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 232 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 12 s.ix. SEPT. 17,1921. In Henry IV., Part 1, Act II., sc. iv., the drawer at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap, says : Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pom- garnet, Ralph. In Professor Gollancz's notes on the play, I read : Pomgarnet (or Pomegranate) the name of a room in the tavern. Another instance occurs in Henry IV., Part 2, Act II,, sc. i., where Mistress Quickly, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap, says : Thou didst swear to me. . . sitting in my Dolphin-chamber. . . . A similar method of distinguishing public rooms is still in use in certain London hotels. At the Cannon Street Hotel, for instance, the large halls are known by the names of well-known stations on the South- Eastern Railway, the " Dover " Room, and so on. F. W. THOMAS. But now the good woman. . . first gave her servants a round scold for disobeying the orders which she had never given, and then bidding the drawer lay a napkin in the Sun, she set about the matter in good earnest. . . . This Sun, into which Jones was now conducted, was truly named, as lucus a non lucendo ; for it was an apart- ment into which the sun had scarce ever looked. Fielding's ' Tom Jones,' Book vni., ch. iv. Enter several people with trunks, band-boxes and other luggage. Bonniface. Welcome, ladies ! Cherry. Very welcome, gentlemen ! Cham- berlain, show the Lion and the Rose. Farquhar's ' Beaux' Stratagem,' Act. I., sc. i., 11. 16-18. Consult also Goldsmith's plays. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. The following quotations will show how common this custom once was in inns and taverns, and at the same time illustrate the character of the names employed : Anon, anon, sir ! Score a pint of bastard in the Half-moon. Shakespeare, ' K. Hen. IV.,' Pt. 1., Act II., sc. iv. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber. ' K. Hen. IV.,' Pt. 2, Act II., sc. i. A pint of sack, score a pint of sack in the Coney. Ben Jonson, ' Bartholomew Fair,' Act V., sc. iii. You're very welcome gentlemen. Dick, show those gentlemen the Pomegranate there. Middleton, ' A Trick to Catch the Old One,' Act III., sc. iii. Boy. Score a gallon of sack, and a pint of olives, to the Unicorn. [Above, icithin.] Why, drawer ! Boy. Anon, anon ! Another Boy. Look into the Nag's-head there. 2 Boy. Score a quart of claret to the Bar ; And a pound of sausages into the Flower-pot. Enter first Servant, with Wine. 1 Scrv. The devil's in their throats. Anon, anon ! Enter second Servant. 2 Serv. Mull a pint Of sack there for the women in the Flower-de-luce, And put in ginger enough. . . . And, Robin, fetch tobacco for the Peacock ; They will not be drunk till midnight else. [Within.]. Drawer ! 1 Boy. Anon, anon ! Speak to the Tiger, Peter. Fletcher ,' The Captain,' Act IV., sc. ii. Look into the Lilly-pot, Fletcher, ' The Queen of Corinth,' Act II., sc. iv. When the loath' d noise Of drawers, 'prentices and boys Hath left us, and the clam'rous bar Items no pints i' th' Moon or Star. Henry Vaughan, ' To my Ingenuous Friend, R.W.,' 5-8. Very welcome, gentlemen ! Chamberlain, show the Lion and the Rose. Farquhar, ' The Beaux' Stratagem,' Act I., sc. i. Did your honour call ? Attend the Lion there Pipes and tobacco for the Angel the Lamb has been outrageous this half hour. Goldsmith, ' She Stoops to Conquer,' Act III., sc. i. The example in ' Pickwick ' quoted by MB. PRIDEAUX shows that the custom sur- vived, sporadically at least, in the earlier part of last century. Can present-day instances be given of this practice or of names still legible on doors ? David Copperfield on reaching a Yarmouth inn by the night mail was " shown up to a nice little bedroom, with ' Dolphin ' painted on the door " (chap. viii.). EDWARD BENSLY. . It has already been reported in ' N. & Q.' that two Grantham hotels had, and they probably still have, rooms named after men of standing in the neighbourhood. I remember " The Rutland," " The Granby," " The Manners," " The Cust," and so forth. At Stratford- on- Avon I put up at an inn where my chamber door bore the title of one of Shakespeare's plays. I feel sure that illustrative examples of naming rooms in honour of people might be quoted from Dickens. ST. SWITHIN. In the Old Falcon Hotel, Gravesend, I recollect many of the rooms being named In the years 1875-80 ; and I believe there were also names in the Trafalgar at Greenwich. I think the former is no more, and I am doubtful about the latter. BLAIR COCHRANE. Most appropriately the chief hotel, in Shakespeare's town for untold years has