INDEX.
Adam and Eve, Newgate Street, sign, 121
Addle Street; derivation of name, 47
Aggas’s, Ralph, map, 139
Aldermanbury, sign in, 94
Alleyne, Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor, 209
Altitude, highest in City, 7
Ancaster, Duke of, 153
Anchor, signs, 106
Angel Alley, 221
Ape, carving of, 46
Aquarium Tavern, 166
Artillery Street, Bishopsgate Without, 167
Ashburnham, Lord, 35
Ashby-Sterry, J., 158
Ashwell’s Place, site of, 179
Austin Friars, 220
house in, 220
Axe and Bottle Yard, 136
Bacon, Francis, 134
Bagnigge Wells, 191-196
Bagnio Court, 20
Baker and Basket, sign, 6
Baltassar, one of the Three Kings, 32
Barrington, Hon. D., on arms of Inner Temple, 132
Bartholomew Close, 137
Basing House, 202
Bath Street, 20
Battle Bridge, 198
Bear, Brown, Cheapside, sign, 48, 49
chained and muzzled, signs, 47, 49
White, sign, 48
with collar and chain, sign, 47
Bear Quay, 49
Beare Lane, 49
Beauty in distress, sign, 71
Beer Lane, 49
Bel and the Dragon, sign, 50
Bell, the, sign, 106
Bell on the Hoop, sign, 123
Bell Savage Inn, the, 123
Ben Jonson Tavern, 169
Berners, Ralph de, 141
Berriman, Dr. W., 146
Bible and Crown, sign, 110
Billers, Sir William, Lord Mayor, 222
Birch, W. de Gray, 74
Bishopsgate Street, 214
Bishopsgate, Ward of, 219
Black Boy, advertisement, temp. 1695, 25
Black Friars, 130
Black Jack, sign, 157
Black Mary’s Well, or Hole, 191
Black Spread Eagle Court, 93
Blackfriars Road, 158
Bloomfield’s MS., 132
Blowbladder Street, 19
Tavern, 52-60
Body-snatchers, resort of, 9
Boleyn, Sir Thomas, 217
Bottle, Golden, sign, 157
Boulting Mill, 178
Bow Churchyard, sign in, 118
Bowl and Mouth, signs, 64
Boy and Panyer, sign, 4
Braynes Row, 191
Bridge House, the, 76
Brook Place, 191
Browne, Sir Thomas, 43
Bryanston Street, 169
Buc, Sir George, 132
Bucklersbury, 26
Buckingham, Duke of, 20
Buckingham, Earl of, 147
Bucks’ Heads, Three, sign, 13
Budge Row, origin of name, 126
Bull, Bishopsgate Street Within, 61
Bull and Mouth Inn, Aldersgate, 63-66
sale of, 65
sign, 63
Bull Head Court, 19
Bull Inn, mutiny at, 62
Burrup, Miss, 177
Busby’s Folly, 85
Butcher Hall Lane, 19
Byrons, badge of, 61
Canon Alley, St. Paul’s, 111
Canonbury, Islington, 141
Place, 141
Tower, 142
Caps of burgesses, 175
Carhampton, Earl of, 223
Carpenters’ Hall, 227
Cateaton Street, 14
Cavendish, Lady Margaret, 151
Chambers, James, goldsmith, 157
Chancery Lane, 129
Chapel Street. See Great Chapel Street
Chaplin, W., coach proprietor, 99
Charles I.’s porter and dwarf, 19
Charles Street, Leather Lane, 157
Charlet, Gregory, 145
Charlotte Street, 158
Chaucer, poet, 135
Cheapside Cross, 97
Chesterfield, Lord, 152
Cheyne Walk, 159
Childs and Co., bankers, 156
Chimneypiece, Bishopsgate Street, 219
Cibber, Colley, actor, 187
Civet cat, carving, 66
Street, 24
Clement’s Inn, 147
Clement’s Inn Fields, 148
market held in, 149
Coach and Horses, sign, 170
Cock Inn, 166
and Bottle, sign, 176
Court, 47
sign, 103
with snake, sign, 101
Coffee-house sign, 176
Compton family, 143
Compton Street, Clerkenwell, 146
Coopers’ Company, 157
crest, 91
Coppice Row, 191
Corbyn and Co.’s Poultry, sign at, 50
Coutts, Lady Burdett, 55
Cow and Co., Messrs., 47
Cox and Hammond’s, Messrs., sign at, 49
Cox, Rev. J. E., 212
Crane, sign, 89
in the Poultry, 221
Cranes, Three, in the Vintry, sign, 90
Crescent moon, 43
Cromer Street, 196
Crosby Hall, 214
Hall Chambers, 218
Place, 217
Square, 218
Crosby, Sir John, arms, 214
Cross Street, Islington, 145
Crown and Magpie, sign, 104
Crowns, Three, sign, 27
Cumberland, Duchess of, 223
Duke of, 169
Cutler, Sir John, 172
Cutlers’ Company, arms of, 122, 124
