Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . ic Advertiser of that date. We learn from the Harleian manuscripts that Southwark.] BRIDGE HOUSE. 13 there was here another old inn, known as the Knave of Clubs, kept by one Edward Butling,whose advertisement states that he maketh andselleth all sorts of hangings for rooms, &c, andwho, probably, also sold playing-cards, if his signhad any meaning. Bridge Street, probably, extended itself graduallyon to the bridge itself; the houses being distin-guished by signs, some of which have come downto our times, in the works
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . ic Advertiser of that date. We learn from the Harleian manuscripts that Southwark.] BRIDGE HOUSE. 13 there was here another old inn, known as the Knave of Clubs, kept by one Edward Butling,whose advertisement states that he maketh andselleth all sorts of hangings for rooms, &c, andwho, probably, also sold playing-cards, if his signhad any meaning. Bridge Street, probably, extended itself graduallyon to the bridge itself; the houses being distin-guished by signs, some of which have come downto our times, in the works of antiquaries and on on London Bridge, facing Tooley Street, sells allsorts (of) leather breeches, leather, and gloves,wholesale and retail, at reasonable rates. It isclear, from these notices, that it was very doubtfulwhere London Bridge ended and Bridge Streetactually began. In the sixteenth century, the street on the bridgeranked with St. Pauls Churchyard, Paternoster Row,and Little Britain, as one of the principal literaryemporia of the City. The Three Bibles, The. Din HOUSES AT lUNKSIDE. tradesmens tokens and bill-heads. For instance :there is extant a small copper-plate tobacco paper,probably of the reign of Queen Anne, with a coarseand rude engraving of a negro smoking, and hold-ing in his hand a roll of tobacco; above his headis a crown, two ships in full sail are behind, and thesun issues from the right-hand corner above; inthe foreground are four little negroes planting andpacking tobacco, and beneath is the name JohnWinklcy, Tobacconist, near y* Bridge, in theBurrough, Southwark. We have also seen anothershop bill, of about the same date, displaying, withina rich cartouche frame, a pair of embroideredsmall-clothes and a glove: beneath is the legend,Walter Watkins, Breeches-maker, Leather-seller,and Glover, at the sign of the Breeches and Glove242 Angel, and The Looking-Glass, are some of thesigns of the publishers established on LondonBridge, and-mentioned
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