Old London Taverns Identified With Masonry.

Paddy ' s Goose is , at the present day , a nick-name for a public-house in Shad well . The above extract is from the History of Sign-Boards . I shall continue to quote from it Avithout in every case giving the authority .

In 1854 , there Avere in London sixty-one signs of inns , taverns and public-houses displaying the regal emblem of the Crown . The Crown seems to be one of the oldest of English signs . We read of it as earl y as 1467 , when a certain Walter Walters

, who kept the CroAvn in Cheapside , made an innocent Cockney pun , saying he would make his son heir to the CroAvn ; Avhich so displeased his gracious majesty , King Edward IV ., that he ordered the man to be put to deatli for high treason .

Parker ' s Lane , where Avas the Crown Avhich Avas resorted to by Freemasons in 1717 , is now put CIOAVH on the map of London as Parker-street . It is close by Covent Garden Market , and not far from Great Queen-street , in Avhich is the building Avhere the Grand Lodge of England

UOAV convenes . Of the Rummer and Grapes Tavern , nothing more is related than Avhat is given aboA'e . There Avere two taverns bearing the name ancl sign of Rummer , ancl it is possible that as one of them Avas in Old Fish-street and the other " over against

BOAV Lane , in Cheapside , " they might have been resorted to by our English Brethren of olden time . The woi d Rummer signifies , according to Worcester , " a glass drinking vessel . "

From the record of the Grand Lodge it appears that the Brethren AA'IIO met at the Goose and Gridiron afterwards removed to the Queen ' s Arms Tavern in St . Paul ' s Church-yard . Of the King ' s Arms and the Queen ' s Arms , there are innumerable instances ;

they are to be found in almost every town or A'illage . The story is told that a simple clodhopper once walked ever so many miles to see King George IV , on one of his journeys , and came home mightly disgusted , for the king had arms like any other man , Avhile he had always understood that his majesty ' s right arm A \ 'as a lion ancl his left

arm a "On Friday , April 6 , " ( 1781 , ) says Bos well , " Dr . Johnson carried me to dine at a club , Avhich , at his desire , had been lately formed at the Queen ' s Arms , in St .

Old London Taverns Identified With Masonry.

Paul ' s Church-yard . He told Mr . Hook that he Avished to have a City Club , ancl asked him to collect one ; but , said he , don ' t let them be patriots . The company AA'ere that day very sensible , Avell-behaved men . This same ttwern was also patronized by Garrick ' '

Samuel Johnson , LL . D ., referred to above , A \ 'as horn at Lichfield , in Staffordshire , in 1709 , and died on the 13 th December , . 784 . At the risk of tiring the patience of the readers of the Magazine , I Avill pursue the

subject of sign-boards further so as to refer to all the places where the Grand Lodge of England met down to and into the year 1767 . The year 1767 Avas a memorable one to the Masons of America , because on the 23 rd clay of April of that year died

Viscount Montague , the Grand Master of England AVIIO commissioned Henry Price in 1733 , to found our bemwolent Institution on this continent . It has groAvn and flourished until its membership numbers more than half a million of men .

The Grand Lodge met Sep . 29 , 1721 , at the Ring ' s Arms , and five or six times afterwards . The Masonic record is silent as to the locality of this tavern . It is probable that it Avas in BoAv-street . Grinling Gibbons , the celebrated carver ancl sculp torlived at the sign of the King ' s

, Arms in BoAV-street from 1678 until 1721 , Avhen he died . This house is alluded to in the Postman , January 24 , 1701-2 : "On Thursday , the house of Mr . Gibbons , the carver in BoAv-street , fell doAvnbut by special providence none of

, the family Avere killed ; but 'tis said , a young girl Avho was playing in the court being missed , is supposed to be buried in the rubbish . "—New England Freemason . ' ( To be continued . )

Time And Eternity.

TIME AND ETERNITY .

Deem not that they are blest alone , Whose days a peaceful tenour keep , The God Avho loves our race has SIIOAVU A blessing for the eyes that weep . For God hath marked each sorrowing day , And numbered every secret tear , Ancl heaven ' s long age of bliss' shall pay For all his children suffer here . Bryant ,