Danvers Street, Cheyne Walk, 161
Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, 210
Dennys, Sir Walter, arms of, 142
Denzil Street, 150
Dering Street, Oxford Street, 161
Devereux, Lady Penelope, 140
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 151
Doctor’s signboard, 160
Dog’s Head in the Pot, sign, 158
Dorrington Street, 164
Doves, Four, sign, 90
Drapers’ Company, 230
Drury Lane, 148
Ducking ponds, 68
Dugdale, Sir William, 130
Duke Street, 162
Dyers’ Company, 100
Eagle with two Heads, sign, 91
Eldernesse Lane, 12
Elephant and Castle, 122
Epiphany or Twelfth Day, 39
Epitaph on drawer at Boar’s Head, 56
Essex, Earl of, arms, 98
Evans, William, giant, 20
Falstaff, drawing of, 58
Fastolfe, Sir John, 60
Field Court, 133
Fire of London, memorial of, 9
Fishmongers’ Company, arms of, 61
Fleet, banks of the, 192
Fleet Street, 131
Fleming, Mr. John, 224
Fortune of War Inn, 8
Four Doves, sign, 90
Fowler, Thomas, 144
Fowler family, 180
Fowler of Islington, arms of, 144, 145
Fox, sign, 77
Foxes, Three, sign, 77
Friday Street, 135
Fruiterers’ Company, arms of, 122
Galton, Francis, 223
Gaming House and Shaver’s Hall, 163
Garden produce, temp. Edward I., 130
Gardens to City houses, 228
Gardiner’s Lane, 15
Gaspar, 31
advertisement of, temp. 1762, 16
Gerard the Giant, 17
Gerrard Street, 162
Gerrardes Hall, 18
Gilbert Street and Passage, 149
Gisor’s Hall, 18
Goat in Boots, sign, 168
Gog and Magog, 17 note
Golden Bottle, sign, 157
Golden Lion, house and sign, 83
Goldsmiths’ Company, 129
Goose and Gridiron, sign, 114
Gosling, Messrs., sign, 156, 157
Grasshopper, sign, 157
Gray’s Inn, 133
Gray’s Inn Lane, 199
Gray’s Inn Road, 196
Great Chapel Street, Westminster, 161
Great James Street, Bedford Row, 163
Great St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, 200, 203 et seq.
Church, 207
Passage, 214
right of way, 217
Great Winchester Street, No. 23, 227
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 157
Grey family, arms of, 133
Greys of Wilton, 133
Grosvenor, Sir Robert, 135
Guildhall Museum, 146, 171, 173
Guy of Warwick, 11
Gwynne, Nell, 192
Haberdashers’ Company, 128
Half Moon, sign, 40
Inn Yard, Borough, 41
Passage, 45
Hare and Stirrup, sign, 80
and Three Pigeons, tenements called, 79
in combination with the Sun, 78
Running, sign, 78
Harris, Roger, bequest of, 86
Harrison Street, 196
Hatchett’s Hotel, 169
Hats, Three, sign, 69
Hawkins, Sir John, 25
Hays’ Mews, Charles Street, Berkeley Square, 167
Heathcock, sign, 90
Henry, Prince of Wales, 131
Herne, or Heron, family, 146
Hicks Hall, Middlesex Session House, 48
Hoare, Messrs., their sign, 157
Hobson, portrait of, 62
Hogarth’s picture of Evening, 181;
of Southwark Fair, 42
Holland, Earl of, 140
Holles family, 147
arms of, 149
Sir William, 215
Holywell Street, 44
Hood, Robin, 197
Horn of Unicorn, 87
Horsham free school, founding of, 40
Houblon, Sir James, 228
Howard, Lord William, 132
Hudson, Jeffery, dwarf, 20
Thomas, painter, 155
Inner Temple, heraldic charge, 131
Inns of Court and Chancery, arms of, 129
Islington, Upper Street, 146
Jack in the Green, 24
Jackson, William, smuggler, 38
James Street, Haymarket, 163. See Great James Street
Judd, Sir Andrew, Lord Mayor, 214
King of the Fields, 69
King Street, Southwark, 136
Kings, Three, signs, 26-45
King’s White Bear, the, 50
Kenton, Benjamin, vintner, 104
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 155
Knights Templars, 132
Lacy, Henry de, Earl of Lincoln, 130
Lad Lane, 99
Laing, David, 35
Lambeth Hill, 27
Lamb’s Conduit, 196
Lawrence, Adam, 206
will of, 208
family history of, 206 et seq.
