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]

Angel, Islington, [180], [182]

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 House, [192], [195], [196]

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]

Bethlehem Hospital, [67], [71]

Bevis, Dr. John, [193], [195]

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]

Blackamore Street, [25], [148]

Blackfriars Road, [158]

Blackmore Street, [25], [148]

Bloomfield’s MS., [132]

Blowbladder Street, [19]

Boar’s Head, sign, [51], [119]

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]

Brewers’ Company, [5], [165]

Bridge House, the, [76]

estate, [71], [75]

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]

Clare, Earl of, [147], [215]

Market, [24], [146]

Street, [24]

Clement’s Inn, [147]

Clement’s Inn Fields, [148]

market held in, [149]

Cloth Fair, [137], [139]

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 and Duck, sign, [67], [215]

Dog’s Head in the Pot, sign, [158]

Dorrington Street, [164]

Doves, Four, sign, [90]

Drapers’ Company, [230]

Gardens, [221], [227]

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 at Southwark, [42], [79]

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]

George Inn, [79], [80]

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 Ormond Street], [153]

Great Queen Street, [152], [155]

Great Winchester Street, No. 23, [227]

Gresham, Sir Thomas, [157]

Grey family, arms of, [133]

Greys of Wilton, [133]

Griffin’s Head, sign, [77], [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]

Helmet, sign, [112], [113]

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]

Hugo, Rev. Thomas, [216], [219]

Inner Temple, heraldic charge, [131]

Inns of Court and Chancery, arms of, [129]

Islington, Upper Street, [146]

Islington Wells, [180], [188]

Jack in the Green, [24]

Jackson, William, smuggler, [38]

James Street, Haymarket, [163]. See [Great James Street]

Jones, Inigo, [154], [201], [216]

Judd, Sir Andrew, Lord Mayor, [214]

King of the Fields, [69]

King’s Cross Road, [195], [197]

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]

Lamb and Flag, [75], [131], [132]

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]

Fields, [152], [153], [162]

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]

Negroes’ Heads, [24], [146]

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]

Pie Corner, [9], [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]

Preaching Friars, [130], [138]

Price, Hilton, on bankers’ signs, [156]

Prince of Wales’ feathers, [111]

Pudding Lane, [9]

Queen Street. See [Great Queen Street]

Raleigh, Sir Walter, [81], [144]

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]

Rosebery Avenue, [164], [182]

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]

Wells Theatre, [181], [183], [185]

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]

Sardinia Street, [154], [162]

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]

Fire, [42], [79]

Spa Field, [189]

Spas, suburban, [180-199]

Spencer, Sir John, [142], [145]

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, chained, [87], [96-98]

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]

Two Negroes’ Heads, [24], [146]

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, Earl of, [140], [147]

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]

White Bear, [48], [50]

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.