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<p class="c"><a href="#CONTENTS">Contents.</a><br />
<a href="#A_GLOSSARY_OF_THE_PRINCIPAL_HERALDIC_TERMS_USED_IN_THE_FOREGOING">A Glossary Of The Principal Heraldic Terms</a><br />
<a href="#INDEX">Index To Names Of Signs, &amp;C.:</a><small>
<a href="#A">A</a>,
<a href="#B">B</a>,
<a href="#C">C</a>,
<a href="#D">D</a>,
<a href="#E">E</a>,
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<a href="#S">S</a>,
<a href="#T">T</a>,
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<h1><span class="eng">
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<p class="cb">
<br />
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height="30"
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<br />
<small>OF</small><br />
<br />
THE ORIGIN AND MEANINGS<br />
<br />
<small>OF THE</small>

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width="400"
height="41"
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<br />
<small>NOW OR FORMERLY</small><br />
<br />
Found in the County of Essex.<br />&nbsp; </p>

<p class="c">BY<br />
MILLER &nbsp; CHRISTY,
<br /><small>
<i>Author of “Manitoba Described,” “The Genus Primula in Essex,” “Our Empire,” &amp;c.</i></small><br />
<br /><br />
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.<br />
<br />
<span class="eng">Chelmsford:</span><br />
EDMUND DURRANT &amp; C<small>O</small>., 90, HIGH STREET.<br />
<br />
<span class="eng">London</span>:<br />
GRIFFITH, FARRAN, OKEDEN, <small>AND</small> WELSH,<br />
WEST CORNER ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD.<br />
&mdash;&mdash;<br />
<small>MDCCCLXXXVII.</small></p>

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<a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE.</h2>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Prefaces to books [says a learned author] are like signs to
public-houses. They are intended to give one an idea of the kind of
entertainment to be found within.”</p></div>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_a.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="81"
alt="A"
/></span> STUDENT of the ancient and peculiarly interesting Art of Heraldry can
hardly fail, at an early period in his researches, to be struck with the
idea that some connection obviously exists between the various
“charges,” “crests,” “badges,” and “supporters” with which he is
familiar, and the curious designs now to be seen upon the sign-boards of
many of our roadside inns, and which were formerly displayed by most
other houses of business.</p>

<p>On first noticing this relationship when commencing the study of
Heraldry, somewhere about the year 1879, it occurred to me that the
subject was well worth following up. It seemed to me that much
interesting information would probably be brought to light by a careful
examination of the numerous signs of my native county of Essex. Still
more desirable did this appear when, after careful inquiry, I found that
(so far as I was able to discover) no more than three systematic
treatises upon the subject had ever been published. First and foremost
among these stands Messrs. Larwood and Hotten’s <i>History of
Sign-boards</i>,<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> a standard work which is<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_v" id="page_v"></a>{v}</span> evidently the result of a
very large amount of labour and research. I do not wish to conceal the
extent to which I am indebted to it. It is, however, to be regretted
that the authors should have paid so much attention to London signs, to
the partial neglect of those in other parts of the country, and that
they should not have provided a more complete index; but it is
significant of the completeness of their work that the other two writers
upon the subject have been able to add very little that is new, beside
mere local details. A second dissertation upon the origin and use of
trade-signs is to be found in a most interesting series of articles upon
the signs of the Town of Derby, contributed to the <i>Reliquary</i><a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> in
1867 by the late Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt, F.S.A., the editor of that
magazine; while the third and last source of information is to be found
in a lengthy pamphlet by Mr. Wm. Pengelly, F.R.S., treating in detail of
the Devonshire signs.<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a></p>

<p>On the Continent the literature of signs is much more voluminous. Among
the chief works may be mentioned Mons. J. D. Blavignac’s <i>Histoire des
Enseignes d’Hôtelleries, d’Auberges, et de Cabarets</i>;<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> Mons. Edouard
Fournier’s <i>Histoire des Enseignes de Paris</i>;<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> and Mons. Eustache de
La Quérière’s <i>Recherches Historiques sur les Enseignes des Maisons
Particulières</i>.<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p>

<p>It should be pointed out here that, although in what follows a good deal
has been said as to the age and past history of many of the best-known
Essex inns, this is, strictly speaking, a treatise on Signs and
Sign-boards only. The two subjects are, however, so closely connected
that I have found it best to treat them as one.</p>

<p>There will, doubtless, be many who will say that much of what I have
hereafter advanced is of too speculative a nature to be of real value.
They will declare, too, that I have<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_vi" id="page_vi"></a>{vi}</span> shown far too great a readiness to
ascribe to an heraldic origin, signs which are at least as likely to
have been derived from some other source. To these objections I may
fairly reply that as, in most cases, no means now exist of discovering
the precise mode of origination, centuries ago, of many of our modern
signs, it is impossible to do much more than speculate as to their
derivation; and the fact that it has been found possible to ascribe such
large numbers to a probable heraldic origin affords, to my thinking, all
the excuse that is needed for so many attempts having been made to show
that others have been derived from the same source.</p>

<p>No one is more fully aware than I am of the incompleteness of my work.
Many very interesting facts relating to Essex inns and their signs have
unquestionably been omitted. But the search after all such facts is
practically an endless one. If, for instance, I had been able to state
the history of all the inns and their signs in every town and village in
the county with the completeness with which (thanks to Mr. H. W. King) I
have been enabled to treat those of Leigh, I should have swelled my book
to encyclopædic dimensions, and should have had to ask for it a
prohibitory price.</p>

<p>In a treatise involving such an immense amount of minute detail, it is
impossible to avoid some errors. My hope is, however, that these are not
many. I shall always be glad to have pointed out to me any oversights
which may be detected, and I shall be not less glad at all times to
receive any additional facts which my readers may be kind enough to send
me.</p>

<p>I regret that it has been necessary to make use of some old heraldic
terms which the general reader will probably not at first understand.
This, however, was quite unavoidable. The meaning of these terms will be
at once made clear on reference to the Glossary given at the end of the
work, as an Appendix.</p>

<p>According to the list given in the last edition of the <i>Essex Post
Office Directory</i> there are now existing in the county no less than one
thousand, three hundred and fifty-five inns and public-houses. The signs
of all these have been classified, arranged under various headings, and
treated of in turn, together<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_vii" id="page_vii"></a>{vii}</span> with a very large number of others which
have existed in the county during the last two centuries and a half, but
have now disappeared. Information as to these has been collected by
means of a careful examination of the trade-tokens of the seventeenth
century, old Essex Directories, early books and pamphlets relating to
the county, old deeds and records, the early issues of the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> (now the <i>Essex County Chronicle</i>), and other newspapers,
&amp;c., &amp;c. Altogether it will be found I have been able to enumerate no
less than 693 distinct signs as now or formerly occurring in Essex.</p>

<p>I am indebted to a large number of gentlemen who have most kindly
assisted me by supplying me with information, suggestions, &amp;c., during
the eight years I have been gathering material for the present book.
First and foremost among these I must mention Mr. H. W. King of Leigh,
Hon. Secretary to the Essex Archæological Society, who, as he says,
“knows the descent of nearly every house and plot of ground in the
parish for two or three generations, and the name of every owner.” Among
other gentlemen to whom I am indebted in varying degrees, I may mention
Mr. G. F. Beaumont, Mr. Fred. Chancellor, that veteran Essex
archæologist Mr. Joseph Clarke, F.S.A., Mr. Wm. Cole, F.E.S., Hon.
Secretary of the Essex Field Club, Mr. Thos. B. Daniell, the Rev. H. L.
Elliot, Mr. C. K. Probert, Mr. G. N. Maynard, Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith, and
others, I have also to express my thanks to the following gentlemen,
magistrates’ clerks to the various Petty Sessional Divisions of Essex,
who have most kindly supplied me with lists of such beer-houses as have
signs in their respective divisions:&mdash;Messrs. A. J. Arthy (Rochford),
Jos. Beaumont (Dengie), W. Bindon Blood (Witham), J. and J. T. Collin
(Saffron Walden), G. Creed (Epping and Harlow), Augustus Cunnington
(Freshwell and South Hinckford), W. W. Duffield (Chelmsford), H. S.
Haynes (Havering), A. H. Hunt (Orsett), and Chas. Smith (Ongar). I have
also to thank the Essex Archæological Society for the use of the four
blocks of the De Vere badges appearing on p. 70; the Essex Field Club<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_viii" id="page_viii"></a>{viii}</span>
for that of the Rose Inn, Peldon, on p. 118; Messrs. Chambers &amp; Sons of
22, Wilson Street, Finsbury, for that of the Brewers’ Arms on p. 32;
Messrs. Couchman &amp; Co. of 14, Throgmorton Street, E.C., for that of the
Drapers’ Arms on p. 40; and the Brewers’, Drapers’ and Butchers’
Companies for kindly allowing me to insert cuts of their arms. To my
cousin, Miss S. Christy, I am indebted for kindly drawing the
illustrations appearing on pp. 87 and 140.</p>

<p>Portions of the Introduction and other parts of the book have already
appeared in an altered form in <i>Chambers’s Journal</i> (Jan., 1887, p.
785), and I am indebted to the editor for permission to reprint.</p>

<p>Finally, I have to thank the Subscribers, who, by kindly ordering
copies, have diminished the loss which almost invariably attends the
publication of works of this nature. As the book has already extended to
considerably more space than was originally intended, I trust the
Subscribers will excuse the omission of the customary list.</p>

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<span class="smcap">Chelmsford</span>,<br />
<i>February 1, 1887</i>.<br />
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_ix" id="page_ix"></a>{ix}</span>&nbsp; </p>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_x" id="page_x"></a>{x}</span>&nbsp; </p>

<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>
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CONTENTS.</h2>

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<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="rt"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr>

<tr><td>INTRODUCTION</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_1">1</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>HERALDIC SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_29">29</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>MAMMALIAN SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_46">46</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">CHAPTER IV.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>ORNITHOLOGICAL SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_91">91</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_V">CHAPTER V.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>PISCATORY, INSECT, AND REPTILIAN SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_103">103</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">CHAPTER VI.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>BOTANICAL SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_107">107</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">CHAPTER VII.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>HUMAN SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_120">120</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">CHAPTER VIII.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>NAUTICAL SIGNS<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_xi" id="page_xi"></a>{xi}</span></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_134">134</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_IX">CHAPTER IX.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>ASTRONOMICAL SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_148">148</a></td></tr>

<tr><th class="c" colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_X">CHAPTER X.</a></th></tr>

<tr><td>MISCELLANEOUS SIGNS</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_153">153</a></td></tr>

<tr><td>GLOSSARY OF HERALDIC TERMS USED</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_176">176</a></td></tr>

<tr><td>INDEX TO NAMES OF SIGNS, &amp;C.</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_177">177</a></td></tr>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_1" id="page_1"></a>{1}</span></p>

<h1><span class="eng">
<img src="images/trade-signs-of-esser.png"
width="450"
height="49"
alt="The Trade Signs of Esser."
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<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.<br /><br />
<i>INTRODUCTION.</i></h2>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“The county god, ...<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Whose blazing wyvern weather-cocked the spire,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Stood from his walls, and winged his entry-gates,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And swang besides on many a windy sign.”<br /></span>
<span class="i11"><span class="smcap">Tennyson</span>: <i>Aylmer’s Field</i>.<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_t.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="77"
alt="T"
/></span>HE use of signs as a means of distinguishing different houses of
business, is a custom which has come down to us from times of great
antiquity. Nevertheless, it is not at all difficult to discover the
reasons which first led to their being employed. In days when only an
infinitesimally small proportion of the population could read, it would
obviously have been absurd for a tradesman to have inscribed above his
door his name and occupation, or the number of his house, as is now
done. Such inscriptions as “Sutton &amp; Sons, Seedsmen,” or “Pears &amp; Co.,
Soapmakers,” would then have been quite useless as a means of
distinguishing the particular houses that bore them; but, if each dealer
displayed conspicuously before his place of business a painted
representation of the wares he sold, the arms of the Trade-Guild to
which he belonged, or those of his landlord or patron, or some other
device by which his house might be known, there would be little
probability of mistake. If the sign thus displayed indicated the nature
of the wares sold within, it would answer a double purpose. Signs, too,
would be especially<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_2" id="page_2"></a>{2}</span> useful in distinguishing different establishments
in times when many members of the same craft resided, as they used
formerly to do, in one street or district. Although this habit has now
largely disappeared in England, in the cities of the East each trade is
still chiefly confined to its own special quarter.</p>

<p>In considering the subject of how signs originally came into use, it
must never be forgotten that, in bygone times, they were not confined,
as now, almost exclusively to “public-houses.” We have still, among
others, the sign of the <span class="smcap">Pole</span> for a barber, the <span class="smcap">Rod and Fish</span> for a
tackle-dealer, the <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> for a tobacconist, the <span class="smcap">Golden Balls</span> for a
pawnbroker; but formerly the proprietor of nearly every house of
business, and even of private residences, displayed his own particular
sign, just as the keepers of inns and taverns do now. For instance, an
examination of the title-page of almost any book, published a couple of
centuries or so ago, will show an imprint something like the
following:&mdash;“Printed for Timothy Childe at the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> in St. Paul’s
Churchyard; and for Thos. Varnam and John Osborn at the <span class="smcap">Oxford Arms</span> in
Lombard St. MDCCXII.” Again, Sir Richard Baker’s quaint <i>Chronicles of
the Kings of England</i> was printed in 1684, “for H. Sawbridge at the
<span class="smcap">Bible</span> on Ludgate Hill, B. Tooke at the <span class="smcap">Ship</span> in St. Paul’s Churchyard,
and T. Sawbridge at the <span class="smcap">Three Flower-de-Luces</span> in Little Brittain.” As a
further example of the use of signs in former times by booksellers, in
common with other tradesmen, it may be mentioned that, according to a
writer in <i>Frazer’s Magazine</i> (1845, vol. xxxii. p. 676)&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The first edition of Shakespeare’s <i>Venus and Adonis</i>, and the
first edition of his <i>Rape of Lucrece</i>, were ‘sold by John Harrison
at the sign of the <span class="smcap">White Greyhound</span> in Saint Paul’s Churchyard;’ and
the first edition of <i>Shepheard’s Kalender</i> by ‘Hugh Singleton,
dwelling at the <span class="smcap">Golden Tun</span>, in Creed Lane, near unto Ludgate.’ The
first edition of <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> was sold at the
<span class="smcap">Flower de Leuse and Crowne</span> in St. Paul’s Churchyard; the first
edition of the <i>Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> at the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> in Fleet
Street; the first edition of the <i>Merchant of Venice</i> at the <span class="smcap">Green
Dragon</span> in St. Paul’s Churchyard; the first edition of <i>Richard
III.</i> at the <span class="smcap">Angel</span>, and the first edition of <i>Richard II.</i> at the
<span class="smcap">Fox</span>, both in St. Paul’s Churchyard; the first edition of <i>Henry V.</i>
was sold at the <span class="smcap">Cat and Parrots</span> in Cornhill; the first<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_3" id="page_3"></a>{3}</span> edition of
<i>Lear</i> at the <span class="smcap">Pied Bull</span> in St. Paul’s Churchyard; and the first
edition of <i>Othello</i> ‘at the <span class="smcap">Eagle and Child</span> in Britain’s
Bourse’&mdash;<i>i.e.</i>, the New Exchange.”</p></div>

