372 Notes on Audley House, Salisbury. 



the river. A channel, such as those, which ran in every street of 

 Salisbury within the memory of living inhabitants, is, of course, a 

 very different thing from a river. It separated the house from 

 the present garden, which never belonged to the property, and, 

 although it was proposed to make the river navigable, it has never 

 been proved that barges or boats came up the river as an actual 

 practice. Moreover, the original sign of the house is said to have 

 been "The Falcon." The name Crane as applied to the street and 

 bridge is surely much more likely to derive from the fact, that the 

 crane was a charge on the coat of arms of some person of influence 

 connected with the city, than from the existence of a crane for 

 landing goods from a barge. 



