_Phaetona, or Modern Female Taste_, 197 Philip the Fair, 44 Philistia, 24 φορεῖον, 26, 36, 86 Piacenza, 124 Pickering, Mr., 131 _Pickwick_, 105 Pierce, Sir Harry, 97 _Piers the Plowman_, 42 _pilentum_, 32, 34, 233, 271 n. Pilkington, George, 71 _Pinch, the Social_, 105 Pius IV, Pope, 58 _Plane Truth_, 132 _plaustrum_, 31, 32, 33 Pliny, 34 plostellum, 32 n. Pomerania, 90 Pontife Brothers, 42 Portland, Duke of, 272 Portsmouth, 149 Portugal, 20, 235 _post-chaise_, 32 n., 165, 170 _et seq._, 198, 200, 205, 210, 219, 220, 231; cost of, 210; _post-coach_, 200; _post-landau_, 200 postilion, 26, 31, 47, 50, 83, 113, 156, 168, 171, 190, 196, 199, 220, 260, 270 n., 275 Povey, Thomas, 126, 128, 129, 135 _Princess car_, 279 Prior, Matthew, 156 Procopius, 28 _Provoked Husband, The_, 144 Prussia, Duke of, 118 _Public Advertiser_, 181 Pultowa, 254 _Punch_, 270 _quar obus_, 252 raft, primitive, 18 _Ralli car_, 278 Ramée, M., 61, 169 Ramses II, 11, 21 _rath_, 271 n. Raworth, Robert, 92 _reda_, 32, 35; _reda caballaria_, 53 _Rejected Addresses_, 214 n. _Reports on Carriages_, 262 _rib chair_, 214, 235 Richard II, 42, 48, 49, 53 Richmond, Duchess of (Arabella Stewart), 140 n. Rippon, Walter, 70, 71, 77 roads, 28, 43, 56 Robertson, coachbuilder, 273 Rochead, Mrs., 106 _rockaway_, 236 rolling-carts, 181, 189; rollers used, 179, 180, 181, 184, 185 Rome, 28, 29, 32-36, 123, 124, 211 Rosencrantz, Baron, 190 Ross-shire, 105 Rothschild, Baron, 267 Rouanès, Duc de, 136 Roubo, M., 121 Rouen, 270 n. Rouland, Roger, 48 _roulette_. See _brouette_. Rowe, James, 166 Royal Society, 116, 117, 142 Russia, 153, 223 Rutland, Earl of. See Manners Ryly, “embroderer,” 78 Saint James’s, 104, 105 190 Salisbury Court, 130 Salvard, Lord of Rousillon, 50 Samuel, Sir Marcus, 260 Sardanapalus, 82 _sarracum_, 31-33 Saxony, Elector of, 57 Schenectady, 236 Scotland, 87, 90, 110, 143, 161, 162, 220 Scott, Sir Walter, 167, 168 Screven, Thomas, 76, 77 Scythes used for chariots, 30, 39, 40 n. Scythian cart, 37 Sedan, 85, 95 _Sedan cart_, 100 _Sedan chair_. See _chair_ _Sedanny_, 95 Sefton, Earl of, 265 _sella_, 36; _sella portatoria_, 37; _sella muliebris_, 37 Selwyn, George, 102 Seneca, 30, 31 _Sentimental Journey_, 171 Shakespeare, William, 88 n. Sharpe, James, 181, 184, 185 _shay_, 140, 221, 222, 246 _shaze_. See _chaise_ Shillibeer, George, 253, 254, 280 Shippon, General, 55 Shooter’s Hill, 117 Sidney, Sir Philip, 59 Siegmund, Baron de Herberstein, 65 Sinclair, Sir John, 217 six-wheeled carriage, 237 _Sketches by Boz_, 242 _Sketches of English Society_, 105 σκιμπόδιον. See φορεῖον _sled_, 18 n. _sledge_, 18, 171, 224, 225 _sleigh_, 18 n., 276
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