<p>Were announcements similar to these to appear on any modern book, it
would certainly give many persons the impression that the work had been
printed at a “public-house.” Again, on the cheques, and over the door of
Messrs. Hoare, bankers, of Fleet Street, may still be seen a
representation of the <span class="smcap">Leather Bottle</span> which formed their sign in
Cheapside at least as long ago as the year 1677. In Paris, to the
present day, sellers of “<i>bois et charbons</i>” (wood and charcoal or
coals) invariably have the fronts of their establishments, facing the
street, painted in a manner intended to convey the impression that the
house is built of rough logs of wood. This device, although not
displayed upon a sign-board, forms, in every respect, a true trade-sign.
In all parts of France, signs still retain much more of their ancient
glory than they do in England. Though not common in the newer and more
fashionable streets and boulevards, they are abundant in the older
quarters of Paris, Rouen, and other large towns. They are much oftener
pictorial or graven than with us, and it is notable that they are used
almost, or quite, as frequently by shopkeepers and other tradesmen as by
the keepers of wine-shops, inns, and taverns. The sign, too, very often
represents the wares sold within.</p>

<p>Nowadays, however, the old custom of displaying a sign finds favour with
very few English tradesmen, except the keepers of inns and taverns; and
even they have allowed the custom to sink to such depths of degradation
that the great majority of sign-boards now bear only the name of the
house in print: consequently the reason which led originally to the use
of signs&mdash;the necessity for pictorial representation when few could
read&mdash;is no longer obvious. It may be truly said that the great spread
of education among all classes during the present century has given a
death-blow alike to the use of signs in trade and to the art of the
sign-painter. This, to be sure, is hardly a matter to call for regret on
its own account. Nevertheless, the great decline in the use of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_4" id="page_4"></a>{4}</span> the
old-fashioned pictorial sign-board is to be regretted for many reasons.
The signs which our forefathers made use of have interwoven themselves
with our whole domestic, and even, to some extent, with our political,
history. In losing them we are losing one of the well-known landmarks of
the past. Sign-boards of the real old sort have about them an amount of
interest which is sufficient to surprise those who care to take trouble
in studying them. Dr. Brewer very truly says, in his <i>Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable</i>:&mdash;“Much of a nation’s history, and more of its manners
and feelings, may be gleaned from its public-house signs.” The
sign-boards themselves tell us (as has already been pointed out) of the
habit our forefathers had of crowding together in one street or district
all those who were of a like occupation or profession. They tell us also
of the deep ignorance of the masses of the people in days when
sign-boards were a necessity. And when it is remembered that it was only
so lately as the beginning of the present century that the knowledge of
reading and writing became sufficiently widespread to allow the
numbering of houses to come into general use as a means of
distinguishing one house from another, it will be easily seen that the
sign-boards of (say) two centuries ago played a very important, and even
an essential, part in the commercial world of those days.</p>

<p>But a study of the various devices that appear even on modern
sign-boards will teach us still more of the doings of our ancestors.
They tell us of the wares our forefathers made and dealt in, of the
superstitious beliefs they held, of the party strifes in which they
engaged, and of the great titled families which had so large a share in
the making of English history&mdash;in short, the devices seen, even on
modern sign-boards, afford, to those who can and care to read them, no
mean picture both of mediæval and more modern times. It was well
remarked in an early number of the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i> (1738, vol.
viii. p. 526), that “The People of England are a nation of Politicians,
from the First Minister down to the cobbler, and peculiarly remarkable
for hanging out their principles upon their sign-posts.” Some of our<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_5" id="page_5"></a>{5}</span>
modern Essex signs, for instance, are relics (as will be more clearly
pointed out hereafter) of what were once staple industries in the
county, though now all but unknown in it. Thus the signs of the <span class="smcap">Woolpack</span>
(p. 79), the <span class="smcap">Shears</span> (p. 41), and the <span class="smcap">Golden Fleece</span> (p. 78) are all
mementoes of the time when the woollen trade flourished in Essex. The
sign of the <span class="smcap">Hop-poles</span> (p. 111) reminds us of the time when hop-growing
formed a considerable industry in the county. Our various <span class="smcap">Blue Boars</span> (p.
68) speak to us of the noble and once mighty Essex family of De Vere,
which formerly wielded a great power in England. These are but a few
instances. Others will occur to every one who peruses the following
pages. At the present day, too, there is scarcely a village in the
county that has not some street, square, or lane named after an
inn-sign, as, for instance, Sun Street, Eagle Lane, Swan Street, Falcon
Square, Lion Walk, Greyhound Lane, &amp;c. In London, or Paris, the
connection is still closer. Surely, then, although signs are no longer
of great or urgent importance to us in the daily routine of our ordinary
business life, an inquiry into their past history will be a matter of
much interest, especially as comparatively little has hitherto been
written about them.</p>

<p>Nevertheless, although it is certain that (as has been stated) not a few
of our present signs have been derived from emblems of industries now
decayed and the armorial bearings of ancient county families, the fact
cannot be overlooked that in a great many cases these particular signs,
as now displayed by particular houses, have only very recently come into
use. That is to say, they are only <i>indirectly</i> derived from the sources
named, having been selected because, perhaps, some neighbouring and
really ancient inn (which derived its sign <i>directly</i>) was known to have
long borne that sign. There can be no doubt (as Mr. H. W. King writes)
that&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The very large majority of country inns are comparatively modern,
both as to signs and sites. Elsewhere, as here [Leigh], I suspect
they have been moved and removed again and again&mdash;old signs
shifted, and often changed altogether. I remember the late Mr.
Edward Woodard, of Billericay, telling me some years ago that the
inns of that town had been changed again and again: that is, what
are now private residences were<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_6" id="page_6"></a>{6}</span> formerly inns, and <i>vice versa</i>.
This he knew from the evidence of conveyances which had passed
through his hands professionally. I have no doubt that every town
would show the same facts if only one could get sufficient
evidence. At the same time, of course, some inns are very old
indeed, both as to sites and signs.”</p></div>

<p>The great decay in the use of inn-signs of the real old sort has, it is
much to be feared, now gone too far to be arrested, however much it may
be regretted. In Essex, probably not five per cent. of our sign-boards
are now pictorial. Even in the remote and sleepy little town of Thaxted
very few of the inns now possess pictorial signs. Here and there,
however, throughout the county one may still come across a few such, and
several excellent examples will be hereafter alluded to.</p>

<p>Probably no better idea can now be obtained in Essex of an old-fashioned
thoroughfare than in the broad High Street at Epping. From one point no
less than ten sign-boards may be seen, all swinging over the pavement in
the ancient style. Only one, however, the <span class="smcap">White Lion</span>, is now pictorial.
The number of inns in Grays, too, is very large. It has been stated in
print that “for its size, it contains more than any other town in
England.” In the narrow Tindal Street at Chelmsford the sign-boards
still swing across the street in the old style, and are hung upon the
old supports. The best example is that which supports the sign of the
<span class="smcap">Spotted Dog</span>. Witham has many inns, nearly all of which have their
sign-boards hanging over the pavement, but neither they nor their
supports are of much interest. Colchester has hardly such a thing as a
projecting sign-board, let alone pictorial signs. Castle Hedingham, for
its size, probably has more pictorial signs than any other Essex town,
the <span class="smcap">Bell</span>, the <span class="smcap">Crown</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Crowns</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Rising Sun</span> being all thus
represented. Except the sign-iron of the <i>Six Bells</i> (p. 168), Dunmow
contains but little of sign-board interest. The only pictorial
sign-board in Ongar is that of the <span class="smcap">Cock</span>. Several signs and sign-irons in
Bardfield are hereafter noticed (pp. 170 and 169). In the High Street at
Romford are many very old inns, but their signs are all script. At Leigh
there are many inns, the most ancient of which,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_7" id="page_7"></a>{7}</span> in the opinion of Mr.
H. W. King, are the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> and the <span class="smcap">Hamboro’ Merchants’ Arms</span>, though the
<span class="smcap">George</span> was originally the more important.</p>

<p>The following interesting list of inns in the Epping Division in
September, 1789, has been kindly contributed by Mr. G. Creed of
Epping:&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Chingford</span>: King’s Head, Bull. <span class="smcap">Epping</span>: White Lion, Bell, Cock, Swan,
Black Lion, Epping Place, Cock and Magpie, Green Man, Globe,
George, Rose and Crown, Thatched House, White Hart, Harp, White
Horse, Sun, Chequers. <span class="smcap">Nazing</span>: Chequer, Sun, Coach and Horses,
Crown, King Harold’s Head. <span class="smcap">Roydon</span>: Fish and Eels, Black Swan, New
Inn, White Hart, Green Man. <span class="smcap">Waltham Abbey</span>: Owl, Green Man, Harp,
Greyhound, Ship, Cock, Chequer, Angel, Rose and Crown, Red Lion,
Bull’s Head, Three Tons (<i>sic</i>), Sun, Cock, New Inn, Green Dragon,
White Horse, Compasses, White Lion, King’s Arms. <span class="smcap">Chigwell</span>: Three
Jolly Wheelers, Roebuck, King’s Head, Maypole, Bald Hind, Fox and
Hounds, Bald Stag. <span class="smcap">Loughton</span>: Reindeer, Crown, King’s Head, Plume of
Feathers. <span class="smcap">Moreton</span>: Nag’s Head, Green Man, White Hart. <span class="smcap">North Weald</span>:
Rainbow, King’s Head. <span class="smcap">Stanford Rivers</span>: White Bear, Green Man.
<span class="smcap">Theydon Bois</span>: White Hart. <span class="smcap">Theydon Garnon</span>: Merry Fiddlers. <span class="smcap">Great
Hallingbury</span>: George. <span class="smcap">Latton</span>: Sun and Whalebone, Bush Fair House.
<span class="smcap">Fyfield</span>: Black Bull, Queen’s Head. <span class="smcap">Lambourne</span>: White Hart, Blue
Boar. <span class="smcap">High Laver</span>: Chequer. <span class="smcap">Little Laver</span>: Leather Bottle. <span class="smcap">Magdalen
Laver</span>: Green Man. <span class="smcap">Chipping Ongar</span>: White Horse, King’s Head, Anchor,
Crown, Red Lion, Bull, Cock. <span class="smcap">High Ongar</span>: Red Lion, White Horse, Two
Brewers. <span class="smcap">Harlow</span>: King’s Head, Black Bull, George, Green Man, White
Horse, Horns and Horseshoes, Queen’s Head, Black Lion, Marquis of
Granby. <span class="smcap">Hatfield Broad Oak</span>: Plume of Feathers, White Horse, Cock,
Duke’s Head, Bald-Faced Stag, Red Lion, Crown. <span class="smcap">Sheering</span>: Crown,
Cock. <span class="smcap">Netteswell</span>: White Horse, Chequer. <span class="smcap">Great Parndon</span>: Cock, Three
Horse Shoes.</p></div>

<p>In the last edition of the <i>London Directory</i>, 82 firms are still
described as “sign-painters,” and in the <i>Essex Directory</i>, 10; but it
is certain that most of these follow also some other trade than
sign-painting. In some cases artists of eminence have been known to
paint signs for inns, but there does not appear to have been any notable
instances of this in Essex. As a rule our pictorial sign-boards are not
works of art. That this is a common failing elsewhere, is shown by the
fact that the French say of a bad portrait or picture, “qu’il n’est bon
qu’à faire une enseigne à bière.” Signs, it must be admitted, are among
those things which the enlightenment of this go-ahead nineteenth century
is rapidly improving off the face of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_8" id="page_8"></a>{8}</span> the earth. Yet one cannot but
agree with the writer in <i>Frazer’s Magazine</i>, already quoted, who aptly
observes that it is a thousand pities the old signs were ever taken
down. “Men might,” he says, “read something of history (to say nothing
of a hash of heraldry) in their different devices.”</p>

<p>This decay in the use of inn-signs, however, is no greater than the
decline in importance of the inns themselves. These have within quite
recent years fallen from a position of great eminence and prosperity to
one of comparative degradation. Up to about fifty years ago, inns were
the centres round which most events of the time revolved. They combined
within themselves, to a very large extent, the various uses to which
modern clubs, reading-rooms, institutes, railway stations, restaurants,
eating-houses, hotels, public-houses, livery-stables, and the like are
now severally put. At present the majority of our inns are little more
than tippling-houses or drinking-places for the poorer classes. The
upper stratum of society has but little connection with them, beyond
receiving their rents.</p>

<p>Nothing has done more to promote this lowering of the status of modern
inns in general than the disuse of coaching. Inns were the
starting-points and destinations of the old coaches, and travellers
naturally put up and took their meals at them. Now people travel by
rail, stop at railway stations, put up at the “Railway Hotel,” and get
their meals in the station “refreshment rooms.” In days, too, when
country inns formed the stopping-places of the coaches they naturally
became important centres of information. In this they answered the
purpose to which clubs, institutes, reading-rooms, and the like are now
put. The cheap newspapers of to-day have given another serious shock to
the old tavern life of last century. Then, too, the innumerable horses,
needed for the many coaches on the great high-roads of fifty or a
hundred years ago, were kept at the inns, to the great advantage of the
latter. Now the various railway companies, of course, provide their own
engines, and the old-fashioned inns have to content themselves with a
very limited posting or omnibus business.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_9" id="page_9"></a>{9}</span></p>

<p>It is, indeed, not too much to say that in the old coaching days a small
town or village on any main road often consisted largely or almost
entirely of inns, and lived upon the traffic. Supplying the necessaries
for this traffic may be said to have been “the local industry” by which
the inhabitants of such places lived. Evidences of this may be gained
from not a few old books. Thus in Ogilby’s <i>Traveller’s Guide</i>, a book
of the roads published in 1699, Bow, near Stratford, is said to be “full
of inns,” while Stratford and Kelvedon are both spoken of as “consisting
chiefly of inns.” Again, in Daniel Defoe’s <i>Tour through the whole
Island of Great Britain</i>, published in 1724 (vol. i. p. 52), it is said
that&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Brent-Wood and Ingarstone, and even Chelmsford itself, have very
little to be said of them, but that they are large thorough-fair
Towns, full of good Inns, and chiefly maintained by the excessive
Multitude of Carriers and Passengers, which are constantly passing
this Way, with Droves of Cattle, Provisions, and Manufactures for
London.”</p></div>

<p>Few persons of the present day have any adequate idea of the extent to
which tavern life influenced thought and manners seventy, eighty, or one
hundred years ago. Each man then had his tavern, much as we now have our
clubs and reading-rooms. There he met his friends every evening,
discussed the political questions of the day, talked over business
topics, and heard the expensive and highly-valued London newspapers read
aloud. Dickens, in <i>Barnaby Rudge</i>, has well sketched the select village
company, which, for forty or fifty years, had met nightly in the bar of
the old <span class="smcap">Maypole</span> to tipple and debate. Ale was the universal beverage on
these occasions, and the fame of any given tavern was great or small
according to the skill of the landlord or his servants in producing this
beverage. It was not then, as now, the product of colossal breweries at
Burton, Romford, or elsewhere, but was entirely brewed upon the premises
of those who retailed it. Such customs as these, however, are now almost
entirely of the past.</p>

