English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft (1911)
Gardner, John Starkie, 1844-1930 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 507
almost as ancient, but the more important hostelriessupplemented them with others more peculiar and distinctive.Their numbers and great projection in the city and especiallyin Cheape so impeded traffic that an edict limited their projectionto seven feet. The ale stakes as they were termed not only… … Inn Signs 293 than the prescribed limit at most. Richard II was perhaps thefirst to make it compulsory for innkeepers to hang out signs,leaving other traders to do as they pleased. The rules werefrequently altered, and the privilege of projecting them fromthe frontages of houses was alternately…
Ironwork · Decoration and ornament, English · Architecture
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