There exists a curious alehouse picture, called the THREE JOHNS, in Little Park Street, Westminster, and in White Lion Street, Pentonville. The same sign, many years ago, might have been seen in Bennett Street, near Queen Square, in the former locality. It represented an oblong table, with John Wilkes in the middle, the Rev. John Horne Tooke at one end, and Sir John Glynn (sergeant-at-law) at the other. There is a mezzotinto print of this picture (or the sign may be from the print) drawn and engraved by Richard Houston, 1769. John Wilkes, on whom the popular gratitude for writing the Earl of Bute out of power conferred many a signboard, still survives in a few spots. In a small Staffordshire town called Leek-with-Lowe, there is a stanch re-publican, who to this day keeps the WILKES’-HEAD as his sign, whilst another one occurs in Bridges Street, St Ives. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT is also far from forgotten, and may still be seen “hung in effigy” at Castlegate, Berwick, in Nottingham, and in a few other places. In 1683, we find SIR EDMUNDBURY GODFREY on the picture-board of Langley Curtis, a bookseller near Fleetbridge. Being the martyr of a party, he undoubtedly for a while must have been a popular sign. LORD ANGLESEY was, in 1679, adopted by an inn in Drury Lane. This, we suppose, was Arthur, second Viscount Valentia, son of Sir Thomas Annesley, (Lord Mountmorris,) and elevated to the British peerage by the title of Earl of Anglesey in 1661; he died in 1686. One of the acts which probably contributed most to his popularity was that he, with the Lord Cavendish, Mr Howard, Dr Tillotson, Dr Burnet, and a few others, appeared to vindicate Lord Russell in the face of the court, and gave testimony to the good life and conversation of the prisoner. The bulky figure of Paracelsus, or, as he called himself, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus _Bombastus_ von Hohenheim, used formerly to be a constant apothecaries’ symbol. From an advertisement in the _London Gazette_, July 22-26, 1680, about a stolen horse “with a sowre head,” we gather that there was at that time a sign of PARACELSUS in Old Fish Street. Information about the horse with “the sowre head” would also be received at a house in Lambeth, with no less a dignitary for its sign than the BISHOP OF CANTERBURY, his grace having been thus honoured from a neighbourly feeling. Doctor Butler, (_ob._ 1617,) physician to James I., and, according to Fuller, “the Æsculapius of that age,” invented a kind of medicated ale, called Dr Butler’s ale, “which, if not now, (1784,) was, a few years ago, sold at certain houses that had the BUTLER’S HEAD for a sign.”[75] One of the last remaining Butler’s Heads was in a court leading from Basinghall into Coleman Street. [Illustration: PLATE V. SPINNING SOW. (France, 1520.) TWO STORKS. (Antwerp, 1639.) THE COMPLETE ANGLER. (Banks’s Bills, 1780.) HELP ME THROUGH THIS WORLD. (Banks’s Bills, 1812.) CROOKED BILLET. (Harleian Collection, 1710.)]