<p>We will now return once more to the discussion of sign-boards and their
modern degeneration. When signs were in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_10" id="page_10"></a>{10}</span> general use by all tradesmen,
it was but natural that people should endeavour to outvie one another in
the prominence and obtrusiveness of their sign-boards. Exactly the same
thing may be seen at the present day on any hoarding which the
bill-sticker has ornamented with his flaring posters. These are of all
imaginable colours and designs, in order to advertise and draw attention
to the wares of rival tradesmen, each of whom endeavours to obtain
greater publicity and attract more attention than his neighbour. Many
were the devices made use of a century or more ago to draw attention to
the sign-boards of those times. Some of the boards were made of enormous
size; others were painted in flaring colours; others bore striking or
amusing devices, likely to be remembered by those who saw them; while
others were projected far out into the street, or hung in elaborate and
ornamental frameworks of iron. When each man endeavoured to outdo his
neighbour in these particulars, it may well be imagined that no slight
inconvenience was caused to the public. Complaints that the size and
prominence of the sign-boards in the London streets prevented the access
of sunlight and the free circulation of the air began to be heard,
according to Messrs. Larwood and Hotten, as early as the beginning of
the fifteenth century, and an order was made to do away with the
nuisance. In the course of time, however, the evil grew again, till
Charles II., in 1667, “ordered that in all the streets no sign-board
shall hang across, but that the sign shall be fixed against the
balconies, or some convenient part of the side of the house.” Again,
however, the nuisance grew, and in 1762 large powers were once more
granted for clearing away the too obtrusive sign-boards, and very many
were taken down.</p>

<p>In France and other continental countries the same evil has had to be
grappled with. Time after time, as reference to the works previously
mentioned will show, the police of Paris and other large towns have
issued orders concerning the pulling down and putting up of sign-boards.
All Parisian signs are, consequently, now fastened to the fronts of the
houses.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_11" id="page_11"></a>{11}</span></p>

<p>This regulation of sign-boards is not altogether unknown, even at the
present day, in England. In the <i>Sussex Daily News</i> as lately as last
October there appeared an account of the removal of two sign-boards that
had recently been erected in two of the principal streets of Brighton.
These boards, measuring respectively 48 inches by 30, and 48 inches by
18, were swung over the pavement at the respective heights of 15 feet
and 12 feet; yet, although there are scores of more obstructive
sign-boards and sun-blinds in the borough, the somewhat over-officious
Works Committee of the Corporation ordered that they should be removed
by the surveyor, and the cost of so doing recovered from their owners,
because, in the opinion of the Committee, such boards were “public
annoyances and nuisances, by reason of their projecting over the
highways and annoying the public passage along the streets.” Presumably
it is within the power of any Local Authority to remove, or direct the
alteration of, any sign-boards which it regards as “nuisances.”</p>

<p>A writer, styling himself “Ambulator,” in the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i>
(vol. xl. p. 403) observes, so long ago as the year 1770, that signs
“were certainly the effect of a general want of literature, and
therefore can no longer be thought necessary, without national
disgrace.” He adds, though he must be guilty of exaggeration, that
“there is, at present, scarce a child among the poorest of the people
who, at seven or eight years old, cannot read a man’s name and trade
upon his door or window-shutter; and therefore we want the sign-painter
no more.” He also says that&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Long after signs became unnecessary, it was not unusual for an
opulent shopkeeper to lay out as much upon a sign, and the curious
ironwork with which it was fixed to his house, so as to project
nearly into the middle of the street, as would furnish a less
considerable dealer with a stock-in-trade. I have been credibly
informed that there were many signs and sign-irons upon Ludgate
Hill which cost several hundred pounds, and that as much was laid
out by a mercer upon a sign of the Queen’s Head as would have gone
a long way towards decorating the original for a birth-night.”</p></div>

<p>A good idea of how our Essex streets were obstructed by the huge
dimensions of the signs of the various inns a century<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_12" id="page_12"></a>{12}</span> or more ago, may
be obtained from an old print engraved by J. Ryland in 1762. It shows a
view of the High Street of Chelmsford, taken from the point at which the
fountain opposite the end of Springfield Lane now stands, and is
entitled <i>A Perspective View of the County Town of Chelmsford, in Essex,
with the Judge’s Procession on the Day of Entrance, attended by the High
Sheriff and his Officers</i>. The judge’s carriage, drawn by six horses and
preceded by the old “javelin men,” now dispensed with, is shown in its
progress up the street, past the old <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> Inn, and going towards
the church. The procession is passing under the great beam from which
swings the sign of the <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span>. This beam extends out from the house
to the top of a post set up in the middle of the street for its support.
If the height of this post may be estimated from the height of two
persons shown standing near its base (who may be fairly set down as six
feet in stature), it is not less than 28 feet high, while the beam it
supports must project at least 33 feet from the house. Close to this
structure, but nearer the other side of the street, though still not far
from its middle, stands another sign-post of even more gigantic
proportions. This post is very massive, and (if its height may be
estimated in the same manner as before) it must be at least 24 feet
high. Against the substantial shores supporting it in its upright
position, leans a fiddler; while, close at hand, two mounted trumpeters
are saluting the passing judge. But this is not all: upon the top of the
post, supported by a fine iron framework, of an excellent flowing
design, is the sign-board. This displays a <i>lion rampant guardant</i> (as
the heralds say), which is evidently the sign of the large inn opposite
to which it stands. This brings the height of the entire structure up to
at least 45 feet, or nearly as high as the inn itself. This was probably
the sign of the ancient <span class="smcap">Lion</span> Inn mentioned hereafter (p. 59).</p>

<p>Mr. F. T. Veley of Chelmsford possesses a fine old oil painting from
which this engraving was evidently made, though the two differ in some
particulars. The figures and the houses are almost precisely alike in
both, but the painting has not the signs and sign-posts shown in the
engraving. In<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_13" id="page_13"></a>{13}</span> both the width of the street is much too great. The
engraving has been reduced by the photographic process, and is herein
made use of as a frontispiece,<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> whilst the design of the remarkably
fine iron framework supporting the sign of the Lion has been reproduced
upon the cover of the book. It is a remarkable fine example of the
elaborate and ornamental sign-iron within which swung many sign-boards
of a hundred years ago. Other examples, but less elegant, still remain
here and there in the county, generally much rusted with age. Among
these may be mentioned those of the <span class="smcap">Six Bells</span> at Dunmow, which is dated
1778 (p. 168), the <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at Bardfield (p. 170), and the <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at Castle
Hedingham (p. 150), all of which will be found depicted hereafter,
though with other signs attached.</p>

<p>Leaving now the consideration of the <i>origin of the use of signs</i>, in
order to discuss the <i>origins of the various devices used as signs</i>, we
may well feel some surprise at first that the ancient and extremely
entertaining, though now much decayed, art of Heraldry should have given
us, at the present day, so many of our commonest signs as it obviously
has done. A somewhat hasty examination of the list of Essex signs will
show that something like 40 per cent. of the whole have probably been
derived, either directly or indirectly, from Heraldry. The same
statement would probably be found to hold good of the rest of England.
So obvious is it that a very large number of inn-signs have been in some
way derived from Heraldry, that it is surprising this connection has not
received a much fuller recognition in the past than it has done. It is
impossible, even for those most strongly inclined to disbelieve in the
heraldic origin of a majority of our signs, to deny that very many of
them, at least, have been so derived. Allusion is here made to such
signs as the <span class="smcap">Griffin</span>, the <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span>, the <span class="smcap">Green Dragon</span>, the <span class="smcap">Blue Lion</span>,
the <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Crowns</span>, the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>, the <span class="smcap">Fleur-de-Lys</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span>, the <span class="smcap">Cross Keys</span>, and many others, the difficulty of
ascribing which to any<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_14" id="page_14"></a>{14}</span> other than an heraldic origin will be at once
apparent. Indeed, the fact that a very large proportion of our signs are
of an heraldic derivation seems to require no stronger proof than will
be found in the following pages. The next thing, therefore, will be to
show how this came about.</p>

<p>It would probably early have suggested itself to the minds of tradesmen
and others to use their own coats of arms (when they had any), or those
of the Trade Guilds to which they belonged, or the arms, crest, or
badge<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> of their landlord or some patron, as a sign. This convenient
custom, once established, would be sure to be largely followed. There
can be no doubt whatever that in this way arose the custom of calling a
house the “So-and-So’s Arms.” At the present time, the custom itself
remains, although its origin has been largely lost sight of; and many
inns have now, in consequence, come to be known as the “Arms” of
persons, trades, places, and things which never did bear, and never
could have borne, a coat of arms. Clearly the origin of the sign of the
<span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span> had never presented itself to the mind of the “simple
clodhopper” who, according to Messrs. Larwood and Hotten (p. 106), “once
walked many miles to see King George IV. on one of his journeys, and
came home mightily disgusted; for the king had arms just like any other
man, while he had always understood that his Majesty’s right arm was a
lion, and his left a unicorn!” In Essex no less than 8·5 per cent. of
all the inn-signs are “Arms” of some kind. In Devonshire “Arms” actually
form as much as 22 per cent. of the whole, according to Mr. Pengelly.</p>

<p>Although the custom of calling a house the “Somebody’s Arms” still
survives, it is probable that, when the knowledge and ordinary use of
Heraldry began to decline, many houses, formerly known as the
“So-and-So’s Arms,” gradually came to be called after the most prominent
charge in the coat, or after the “crest” or one of the “supporters,”<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>
which might<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_15" id="page_15"></a>{15}</span> have been a <i>lion gules</i>, a <i>boar azure</i>, a <i>white hart</i>,
or a <i>rose crowned</i>. The badge, again, has unquestionably given us not a
few signs. Badges were used by the sovereign and by the higher nobility
from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries inclusive. They must not
be confounded with <i>crests</i>, which were personal emblems, worn on the
crest or helm by leaders in the field. <i>Badges</i>, on the other hand, were
household emblems, worn by all the followers and retainers of the lord.
They were always of a simple nature, to be easily distinguishable in
battle, and were placed on armour, standards, clothing, buildings,
furniture, &amp;c., &amp;c. As a rule, therefore, it is the badge, rather than
the crest, or even the coat of arms, which has given us our old heraldic
signs. In some cases badges were adopted by parties, as, for instance,
during the Wars of the Roses, so called because the Yorkists took the
White Rose as their badge, while the Lancastrians took the Red.
Shakespeare often alludes to the old custom of using badges. Mrs. Bury
Palliser,<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> speaking of this subject, says, that “we still find the
cognizance of many an illustrious family preserved as the sign of an
inn. The White Hart of Richard II., the Antelope of Henry IV., the
Beacon of Henry V., the Feathers of Henry VI., the Star of the Lords of
Oxford (whose brilliancy decided the fate of the Battle of Barnet), the
Lion of the Duke of Norfolk (which shone conspicuous on Bosworth field),
and many others, too numerous to mention, may yet be seen as sign-boards
to village inns contiguous to the former castles of families whose
possessions have passed into other hands.” From the red shield (<i>roth
schild</i>), above the door of the house of an honest old Hebrew, forming
No. 148 in the <i>Juden Gasse</i>, or Jews’ Alley, at Frankfort, has been
derived the name of the richest family in the world.</p>

<p>From these heraldic devices have unquestionably been derived many of the
strangely-coloured animals, such as red and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_16" id="page_16"></a>{16}</span> blue lions, blue boars,
&amp;c., which are quite unknown to men of science, and have never yet been
seen except in Heraldry and upon sign-boards. A calculation will show
that no less than 203 Essex signs, or about 15 per cent., are described
as being of some particular colour, and that these coloured signs are
animals in nearly all cases&mdash;one good proof of their heraldic origin.
Black occurs 24 times, blue 7 times, golden 6 times, green 28 times
(including dragons and men only), red 39 times (including 34 <span class="smcap">Red Lions</span>,
3 <span class="smcap">Red Cows</span>, 1 <span class="smcap">Red House</span>, and 1 <span class="smcap">Red Tape Tavern</span>), and white exactly 100
times (including 50 <span class="smcap">White Harts</span>, 2 <span class="smcap">White Swans</span>, 2 <span class="smcap">White Bears</span>, <span class="smcap">White
Lions</span>, <span class="smcap">White Horses</span>, &amp;c.). In London the proportion of coloured signs is
much smaller. There are 79 distinct devices, or about 4·5 per cent. of
the entire number.</p>

<p>Another strong proof that many of our otherwise incomprehensible signs
have been derived from Heraldry, is to be found in the frequency with
which the number <i>Three</i> appears upon sign-boards. No less than 35
houses in Essex (having 15 distinct signs) are known as the <i>three</i>
somethings, while other numbers only occur 12 times in all. The
following is a complete list: There are 3 <span class="smcap">Two Brewers</span>, a <span class="smcap">Four Ashes</span>, 2
<span class="smcap">Five Bells</span>, 3 <span class="smcap">Six Bells</span>, and 4 <span class="smcap">Eight Bells</span>. Many of our Essex <i>Threes</i>
will be noticed hereafter. The list includes the signs of the <span class="smcap">Three
Blackbirds</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Colts</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Compasses</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Crowns</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Three Cups</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Horseshoes</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Pigeons</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Tuns</span>, and
several others. Nor is this peculiarity confined to Essex signs only. In
London the number Three gives twenty-nine distinct devices and
sixty-five signs, including repetitions of the same device. All other
numbers put together only give twenty-two distinct devices, or
fifty-five signs. The author of a curious and interesting letter on the
signs of Bury, which appeared in the <i>Bury and Norwich Post</i> on June 29
and July 6, 1791, noticed this prevalence of the number Three on
sign-boards in his day, and was, he says, “inclined to account for it
from a kind of predilection there is among sign-painters to the number
Three, as we see in the Three<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_17" id="page_17"></a>{17}</span> Horse Shoes, before mentioned, also in
the Three Bulls, the Three Tuns, the Three Crowns, and the Three Goats’
Heads.”</p>

<p>Now every one acquainted with Heraldry will know how very common it is
to find <i>three</i> charges of some kind or other upon an escutcheon, either
alone or with an “ordinary” or some other charge between them, such as
<i>Argent, three cinquefoils gules</i> for D’Arcy, <i>Gules, three eagles
displayed or</i> for Band, <i>Gules, a fess between three bulls’ heads couped
or</i> for Torrel, &amp;c., and there can be very little doubt that this
striking abundance of the number three on our sign-boards is due,
largely at least, to the frequent use of that number in Heraldry. It
cannot be denied, however, that three was a favourite, or lucky, number
long before the first appearance of the art of Heraldry. Messrs. Larwood
and Hotten cite many instances of its use, even as far back as the time
of the Assyrians and ancient Egyptians. But, in spite of this, there can
be no reasonable doubt that many of our “<i>threes</i>” are derived directly
from Heraldry; whilst others are probably derived from it indirectly. In
the latter case the name has been bestowed recently upon his house by
the landlord, because he knew it to be a very common custom to call a
house the “<i>Three</i> Somethings,” although of the origin of that custom he
probably knew absolutely nothing. Essex examples of the former class are
given above. Among those of the latter are probably our signs of the
<span class="smcap">Three Ashes</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Elms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Jolly Wheelers</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Three
Mariners</span>.</p>

<p>It is, of course, more than probable that some signs, which appear to be
truly heraldic in their origin, are, in reality, not derived from
Heraldry at all, but have been taken direct from Nature. At the same
time, the evidence is overwhelming that very many of our signs have a
truly heraldic origin. Messrs. Larwood and Hotten recognize this fact to
a considerable extent, and devote their third chapter, comprising as
much as a tenth part of their whole work, to “Heraldic and Emblematic
Signs.” It appears, however, that they have in most cases erred on the
side of caution, and have been too reluctant to ascribe to Heraldry the
origin of any sign for which another derivation could possibly be
found.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_18" id="page_18"></a>{18}</span> There is, nevertheless, much truth in the opening sentences of
their fourth chapter (p. 150), treating of “Animals and Monsters.” They
say:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“It is, in many cases, impossible to draw a line of demarcation
between signs borrowed from the animal kingdom and those taken from
Heraldry: we cannot now determine, for instance, whether by the
<span class="smcap">White Horse</span> is meant simply an <i>equus caballus</i>, or the White Horse
of the Saxons, and that of the House of Hanover; nor whether the
<span class="smcap">White Greyhound</span> represented originally the supporter of the arms of
Henry VII., or simply the greyhound that courses ‘poor puss’ on our
meadows in the hunting-season. For this reason this chapter has
been placed as a sequel to the heraldic signs. As a rule,
fantastically-coloured animals are unquestionably of heraldic
origin: their number is limited to the Lion, the Boar, the Hart,
the Dog, the Cat, the Bear, and, in a few instances, the Bull. All
other animals were generally represented in what was meant for
their natural colours.”</p></div>

