Note 59 — Chapter I
Reading edition
C. S. P. For., No. 451, December 21, 1559. Carriages came into use in the sixteenth century, the practice being borrowed from Italy. Catherine de Medici was the first queen who possessed one. For interesting information on this subject see Burgon, Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham, I, 242, 305, 383, 486, 487; Ellis, Letters, Series II, I, 253; Strutt, Dresses, II, 90, and a paper in Archeologia, XX, 426 ff.