Lawrence, Sir John, Lord Mayor, 205
Mayor’s Banquet, 210
arms of, 212
Lea, Sir James, 131
Leadenhall Street, 218
Leathern Bottle, sign, 157
Leathersellers’ Arms, 13
Leathersellers’ Company, 12
Leigh, Gerard, 132
Lennep, J. Van, 3
Leopard, sign, 125
Lernoult, Margaret, 224
Lincoln’s Inn, 129
Lindsey, Earl of, 153
House, 152
Lion, stone bas-relief, sign, 83
Golden, sign, 83
White, sign, 83-86
Little Distaff Lane, 110
Lloyd’s Row, 189
London Bridge, 136
Spa, the, 190
Long Lane, 139
Long Melford, Suffolk, 38
Longmans, Messrs., their sign, 111
Lovell, Sir Thomas, 130
Lyons Inn, 45
Lysons, Rev. Canon, 178
Magi, the, 28
Maidenhead Inn, 14
sign, 119
Maiden’s Head, sign, 126
Man in the Moon, sign, 40
Mantelpiece, seventeenth century, 200
from the old Cock Inn, 104
at 21, Austin Friars, 224
Marks, Alfred, 154
Marshall, Julian, 163
Martin and Co., bankers, their sign, 157
Martin, J. B., 157
Mary the Virgin, 29
Marygold, sign, 156
May’s Buildings, St. Martin’s Lane, 162
Melchior, one of the Three Kings, 31
Mercers’ Company, 14
arms of, 126
Merchant Tailors’ Company, 129
Merchants’ trade marks, 74
Merlin’s Cave Tavern, 190
Mermaid, carved in relief, 60
in Bread Street, 61
in Cornhill, 61
sign of at Gravesend, 60
in Holland, 60
Middle Temple, gatehouse, 131
Midshipman, wooden, 157
Miller, Sir John, 81
Milton, John, sign showing birthplace, 92
Mineral spring, St. George’s Fields, 70
Minerva, head of, 12
Minet, Hughes, 223
Minet, Walter, 224
Minories, the, 157
Mitre Court, 116
Mitres, stone bas-reliefs of, 113, 116
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 188
More, Sir Thomas, 138
Morris Dancers, Three, sign, 22
Mount Pleasant, Gray’s Inn Lane, 164
Mouth, sign, Bishopsgate Street, 64
Myddleton, Sir Hugh, 181
Myddleton’s Head Inn, 181, 183
Nag’s Head, Unicorn sign wrongly called, 86
sign, 97
Naked Boy, sign, 11
Narwhal’s horn, 88
Nassau Street, 162
Newcastle, Duke of, 151
House, 152
Newcomen Street, Southwark, 136
New Market, 149
New River Company, portrait of founder, 181
New River Head, 183
New Tunbridge Wells, 187
New Wells, near London Spa, 186
New White Horse Cellars, signboard, 169
Northampton, Marquis of, 143
Norwich Cathedral, 34
Old Bell Inn, Holborn, 143
Olmius, Herman, merchant, 221
Ormond Street. See Great Ormond Street
Ormonde, Duke of, 169
Ostrich, stone bas-relief, 91
Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane, 65
Pakenham Street, 195
Panyer Alley, sign in, 4
Parish marks, 166
Peakes, Sir John, Lord Mayor, 129
Pegasus, Inner Temple, sign, 131
Pelham, Thomas, 152
Pelican, as an emblem, 95
sign, 94
and Phœnix, 96
Pepys’ Diary, extract from, 84
Person, Father, 139
Peter Street, Westminster, 166
Phelps, Samuel, actor, 186
Philip Lane, 46
Physicians, College of, 172
Pie, sign, 10
Pied Bull Inn, 81
Pindar Place, 196
Pinder a Wakefielde, inn, 196
Pinder of Wakefield, 196
Pinder, equivalent to, 197
Plough, sign, Bucklersbury, 222
Poore, Dr. G. V., 229
Pope, Mr. M., F.S.A., 91
Portland, Duke of, 151
Powis, Marquis of, 151
Place, 153
Price, Hilton, on bankers’ signs, 156
Prince of Wales’ feathers, 111
Pudding Lane, 9
Queen Street. See Great Queen Street
Red Lion Tavern, 180
Rich, Richard, 137
River. See New River
Robin Hood Court, Shoe Lane, 167
Roman dress, bust of woman in, 192
Roman temple, site of, 179
Rookery, Gray’s Inn, 134
Rose, the, 92
Rose and Crown, 111
Rose and Fleur-de-lys, 154
Rosoman Street, 187
Rotten Row, Asschowellys Place, 179