<p>Again, the authors very truly remark (p. 110) that&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“In pondering over this class of signs, great difficulty often
arises from the absence of all proof that the animal under
consideration was set up as a badge, and not as a representation of
the actual animal. As no amount of investigation can decide this
matter, we have been somewhat profuse in our list of badges, in
order that the reader should be able to form his own opinion upon
that subject. Thus, for instance, with the first sign that offers
itself, <span class="smcap">The Angel and Trumpet</span>, it is impossible to say whether the
supporters of Richard II. gave rise to it, or whether it represents
Fame.”</p></div>

<p>The late Mr. Jewitt, who had an excellent knowledge of Heraldry, in his
article already referred to, clearly recognizes the important part which
that art has played in giving origin to many of our commonest signs; but
the same cannot be said for Mr. Pengelly’s treatise on the <i>Signs of
Devonshire</i>. The connection between Heraldry and the origin of our
trade-signs is so intimate, that no one is fully competent to discuss
the latter unless well acquainted with the former; and, although the
signs of the 1,123 inns existing in Devonshire are carefully classified
and treated of at length by Mr. Pengelly, numerous passages make it
evident from the outset that he has little or no knowledge of the
herald’s art. Consequently, his remarks lose very much of their
interest. For instance, he says:&mdash;“So far as I have been able to
discover, the <span class="smcap">Harp and Lion</span> at Plymouth is without parallel anywhere.
Its meaning, if it have any, seems very far to seek.” Had the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_19" id="page_19"></a>{19}</span> writer
been acquainted with Heraldry, he would have known that a lion and a
harp are the principal charges in the arms of Scotland and Wales
respectively, as shown on the backs of our florins. Again, he says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Three is the popular numeral, and is not, at all times, easily
accounted for.... There seems to be no explanation for the <span class="smcap">Three
Cranes</span> at Exeter, the <span class="smcap">Three Pigeons</span> at Bishop’s Tawton, the <span class="smcap">Three
Horseshoes</span>, of which there are four examples, or the <span class="smcap">Three Tuns</span>,
met with as many as seven times, unless we suppose the number to
have some direct or indirect allusion to the doctrine of the
Trinity, or to the very popular belief that ‘Three are lucky.’&nbsp;”</p></div>

<p>The frequent appearance of the number three on our sign-boards has been
already explained, and the origin of its use will be made still clearer
hereafter. It is certainly true that one of Mr. Pengelly’s headings is
“Heraldry,” but under it he speaks of but little else than those inns
which have the “Arms” of some person or place as their sign. In this
connection he says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The Devonshire inn-keepers appear to be fond of heraldic signs;
but it may be doubted whether some of the arms they have set up are
known at the Heralds’ office. There are in the county as many as
253 sign-boards&mdash;<i>i.e.</i>, 22 per cent. of the entire number&mdash;bearing
arms of some kind. There is, however, a sufficient recurrence of
the same names to reduce the number to 165 distinct signs or names
of coats. The list contains the arms of a hero who had died, and a
hierarchy that had passed away&mdash;Achilles and the Druids&mdash;before the
founding of the Heraldic System; of royal, noble, and other
distinguished personages; of proprietors of the soil; of countries,
counties, cities, towns, and villages; of trades and employments;
and of objects difficult of classification.”</p></div>

<p>With Mr. Pengelly’s treatment of non-heraldic signs there is, of course,
no fault to be found.</p>

<p>M. Edouard Fournier, in his most interesting <i>Histoire des Enseignes de
Paris</i>, makes some valuable remarks on the connection between Trade
Signs and Heraldry. The following is a translation. After stating that
coats of arms came into use at the time of the Crusades, he says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The first Crusade dates from the year 1090.... Is it not allowable
to suppose that, among the Crusaders who had taken the sign of the
cross upon their coats [of arms], there were some who, prevented
from starting upon the Crusade, displayed the cross upon their
houses, as a token of their having taken a vow, sooner or later, to
proceed to the Holy Land?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_20" id="page_20"></a>{20}</span> This would be a rational explanation of
the general and widely followed custom of using the cross as the
sign of a house or a shop&mdash;Red Crosses, White Crosses, Golden and
Silver Crosses, &amp;c., which form a kind of sign-board crusade. It is
impossible otherwise to explain the singular and obvious analogy
which exists between the devices on the shield of arms and those on
the oldest sign-boards. On the sign-boards, as upon the armorial
bearings, are to be seen the same devices, borrowed from every
object which has a shape or a name in the creation of God or of
man; moreover, upon the sign-boards, these figures are reproduced
with the various colours and ‘metals’ in which they appear on the
coats of arms. The only difference is in the ‘field’ or background
upon which the figures are painted. On the sign-board this is of no
importance; while it is, on the contrary, one of the distinctive
features of the coat of arms. In Louvan Geliot’s <i>Indice Armorial</i>
(<i>Armorial Index</i>) is to be found not only a glossary of all the
words used in heraldic ‘blazon,’ but also the names of nearly all
the devices displayed upon sign-boards.... In a word, sign-boards
and shields of arms, both alike, display figures of everything that
strikes the eye or the mind in our every-day life....</p>

<p>“The mansions built or inhabited by noble families bore, as signs,
the arms of these families, sculptured or painted, over the
entrance-door. These escutcheons of the nobility, without doubt,
excited the envy of the merchants, who wished also to have signs,
and who, therefore, placed their trade or occupation under the
protection of the shield of France, or some other shield, either of
a province or even of a monastery. There was nobody to object to
this, and such signs quickly multiplied in every direction.”</p></div>

<p>M. Fournier next gives a long list of houses which formerly displayed
armorial signs in several of the “Quartiers” of Paris. “After this
enumeration [he says] it will be possible to form an idea of the
multitude of signs of this kind which must have existed at the same
periods in the other Quarters of Paris.”</p>

<p>Before proceeding to discuss in detail the various signs to be met with
in the county of Essex, it will be well to point out two
cunningly-concealed pitfalls into which the ardent antiquary is likely
to fall, unless he is careful to exercise vigilance in avoiding them.</p>

<p>The first of these arises from the combination of two different signs
into one. Larwood and Hotten speak of such signs being “quartered,” but
“impaled” is a much better word, if used in its old heraldic sense.
Signs of this kind first began to appear about the beginning of last
century, and are still common, although less so than formerly. It is
noticeable that Taylor in his <i>Catalogue of Tavernes</i>, published in
1636<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_21" id="page_21"></a>{21}</span> (see p. 28), does not name a single impaled sign, properly
so-called. In some cases, such as the <span class="smcap">Eagle and Child</span>, the <span class="smcap">Star and
Garter</span>, the <span class="smcap">George and Dragon</span>, &amp;c., the connection is at once obvious;
but in the great majority no meaning or connection is apparent. In such
cases it will be found best not to search too deeply for a meaning, for
the good reason that none exists. The mind of Addison seems to have been
considerably exercised by the signs of this kind to be seen in his day
in the London streets. In an amusing letter to the <i>Spectator</i>, in 1710,
he professes himself desirous of obtaining office as “Superintendent of
Signs,” in order that he might be able to expunge those of an unnatural
kind.</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“My first task, therefore [he says], should be, like that of
Hercules, to clear the city from monsters. In the second place, I
should forbid that creatures of jarring and incongruous natures
should be joined together in the same sign; such as the <span class="smcap">Bell and
Neat’s Tongue</span>, the <span class="smcap">Dog and Gridiron</span>. The <span class="smcap">Fox and the Goose</span> may be
supposed to have met; but what have the <span class="smcap">Fox and Seven Stars</span> to do
together? And when did the <span class="smcap">Lion and Dolphin</span> ever meet except upon a
sign-post? As for the <span class="smcap">Cat and Fiddle</span>, there is a conceit in it; and
I, therefore, do not intend that anything that I have here said
should affect it.”</p></div>

<p>Further on, he makes it plain to us how some of these strange
combinations arose.</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“I must, however, observe to you upon this subject [says he], that
it is usual for a young tradesman, at his first setting up, to add
to his own sign that of the master whom he served, as the husband,
after marriage, gives a place to his mistress’s arms in his own
coat. This I take to have given rise to many of those absurdities
which are committed over our heads; and, as I am informed, first
occasioned the <span class="smcap">Three Nuns and a Hare</span>, which we see so frequently
joined together.”</p></div>

<p>According to Messrs. Larwood and Hotten (p. 21) impaled signs, too, were
often set up “on removing from one shop to another, when it was
customary to add the sign of the old shop to that of the new.” Numerous
examples may be cited of impaled signs which occur at the present time
in Essex. Such are the <span class="smcap">Bull and Horseshoe</span> (p. 65) at North Weald, the
<span class="smcap">Lion and Boar</span> (p. 63) at Earl’s Colne, the <span class="smcap">Lion and Key</span> (p. 63) at
Leyton, the <span class="smcap">Bull and Crown</span> (p. 65) at Chingford, the <span class="smcap">Star and Fleece</span> (p.
79) at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_22" id="page_22"></a>{22}</span> Kelvedon, the <span class="smcap">Sun and Whalebone</span> (p. 83) at Latton, the examples
of the <span class="smcap">Cock and Bell</span> (p. 99) at Writtle, Romford, and High Easter, the
<span class="smcap">Rainbow and Dove</span> (p. 101) at North Weald, the <span class="smcap">Crown and Blacksmith</span> (p.
131) at Tendring, the examples of the <span class="smcap">Plow and Sail</span> (p. 146) at
Tollesbury, East Hanningfield, Paglesham, and Maldon, the <span class="smcap">Sun and Anchor</span>
(p. 147) at Steeple, the <span class="smcap">Bell and Anchor</span> (p. 159) at Canning Town, the
<span class="smcap">Coach and Bell</span> (p. 159) at Romford, the <span class="smcap">Old Windmill and Bells</span> (p. 159)
also at Romford, the <span class="smcap">Crown and Crooked Billet</span> (p. 162) at Woodford
Bridge, and many others. These will all be found noticed in their proper
places. Many other apparently impaled signs might be noticed. Such are
the <span class="smcap">Coach and Horses</span> (p. 57), the <span class="smcap">Lion and Lamb</span> (p. 63), the <span class="smcap">Eagle and
Child</span> (p. 92), the <span class="smcap">Dog and Partridge</span> (p. 75), the <span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span> (p.
116), the <span class="smcap">George and Dragon</span> (p. 128), &amp;c., &amp;c.; but these do not
properly belong to this class, there being some obvious or possible
connection between the two objects named in each case. Among signs of
this kind&mdash;apparently, though not strictly speaking, impaled&mdash;belong
all, or most, combinations of any object with either a Hand or a Hoop.
Such are the <span class="smcap">Hand and Glove</span> (p. 142), the <span class="smcap">Hand and Ball</span> (p. 142), the
<span class="smcap">Cross and Hand</span> (p. 142), and the <span class="smcap">Hand and Star</span> (p. 28); also the <span class="smcap">Cock
and Hoop</span>, the <span class="smcap">Hoop and Horseshoe</span>, the <span class="smcap">Hoop and Grapes</span>, which do not
occur in Essex. Combinations with a Hand generally arose from the fact
that it was once common to represent on the sign-board a hand holding or
supporting some other object. In many cases, no doubt, such combinations
originally represented some family crest, in which (as is commonly the
case) a hand supported a cross, a glove, a spear, or some other object
as the case might be. Combinations into which a Hoop enters may be
explained by mentioning the fact that formerly the sign was not always
painted on a board, but often carved in wood or metal and suspended
before the house within a hoop.</p>

<p>The second cause of difficulty arises from the fact that some signs have
become altered and corrupted in the course of time. Many curious
examples of signs of this class are<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_23" id="page_23"></a>{23}</span> given by the authors so often
quoted. Most of them seem to have arisen in this way:&mdash;A sign was put up
which commemorated some incident or personage, often perhaps of only
local celebrity. In the course of time the occurrence commemorated or
the individual represented by the sign became forgotten (or, at any
rate, disconnected from the sign); and, under the influence of vulgar
pronunciation (or, possibly, upon the advent of a fresh landlord, who
knew nothing as to the significance of the old name), the sign was
changed, and given some fresh meaning, which the words seemed to imply
or nearly resemble. Such signs as these may be styled “corruptions.” As
an example, it may be mentioned that at Hever, in Kent, near which place
the Bullen or Boleyn family had large possessions, there was, for many
years after the death of the unfortunate Ann, an ale-house with the sign
of the <span class="smcap">Bullen Butchered</span>; but, on the place falling into fresh hands, the
sign was vulgarized into the <span class="smcap">Bull and Butcher</span> (!), and so remained until
a recent date. In exactly the same way, a farm standing on or near the
site of one of the old lodges at one of the entrances to the Park of New
Hall, Boreham&mdash;another ancient estate of the Boleyn or Bullen family&mdash;is
now known as “Bull’s Lodge Farm,” it having formerly been “Bullen’s
Lodge Farm.” Thus, too, the <span class="smcap">George Canning</span> has become changed into the
<span class="smcap">George and Cannon</span>, the <span class="smcap">Island Queen</span> into the <span class="smcap">Iceland Queen</span>, the <span class="smcap">Four
Alls</span> into the <span class="smcap">Four Awls</span> (and used as a shoemaker’s sign), and the
<span class="smcap">Elephant and Castle</span> into the <span class="smcap">Pig and Tinderbox</span>. It is by no means
improbable that, if sufficiently minute inquiry were to be made, it
would be found that some of our 22 Essex <span class="smcap">Ships</span>, many of which are
situated far from the sea, and in purely agricultural districts, are
intended for <i>Sheep</i>, that word being, in Essex, invariably pronounced
“ship,” both in the singular and plural. The Stock <span class="smcap">Ship</span>, for instance,
occupies some of the highest ground in the county, and is a well-known
landmark for many miles around. It could hardly have reached its present
position without undergoing some such strange adventures as Noah’s Ark
is said to have experienced. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_24" id="page_24"></a>{24}</span></p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 148px;">
<a href="images/i_024_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_024_sml.jpg" width="148" height="154" alt="Image not available: FALCON AND FETTERLOCK." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">FALCON AND FETTERLOCK.</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">authors of the <i>History of Sign-boards</i> state that the two words “ship”
and “sheep” were once commonly pronounced almost promiscuously, as now
in Essex. At Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire, moreover, there is a house
which formerly had a pictorial representation of a ship in full sail as
its sign. Of late, however, the sign-board has merely borne the word
“ship;” and, quite recently, on the advent of a new landlord who had
been a cattle-dealer, the sign was changed into the <span class="smcap">Sheep</span>. On the other
hand, there is, at Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire, a house styled the
<span class="smcap">Sheep and Anchor</span>, which, doubtless, should be, and originally was, the
<span class="smcap">Ship and Anchor</span>. The old sign of the <span class="smcap">Falcon and Fetterlock</span>, representing
the badge of John of Ghent, is now often corrupted into the <span class="smcap">Hawk and
Buckle</span>, or even into the <span class="smcap">Hawk and Buck</span>. In speaking of Essex examples of
corrupted signs, it may be mentioned that the <span class="smcap">Goat and Boots</span> (p. 81)
appears at Colchester for the <span class="smcap">Goat in Boots</span>, and that the <span class="smcap">De Beauvoir’s
Arms</span> (p. 43) at Downham is locally known as “the <span class="smcap">Beavers</span>.” In the <i>Post
Office Directory</i>, too, the <span class="smcap">Horse and Well</span> (p. 57) at Woodford appears
as the <span class="smcap">Horse and Wheel</span>, the <span class="smcap">Roman Urn</span> (p. 44) at Colchester as the <span class="smcap">Roman
Arms</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Sunderland Arms</span> (p. 31) at Wakes Colne as the <span class="smcap">Sutherland
Arms</span>. Some of these are not corruptions which have actually taken place
on the sign-board; but they well show the tendency towards such
corruption. There can be but little doubt, too, that the sign of the
<span class="smcap">Harrow</span> (p. 171) represents the <i>Portcullis crowned</i> which Henry VII. and
other sovereigns used as a badge. When the knowledge of heraldry
declined the common people called the sign by the name of the Harrow,
not knowing of anything else which resembled the device displayed. It
thus became an agricultural sign, and was sometimes combined with
another sign of the same kind, namely, the <span class="smcap">Plough</span>, as at Leytonstone (p.
170). In other counties, according to Larwood and Hotten, the sign is
still commonly<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_25" id="page_25"></a>{25}</span> known as the <span class="smcap">Portcullis</span>, but we have no example in
Essex. Some forty years ago it was recorded in the <i>Worcester Journal</i>
that the landlord of the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> Inn at Dudley decided that his sign,
which had until then been merely written, should be made pictorial; but
instead of having depicted the ordinary White Hart with golden chain and
collar, he (whether through ignorance or intent) had painted in white,
on a black ground, a large Elephant’s <i>Heart</i>! Of this absurd corruption
we have now an example in Essex, as mentioned hereafter (p. 53).</p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 93px;">
<a href="images/i_025_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_025_sml.jpg" width="93" height="116" alt="Image not available: PORTCULLIS." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">PORTCULLIS.</span>
</div>

