Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-09

Just within the sight of Temple Bar,
on the right of the street, is Child's
Bank, which deserves notice as the old
est banking-house in England, still
kept where Francis Child, an indus
trious apprentice of Charles Is. time,
married the rich daughter of his master,
William Wheeler, the goldsmith, and
founded the great banking family.
Here, ''at the sign of the Marygold"-
the quaint old emblem of the expanded
flower, with the motto 'Ainsi mon ame,
which still adorns the banking office
Charles III. kept his great account and
poor Nell Gwynne her small one, not
to speak of Prince Rupert, Pepys, Dry
den and many others. Several other
great banks are in this neighborhood.
No. 10 is Gosling's Bank, with the sign
of the three squirrels, represented in
iron work on the central window.
founded in the reign of Charles III. No.
81 is Hoarse's Bank, which dates from
1850; the sign of the Golden Bottle over
the door represents the flask carried by
the founder when he came TO London to
seek his fortune. Fleet Street retains
its old reputation of being occupied by
newspaper editors and their Offices, and
is almost devoted to them. But it also
contains many taverns, where lawyers
and newspaper writers congregate for
luncheon, and which are more frequent
here than almost anywhere else i'm Lon
don, and many of these, of great anti
guilty, are celebrated in the pages of the
Rambler and Spectator. 1t was next
door to Child's Bank that the famous
"Devil Tavern" stood, with the sign of
st. Martin and the Devil, where the
Apollo Club had its meetings, guided
by poetical rules of Ben Johnson, which
began
'sIet none but guess or clubbers hither come;
Let ounces. fools and sordid men keep home !;
Let learned. CIVIL merry men be invited,
And modest too ; nor be choice liquor slighted
Let nothing In the treat offend the guest;
More for delight than cost prepare the feast"
We hear of Swift dining lat the
Devil Tavern with DIR. Garth and Ad-
dison," when "Garth treated" and of
DIR. johnson presiding here at supper
party in honor of the publication of
Mrs. LennOx's first book. In Shire
Lane was the ''Kit-Kat Club" (which
first met in Westminster at the house of
a pastry-cook called Christopher Cat),
where the youth of Queen Anne's reign
were wont to
sleep away the days and drink away the
nights"
Thither it was that Steele and Addi-
son brought Hoadley, Bishop OF Bangor,
on the anniversary of William H., to
drink to his immortal memory" and
thence, as Steele dropped drunk under
the table, the scandalized Bishop stole
away home to bed, but was propitiated
i'm the morning by the lines:-
Virtue with 80 much ease on Bangor sits.
All faults he pardons, though he none commits"
The members of this club all had
their portraits painted by Sir Godfrey
Kneller for Jacob Tonson, their Secre-
tary, and the half size then chosen by
the artist has always since caused the
term "Kit-Kat" to be applied to that
form of portrait. The pictures painted
here by Kneller are now at Bayfordbury
in Hartfordshire. Hard by, also in
Shire Lane, was the tavern-the "Bible
Tavern''-which was inappropriately
chosen by Jack Sheppard for many of
his orgies, because it was possessed of a
trap-door, through which, in case of