Roxalana’s Head, sign, 14
Royal Arms, 135
Bagnio, 20
Yacht Inn, 150
Rufford, Captain Nicholas, 146
Rufford’s Buildings, 146
Running Footman, sign, 167
Sadler’s mineral springs, 183
Music House, 183
St. Anselm and Cecilia, chapel, 162
St. Bartholomew the Great, church, 140
St. Bartholomew’s Priory, 138
St. Bride’s, 167
St. Ceadda, well of, 197
St. Chad’s Road, 197
Row, 197
St. Chad’s Well, 198
St. Dunstan’s Church, 157
St. Ethelreda, chapel of, 116
St. George and the Dragon, 15, 17
St. George’s Fields, 67, 70, 215
St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 167
St. Helen’s. See Great St. Helen’s
St. James’s Palace, 167
St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell, 170
Street Road, 190
St. Martin’s Lane, Upper, 167
St. Mary Axe, 217
St. Michael’s Crooked Lane, 56
St. Pancras Churchyard, 198
Well, 198
Salisbury, 170
Sandys Row, 167
Saracen’s Head Hotel, Chelmsford, 223
Savage’s Inn, 123
Seven Stars, sign, 39
Shakespere’s Boar’s Head, 51
Sheffield Street, 161
Shepherd Street, 161
Shiffner family, the, 154
Ship and Black Swan, sign, 110
Shoe Lane, 169
Shoreditch High Street, 78
Sims, F. Manley, sign belonging to, 160
Skates, mediæval, 175
Skinners’ Company, 125, 129, 216
Smith, Payne and Smith, sign discovered at their premises, 102
Somers, Sir John, 153
Soper’s Lane, 48
Southwark Arms, 72
Spa Field, 189
Spas, suburban, 180-199
Spread Eagle, 91
Court, 93
Squirrels, Three, sign, 156
Staircase, Elizabethan, 201
Star, sign, 40
Stevens, John Cosens, 213
Stinking Lane, 19
Stuart, Sir Simeon Henry, Bart., 223
Sun, sign, 40
Swan and Harp, sign, 115
upping or nicking, 101
with Two Necks, 98
origin of, 100
Tabard Inn, 79
Tallowchandlers’ Company, 91
Tarbolton, H. O., 205
Tavern scoring, 44
Taylor, Edward, bequest of, 13
Temple, Inner, heraldic charge and sign, 131
Tennis Court, 163
Theatrical Booth, 42
Thomas, Son, and Lefevre, 224
Three Bucks’ Heads, sign, 13
Cranes in the Vintry, 90
Crowns, sign, 27
Hats, Islington, sign, 69
Kings, 26
arms of, 34
in plays, etc., 36
the feast of, 33
Magi, 28
Morris Dancers, sign, 22
Squirrels, sign, 156
Time, statuette of, 178
Tothill Street, Westminster, 166
Tower Hill, 159
Tulips, exhibition of, temp. 1779, 198
Tunbridge Grammar School, 216
Wells, New, 187
Turner, Mr. Hudson, 130
Two Brewers, 2
Tyburn, prisoners on the way to, 64
Tylers’ and Bricklayers’ Company, 165
Unicorn, description of, 87
stone bas-relief of, 86
supporter of Royal Arms, 87
Union Street, Southwark, 165
Upper Street, Islington, 146
Upper St. Martin’s Lane, 166
Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, 171
Vintners’ Company, 100
Waller, J. G., 74
Waltham, Lord, 222
Warwick, Guy of, stone bas-relief of, 11
Warwick Inn, 12
Lane, 11
Water carnival at Sadler’s Wells, 185
Welbeck, 151
Wentworth, Lord Thomas, 142
Wesley, John, 187
Westgate Street, Gloucester, 159, 178
Weston family, 143
Hart Inn, 79
Lion, 83
Islington, 180
Whittington and his Cat, 178
Whistling Oyster, sign, 171
Wilberforce, William, 57
Williams, Mr., and the Royal Arms from old London Bridge, 137
Wilton House, 203
Wiltshire, Earl of, 217
Winchester, Marquis of, 227
Winchester Street. See Great Winchester Street
Winde, Captain William, 152
Winged Horse, the, 131
Winter’s-Low-Hut, 170
Woman’s Head, the, 14
Wooden Midshipman, sign, 157
Wren, Sir Christopher, 115, 131
Wright, Sir Nathan, 153
THE END.
Elliot Stock, Paternoster Row, London.