_sliding body_, 235 Smith, Horace, 214 n. Smith, Sir Sidney, 237 Smithfield, 131, 198 _sociable_, 26, 147, 213, 257; _public sociable_, 236 Society of Arts and Sciences, 185 Soissons, Duc de, 125 Soliman, Emperor of Turkey, 63 Solomon, 24 Somerset House, 159 Sophia, 152 Soult, Marshal, 258 Sourches, Marquis de, 136 Southampton, 216, 267 Southampton, Countess of, 76 South Kensington, 140, 206, 207, 225 Spain, 62, 69, 86, 88, 121, 125, 151, 165, 169, 170; King of, 169 Speaker, Mr., 113; his coach and privileges, 113, 114 _Spectator, The_, 151 Spenser, Edmund, 62 n. springs, steel, first applied to _brouette_, 100; Knapp’s patent, 115, 205, 227 n., 228 n. _Squyr of Low Degree, The_, 52 Stafford, Lord, 88, 91 _stage-coach_, 89, 123, 135, 136, 144, 167, 182, 183, 205, 214-218, 222, 227 n. _Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore_, 135 n., 215 n. _Stage-Coaches, The Dangers of Travelling in_, 217 n. stage-waggon, 89, 222 Stanhope, Hon. Philip, 235 _stanhope_, 235, 275; _stanhope phaeton_, 257, 269 _Staple of News_, 79 state coach, 123-125, 159, 186, 188, 257; of Great Britain, 185 _et seq._; Lord Mayor’s, 188 _station wagon_, 275 steam-carriage, 255 Steele, Sir Richard, 103, 160 Sterne, Lawrence, 171, 172 Stopford, Mrs. Diana, 97 Stowe, John, 48, 70, 75 Strand, the, 88, 92, 185 Stratford-le-bowe, 84 Stratton, Ezra N., 18 n., 21 n., 22 n., 23 n., 32 n., 50 n., 220, 224, 267 Strogonoff, Count, 259 Strutt, 46 Suetonius, 37 _suicide gig_, 214 _sulky_, 210, 236, 273 _surrey_, 275 suspension, early attempts at, 35, 46, 64; new ideas on, 67, 77 _Suspension of Road Carriages_, 276 n. Sutton, founder of the Charterhouse, 57 swing-poles, 34 Swinstead Abbey, 53 Switzerland, 224, 273 Syria, 24 Taaff, Theobald, 188 talc used for windows, 36, 121, 154 _tandem cart_, 235, 278 _taranta_, 223, 224 Tarquin, 33 Tartar carriage, 37 _Tatler, The_, 103, 160 Taurinum, 65 tax on coaches, 173, 174 Taylor, John, 59, 60, 65, 69, 70, 73, 75, 78-80, 82-84, 90 T-cart, 269 _telashka_, 224 _teleka_, 224 Temple, The, 131; Temple Bar, 165 _Thiefe, The_, 83 Thorpe, John, 199 three-wheeled carriage, 236; — cab, 236 n. Thrupp, G. A., 24, 27, 35, 40, 52, 66, 67, 69, 119, 120 n., 124, 140, 170, 185, 206, 229, 232, 257, 258, 268, 272, 273, 275 Thurloe, Mr. Secretary, 112 Thutmose III, 21 “tiger,” the, 277 Tilbury, coachbuilder, 234, 235 _tilbury_, 227 n., 228 n., 234, 235, 242 Timoleon, 27 _tim-whisky_, 182 _tonga_, 279 Toulouse, 139 Tower of London, 49, 55 n., 84 _Town & Country Magazine_, 197 _traineau_, 171 _Travelling, Past and Present, A Book about_, 84 n. _treckscuyt_, 171 Treves, 31 _tribus_, 252 _Tristram Shandy_, 171 Tron Church, 106 Trull, John, 170