The RED HORSE is now almost extinct; it occurs as the sign of a house in Bond Street, in an advertisement about a spaniel lost by the Duke of Grafton.[234] By the term _red_ was not meant vermilion; at that time it was the accepted word for what we now call _roan_. The BAY HORSE is a great favourite in Yorkshire; in 1861 there were, in the West Riding alone, not less than seventy-seven inns, taverns, and public-houses, with such a sign, besides innumerable ale-houses. One would expect the YORKSHIRE GREY more indigenous to that county. The DAPPLE GREY is apparently a tribute of gratitude of the publicans to the “Dapple Grey” of the nursery rhyme-- “I had a little bonny nag, His name was _Dapple Grey_, And he would bring me to an ale-house A mile out of the way.” Dappled grey, too, was the fashionable colour of horses in the last century; thus Pope’s mercenary Duchess-- “The gods, to curse Pamela with her prayers, Gave her gilt coach and dappled Flanders mares.” Of the WHITE HORSE innumerable instances occur, and many are connected with names known in history. At the White Horse, near Burleigh-on-the-Hill, the noted Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, spent the last years of his life, and died. “The Duke of Queensbury being present at his death, knowing the Duke to be a dissenter, and thinking he must be a Catholic, offered to send for a Catholic priest, to which the Duke answered, ‘No,’ said he, ‘those rascals eat God; but if you know of any set of fellows that eat the devil, I should be obliged to you if you would send for one of them!’” All of a piece! So ended “That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim.”[235] At the White Horse in Kensington, Addison wrote several of his _Spectators_. His favourite dinner, when he stayed at this house, was fillet of veal and a bottle of claret. The old inn remained in its original state till about forty years ago, when it was pulled down, and the name changed to the HOLLAND ARMS; but the sign is still preserved in the parlour of the new establishment.