1. 6. 195 the sad contract. See variants. W. and G. are doubtless correct.
1. 6. 214 a guilt caroch. ‘There was some distinction apparently between caroch and coach. I find in Lord Bacon’s will, in which he disposed of so much imaginary wealth, the following bequest: “I give also to my wife my four coach geldings, and my best caroache, and her own coach mares and caroache.”’—C.
Minsheu says that a carroch is a great coach. Cf. also Taylor’s Wks., 1630:
No coaches, or carroaches she doth crave.
Rom Alley, O. Pl., 2d ed., 5. 475:
No, nor your jumblings, In horslitters, in coaches or caroches.
Greene’s Tu Quoque, O. Pl., 2d ed., 7. 28:
May’st draw him to the keeping of a coach For country, and carroch for London.
Cf. also Dekker, Non-dram. Wks. 1. 111. Finally the matter is settled by Howes (p. 867), who gives the date of the introduction of coaches as 1564, and adds: ‘Lastly, euen at this time, 1605, began the ordinary use of Caroaches.’ In Cyn. Rev., Wks. 2. 281, Gifford changes carroch to coach.
1. 6. 216 Hide-parke. Jonson speaks of coaching in Hyde Park in the Prologue to the Staple of News, Wks. 5. 157, and in The World in the Moon, Wks. 7. 343. Pepys has many references to it in his Diary. ‘May 7, 1662. And so, after the play was done, she and The Turner and Mrs. Lucin and I to the Parke; and there found them out, and spoke to them; and observed many fine ladies, and staid till all were gone almost.’