Mar. 16. 1850.] 
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which your correspondent proceeds to quote, 
adding that it is “believed to be the first which 
appeared signed Atticus.” This is really a little 
“too bad.” It is known, and ought to have been 
known to your correspondent before he inter- 
meddled, that Good, though he wrote so confidently 
in public, had “ most certainly” very great doubts 
in private; that others who have examined the 
question have no doubt at all; and have, indeed, 
adduced such strong proofs against Good’s con- 
jectures, that the gentleman now engaged in pro- 
ducing a new edition of Good’s work speaks, in 
the first volume, the only one yet published, of 
Good's “ unhesitating affiliation” of these letters, 
and announees his intention of offering hereafter 
“strong proof” that the letters signed Poplicola, 
Atticus, and others, “ were not written by Junius.” 
That there may be persons who believe that the 
letter quoted was the first which appeared signed 
Atticus, I cannot deny; but all who are reason- 
ably informed on the subject know that it is not 
so ; —know, as stated not long since in the Athe- 
neum, that letters signed Atticus appeared in the 
Public Advertiser from 1766 to 1773 — possibly 
before and after —and that within that period 
there were at least thirty-seven letters published, 
from which Good was pleased to select four. W. 
WHITE HART INN, SCOLE. 
Having an engraving of this sign, I am enabled 
satisfactorily to reply to Mr. Cooper’s query 
(No. 16. p. 245.) respecting its existence. The 
engraving measures 17 inches and a half long, 
by 22 wide; it was “Published according to 
Act of Parliament May the Ist 1740.” In the 
right-hand bottom corner appears “ Jno Fessey 
Sculp.,” and in the left “Joshua Kirby Delin‘.” 
It is entitled, “ The North East Side of y® Sign of 
x White Hart at Schoale Inn in Norfolk, built | 
in the year 1655 by James Peck, a Merchant of 
Norwich, which cost 1057/., humb!’ Dedicated to 
James Betts Gent by his most Obed* Seryvt Har- 
win Martin.” ‘The sign springs on one side from 
a muss of masonry, and was joined to the house 
on the other: it was sufficiently high to enable 
carriages to drive under it. As it would trespass 
too much on your columns were I to particularise 
each of the figures, I will content myself with 
giving the printed explanation of them from the 
engraving, premising that each figure is num- 
bered: —“1. Jonah coming out of the Fishes 
Mouth. 2. A Lion supporting the Arms of Great 
Yarmouth. 3. A Bacchus. 4. The Arms of Lind- 
ley. 5. The Arms of Hobart, now Lord Hobart. 
6. A Shepherd playing on his Pipe. 7. An Angel 
supporting the Arms of Mr. Peck’s Lady. 8. An 
Angel supporting the Arms of Mr. Peck. 9. A 
White Hart, with this Motto (this is the one which 
‘hangs down carved in a stately wreath’) — Im- 
plentur veteris Bacchi pinguisque ferine Anno 
Dom 1655. 10. The Arms of the late Earl of 
Yarmouth, 11. The Arms of the Duke of Nor- 
folk. 12. Neptune on a Dolphin. 13. A Lion 
supporting the Arms of Norwich. 14. Charon 
carrying a reputed Witch to Hell. 15. Cerberus. 
16. An Huntsman. 17. Acteon [with three dogs, 
and this legend, ‘ Acteon ego sum Dominum 
cognoscite vestrum’]. 18. A White Hart couchant 
[underneath appears in the engraving the artist’s 
name — Johannes Fairchild struxit]. 19. Pru- 
dence. 20. Fortitude. 21. Temperance. 22. Jus- 
tice 23. Diana [with two greyhounds, one of 
whom is chasing a hare]. 24. Time devouring an 
Infant [with the legend, Tempus edax rerum, 
below]. 25. An Astronomer, who is seated on a 
Circumferenter, and by some Chymical Prepara- 
tion is so Affected that in fine Weather he faces 
that Quarter from whence it is about to come.” 
The whole sign is drawn by a scale of half an inch 
to a foot, and most of the figures are of the size 
of life. On both sides of the engraving, but dis- 
tinct from the sign, are seven coats of arms. 
Those on the right hand are: 1. Earl of Yar- 
mouth. 2. Cornwallis impaling Ist and 4th Buck- 
ton, 2nd Unknown 3rd Teye. 3. Castleton. 4. 
Unknown. 5. Mrs. Peck [these arms are wrongly 
blazoned by Blomefield; they are gules a fesse 
argent, between, in chief, two crescents, and in 
base, a lion passant guardant of the same]. 6. 
Great Yarmouth. 7. Unknown. The arms on 
the opposite side are: 1. Duke of Norfolk. 2. 
Hobart. 3. Bacon. 4, Thurston. 5. Mr. Peck 
impaling his wife [his arms, too, are wrongly bla- 
zoned; they should be—Or, on a chevron en- 
grailed gules three crosslets pattee argent]. 6. 
Lindley. 7. Norwich. 
Mr. Cooper will find a slight notice of this sign, 
both in Gough’s Camden and in The Beauties of 
England and Wales; but both these are of later 
date than Mr. Cruttwell’s Tour. I have only to 
add, that I should wish Mr. Cooper to see the 
engraving. I shall be very happy to send it by 
post for his inspection. CRANMORE. 
Parkership, Porkership, Pokership. — With 
every deference to the ingenious suggestions of 
Mr. Bolton Corney (No. 15. p. 218.), I think it 
will be found, on reference to the original docu- 
ments, that ‘“ Pokership” is a misreading of the 
ancient writing for “ Parkership.” This question 
might be determined if any correspondent, ac- 
quainted with the present excellent arrangement 
of our records, could inform us whether the 
appointments under the old Earldom of March 
are extant. A large portion of Herefordshire was 
held under his tenure. Thomas Croft, of Croft, 
was, in 1473, “ Parker” of Pembrugge, in that 
county: Rot. Parl. vi.342. In 1485 John Amyas 
