ii s. iv. DEC. 16, ion.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
493
PEEKS IMMORTALIZED BY PUBLIC - HOUSES
(11 S. iv. 228, 271, 331, 456). The following
is a list of Gloucestershire houses named
after peers and baronets, with one or two
bearing family names of titled personages.
I have omitted the 13 houses named " Prince
of Wales," but have included the first
three on my list as, with one exception, they
occur once only in the county. Where
the origin is apparent the name of the
person after whom the house is called is not
given :
Inn.
Prince Albert . . Prince Arthur . . Princess Royal Bathurst Arms Beauchamp Arms Beaufort Arms
Berkeley Arms
Codrington Arms Darell Arms Ducie Arms Duke of Beaufort Duke of Brunswick Duke of Sussex . . Duke of Wellington Duke of York .
Earl Grey
Lygon Arms
Marlboro' Arms
Marlborough Inn
Marquess of Granby
Marquis of Granby"
Nelson .
Noel Arms
Raglan Arms . . Redesdale Arms Russell Arms . . Salisbury Seagrave Arms Somerset Arms Somerset Inn . . Sherborne Arms
Suffolk Arms . . Wellington Arms
Wellington Hotel Worcester Arms York Hotel
Locality.
Gloucester, Rodborough
Gloucester
Rodborough
North Cerney
Dymock
Cheltenham, Gloucester, Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Stoke Gifford, West- bury-on-Trym, Wickwar
Berkeley, Cam, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Hinton, Tewkesbury
Wapley and Codrington, Iron Acton . .
Fretherne
Gloucester . . . . . .
Cheltenham
Hawkesbury
Cheltenham, ^Gloucester
Gloucester
Chalford, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester, Horfield, Stroud, Tewkesbury
Quenington, Wotton-under-Edge
Chipping Campden
Fairford
Cheltenham, Cirencester, Lechlade
Winchcombe
Gloucester
Bisley, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Glou- cester, King Stanley, Marshfleld, Minchinhampton, Stroud, Tewkesbury
Chipping Campden
Gloucester
More ton- in- th e-Mars h
Cheltenham
Cheltenham
Weston Subedge
Cheltenham
Aldsworth, Cheltenham, Lechlade,
Northleach
Cheltenham, Gloucester Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucester,
Horfield, Moreton-in-the-Marsh Gloucester
Cheltenham, Gloucester Cheltenham
Person*
Earl Bathurst.
Earl Beauchamp.
Duke of Beaufort.
Earl of Berkeley.
Sir G. W. H. Codrington, Bart*
Sir Lionel Darell, Bart.
Earl Ducie.
Family name of the Beauchamps*
Duke of Marlborough.
Lord Nelson.
Family name of Earl of Gains- borough. Baron Raglan. Baron Redesdale. Earl Russell. Marquis of Salisbury. Baron Seagrave. Duke of Somerset.
Baron Sherborne.
Duke of Suffolk.
Duke of Wellington.
Marquis of Worcester. Duke of York.
In compiling the above the following
rather uncommon names of public - houses
were noted and may be of interest : " Bird in
Hand," " Bird in View," " Bishop Blaize,"
"Corner Cupboard," "Fire Engine,"
" Forge Hammer," " Happy Return," "Hob-
nails," " King David," " Live and Let Live,"
"Malt Shovel," "Port Cullis " (after the
Beauforts), "Ragged Cot," "Trouble
House." The last is suggestive.
ROLAND AUSTIN.
Gloucester Public Library.
FIRE-PAPERS (US. iv. 406). It would be
of interest to know when these first came into
use. I remember them sixty years ago,
and think they were not known at a much
earlier date. They were then called " fire-
place aprons," and seemed of a more sub-
stantial make than those of a later date.
In country places they were made and
"peddled" by the people known as " gipsy
women," who brought them strung on a
short pole, with the request, " Army fire
appens ? " As far as I remember they were