<p>It was also once a very common thing for the sign to form a “rebus,” or
pun, upon the name of the owner. Thus <span class="smcap">Two Cocks</span> represented Cox; <span class="smcap">Three
Conies</span>, Conny; <span class="smcap">Three Fishes</span>, Fish, &amp;c., &amp;c. The token issued in 1665 by
“Beniamin Samson in Coggeshall” bears what Boyne describes as “the
figure of Sampson, standing, with a robe over his shoulder and loins,
holding a jawbone in one hand.” Many combinations, otherwise
inexplicable, doubtless arose from this source, such as a <span class="smcap">Hand and Cock</span>,
signifying Hancock, and a <span class="smcap">Babe and Tun</span>, signifying Babington. It is not
easy to detect any instance in which a rebus or punning device now
appears on an Essex sign-board; but several cases may be pointed out on
the trade-tokens issued by Essex tradesmen in the seventeenth century.
Thus, a <span class="smcap">Lamb</span> appears on the token of Thomas Lambe of Colchester in 1654
(p. 80), a <span class="smcap">Finch</span> on that of John Finch of Halstead, and a <span class="smcap">Tree</span> on that
of W. Spiltimber of Hatfield Broad Oak. It is worth mention, too, that
Mr. A. Stagg, an English hatter, in the Rue Auber, Paris, displays two
gilded stags’ heads on the facia above his shop.</p>

<p>Thus we see that, in searching for the origin of any sign of obscure
derivation, we may have to trace it back through several different
forms.</p>

<p>Coming now to the more particular examination of the signs connected
with Essex, we find that the signs of the 1,355 inns existing in the
county furnish an ample fund of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_26" id="page_26"></a>{26}</span> interest to any one who systematically
studies their origin and significance. For convenience in treatment an
attempt has been made to arrange these signs under various headings, and
under one or other of these headings every distinct inn-sign now
appearing in the county will be found treated of, together with a large
number of other signs which once existed in Essex, but have now
disappeared. The list of Essex inns given in the <i>Post Office Directory</i>
for the county has been found very useful, although, unfortunately, the
signs of the numerous “beer-shops” (when they have any) are not given.
This deficiency has, however, to some extent, been supplied through the
kindness of the magistrates’ clerks in the county, who have forwarded
lists of such beer-houses as have signs or names in their respective
divisions. The information thus obtained has been incorporated with the
remainder; but in speaking of a certain sign appearing so many times in
the county the number of fully-licensed houses alone is in all cases
referred to. In various parts of the county, but especially in the
south-western portion round Epping and Ongar (as also in London), these
houses are known among the labouring people by the strange name of “Tom
and Jerrys,” no explanation of the origin of which seems to be
obtainable. Beer-houses are compelled by Act of Parliament (1 Will. IV.,
c. 64, s. 6, &amp; 4 &amp; 5 Will. IV., c. 85, s. 18) to display over their
doors a descriptive board, to be “publicly visible and legible,” under
penalty of £10, but it does not appear that either they or
fully-licensed houses are compelled to display signs.</p>

<p>There does not appear to have been any complete list of the inns of the
county published more than forty years ago, but even the lists extending
back that far may advantageously be compared with that of the present
time. Although very many of our signs still remain the same now as they
were then, numerous changes are noticeable. These are, however,
generally in the direction that might be expected. Old heraldic devices
are slowly disappearing and giving place to modern vulgarisms. For
instance, so lately as the year 1868 <span class="smcap">Railway Inns</span> and <span class="smcap">Railway Taverns</span>
combined<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_27" id="page_27"></a>{27}</span> only numbered twenty, while at the present time we have no
less than thirty-one. It is quite clear that in the early part of this
century, before railways came into existence, these signs must have been
altogether unknown. Their places were then filled by such signs as the
<span class="smcap">Coach and Horses</span> or the <span class="smcap">Horn and Horseshoes</span>, and other signs now going
out of fashion.</p>

<p>A great deal of very useful and interesting information as to the signs
in use in Essex two centuries ago is also to be obtained from an
examination of the list of seventeenth-century tokens given by Mr.
Boyne.<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> These tokens were issued very numerously by tradesmen during
the Commonwealth and the reign of Charles I., when the national coinage
was in an extremely debased condition. In the “field,” or centre, of the
coin there was generally a device, which usually represented the sign
under which the issuer traded. Many of the objects thus represented
have, of course, disappeared from the sign-boards of the present day,
though very many others are still familiar public-house signs. Mr. Boyne
is, however, of the opinion that not more than one-fifth of the tokens
now extant were issued by tavern-keepers, the rest having been
circulated by ordinary tradesmen. Reference has already been made to the
fact that many of the common heraldic signs had their origin in the use
formerly made of the arms of the various Trade Guilds or companies as
signs; and a hasty examination of the list of Essex tokens given by
Boyne shows that between 80 and 90, or 37 per cent., bear arms or
emblems belonging to one or other of these ancient companies. Thus, the
Grocers appear about 25 times, the Bakers about 13 times, the
Tallow-chandlers 10 times, the Woolmen 8 times, the Clothworkers 4
times, the Blacksmiths and the Drapers each 3 times, the Mercers, the
Apothecaries, and the Barber Surgeons each twice, and the Brewers, the
Fishmongers, the Butchers, the Fruiterers, and the Cutlers each once.
Each of these signs will be hereafter treated of in its proper place.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_28" id="page_28"></a>{28}</span></p>

<p>A very interesting list of the inns in Essex (107 in all) in 1636 is
given in John Taylor’s&mdash;the “Water Poet’s”&mdash;<i>Catalogue of Tavernes in
Tenne Shires about London</i>, published in that year. Unfortunately,
however, in only thirteen cases does he give the sign. In all other
cases he merely gives the name of the holder. Frequent allusion will
hereafter be made to this list of inns.</p>

<p>In the first edition of <i>Pigot’s Commercial Directory</i>, published in
1823, is a list of the inns in the principal Essex towns at that day,
which has proved very useful. An asterisk placed before the sign of any
particular existing inn, or the name of the place at which it is
situated, indicates that the inn in question is mentioned in the above
<i>Directory</i>, and that it is therefore at least 64 years old.</p>

<p>It is much to be regretted that, although the inns are, as a rule, among
the oldest and most interesting houses in any small town or country
village, our Essex historians have, almost without exception, been too
fully occupied in tracing the descent of manors and estates, even to
notice them.</p>

<p>The list given in the <i>London Directory</i> for 1885 enumerates no less
than 1,742 distinct signs or devices, as appearing in the metropolis
alone. Some of these are, of course, repeated as many as fifty times.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_028_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_028_sml.jpg" width="132" height="132" alt="Image not available: HAND AND STAR.

(Date 1550, after Larwood and Hotten.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">HAND AND STAR.
<br />
(Date 1550, after Larwood and Hotten.)</span>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_29" id="page_29"></a>{29}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>
<img src="images/i_029.jpg" width="500" height="102" alt="" />
<br />
CHAPTER II.<br /><br />
<i>HERALDIC SIGNS.</i></h2>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i2">... “a coat of arms, ... and wild beasts on their hind legs,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">showing it, as if it was a copy they had done, with mouths from ear<br /></span>
<span class="i0">to ear,&mdash;good gracious!”<br /></span>
<span class="i10"><span class="smcap">Dickens</span>: <i>Little Dorrit</i>, book ii., chap. ix.<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_a.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="81"
alt="A"
/></span>S the quaint art of Heraldry has given to us many, if not a majority,
of our most interesting signs, it is only reasonable that signs of this
class should be treated first.</p>

<p>In all respects the most purely heraldic sign we have in Essex is the
<span class="smcap">Fleur-de-Lys</span>, which occurs at Widdington. As a sign, this was formerly
much more common than at present. Eight of the Essex tokens are
described as having borne it. Two of these were issued in Colchester,
two in Billericay, and one each in Chelmsford, Coggeshall, Stock, and
Witham, the issuer at the latter place being John Jackson, clothier, in
1669. There was formerly a house of this name at Waltham Abbey. In the
parish register the burial of a landlord, on May 8, 1684, is recorded as
follows:&mdash;“Edward Clarke, att y<sup>e</sup> flower de luis.” Mr. H. W. King,
too, finds mention in ancient deeds of a “Flower de Luce” at Maldon in
1658, and again in 1690, but whether an inn, shop, or dwelling-house,
there is, as usual, no evidence to show. As it is sometimes varied into
the <span class="smcap">Three Fleurs de Lys</span>, the most reasonable conclusion is that it is
taken from the arms of France, as formerly quartered with those of
England, but a fleur-de-lys was also used as a badge by Edward III. In
former times, too, it was an emblem of the Virgin Mary. In London at the
present day the sign occurs once only, namely, in Fleur-de-Lys Street,
E.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_30" id="page_30"></a>{30}</span> Below are depicted four of the many forms taken by this device on
early shields of arms.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_030a_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_030a_sml.jpg" width="409" height="115" alt="Image not available: FLEUR DE LYS (four early forms)." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">FLEUR DE LYS (four early forms).</span>
</div>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 122px;">
<a href="images/i_030b_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_030b_sml.jpg" width="122" height="116" alt="Image not available: ESSEX ARMS." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">ESSEX ARMS.</span>
</div>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 121px;">
<a href="images/i_030c_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_030c_sml.jpg" width="121" height="117" alt="Image not available: COLCHESTER ARMS." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">COLCHESTER ARMS.</span>
</div>

<p>No less than 116 of our present public-houses (or 8·5 per cent.) are
named after the arms of some family, place, city, country, or trade.
Those obviously named after some place within the county will be first
noticed. To commence with, however, we will mention the <span class="smcap">Royal Arms</span> at
Silvertown.<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> The same device appears on a token inscribed “Theophilus
Harvey, in Manitree, 1669.” Next we have the <span class="smcap">Essex Arms</span>.<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> There are
now four examples, though forty years ago there were five. At
Springfield, too, there is a beer-house of this name. Then we have a
*<span class="smcap">Colchester Arms</span>,<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> which is, of course, situated at Colchester. It is
at least forty years old. The <span class="smcap">Colchester Arms</span> also appear on the
halfpenny token of Alexander Satterthwaite, of Colchester, dated 1668.
The <span class="smcap">Borough Arms</span> at Maldon are, of course, the arms of that town.<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a>
The <span class="smcap">Abbey Arms</span> at Plaistow doubtless represent the arms of the
neighbouring Abbey of Barking.<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> Sixty years<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_31" id="page_31"></a>{31}</span> ago there was a <span class="smcap">Harwich
Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> at *Harwich. Then we have the <span class="smcap">Hutton Arms</span> at Hutton, the
<span class="smcap">Chadwell Arms</span> at Chadwell Heath, the <span class="smcap">Berechurch Arms</span> at Lexden, the
<span class="smcap">Romford Arms</span> (beer-house) at Romford, the <span class="smcap">Colne Valley Arms</span> at
Birdbrook, and the <span class="smcap">Royal Essex Arms</span> at Braintree, all of which coats the
heralds would probably be unable to find entered at Heralds’ College.
The last-named is an especially strange device. It is probably an
impaled sign, due to a combination of the <span class="smcap">Royal Arms</span> and the <span class="smcap">Essex Arms</span>.</p>

<p>Many other of our “arms” are named after places outside the county.
Probably in many cases a new landlord has named his house after the
place he came from. Such are the <span class="smcap">Cambridge Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Cuckfield Arms</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Dartmouth Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Denmark Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Dorset Arms</span>, 2 <span class="smcap">Durham Arms</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Falmouth Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Ipswich Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Liverpool Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Northumberland
Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Odessa Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Lilliput Arms</span> (in the Lilliput Road,
Stratford), the <span class="smcap">Tower Hamlets Arms</span> (at Forest Gate), and the <span class="smcap">Kent Arms</span>
at North Woolwich, a parish belonging to Kent, though situated on the
north side of the river. Twenty years ago there was also a <span class="smcap">Sussex Arms</span>
in existence. The <span class="smcap">City Arms</span> at Canning Town presumably represent the
arms of the City of London.<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> The dagger in the City arms commemorates
the slaying of Wat Tyler by Sir William Walworth, in 1381. The weapon
used is still in the possession of the Fishmongers’ Company. The
<span class="smcap">Sutherland Arms</span> at Wakes Colne seems from the printed list to have been
corrupted from the <span class="smcap">Sunderland Arms</span> within the last twenty years. An
example of both forms occurs in London at the present time. It is most
probable that some of these signs have not taken their names direct from
the counties or towns mentioned, but from the titles of noblemen who
have become prominent for political or other reasons. This has<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_32" id="page_32"></a>{32}</span> been
almost certainly the case with the <span class="smcap">Cambridge Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Durham Arms</span>, and
the <span class="smcap">Liverpool Arms</span>.</p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 192px;">
<a href="images/i_032_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_032_sml.jpg" width="192" height="240" alt="Image not available: BREWERS’ ARMS." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">BREWERS’ ARMS.</span>
</div>

