Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
I beg to state that I have impressions of two large prints, one of the
"House," and the other of the "Sign." They were published in
1740.--"Joshua Kirby," del., "John Fossey," sculpt.
I have also a smaller print of the "Sign" taken from the opposite
side--from the larger one--apparently by the same parties, but the names
of the drawer and engraver are cut off.
I think the Sign was not take down till after 1795, as I have a
recollection of having passed _under it_ when a boy, in going from
Norwich to Ipswich.
The sign was large and handsome, and extended across the road.
In _Kirby's Print_, it is stated to have cost Mr. James Peck, who was a
merchant at Norwich, 1057l.
The prints are not very scarce, and may be got at many of the
printsellers in London.
J.B.
About twenty years ago I have seen hanging up on the wall of the
principal entry of this inn, a print of its original front, comprising
the various figure, coats of arms, &c. which adorned it: in this account
the founder Peck was called a citizen of Norwich, and the traveller was
puzzled by this piece of information. "It is called Scole Inn, because
it is at about the same distance from Norwich, Ipswich, and Bury."
M. Prendergast.
7. Serjeant's Inn. Fleet Street, Feb. 19. 1850.
_Killigrew Family and Scole Inn Sign_ (No. 15. p. 231.).--Doubtless
there are pedigrees of the Killigrew family in the _Visitations of
Cornwall_, which would answer Mr. Lower's questions. Many notices of
them also occur in Gilbert's _History of Cornwall_, and Wood's _Athenæ
Oxon._, Bliss. ed., and both those works have good indexes.
There is a folded engraving of Scole Inn Sign (No. 16. p. 245.) in
Armstrong's _History of Norfolk_, vol. ii. p. 144., but I never could
learn when or why the sign was removed. The couchant stag in the centre
was the Cornwallis crest.
Braybrooke.
Audley End.
_Pavoise of the Black Prince_ (No. 12. p. 183).--It is very probably
that the _Pavoise_ which "Bolton" mentions as hanging in his time at the
tomb of Edward the Black Prince, was no part of the original collection.
"A quilted coat-armour, with _half-sleeves tabard fashion_," reads oddly
as part of this prince's costume; but we know that sometimes "Coming
events cast their shadows before."
T.W.
_Welsh Ambassador._--The following use of the word "Welsh" _in
metaphor_, may perhaps serve as a clue to, or illustration of, G.'s
query (No. 15. p. 230.):
_Andrew_. "In tough _Welsh_ parsley, which in our vulgar tongue,
is Strong hempen altars."--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Elder
Brother_, Act. 1. ad fin.
Petit André
Pleissis-les-Tours, Fevrier, 1850.
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