The History of Signboards : From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

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4to, 1636.
X Roxburghe Ballads, vol. i., fol. 546, entitled "The Coaches Overthrow, or a joviall Ex- altation of divers tradesmen and others for the suppression of troublesome Hackney Coaches." 360 THE HISTORY OF SIQNBOARDS.
" Let not the chairman with asBuming stride Press near the wall and rudely thrust thy side, The laws have set him bounds ; his servile feet Should ne'er encroach where posts defend the street.
Yet, who the footman's arrogance can quell.
Whose flambeau gUds the sashes of Fal
...l Mall, When in long rank a train of torches flame, To light the midnight visits of the dame." Tlie trumpet-like instruments in wHcli these torches were ex- tinguished, when arrived at their place of destination, are stiU seen attached to the area railings of most of the houses in Gros- venor and St James' Squares, and various other parts of the town fashionably inhabited at that period.
Another creature of this class, now as completely extinct as the Plesiosaurus and the Megatherion, or any other monster of the pre- Adamite world, was the Etinning Footman.


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