Many names of inns have arisen from the puns on the landlord or locality. The _Black Swan_ in Bartholomew Lane, once a resort for musical celebrities was kept by Owen Swan, parish clerk of St. Michael’s Cornhill. The _Brace_ Tavern, in Queen’s Bench Prison, was opened by two brothers of the name of Partridge. _Hat and Tun_ was the sign of a public-house in Hatton Garden, and the _Warbolt in Tun_ of the little inn at Warbleton, in Sussex. At least one _Three Pigeons_ began business with a worthy surnamed Pigeon for landlord, although this sign is usually derived from a coat of arms charged with three martlets. According to a correspondent, the _Bell Inn_ of a village not far from Oxford was formerly kept by John Good, who set up this inscription under a gigantic representation of a bell: “My name, likewise my ale, is good, Walk in, and taste my own home-brewed, For all that know John Good can tell That, like my sign, it bears the Bell.” Ben Jonson in the “Alchymist” satirised this kind of wit: “He shall have _a bell_ that’s Abel, And by it standing one whose name is _Dee_ In a rug gown, there’s _D_ and _Rug_, that’s Drug; And right anenst him a dog snarling _err_, There’s _Drugger_, Abel Drugger. That’s his sign.” The last _Honest Lawyer_ in London has just ceased to exist, but there is still an _Honest Miller_ at Withersden, near Wye, in Kent. It is approached by devious ways and difficult to find. Hence perhaps the name. Like the _Silent Woman_, the honest lawyer was represented with his head cut off. A very famous signboard, said to have been painted by Hogarth, was _The Man loaded with Mischief_, in Oxford Street. The man was carrying a woman, glass in hand, a magpie, and a monkey. Underneath was the rhyme: “A monkey, a magpie, and a wife Is the true emblem of strife.” At Grantham, an eccentric lord of the manor about a century ago insisted on having all the signs of public-houses on his estate painted with the political colour which he favoured. Thus the town possessed, in 1830, the following: _Blue Boat_, _Blue Sheep_, _Blue Bull_, _Blue Ram_, _Blue Lion_, _Blue Bell_, _Blue Cow_, _Blue Boar_, _Blue Horse_, and _Blue Inn_. By way of retaliation, a neighbouring landowner and political opponent actually named one of his houses the _Blue Ass_. Grantham also can boast of the original _Beehive Inn_ with the motto: “Stop! Traveller, this wondrous sign explore, And say when thou hast viewed it o’er, Grantham, now, two rarities are thine, A lofty steeple, and a living sign.”