[396] See a woodcut of an Amiens pilgrim’s token in the Journal of Brit. Arch. Assoc., vol. i., Oct. 1848; also a detailed account of this venerable relic in Coryatt’s Crudities vol. i, p. 17. [397] Name of one of the arches of old London Bridge. [398] “In the town of Paris there is a bridge named St Michael, On which there are many houses; but one of them is more known than the others. That is the house I mean, which is known by the sign of the Baptist Head. There the bookseller will answer you. Would you also like to know the name of the printer? John Carcain is his name. Now, do not ask any more. Farewell.” [399] “Like wine, fine, Driveth away care; So medicine cureth pain, And delivers us from suffering.” [400] Coryatt’s Crudities, vol i., p. 41. [401] From his colophon we see that the Trinity on his sign was represented by a triangle with a circle at each angle, respectively containing the words PATER, FILIUS, SPIRITUS, and, between the circles, on each of the sides of the triangle, the words NON EST, a mystical way of representing the Trinity, very common in the middle ages. CHAPTER IX. SAINTS, MARTYRS, ETC. At the end of the last chapter we spoke of the profane application of some of the most sacred things to signboard purposes. In France this was still worse than in England. That amusing gossip, Tallemant des Réaux, in his “Contes et Historiettes,” tells us how an innkeeper of the Rue Montmartre, in Paris, put up for his sign the GOD’S HEAD, (_la Tête Dieu_,) and notwithstanding all the efforts of the curé of St Eustache to make him take it down he would not comply until compelled by the magistrates. Though two centuries have elapsed, the French of the present day are not much better; for in Paris, in the Rue Mondétour, there is actually a café known as the NOM DE JESUS.