The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present DayHotten, John Camden
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The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day
Hotten, John Camden
Inn signs -- England -- History; Signs and signboards -- History
The ANTELOP was ye bag of Kg. Henery ye 8, as wel as ye
porculouses[169] and ye Rose and Crown.
ANCOR, Gould, ye Ld. of Lincolne and ye Lord High Admirall.
BULL, Black, with gould hornes, ye House of Clarence.
BULL, Dun, ye Lord Nevill, Westmoreland, Burgayne, Latimer, and
Southamton.
BOUR: White, ye Lord Winsor; _Blew_ with a Mullit, ye Earle of Oxford.
BUCKET AND CHANE, ye Lord Wills.
BARE AND RAGGED STAFFE, ye Earle of Lester.
BARE, Black, ye Earle of Warwicke.
BARE, White, ye Earle of Kent.
BEARS HEAD Muscled, ye Lord Morley.
ROE BUCK, ye Lord Montacute.
BULLS HEAD erased: White, ye Ld. Wharton; Red, ye Lord Ogle.
CRESCENT or HALFE MOUNE, ye Earle of Northumberland and ye
Temporalati.
CONDY, black, ye Ld. Bray.
CAT, ye Lord Euers; Cat of Mount and Leper,[170] Mar. of Worster and
ye Ld. Buckhurst.
CROSSES and MITTERS, and CROSS KEYES, Archbishop and Bishopes,
Abbots.
CARDINALES CAPES or HAT, you have not meney of them, the war set up
by sume that had ben seruants to Tho. Wollsey.
DRAGON: Black, Wilsher[171] and Clifford; Red, Cumberland; Greene, ye
Earle of Pembrocke.
EAGLE, ye Earle of Cambridge; EAGEL AND CHILDE, ye Earle of Derby;
Black, ye Lord Norris.
EAGLE, sprede, ye Emperour.
ELEPHANT, Sr. Ffrances Knowles, (and Henery Wyke, a printer, liuing in
Fletstrete, 1570, was saruant to Sr. Ffr. Knowles, gaue ye Elephant
for his signe,) and likwise it was ye bag of ye Lord Beamont and ye
Ld. Sandes.
PHENIX, ye Lord Hertford, and ye sign that ---- Mansell [set up,]
Copper, etc.[172]
FFOX, Red, Gloster and ye Bishop of Winchester.
FFALCOLNE, ye Marquess of Winchester; armed and collered, ye Ld. St.
John and Ld. Zouch.
GRIPES FFOOT, ye Ld. Stanley.
GOTTE, ye Earle of Bedford.
GRAYHOND, ye Ld. Clenton, Druery, and ye Lord Rich.[173]
GRIFFEN, ye Ld. Wintworth.
HARPE, for Irland.
HEDGE-HOG, Sr. Henery Sidney; Will. Seeres was his printer.
HIND, Sr. Christopher Haton; Hen. Beneyman his printer.
LOCK, ye House of Suffolcke. Such a sign without Temple Bar.
LION, _Bleu_, Denmarke.
LION, _Red_, Rampant, Scotland.
LION, _White_, Pasant, ye Earl of March.
LION, _White_, Rampant, Norfolk and all ye Hawardes.
MAIDEN HEAD, ye Duck of Buckingam.
PORTCULLIS, ye Earle of Somerset, Wayles, and ye Lord of Worster.
THE PYE, ye Ld. Reuiers.[174]
PELICAN, ye Lord Cromwell.
PECOCKE, ye Earle of Rutland.
PLUM OF FFEATHERS, ye Earle of Lincolne; azure, ye Lord Sorope.
RAUEN, _White_, ye Earle of Comberland.
RAUEN, _Blacke_, ye King of Scots.
SWANE, ye Ducke of Buckingham, Gloster, Hartford, Hunsdon, Stafford.
SUNE, ye Spirituallaty, ye Lord Willoby and York.
STAFFE: _White Ragged_, Warwick; Black, Kent.
STARRE, ye Earle of Sussen and ye Lord Ffitzwalter.
SARASON HEAD, ye Ld. Audley and ye Ld. Cobham.
TALBOT, ye Earl of Shrewsbury and ye Lord Mountagew.
TIGER’S HEAD, Sr. Ffrancis Walsingam.
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