p. 35. [173] Variétés Historiques, p. 96. [174] Sauval says, “I shall here remark, that this was the first time coaches were used for that ceremony (the entrance of ambassadors), and that it was only at this period they were invented, and began to be used.” [175] L’Art du Menuisier-carossier, p. 457, planche 171. [176] Stow’s Survey of London, 1633, fol. p. 70. [177] Anderson’s Hist. of Commerce, iv. p. 180. [178] Arnot’s Hist. of Edinburgh, p. 596. [179] Twiss’s Travels through Spain and Portugal. [180] Dalin, Geschichte des Reichs Schweden, iii. 1, p. 390 and 402. [181] Bacmeister, Essai sur la Bibliothèque de l’Académie de S. Pétersburg, 1776, 8vo, p. 38. [182] Joh. Ihre, Glossarium Sueogothic. i. col. 1178. _Kusk_, a coachman. It seems properly to denote the carriage itself. Gall. _cocher_. Hisp. id. Ital. _cocchio_. Ang. _coach_. Hung. _cotczy_. Belg. _goetse_. Germ. _kutsche_. The person who drives such carriages is by the English called _coachman_, which in other languages is made shorter, as the French say _cocher_, and the Germans _kusk_. It is difficult, however, to determine whence it is derived, as we do not know by whom these close carriages were invented. Menage makes it Latin, and by a far-fetched derivation from _vehiculum_; Junius derives it somewhat shorter from ὀχέω to carry. Wachter thinks it comes from the German word _kutten_, to cover; and Lye from the Belgic _koetsen_, to lie along, as it properly signifies a couch or chair. [183] Ungrisches Magaz. Pressburg, 1781, vol. i. p. 15.