Inscriptions -- England -- London; London (England) -- Antiquities; Signs and signboards
Warwick Inn, 12
Lane, 11
Water carnival at Sadler’s Wells, 185
Welbeck, 151
Wentworth, Lord Thomas, 142
Wesley, John, 187
Westgate Street, Gloucester, 159, 178
Weston family, 143
White Bear, 48, 50
Hart Inn, 79
Lion, 83
Islington, 180
Whittington and his Cat, 178
Whistling Oyster, sign, 171
Wilberforce, William, 57
Williams, Mr., and the Royal Arms from old London Bridge, 137
Wilton House, 203
Wiltshire, Earl of, 217
Winchester, Marquis of, 227
Winchester Street. _See_ Great Winchester Street
Winde, Captain William, 152
Winged Horse, the, 131
Winter’s-Low-Hut, 170
Woman’s Head, the, 14
Wooden Midshipman, sign, 157
Wren, Sir Christopher, 115, 131
Wright, Sir Nathan, 153
THE END.
_Elliot Stock, Paternoster Row, London._
FOOTNOTES:
[1] In November, 1892, this house was demolished.
[2] Hatton’s ‘New View of London,’ 1708, vol. i., p. 59.
[3] In later times there was a cross at the east end of the church of
St. Michael-le-Querne, replaced by a water conduit, in the mayoralty of
William Eastfield, A.D. 1429, as I learn from Stow. The site of this
cross is considerably east of Panyer Alley.
[4] Pye, _i.e._, parti-coloured, as in the bird. It is said to have
been so called because the initial and principal letters of the rubrics
were printed in red, and the rest in black. At the beginning of the
Church of England Prayer-Book, in that section which relates to the
service of the Church, mention is made of ‘the number and hardness
of the rules called the Pie.’ Shakespeare, in the ‘Merry Wives of
Windsor,’ says, ‘By cocke and pie you shall not choose, sir; you shall
not choose, but come.’ In this asseveration cock is supposed to be a
euphemism for God, and pie the above-named ordinal.
[5] On the Holbein gateway at Whitehall there were also medallions of
terra-cotta, as large or larger than life.
[6] The Broad Face, Reading, is noticed by Pepys as an odd sign, when
he visited the town on June 16, 1668.
[7] In style it reminds one somewhat of the Guildhall giants, Gog and
Magog, or, as Fairholt would call them, Corineus and Gogmagog. These
appear to have been made in 1708, by Richard Saunders, a captain
of trained bands and carver in King Street, Cheapside, to replace
giants of pasteboard and wickerwork, which had been carried in City
processions.
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