Mercers’ Company, 14 arms of, 126 Merchant Tailors’ Company, 129 Merchants’ trade marks, 74 Merlin’s Cave Tavern, 190 Mermaid, carved in relief, 60 in Bread Street, 61 in Cornhill, 61 sign of at Gravesend, 60 in Holland, 60 Middle Temple, gatehouse, 131 Midshipman, wooden, 157 Miller, Sir John, 81 Milton, John, sign showing birthplace, 92 Mineral spring, St. George’s Fields, 70 Minerva, head of, 12 Minet, Hughes, 223 Minet, Walter, 224 Minories, the, 157 Mitre Court, 116 Mitres, stone bas-reliefs of, 113, 116 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 188 More, Sir Thomas, 138 Morris Dancers, Three, sign, 22 Mount Pleasant, Gray’s Inn Lane, 164 Mouth, sign, Bishopsgate Street, 64 Myddleton, Sir Hugh, 181 Myddleton’s Head Inn, 181, 183 Nag’s Head, Unicorn sign wrongly called, 86 sign, 97 Naked Boy, sign, 11 Narwhal’s horn, 88 Nassau Street, 162 Negroes’ Heads, 24, 146 Newcastle, Duke of, 151 House, 152 Newcomen Street, Southwark, 136 New Market, 149 New River Company, portrait of founder, 181 New River Head, 183 New Tunbridge Wells, 187 New Wells, near London Spa, 186 New White Horse Cellars, signboard, 169 Northampton, Marquis of, 143 Norwich Cathedral, 34 Old Bell Inn, Holborn, 143 Olmius, Herman, merchant, 221 Ormond Street. _See_ Great Ormond Street Ormonde, Duke of, 169 Ostrich, stone bas-relief, 91 Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane, 65 Pakenham Street, 195 Panyer Alley, sign in, 4 Parish marks, 166 Peakes, Sir John, Lord Mayor, 129 Pegasus, Inner Temple, sign, 131 Pelham, Thomas, 152 Pelican, as an emblem, 95 sign, 94 and Phœnix, 96 Pepys’ Diary, extract from, 84 Person, Father, 139 Peter Street, Westminster, 166 Phelps, Samuel, actor, 186 Philip Lane, 46 Physicians, College of, 172 Pie, sign, 10 Pie Corner, 9, 10 Pied Bull Inn, 81 Pindar Place, 196 Pinder a Wakefielde, inn, 196 Pinder of Wakefield, 196 Pinder, equivalent to, 197 Plough, sign, Bucklersbury, 222 Poore, Dr. G. V., 229 Pope, Mr. M., F.S.A., 91 Portland, Duke of, 151 Powis, Marquis of, 151 Place, 153 Preaching Friars, 130, 138 Price, Hilton, on bankers’ signs, 156 Prince of Wales’ feathers, 111 Pudding Lane, 9 Queen Street. _See_ Great Queen Street Raleigh, Sir Walter, 81, 144 Red Lion Tavern, 180 Rich, Richard, 137 River. _See_ New River Robin Hood Court, Shoe Lane, 167 Roman dress, bust of woman in, 192 Roman temple, site of, 179 Rookery, Gray’s Inn, 134 Rose, the, 92 Rose and Crown, 111 Rose and Fleur-de-lys, 154 Rosebery Avenue, 164, 182 Rosoman Street, 187 Rotten Row, Asschowellys Place, 179 Roxalana’s Head, sign, 14 Royal Arms, 135 Bagnio, 20 Yacht Inn, 150 Rufford, Captain Nicholas, 146 Rufford’s Buildings, 146 Running Footman, sign, 167