One is reminded of Sir Richard Bulkeley’s wonderful calash. Here was surely a rival. Calashes were now common, though precisely what the difference was between them and the two-wheel chaises I am unable to say. Indeed, there is some confusion also between the small chariots and the four-wheel chaises, and the words seem to have become interchangeable. Both came to resemble the coupé of a later day, being like a modern coach with the front part removed. Sometimes the coachman’s box was on a level with the roof, but often much lower, and sometimes altogether absent, the horses being ridden by a postilion. Probably the carriage was called a chariot when it possessed a coachman’s box, such as was used in town, and a chaise when it was absent. It was a calash that Squire Morley of Halstead wished for, but did not obtain, in Prior’s ballad of _Down-Hall_, 1715. “Then answer’d Squire Morley; Pray get a calash, That in summer may burn, and in winter may splash; I love dust and dirt; and ’tis always my pleasure, To take with me much of the soil that I measure. “But Matthew thought better: for Matthew thought right, And hired a chariot so trim and so tight, That extremes both of winter and summer might pass: For one window was canvas, the other was glass.” Prior evidently liked the chaises of Holland. “While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix, And in one day atone for the business of six, In a little Dutch chaise on a Saturday night, On my left hand my Horace, a nymph on my right: No Memoirs to compose, and no Post-boy to move, That on Sunday may hinder the softness of love; For her, neither visits, nor parties at tea, Nor the long-winded cant of a dull Refugee: This night and the next shall be hers, shall be mine, To good or ill-fortune the third we resign: Thus scorning the world and superior to fate, I drive on my car in processional state.” Another advertisement tells of a gentleman who brought a one-horse calash to an Inn near Hyde Park Corner, took away the horse ten days later, but left his carriage “as a pawn for what was due for the same.” In a while the inn-keeper was advertising the fact that unless the owner claimed it within ten days he should sell the carriage for what it would fetch. A more curious advertisement belonging to this period may be quoted in full:—