County arms also are sometimes represented on the signboards; as the FIFTEEN BALLS, (which refer to the Cornish arms, fifteen roundles arranged in triangular form) at Union Street, Bodmin, Cornwall; ONE AND ALL, the motto of the county of Cornwall, occurs at Cheapside, St Heliers, Jersey; and in Market Jew Street, Penzance. This motto has, besides the advantage of being a hearty appeal to all the thirsty sons of Bacchus, and will call to the mind of a thoughtful toper, the relative position of _one_ and _many_, or _all_, as explained by the _al-fresco_ artists, who decorate the pavement in Piccadilly--“Many can help one, one cannot help many.” The STAFFORDSHIRE KNOT is common in the pottery districts; besides these almost every county is represented by its own arms, such as the NORTHUMBERLAND ARMS, &c., but about these nothing need be said. The THREE BALLS of the pawnbrokers are taken from the lower part of the coat of arms of the Dukes of Medici, from whose states, and from Lombardy, nearly all the early bankers came. These capitalists also advanced money on valuable goods, and hence gradually became pawnbrokers. The arms of the Medici family were five bezants azure, whence the balls formerly were blue, and only within the last half century have assumed a golden exterior, evidently to gild the pill for those who have dealings with “my uncle;” as for the position in which they are placed, the popular explanation is that there are two chances to one that whatever is brought there will not be redeemed. The LION AND CASTLE, of which there are a few instances, (Cherry Garden Stairs, Rotherhithe, for example,) need not be derived from royal marriage alliances with Spain, as it may simply have been borrowed from the brand of the Spanish arms on the sherry casks, and have been put up by the landlord to indicate the sale of genuine Spanish wines, such as sack, canary, mountain. The FLOWER DE LUCE was a frequent English sign in old times, either taken from the quartering of the French arms with the English, or set up as a compliment to private families who bear this charge in their arms or as crest. The preface of “Edyth, the lying widow,” ends with these words:-- “In the cyte of Exeter by West away The time not passed hence many a day, There dwelled a yoman discret and wise, At the siggne of the Flower de lyse Which had to name John Hawkyn.”