“A Wheele-wright,” he continues, “or a maker of Carts, is an ancient, a profitable and a Trade, which by no meanes can be wanted: yet so poore it is, that scarce the best amongst them can hardly ever attaine to better than a Calves skin fate, or a piece of beefe and Carret rootes to dinner on a Sunday; nor scarcely any of them is ever mounted to any Office above the degree of a Scavenger, or a Tything-man at the most. On the contrary, your Coachmakers trade is the most gaine-fullest about the Towne, they are apparelled in Sattens and Velvets, and Masters of their Parish, Vestry-men, who fare like the Emperors _Heliogabalus_ or _Sardanapalus_, seldome without their Mackroones, Parmisants, Jellies and Kickshawes, with baked Swannes, Pasties hot, or cold red Deere Pyes, which they have fro their Debtor Worships in the Country: neither are these Coaches onely thus cumbersome by their Rumbling and Rutting, as they are by their standing still, and damming up the streetes and lanes, as the Blacke Friers, and divers other places can witnes, and against Coachmakers doores the streets are so pestered and clogg’d with them, that neither man, horse or cart can passe for them; in so much as my Lord Maior is highly to bee commended for his care in their restraint, sending in February last, many of them to the Courtes for their carelessnesse herein.” In another work of Taylor’s, _The Thiefe_, there is a passage of equal interest:— “Carroaches, Coaches, Jades and Flanders Mares Do rob us of our shares, our wares, our Fares: Against the ground we stand and knock our heeles, Whilest all our profit runs away on wheeles; And whosoever but observes and notes, The great increase of Coaches and of Boats, Shall finde their number more than e’r they were By halfe and more within these thirty yeeres. Then watermen at Sea had service still, And those that staid at home had worke at will: Then upstart Helcart-Coaches were to seeke, A man could scarce see twenty in a weeke, But now I thinke a man may daily see, More than the Whirries on the _Thames_ can be. When Queen _Elizabeth_ came to the Crowne, A Coach in _England_, then was scarcely knowne, Then ’twas as rare to see one, as to spy A Tradesman that had never told a lye.” It will be seen from the first of these lines, that a difference is made between the coach and the caroche (carroch or carroache). On this point there is a definite statement in the Elizabethan play _Tu Quoque_:— “Prepare yourself to like this gentleman, Who can maintain thee in thy choice of gowns, Of tires, of servants, and of costly jewels; Nay, for a need, out of his easy nature, May’st draw him to the keeping of a coach For country, and carroch for London.”