<p>The following signs are, with equal clearness, derived from trades or
employments pursued within the county. Many of them are, doubtless,
derived directly from the arms of the London Trade Companies. Of the
<span class="smcap">Blacksmiths’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> we have examples situated respectively at Little
Clacton and at North Weald. The Blacksmiths’ Arms also appear on the
halfpenny tokens of “Will Todd, Blacksmith of Epping,” 1668, and of
William Thompson of South Benfleet (no date). The <span class="smcap">Blacksmiths’ Arms</span>, at
Little Clacton, appears to have existed since 1786 at least, as it is
referred to in an advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for March
17th in that year. Not improbably the <span class="smcap">Hammer and Pincers</span> crossed, which
appeared on the halfpenny of Will Willis of Romford, in 1667,
constituted a blacksmith’s sign. The <span class="smcap">Brewers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> occur as a sign
at Woodham Ferris and *Colchester. The <span class="smcap">Three Tuns</span>, of which we have
examples at Newport, *Dunmow, and Waltham Abbey, all of them being at
least forty years old, are certainly derived from the arms either of the
Brewers’ Company or the Vintners’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> <span class="smcap">Three Tuns</span> are depicted
on the token issued by William Harman, of Chelmsford, in 1657. The <span class="smcap">Three
Tuns</span> which formerly existed at *Chelmsford was long a well-known inn.
The Rev. R. E. Bartlett finds it mentioned in the parish registers in
1619, when “a chrisome son of Robt. Ogden of Chelmsford, Vintner, at the
3 Tunnes, and of Susan his wife, was buried the <small>XXX</small> day of December,
being Thursday.”<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_33" id="page_33"></a>{33}</span> Taylor also mentions it in his <i>Catalogue of
Tavernes</i>, published in 1636. Sixty years ago there was a house of this
name at *Braintree, and in 1789 that at Waltham Abbey was spelled <span class="smcap">Three
Tons</span>. The Bakers’ Arms<a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> occur on the tokens some thirteen times,
either as the <span class="smcap">Bakers’ Arms</span>, a <span class="smcap">Hand and Scales</span>, a <span class="smcap">Pair of Scales</span>, or a
<span class="smcap">Pair of Scales and a Wheatsheaf</span>. The <span class="smcap">Bakers’ Arms</span> now only appears as an
inn-sign at Leyton, but there are beer-houses of this name at Buttsbury
and Waltham Abbey. Our common modern sign of the <span class="smcap">Wheatsheaf</span> is also
probably derived from the arms of this Company. There are seven examples
in the county, situated respectively at Wrabness, *Chelmsford,
Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Braintree, Stow Maries, High Ongar, and Ardleigh.
There are also beer-houses of this name at Loughton, Theydon Bois,
Waltham Abbey, Hatfield Peverell, Kelvedon, Rettendon, Writtle,
Hornchurch, &amp;c. A house at Castle Hedingham, known as the <span class="smcap">Wheatsheaf</span>,
though now a beer-shop merely, appears once to have been a very good
private residence. The <span class="smcap">Wheatsheaf</span> at *Chelmsford seems to have been in
existence since 1786 at least, as it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> on January 13th in that year. Likewise the still-extant sign
of the <span class="smcap">Maid’s Head</span> (to be noticed hereafter) is probably derived from
the arms of the Mercers’ Company,<a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a> which appear on the undated
farthings of “Thomas Bvrges, Est Street, Covlchester,” and “Clement Pask
of Castell Heninhame.” The <span class="smcap">Masons’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> occur at *Moulsham. The
<span class="smcap">Gardeners’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> appear at Wakes Colne and Loughton (beer-house). The
<span class="smcap">Wheelers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> (? <i>Wheelwrights’ Arms</i>) appear at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_34" id="page_34"></a>{34}</span></p>

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<span class="caption">BUTCHERS’ ARMS.</span>
</div>

<p>Good Easter. The <span class="smcap">Bricklayers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a> occur three times, namely, at
Colchester, Stondon, and Bocking (beer-shop). The <span class="smcap">Royal Hotel</span> at
Purfleet is famed for its whitebait. Until recently it was known as the
<span class="smcap">Bricklayers’ Arms</span>, evidently, as Mr. Palin thinks,<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> because the
Bricklayers’ Company formerly worked the huge chalk quarries close at
hand. The <span class="smcap">Butchers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> occur at Wimbish, Felstead, Stambourne, and
Woodham Ferris (beer-shop). Probably the <span class="smcap">Bull’s Head</span>, the <span class="smcap">Boar’s Head</span>,
and the <span class="smcap">Fly and Bullock</span>, to be noticed hereafter, are all connected with
the arms of this Company, which appear on the halfpenny of “John Harvey
of Rochfoord” in 1668. The <span class="smcap">Carpenters’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> occur eight times in the
county,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_35" id="page_35"></a>{35}</span> and also often serve as a beer-house sign. One near Chelmsford
is kept by a carpenter, as is, doubtless, often the case. There can be
no doubt that the <span class="smcap">Compasses</span>, which occurs six times, and the <span class="smcap">Three
Compasses</span>, which appears twice, are derived from the arms of this
Company. A house near Waltham Abbey, now known by the latter form of the
sign, seems in 1789 to have been called the <span class="smcap">Compasses</span> merely. The <span class="smcap">Axe
and Compasses</span> at Arkesden is probably a modern, but certainly an
appropriate, combination; or the axe may be intended for one of the
adzes in the arms of the Coopers’ Company, for the <span class="smcap">Coopers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a>
themselves appear at Chadwell Heath, Aldham, Chelmsford, and Romford,
the last two being beer-houses. Although the arms of the Cutlers’
Company<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> are not now to be seen on our sign-boards, there can be
little doubt that the <span class="smcap">Two swords crossed</span>, which appeared on the undated
farthing of “Nathaniell Smith in Thacksteed,” were derived from the arms
of that Company, Thaxted having formerly been a seat of the cutlery
trade, as the name “Cutlers’ Green,” in the immediate vicinity,
indicates. The <span class="smcap">Waterman’s Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> was formerly a sign at Leigh, but
whether of an inn or private house does not appear. Mr. H. W. King is
able, by means of evidence obtained from old deeds, to give a complete
account of the house which displayed this sign (and which was built
about the time of Charles I.) from 1650; but there are earlier notices
of it. Portions of it, built of oak, are still standing, but much
altered. When it first became an inn does not appear. It is first
mentioned as having been such in 1746, when it is described as “two
tenements now and lately called the Waterman’s Arms.” Probably,
therefore, it had even then ceased to be an inn, and had been divided
into two dwelling-houses.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_36" id="page_36"></a>{36}</span> Under the floor of one of the rooms, some
years since, were found several small coins of Charles II., and a leaden
tavern token, undated, but probably of the seventeenth century. On it
was a hand or arm, pouring from a tankard into a cup or glass. Forty
years ago there was a <span class="smcap">Poulterers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> at Chelmsford. Larwood and
Hotten do not notice this sign.</p>

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<span class="caption">THE CUPS HOTEL, COLCHESTER.</span>
</div>

<p>Similarly, several other Companies, whose arms are not now to be found
named upon our Essex sign-boards, appear to have given us signs which we
still have. For instance, the sign of the <span class="smcap">Trowel and Hammer</span> at Marks Tey
(which is not mentioned by Larwood and Hotten) is in all probability
derived from the arms of the Plasterers’ Company,<a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> while the sign of
<span class="smcap">Three Cups</span> has, doubtless, been derived from the arms of the Salters’
Company.<a name="FNanchor_36_36" id="FNanchor_36_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a> Of this sign we have examples at Great Oakley, Maldon,
Springfield, and *Colchester. The <span class="smcap">Three Cups</span> at Colchester (commonly<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_37" id="page_37"></a>{37}</span>
called the <span class="smcap">Cups</span>), though not one of the oldest licensed houses in that
ancient borough, was long a well-known coaching inn, and for upwards of
half a century has been the leading hotel in the town. There is reason
to believe that a small tavern known as the Queen’s Head stood upon the
site in the days of Elizabeth; but a more commodious building was
erected, as an inscription on the front stated, in 1792. That, however,
had become too antiquated for its requirements, and was demolished in
1885. Upon its site has now been erected an extremely handsome building
of brick and stone. Carved on one of the projecting windows are “three
cups,” with pedestals, but they do not correctly represent the “covered
sprinkling-salts” of the Salters’ Arms. These, however, are correctly
represented, being carved in wood, and supported upon a sign-post,
before the <span class="smcap">Three Cups</span> at *Springfield, a house at least a century old,
as it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on March 30, 1787.</p>

<p>In a curious poem, describing a journey from London to Aldborough and
back, published in 1804,<a name="FNanchor_37_37" id="FNanchor_37_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> the <span class="smcap">Three Cups</span> at *Harwich&mdash;now known as
the <span class="smcap">Cups</span>&mdash;is thus alluded to:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“But now we’re at Harwich, and thankful am I,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Our Inn’s the Three Cups, and our dinner draws nigh,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">But first for a walk to survey this old Borough,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">To peep at the church, and the churchyard go thorough.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p>Again, the <span class="smcap">Adam and Eve</span>, which occurs at West Ham, as noticed hereafter,
is a very old device as a sign. This example is forty years old at
least. Messrs. Larwood and Hotten state (p. 257) that “our first parents
were constant <i>dramatis personæ</i> in the mediæval mysteries and
pageants;” but both they and Mr. Jewitt overlook the fact that the sign
may with equal probability have been derived from the arms of the
Fruiterers’ Company,<a name="FNanchor_38_38" id="FNanchor_38_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> which appear on the halfpenny of Jasper Eve of
Springfield in 1669. In this case, however,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_38" id="page_38"></a>{38}</span> the device probably was
intended as a rebus upon the name. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Pigeons</span> is not
improbably derived from the arms of the Tallow-chandlers’ Company,<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a>
since there is no other obvious source from which it can have come.
Although Larwood and Hotten seem to regard it as being now a rare sign,
there are two cases of it in Essex&mdash;one at Stratford, and the other at
Halstead. As already stated, the occupation of the tallow-chandler is
represented ten times on the Essex tokens of the seventeenth century,
either by the arms of the Company, by a man making candles, or by a
stick of candles. The latter device appears on the undated farthing of
William Newman of Halstead, and may have some connection with the <span class="smcap">Three
Pigeons</span> which now exists there, and has certainly done so for at least
forty years back. The <span class="smcap">Dove and Olive-branch</span>, which is shown on the
undated farthing of “George Evanes in Ingatestone,” is also probably a
device taken from the arms of this Company. Other arms and emblems
belonging to the great trade companies, and appearing commonly on the
tokens of the seventeenth century, have now quite disappeared&mdash;at least
so far as Essex is concerned. For instance, the <span class="smcap">Barber-Surgeons’
Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_40_40" id="FNanchor_40_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> are to be seen on the halfpence of “Thomas Bvll of Mamvdine,
1669,” and of “Henry Carter, Chirvrgeon, in Manitree, 1669.” The
<span class="smcap">Grocers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_41_41" id="FNanchor_41_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> occur, as already stated, no less than about
twenty-five times, either as the Grocers’ Arms, a sugar-loaf, three
sugar-loaves, one or more cloves, or a sugar-loaf and cloves combined.
The <span class="smcap">Grocers’ Arms</span> and an <span class="smcap">Escalop</span> occur respectively on the two sides of
the undated token of “George Nicholson in Tolshon Dacey in S.X.” The
sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Sugar-loaves</span> still occurs at Sible Hedingham, and has
been in existence there for a century at least, as the house is
mentioned in an advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_39" id="page_39"></a>{39}</span> <i>Chronicle</i> on March
9, 1787. It can hardly be called an heraldic sign, as the three
sugar-loaves seem only to have been set up by grocers as an emblem of
their business. At the present time the house has no sign-board, but the
three sugar-loaves are suspended over the door as here shown. There is
also a beer-house of the same name in Felstead parish.</p>

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<span class="caption">THREE SUGAR-LOAVES AT SIBLE HEDINGHAM.</span>
</div>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Woolpack</span>, which occurs eight times on the Essex tokens of the
seventeenth century, and six times in the county at present, will be
noticed hereafter. It is, doubtless, derived from the arms of the
Woolmen’s Company.<a name="FNanchor_42_42" id="FNanchor_42_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a> The <span class="smcap">Apothecaries’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_43_43" id="FNanchor_43_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> appear on the tokens
of “Isaac Colman, grocr, in Colchester, 1667,” and of Thomas Bradshawe
of Harwich, in the same year. The <span class="smcap">Drapers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_44_44" id="FNanchor_44_44"></a><a href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a></p>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_40" id="page_40"></a>{40}</span></p>

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<span class="caption">DRAPERS’ ARMS.</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">occur three times on the Essex tokens. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Crowns</span>,
which occurs four times in the county, as hereafter mentioned, is very
probably derived either from the arms of the Drapers’ Company, or from
those of the Skinners’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_45_45" id="FNanchor_45_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a> The signs of the <span class="smcap">Horseshoe</span> and the
<span class="smcap">Three Horseshoes</span> (the former of which occurs three times in the county
and the latter ten times) probably both owe their origin partly to the
fact that horseshoes appear on the arms of the Farriers’ Company,<a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a>
and partly to the old custom of fastening a horseshoe upon the
stable-door or elsewhere in the belief that it would scare away witches.
The <span class="smcap">Three Horseshoes</span> now existing at Billericay seems to be at least one
hundred years old, as it is referred to in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on
March 10, 1786. As a beer-house sign the <span class="smcap">Horseshoe</span> occurs at Great
Parndon, and the <span class="smcap">Three Horseshoes</span> at Braintree, Waltham Abbey, High
Ongar, and elsewhere. It appears from the parish registers of Grays that
there was a <span class="smcap">Horseshoes</span> there in 1724, and there was a <span class="smcap">Three Horseshoes</span>
at Great Parndon in 1789. The <span class="smcap">Clothworkers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_47_47" id="FNanchor_47_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> appear twice on the
Colchester tokens, once on the farthing of “William Cant, in Hedingham
Sibley, 1667,” and once elsewhere. The <span class="smcap">Shuttle</span> on the tokens of “Moses
Love, slaymaker, of Coggshall,” and “Nathaniell Cattlin of Safron
Walden, 1668,” the <span class="smcap">Woman Spinning</span> on that of “John Little in Movlshem,
1666,” and the pair of <span class="smcap">Shears</span> on that of “James Bonvm in Stisted, 1670,”
are all probably connected with the woollen trade which formerly
flourished in Essex. In 1662 there was a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_41" id="page_41"></a>{41}</span> house known as the <span class="smcap">Shears</span> in
Chelmsford. It is mentioned in the <i>Account of the Murder of Thomas
Kidderminster</i> as being in “Colchester-lane,” which was probably what is
now known as Springfield Lane. Littlebury was once another seat of the
woollen trade. Until comparatively recently the 3rd of February used to
be celebrated there, as related in a poem still occasionally to be met
with, that being the day dedicated to Bishop Blaize, patron of workers
in wool. Two huge pairs of shears, one of which is here represented, may
still be seen carved on the old oaken north door of the church.</p>

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<img src="images/i_041_sml.jpg" width="270" height="77" alt="Image not available: SHEARS.

