“You scrapers that want a good fiddle well strung, You must go to the man that is old while he’s Young; But if this same fiddle you fain would play bold, You must go to his son, who’s Young when he’s old. There’s old Young and young Young, both men of renown: Old sells and young plays the best fiddle in town. Young and old live together, and may they live long-- Young to play an old fiddle, old to sell a new song.” This Young family afterwards removed to the QUEEN’S HEAD Tavern in Paternoster Row, where in a few years they grew rich by giving concerts, when they removed to the CASTLE in the same street. The Castle concerts continued a long time to be celebrated. Many signs are exceedingly puzzling under the name by which they pass with the public. Such was that of “Rowland Hall, dwelling in Guttur Lane, at the sygne of the HALF EAGLE AND KEY.” This quaint sign is no other than the arms of Geneva, described in the non-heraldic language of the mob. Rowland Hall, a bookseller and printer, lived as a refugee in Geneva during the reign of Queen Mary; hence on his return to London he set up the arms of that town for his sign, as a graceful compliment to the hospitality he had received, and as a tribute of admiration to stanch Protestantism. Hall, at other periods of his life, lived at the CRADLE in Lombard Street, and at the THREE ARROWS in Golden Lane, Cripplegate. In 1769 there was again the GENEVA ARMS among the London signs, before the shop of Le Grand, a “pastery-cook and cook,” as he styled himself, in Church Street, Soho. Formerly most pastry-cooks and confectioners were Swiss, and many from that country still follow those professions in Italy, Spain, and recently in England. This last sign has found imitators in Soho; for at the present day it figures at a public-house in Hayes Court, where it is put up, no doubt, in honour of the spirit which many call Geneva, but which we may name Gin. The origin of this name, as applied by publicans, is not a little curious. In Holland the juniper-berry is used for flavouring the gin or hollands which they distil there, and this, with the vulgar in that country, has gradually become corrupted from Juniper to Jenever, the latter term being still further corrupted here to _Geneva_, and _Gin_. The CROSS KEYS are the arms of the Papal See, the emblem of St Peter and his successors:-- “Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain; The golden opes, the iron shuts amaine.” MILTON.