Hunt, Thomas Frederick; Moyes, James [Oth.]: Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, Adapted To Modern Habitations: With Illustrative Details, Selected From Ancient Edifices; And Observations on the Furniture of the Tudor Period (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1830)

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“ The posts of his gate are a painting too,” i. e. he will soon be a sheriff.
Old Comedy, by Thomas Dekkar.
“ If ever 1 live to see thee sheriff of London,
I’ll gild thy posts.”— Woman never vex’d.
“ A pair of such brothers were fitter for posts without doors, indeed, to make a show at a
new magistrate’s gate.”— Widow.
“ My lord-maior’s posts must needs be trimmed, against he takes his oath.”
To the Painter’s Owle’s Alm. p. 52. (Nave’s Gloss.)
On entrance to office, it was usual with such functionaries to cause
their posts to be new painted.
There are two posts of this description, beautifully enriched, yet
standing at the door of Hengrave Hall; but the practice of publishing-
official documents in this manner having been long discontinued, their
introduction in buildings now would be useless.

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