(From Littlebury Church Door.)" /></a>
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<span class="caption">SHEARS.
<br />
(From Littlebury Church Door.)</span>
</div>

<p>In addition to the foregoing signs connected with trades and
occupations, we have the following, though none of the employments named
ever bore coats of arms. Most of them are modern vulgarisms, and need no
further attention. There are <span class="smcap">Cricketers’ Arms</span> at Manningtree, Danbury,
and Rickling; <span class="smcap">Maltsters’ Arms</span> at Willingale Doe, Lambourne (beer-house),
and Colchester; <span class="smcap">Freemasons’ Arms</span> at Brightlingsea and Braintree
(beer-house); a <span class="smcap">Drovers’ Arms</span> at Rayleigh; an <span class="smcap">Engineers’ Arms</span> at
Stratford; <span class="smcap">Thatchers’ Arms</span> at Mount Bures and Rettendon (beer-shop),
Tolleshunt D’Arcy, and Great Warley; a <span class="smcap">Volunteers’ Arms</span> at Maldon; a
<span class="smcap">Yachtsman’s Arms</span> at Brightlingsea; a <span class="smcap">Slaters’ Arms</span> at Chadwell Heath; a
<span class="smcap">Moulders’ Arms</span> (beer-shop) at Great Wakering; a <span class="smcap">Woodcutters’ Arms</span>
(beer-shop) at Eastwood; a <span class="smcap">Foundry Arms</span> (beer-shop) at Hornchurch (of
course named after Messrs. Wedlake’s foundry there); <span class="smcap">Labourers’ Arms</span> at
Great Baddow and Woodham Ferris (beer-shops); and an <span class="smcap">Odd Fellows’ Arms</span>
at Springfield (beer-house). Mr. H. W. King finds mention in ancient
deeds of a house at Leigh, in 1682, with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Hambro’
Merchants’ Arms</span>, but whether an inn, shop, or private residence does<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_42" id="page_42"></a>{42}</span>
not appear, nor is there any subsequent mention of it. The owner, George
King, is described as a mercer on some of his tokens, still extant, and
also on his tombstone, now destroyed. Most probably, therefore, it was a
shop-sign. It stood on the site of the present <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>. At High
Ongar a beer-shop displays the sign of the <span class="smcap">Foresters’ Arms</span>. Sixty years
ago there was a <span class="smcap">Nelson’s Arms</span> at *Colchester. At the same time, the
<span class="smcap">Weavers’ Arms</span><a name="FNanchor_48_48" id="FNanchor_48_48"></a><a href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a> formed a very suitable sign at *Colchester, and there
were a *<span class="smcap">Joiners’ Arms</span>, a *<span class="smcap">Tailors’ Arms</span>, and a *<span class="smcap">Sawyers’ Arms</span> at the
same place. Of the latter, there is still an example (beer-house) at
Magdalen Laver. In times past, probably, many other trades have had
their “Arms,” though only sign-board ones.</p>

<p>Many other “arms” are borrowed from the names of illustrious persons,
though there is some uncertainty about several in the subjoined list.
The following will be at once seen to be named after well-known Essex
landowners: such are, the <span class="smcap">Ducane Arms</span> at Braxted, the <span class="smcap">Lennard Arms</span> at
Aveley, the <span class="smcap">Neville Arms</span> at Audley End, the <span class="smcap">Rayleigh Arms</span> at Terling,
the <span class="smcap">Tower Arms</span> at South Weald, the <span class="smcap">Wake Arms</span> at Waltham Abbey (which is
over forty years old), the <span class="smcap">Wilkes Arms</span> at Wenden Lofts, and the <span class="smcap">Western
Arms</span> at Rivenhall, which figured as the <span class="smcap">Lord Western Arms</span> forty years
ago, when there was also a <span class="smcap">Petre’s Arms</span> at Ingatestone. Other arms of
this class, but not necessarily connected with the county, are the
<span class="smcap">Camden Arms</span> at Forest Gate, the <span class="smcap">Cowley Arms</span> at Leytonstone, the <span class="smcap">Headley
Arms</span> at Great Warley, the <span class="smcap">Henley Arms</span> at North Woolwich, the <span class="smcap">Laurie Arms</span>
at Romford, the <span class="smcap">Manby Arms</span> and the <span class="smcap">Waddington Arms</span> at Stratford, the
<span class="smcap">Milton Arms</span> at Southend, the <span class="smcap">Spencers’ Arms</span> at Hornchurch, and the <span class="smcap">De
Beauvoirs’ Arms</span> at Downham, together with the <span class="smcap">Peto Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Sidney
Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Sutton Arms</span>, and two <span class="smcap">Napier’s Arms</span>. Sixty years ago there was
a *<span class="smcap">Theobald’s</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_43" id="page_43"></a>{43}</span> <span class="smcap">Arms</span> at Grays. The <span class="smcap">De Beauvoirs’ Arms</span> is at least forty
years old. It seems to be locally known as “the <span class="smcap">Beavers</span>.” Its sign is a
pictorial one with the arms duly displayed. Larwood and Hotten describe
the <span class="smcap">General’s Arms</span> at Little Baddow as a “new-fangled, unmeaning sign,”
through knowing nothing of its local significance. It appears that the
house belongs to Lord Rayleigh, and the arms of the Strutt
family&mdash;crest, motto, and all&mdash;are correctly depicted upon the
sign-board. It takes its name from Major-General William Goodday Strutt,
brother of the first Baron. After seeing much active service, in which
he lost a leg and received many wounds, he was appointed Governor of
Quebec, and died February 5, 1848.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Royal Arms</span> are displayed in the undesirable neighbourhood of
Silvertown. Although our present Queen has now reigned fifty years, the
<span class="smcap">Queen’s Arms</span> only appear three times on Essex sign-boards, against no
less than seventeen <span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span>. Probably the fact that the number of
kings has been very much greater than the number of queens will fully
account for this. There is, however, a <span class="smcap">Victoria Arms</span> at Brentwood. It
seems probable that during the last forty years many houses formerly
known as the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span> have come to be called the <span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span>, after
the recent craze for “arms;” for the former sign was much commoner, and
the latter much rarer, forty years since than now. It may be pointed
out, for instance, that in Mr. Creed’s list of signs round Epping in
1789, the King’s <i>Head</i> appears six times, and the King’s <i>Arms</i> only
once; also that the Queen’s <i>Head</i> appears twice, while the Queen’s
<i>Arms</i> does not appear at all. This shows the great prevalence of
“Heads” over “Arms” on the sign-boards of last century, and also that
the present prevalence of <i>Kings</i> over <i>Queens</i> in the same situation
was observable even then. Probably the two Queen’s Heads given, which
were at Harlow and Fyfield respectively, represented the portrait of
Queen Anne. A token was issued by William Drane at the <span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span>
(depicted in the field), in Waltham Abbey in 1668, and the same sign is
mentioned in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_44" id="page_44"></a>{44}</span> <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for 1786 as occurring at
Halstead. The sign still exists at both those places; but it is, of
course, difficult to say whether or not the houses are the same as those
that displayed the sign in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
respectively. The sign of the <span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span> at Waltham Abbey in 1668 can
hardly have been more than eight years old at the time, as no one would
have ventured to display such a sign during the time of the
Commonwealth. Doubtless it was set up at the time of the Restoration in
1660 in honour of the new king, Charles II., for whose father, perhaps,
this William Drane had fought.</p>

<p>Among the more miscellaneous “Arms” may be mentioned the <span class="smcap">Chatsworth Arms</span>
at Forest Gate, the <span class="smcap">Alma Arms</span> (beer-house) at Navestock, the <span class="smcap">Chobham
Arms</span> at Stratford, together with a <span class="smcap">Liberty Arms</span>, a <span class="smcap">Libra Arms</span>, three
<span class="smcap">Ordnance Arms</span>, a <span class="smcap">Railway Arms</span>, and a <span class="smcap">Roman Arms</span> in the Roman Road,
Colchester. The last-named sign has been corrupted within the last
twenty years from the <span class="smcap">Roman Urn</span>. Most of these extremely absurd signs
have come into existence during the last few years. They serve to show
how completely the original use of arms as signs has become
disassociated from their present use. Another indication of the modern
growth of “Arms” is to be found in the fact that they are very common as
beer-house signs&mdash;beer-houses having only been instituted since the
beginning of this century. Even forty years ago “Arms” were decidedly
less common as signs than they are now. The list has of late been
swelled by such stupid and unmeaning additions as the <span class="smcap">Alma Arms</span>, <span class="smcap">Libra
Arms</span>, and <span class="smcap">Lilliput Arms</span>, very few, if any, of which existed fifty years
since.</p>

<p>To the above may be added the following, which appear in London, and are
most of them modern and meaningless absurdities:&mdash;The <span class="smcap">Waterloo Arms</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Grand Junction Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Paviors’ Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Palace Arms</span>, the <span class="smcap">Roman Arms</span>
(in the Roman Road, Bow, E.), the <span class="smcap">Mechanics’ Arms</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Volunteers’
Arms</span>. The <span class="smcap">Sol’s Arms</span>, in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_45" id="page_45"></a>{45}</span> the Hampstead Road, commemorated by Dickens in
<i>Bleak House</i>, still exists under the same name. “Arms” in London are
very frequently situated in streets of the same name, and these streets
are usually named after persons, who, it may be presumed, own property
in them. Altogether there are in London no less than 352 distinct signs
consisting of “Arms” of some kind or other, not counting the number of
times each particular sign is repeated. Thus, in London, “Arms” form
rather more than twenty per cent. of all distinct signs.</p>

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<a href="images/i_045_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_045_sml.jpg" width="152" height="144" alt="" /></a>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_46" id="page_46"></a>{46}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a><img src="images/barra-flower.jpg" width="500" height="102" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER III.<br /><br />
<i>MAMMALIAN SIGNS.</i></h2>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_t.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="77"
alt="T"
/></span>HE next great class of signs to be noticed consists of what may be
termed “Mammalian Signs.” In Essex no less than 464 houses, or 34·2 per
cent. of the whole, display devices derived from the animal kingdom.
There are, however, only 102 distinct signs. These may be classified as
follows:&mdash;</p>

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="">
<tr valign="bottom"><td>&nbsp;</td>
<td class="c">No. of<br /> signs.</td>
<td class="c">No. of<br /> distinct signs.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mammals</td><td class="r">384</td><td class="r">81</td></tr>
<tr><td>Birds</td><td class="r">75</td><td class="r">18</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fish</td><td class="r">1</td><td class="r">1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Insects</td><td class="r">4</td><td class="r">2</td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="ruo">464</td><td class="ruo">102</td></tr>
</table>

<p class="nind">This calculation is, moreover, made independent of “man and his parts,”
as the heralds say. Signs of human origin have been placed in a separate
class, and will be treated of hereafter by themselves.</p>

<p>Although many of the signs belonging to this class are, undoubtedly,
nothing more than very modern vulgarisms, there can be no doubt whatever
that a great number have a truly heraldic origin, as will be seen from
what follows.</p>

<p>To commence the list, we find at Buckhurst Hill a <span class="smcap">Bald-faced Stag</span>, and
in the adjoining parish of Chigwell a <span class="smcap">Bald Hind</span>. These two signs have,
doubtless, the same origin, but one which it is not now easy to
discover. In Essex a horse is always said to be “bald” when he has a
white face.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_47" id="page_47"></a>{47}</span></p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_047_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_047_sml.jpg" width="432" height="317" alt="Image not available: BALD-FACED STAG.

(Buckhurst Hill.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">BALD-FACED STAG.
<br />
(Buckhurst Hill.)</span>
</div>

<p>Possibly the signs commemorate the killing of two deer with white faces
in the adjoining forest, which was the last locality in the east or
south-east of England in which the aboriginal wild red deer survived,
the last having been killed so lately as the year 1817 or thereabouts.
Both the <span class="smcap">Bald Hind</span> and the <span class="smcap">Bald-faced Stag</span> are among the oldest of the
forest inns. The latter is, presumably, the same house marked as the
<span class="smcap">Bald Stag</span> on Cary’s map, published in 1768. It has the same name in Mr.
Creed’s list (p. 7). The Rev. Wm. Cole tells us, in his voluminous MSS.,
that on the morning of October 27, 1774, he “started from the <span class="smcap">Cock</span> at
Epping without eating, and breakfasted at an Inne, called the <span class="smcap">Bald-faced
Stag</span>.” The existing inn is a large square, white-washed building, with a
high-pitched roof. It contains a portrait of Queen Anne, and the
coffee-room is panelled. From it, according to the author of <i>Nooks and
Corners in Essex</i> (p. 21), the famous “Epping Hunt,” so cleverly
satirized by Tom Hood, used to start every Easter Monday, when it was no
uncommon thing for five hundred<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_48" id="page_48"></a>{48}</span> mounts to ride off from the ridge on
which the house stands. The Easter Monday hunt is said to have
originated as far back as the year 1226, in the reign of Henry III. The
custom was kept up until so recent a date as 1853, after which it
gradually fell off, owing to the rough East End element which marked the
annual meeting, and made it little more than a public nuisance. The
stag&mdash;a tame one&mdash;was, on these occasions, taken round in turn to all
the neighbouring public-houses before being set at liberty, and the
amount of liquor consumed, and riot occasioned, was, in consequence,
considerable. Something approaching a celebration of the old custom has,
however, been attempted as lately as the last two or three years. There
was also a <span class="smcap">Bald-faced Stag</span> at Hatfield Broad Oak in 1789.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_048_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_048_sml.jpg" width="427" height="319" alt="Image not available: ROEBUCK.

(Buckhurst Hill.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">ROEBUCK.
<br />
(Buckhurst Hill.)</span>
</div>

<p>At Buckhurst Hill there is also a <i>Roebuck</i>, as well as a <span class="smcap">Reindeer</span>. The
former is marked on Cary’s map, published in 1768, and is probably the
same house several times spoken of (p. 6) as the <span class="smcap">Buck</span> in <i>The Trials of
John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffries</i>, published in 1752. It is still one of
the best and most widely-known inns on the Forest. In its large Assembly
Room public gatherings often take place. The old <span class="smcap">Reindeer</span>, which is
shown on Cary’s map, published in 1768, is now a private house,
inhabited by Captain<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_49" id="page_49"></a>{49}</span> Mackenzie, the Forest Superintendent, and known as
“Warren House.” The present <span class="smcap">Reindeer</span> is situated about a mile distant
from the old one. An <span class="smcap">Archer shooting at a stag</span> is also depicted on the
undated halfpenny token of “John Unwin at Layton Stone.”</p>

<p>It is in every way probable that the fallow deer, formerly living in the
surrounding forests of Epping and Hainault, and still existing in
considerable numbers in the former, gave rise in some way to these
numerous cervine signs in and around the parish of Buckhurst Hill. It
is, however, a moot point whence the parish derived its name. Some
connect the name with Lord Buckhurst, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth;
others regard it as composed of two Anglo-Saxon words, <i>Boc</i>, a beech,
and <i>hurst</i>, a wood or forest, which is not unlikely to be the true
derivation; others, however, state that this part of the forest was
severed from the remainder by Royal Charter, and so termed Book-hurst,
meaning book-forest; while yet others consider the name to mean
Buckhurst, the wood or forest in which bucks lived. The latter
derivation seems in every way the most likely one. Nevertheless, the
place was formerly often called “Buckit’s Hill,” as, for instance, in
<i>The Trial of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffries</i> (p. 8), published in
1752, but this was probably a corruption. The farthing of “William
Locken in Tollsbvry in Esex, 1668,” bore a <span class="smcap">Stag</span>, and that of “John
Attewell in Black Notle in Esex, 1670,” bore <span class="smcap">Three Stags’ Heads</span> couped,
probably taken from the coat of arms of some private family. The <span class="smcap">Stag’s
Head</span> at Colchester is also, probably, a form of some family crest. Forty
years ago there was a <span class="smcap">Doe Inn</span> at Halstead. There is now a <span class="smcap">Stag</span> at
Hatfield Heath, and another at Little Easton. Concerning the latter,
there can be very little doubt that it represents the crest of the
Maynard family (<i>a stag statant or</i>). It would be interesting to learn
whether this house has come to be known as the <span class="smcap">Stag</span> after having first
been called the <span class="smcap">Maynard Arms</span>. The <span class="smcap">Stag</span> also serves as a beer-house sign
at High Ongar. It is not very easy to say what first led to the <span class="smcap">Reindeer</span>
being used as a sign; but that it was in use as early as the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_50" id="page_50"></a>{50}</span></p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_050_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_050_sml.jpg" width="394" height="302" alt="Image not available: CROWN HOUSE.

