_Mottos on Warming-Pans and Garters._--It seems to have been much the custom, about two centuries ago, to engrave more or less elaborately the brass lids of warming-pans with different devices, such as armorial bearings, &c., in the centre, and with an inscription or a motto surrounding the device. A friend of the writer has in his possession three such lids of warming-pans, one of which has engraven on the centre a hart passant, and above his back a shield, bearing the arms of Devereux, the whole surrounded by this inscription:-- "THE . EARLE . OF . ESSEX . HIS . ARMES." Another bears the arms of the commonwealth, (as seen on the coins of the Protectorate,) encircled with an inscription, thus:-- "ENGLANDS . STATS . ARMES." The third bears a talbot passant, with the date above its back, 1646, and the motto round:-- "IN . GOD . IS . ALL . MY . TRUST." It appears to me that the first two, at least, belonged to _inns_, known by the respective signs indicated by the mottos, &c.; the first probably in honour of the Lord-General of the Parliament's army, who was the last Devereux bearing the title. That last described affords a curious illustration of a passage cited in Ellis's _Brand_ (ed. 1849, vol. i. p. 245.), from _The Welsh Levite tossed in a Blanket_, 1691. "Our _garters_, bellows, and _warming-pans_ wore godly mottos," &c. In further illustration, I may mention that the owner of the warming-pans has in his possession likewise a beautifully manufactured long silk _garter_, of perhaps about the same date, in which are woven the following words:-- "LOVE . NOT . THE . WORLD . IN . WHICH . THOU . MUST . NOT . STAY. BUT . LOVE . THE . TREASURE . THAT . ABIDES . ALWAY." H. G. T. * * * * * NOTES ON JESSE'S "LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES." During my perusal of Mr. Jesse's pleasant volumes, I marked two or three slips of the pen, which it may not be amiss to make a note of. In vol. i. pp. 403, 404, 405., there is a curious treble error regarding Thomas Sutton, the munificent founder of the Charter House. He is successively styled _Sir_ Thomas, _Sir Richard_, and _Sir Robert_. Sutton's Christian name was Thomas. He was never knighted. Of the quaint leaden case which incloses his remains, and of its simple inscription, an accurate drawing, with accompanying particulars, by your able correspondent Mr. E. B. PRICE, was inserted in the _Gent. Mag._ for January, 1843, p. 43. The inscription runs thus: "1611. THOMAS SUTTON, ESQUIAR." Vol. ii. pp. 34, 35, 36. Mr. Jesse's ingenious suggestions relative to the tradition of the burial of Oliver Cromwell in Red Lion Square, merit the careful attention of all London antiquaries. Ib. p. 316.: "There is no evidence of Clement's Inn having been a Court of Law previous to 1486." For "a court of law," read "an inn of court." {85}