The curio : an illustrated monthly magazine (1887)
[New York : R.W. Wright] · leaf 269
lls,and hearing that there was an inn near by muchfrequented by the gentr\, paid it a visit andattempted to forget his sorrows in a game ofbowls. This incident was commemorated by thefollowing poetic inscription on the sign board : Stop, traveler, stop, in yonder peaceful gladeHis favorite game the… … The Eagle and Child. The famous sign of the Eagle and Child,vulgarly known as the Babe and Bantling,represents the crest of the Stanley family, andthe following legend may account for its origin: Sir Thomas Latham, an ancestor of theHouse of Stanley and Derby, had a legitimatechild, a daughter…
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