[156] "Captain Baily, said to have accompanied Raleigh in his last expedition to Guiana, employed four hackney coaches, with drivers in liveries, to ply at the May-pole in the Strand, fixing his own rates, about the year 1634. Baily's coaches seem to have been the first of what are now called hackney-coaches; a term at that time applied indiscriminately to all coaches let for hire." The favourite Buckingham, about the year 1619, introduced the sedan. The post-chaise, invented in France, was introduced by Mr. Tull, son of the well-known writer on husbandry. The stage first came in about the year 1775; and mail-coaches appeared in 1785.--See a note to the _Tatler_, as above, vol. iv., p. 415. [157] This was written in 1834. [158] The faults of the New Church are, that it is too small for the steeple; that it is divided into two stories, which make it still smaller; that the entablature on the north and south parts is too frequently interrupted; that pediments are "affectedly put over each projection;" in a word, that a little object is cut up into too many little parts, and rendered fantastic with embellishment. See the opinions of Gwynn, Ralph, and Malton, quoted in Brayley's London and Middlesex, vol. iv., p. 199. [159] Life of James I. quoted in Pennant, p. 155. [160] L'Estrange's Life of Charles I., quoted in D'Israeli's Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I., vol. ii., p. 218. [161] L'Estrange's Life of Charles I. [162] Steenie--a familiarisation of Stephen. The name was given Buckingham by James I., in reference to the beauty of St. Stephen, whose face, during his martyrdom, is described in the New Testament as shining like that of an angel. [163] See the account of the Paradise of Glory, in vol. ii., p. 225. [164] Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., 2nd edition, vol. i., p. 309. [165] Id., p. 357. [166] Lives and Letters, as above. [167] See three Poems in his Genuine Remains.--_Chalmers's British Poets_, vol. viii., p. 187. [168] British Poets, vol. vii., p. 101. [169] Londinium Redivivum, vol. iv., p. 410. [170] Gentleman's Magazine for 1793, p. 88. [171] Memoirs and Correspondence, as above, vol. i., p. 182. [172] Vol. ii., p. 348. [173] Memoirs and Correspondence, as above, vol. iii., p. 75. [174] Id., p. 185. [175] Vol. iv., p. 81. [176] Granger's Biographical History of England, 1824, vol. v., p. 356. [177] Pennant, _ut supra_, p. 144. [178] Where he likens Jupiter's house in the Milky Way to the palace of Augustus:-- "Hic locus est, quem, si verbis audacia detur, Haud timeam magni dixisse Palatia coeli." Lib. i. v. 175. Which Sandys, by a felicitous conceit in the taste of his age (and of Ovid too), has transferred to the palace of Charles the First, and rendered still more applicable to the Milky Way:-- "This glorious roofe I would not doubt to call, Had I but boldness giv'n me, Heaven's _White-Hall_" [179] Pennant, p. 147.