The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day (1866)
Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918, Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873 · London : J. C. Hotten · leaf 516
wrongly explained as the BellSavage, on Ludgate HUl. Stow, generally so accurate, says itreceived its name from one Isabella Savage, who had given thehouse to the company of cutlers. Where he gathered that in-formation we do not know, but he was burning, as the childrensay, and was certainly much… … MISCELLANEO US SIGNS. 481 that the inn was once the property of the Lady Arabella Savage,familiarly called Bell Savage, which name was represented ina rebus by a wild man and a bell, and. so it was always drawnon the panels of the coaches that used to run to and from it,until the railways changed…
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