(Newport, Essex.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">CROWN HOUSE.
<br />
(Newport, Essex.)</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">seventeenth century is clear from what Pepys says in his <i>Diary</i>. He
tells us that on the night of October 7, 1667, he “lay very well” at the
“Rayne-deere at Bishop Stafford” (meaning Bishops Stortford), where the
sign is still in existence. The same sign also occurs at Takeley, Black
Notley, and (as already mentioned) Buckhurst Hill, having been probably
set up at the latter place in order to keep company with the other kinds
of deer that are found there. The <span class="smcap">Reindeer</span> at Takeley has been in
existence since 1786 at least, as it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> on January 20th in that year. At Greenstead, near Colchester,
there is to be seen the sign of the <span class="smcap">Buck’s Horns</span>, which is very likely
intended to represent the deer’s “<i>attires</i>” in somebody’s coat of arms.
The sign is not mentioned by Larwood and Hotten. The <span class="smcap">Horns</span> at Barking
Side may have had the same origin, or the house may have taken its sign
from the noted tavern of the same name which formerly existed in Fleet
Street. The residence at Newport, now commonly known as the Crown House
(from the crown sculptured over the door), or Nell Gwynne’s House, used
formerly to be an inn. Its present<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_51" id="page_51"></a>{51}</span> names have been given to it within
living memory. Mr. C. K. Probert states<a name="FNanchor_49_49" id="FNanchor_49_49"></a><a href="#Footnote_49_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a> that in the time of his
father, eighty or ninety years ago, there was a tradition still
lingering in the town that the inn was formerly known as the <span class="smcap">Horns</span>, and
that Charles II., The Duke of York, and Nell Gwynne used to stop there
on their way from London to Newmarket races. This circumstance is
alluded to in an old folio history of the Rye House Plot, and Mr.
Probert has seen a play, printed about seventy years ago, in which the
scene was laid at the <span class="smcap">Horns</span> at Newport, the characters being Charles
II., Nell Gwynne, the Duke of York, &amp;c. Mr. Probert writes:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Tradition says they used to come with packhorses by the Great
North Road, <i>viâ</i> Rickling and the lane near Wicken Bonhunt, still
called ‘London Lane;’ then along the ancient road at the foot of
Bury Field in Newport; then along the back of the Burywater House,
and so emerging opposite the Crown House.”</p></div>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Horn</span> Hotel in the High Street at Braintree is a well-known old
coaching inn, and has long been one of the best in the town. If the late
Mr. Joseph Strutt is to be believed, this house, at the beginning of the
present century, was known as the <span class="smcap">Bugle Horn</span>. In his Essex and Herts
romance, entitled <i>Queenhoo Hall</i>, published in 1808, the hero relates
(ii. p. 180) that “we took some dinner at the Bugle Horn at Braintree,
and proceeded in the afternoon to Dunmow, where we arrived before
sunset.” In any case, this sign, like that of the <span class="smcap">Horn and Horseshoes</span> at
Harlow Common, is probably connected with the old coaching days. The
sound of the horn and of the horses’ shoes would be the first intimation
of the approach of a stage-coach. The latter sign, however, may have
some heraldic significance, as Larwood and Hotten mention a London token
of 1666 on which a horseshoe is represented within a pair of antlers or
<i>deer’s attires</i>. In 1789, too, it seems to have been the <span class="smcap">Horns and
Horseshoes</span>. The <span class="smcap">Bugle Horn</span> might easily be connected either with
coaching, hunting, or heraldry, were it not situated in Barrack Street,
*Colchester. This, of course, makes it in every way probable that it is
a military sign. Here, also, must be noticed the popular sign of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_52" id="page_52"></a>{52}</span> the
<span class="smcap">White Hart</span>. This device appears to be unusually common in the county of
Essex. Nearly every town or village of any consequence possesses an
example. At present we have no less than fifty, and twenty years ago the
number was exactly the same. London itself cannot boast of having more,
as it has also just fifty examples of the sign. The <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> in the
High Street at Brentwood is in all respects the most notable house now
displaying this sign in Essex. In its best days it was a coaching inn of
great importance, and is still by far the best hotel in the town. Mr. H.
W. King has ascertained that it was in existence under its present name
in the time of Queen Elizabeth; but, looking at the house itself, he
believes it to be of still earlier date, perhaps of the fifteenth
century, or even earlier. It is certainly one of the very best examples
of an old-fashioned inn, with a central courtyard and galleries running
round it, now remaining in England. It is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> for September 14, 1764, as a stopping-place for the coaches
“which set out on Monday the 27th instant at 7 o’clock in the morning
from the Black Bull in Bishopsgate, London, and at the same time from
the Great White Horse Inn<a name="FNanchor_50_50" id="FNanchor_50_50"></a><a href="#Footnote_50_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> in Ipswich, and continue every day (Sunday
excepted) to be at the above places the same evening at 5 o’clock. Each
passenger to pay 3 pence per mile and to be allowed 18 pounds luggage,”
&amp;c.</p>

<p>During the reign of Elizabeth the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> was also the principal inn
in the town of Saffron Walden, but it is not now known in what street
the house was situated. Possibly the inn now known as the <span class="smcap">Hoops</span>, in King
Street, was the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> of those days, as it is a very ancient
structure. Boyne describes a farthing bearing the <span class="smcap">Grocers’ Arms</span>, and
issued by “Anne Mathews, in Safforn Walden, 1656.” Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith
has ascertained, from the registers in the church, that a few years
later she married John Potter of the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>, and also that they
thereupon jointly issued fresh tokens, retaining her name, arms, and
date on the obverse, but having a new reverse, bearing the words “John<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_53" id="page_53"></a>{53}</span>
Potter,” and in the centre a <i>hart lodged</i> with the monogram “I.<span class="ups">A.</span>
P.” over it, perhaps to indicate that they continued to carry on their
two trades simultaneously. On the 25th of February, 1659, Pepys says in
his <i>Diary</i>: “Mr. Blayton and I took horse, and straight to Saffron
Walden, where, at the White Hart, we set up our horses, and took the
master of the house [in all probability the aforesaid John Potter] to
show us Audly End House.” References to this inn occur early on in the
records of the Corporation of Walden. Thus, in 1627, 14s. was expended
“for wine when the Earl of Sussex was at the White Hart;” in 1631, 9s.
was “spent at the White Hart when we ourselves did ring for the king;”
in 1643, 2s. 10d. was “payd at the White Hart when Radcliffe was taken
for a Jesuit;” and in 1661, the sum of 3s. 4d. was “spent at the White
Hart when the ryot was, some of the company being there.” The <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>
on a sign-board at Boreham is correctly and heraldically represented,
but has evidently, in the mind of the artist, been associated with the
deer in Boreham Park, as a view of Boreham House has been introduced in
the background. The <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> at Great Yeldham is a very ancient
village hostel. Its windows, and its exterior generally, are quaint and
antique. In front of the inn, on each side of the door, are old oaken
settles, whereon the village sages debate the topics of the day. From
the sign-board on the Green opposite, the white hart has long since
departed. The <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> in Tindal Street, *Chelmsford, has a new and
large graven sign, heraldically represented, and prominently projected
over the street. The <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> at *Witham, too, has a large and rather
grotesque sign, though it is correctly represented. It is rudely cut out
of what appears to be a thin sheet of iron, and is suspended over the
pavement. The <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> at *Coggeshall&mdash;doubtless the existing
hotel&mdash;is mentioned in <i>Bufton’s Diary</i> in 1678.<a name="FNanchor_51_51" id="FNanchor_51_51"></a><a href="#Footnote_51_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a> It is also recorded
in <i>Bufton’s Diary</i><a name="FNanchor_52_52" id="FNanchor_52_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> that “In April, 1682, there was y<sup>e</sup> floore of
a Chamber fell downey at y<sup>e</sup> <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> at Bocking [probably the still
existing Hotel of that<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_54" id="page_54"></a>{54}</span> name], where y<sup>e</sup> Justices sat and about 200
people in y<sup>e</sup> roome, and one man broke his leg.” In an early number of
the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i> is an illustration of an old inscribed beam
from the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span> between Springfield and Boreham. Mr. J. A. Repton in
a note says that the building was thought to have been a hermitage. He
adds: “There is a long inscription at the bottom of one of the gables,
but it is at present concealed with plaster;” “that the beam measured 52
inches by seven; and that it bore the inscription, ‘Jesus! Mercy! Lady
help! Jesus!’&nbsp;” Taylor, in his <i>Catalogue of Tavernes</i>, mentions a <span class="smcap">White
Hart</span> at *Romford in 1636, probably the hotel of that name still existing
there. An inn with this sign at Colchester is mentioned in one of the
old Corporation records, dated 1603, as being an “auncyent inne” at that
time. In old deeds Mr. H. W. King finds mention of a <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>&mdash;either
inn, shop, or tenement&mdash;at Horndon-on-the-Hill in both 1704 and 1719.
There does not seem to be any apparent reason why the white hart should
have become so common a device as a sign as it has done. According to
Larwood and Hotten, its use dates from a very remote period; but there
can be very little doubt that its present abundance is due to the fact
that <i>a White Hart lodged, collared and chained or</i>, was the favourite
badge of King Richard II., and appears, with variations, no less than
eighty-three times upon his monument at Westminster. At a tournament
held in Smithfield in 1390, in honour of various foreign counts who had
been elected members of the garter&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“All the kynges house were of one sute; theyr cotys, theyr armys,
theyr sheldes, and theyr trappours were bowdrid all with whyte
hertys, with crownes of gold about their neck, and cheyns of gold
hanging thereon, which hertys was the kinges leverye that he gaf to
lordes, ladyes, knyghtes and squyers, to know his household people
from others.”</p></div>

<p>The White Hart was also used as a badge by Edward IV. It is just
possible that the fact of the crest of the Maynard family being a stag,
as already mentioned, has something to do with the abundance of the
<span class="smcap">White Hart</span> as a sign in Essex, or at least in the northern parts of the
county. It is<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_55" id="page_55"></a>{55}</span> possible, too, that the abundance of this sign in Essex
may be due in part to the fact that a very ancient and famous <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>
formerly stood in Bishopsgate Street Without, in such a position that it
would probably form a stopping-place for most travellers to and from
London along the Great East Road. Timbs, in his <i>Clubs and Club-life in
London</i> (p. 397), says that it was originally built in 1480, but the old
house was pulled down and rebuilt in modern style in 1829. Allusion has
already been made (p. 25) to an absurd corruption of this sign at West
Bergholt, where the landlord of the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>, not content with a
script sign, has added a pictorial one of his own designing,
representing a large <span class="smcap">White Heart</span> on a black ground! Whether this has
been done through ignorance or intent, it is a good example of the way
signs become corrupted and altered in the course of time. Illustrations
of both forms are given above.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_055_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_055_sml.jpg" width="487" height="282" alt="Image not available: THE WHITE HART (Heart).

(At West Bergholt.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">THE WHITE HART (Heart).

<span style="margin-left: 13%;">THE WHITE HART.</span>
<br />
(At West Bergholt.)<span style="margin-left: 25%;">&nbsp; </span></span>
</div>

<p>The horse and his belongings are referred to no less than seventy-three
times on Essex sign-boards, although a simple horse does not once occur.
The use of the horse as a sign is probably derived both from the animal
himself and from the part he anciently played in Heraldry. Horses of
fantastic<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_56" id="page_56"></a>{56}</span> colour, such as the <span class="smcap">Golden Horse</span> at Forest Gate, are, in all
probability, of heraldic origin. No less than thirty-six times in this
county do we meet with the sign of the <span class="smcap">White Horse</span>, and there is an <span class="smcap">Old
White Horse</span> at North Ockendon. Boyne describes tokens issued by “John
Tvrner at the White Horse in Chelmsford, 1667,” and by “John Langston at
the Whit Horse in Mvchboddow.” <span class="smcap">White Horses</span> are still in existence at
both of these places. There can be no doubt that the one at Great Baddow
is the one from which the token was issued in the seventeenth century;
but in the case of Chelmsford there is some doubt. The matter is not
without interest, for there is in the British Museum a scarce and
curious quarto tract, of twenty-one pages, published in the year 1688,
with the following title: “<i>A True Relation of a Horrid Murder,
committed upon the person of Thomas Kidderminster of Tupsley in the
County of Hereford, Gent., at the White Horse Inn in Chelmsford, in the
County of Essex, in the Month of April, 1654, together with a True
Account of the Strange and Providential Discovery of the Same nine years
after, &amp;c., &amp;c.</i>” In this tract one Mr. Turner (without doubt the man
who issued the token in 1667) is many times mentioned as landlord at the
time the murder was discovered. Forty years ago the <span class="smcap">White Horse</span> at
Dovercourt styled itself the <span class="smcap">Great White Horse</span>. The <span class="smcap">White Horse</span> in the
High Street, Maldon, is several times referred to in advertisements in
the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> during the year 1786. Likely origins for this
sign have already been given (p. 18). The <span class="smcap">Flying Dutchman</span>, which is a
beer-house sign at Braintree, probably commemorates the racehorse of
that name. There are <span class="smcap">Black Horses</span> at White Roothing, Widdington, Sible
Hedingham, Pilgrim’s Hatch, and Chelmsford (beer-house). Sixty years ago
there was another at *Coggeshall. There are also <span class="smcap">Yorkshire Greys</span> at
Coggeshall (at least forty years old), Stratford (two), and Brentwood.
Probably these are named after some famous racer. One or other of those
at *Stratford is several times referred to in the <i>Trials of John Swan
and Elizabeth Jeffries</i> (1752). It was then kept by a certain Ann
Wright. Sixty years since, too, there<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_57" id="page_57"></a>{57}</span> was another at *Colchester.
Adjoining the racecourse at Galleywood there is a <span class="smcap">Running Mare</span>. The
<span class="smcap">Nag’s Head</span> is a sign which seems to be becoming increasingly common, as
we have five now existing in the county, not counting a beer-house so
called at Chelmsford, though, twenty years ago, there were only three.
The sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Colts</span>, which occurs at Stanstead Montfitchet and
Buckhurst Hill, has very likely an heraldic origin. It is not a modern
device, as there was an inn of this name in Bride Lane, London, in 1652,
and our houses may have taken their name from this one. A <span class="smcap">Horse</span>
<i>passant</i> is depicted on the farthing token of “Ioseph Gleson,” 1664,
and a <span class="smcap">Horse Galloping</span> on that of “Samvell Salter,” 1656, both of Dedham.
In Essex the horse enters into many combinations with other sign-board
objects. In most cases the meaning of the combination is so evident that
no explanation of it is required. For instance, at Colchester we find a
<span class="smcap">Chaise and Pair</span>, at Stratford a <span class="smcap">Cart and Horses</span>, at Mistley a <span class="smcap">Waggon and
Horses</span>, and another at *Colchester. There are also beer-houses so called
at Braintree and Hadleigh. The <span class="smcap">Coach and Horses</span> occurs no less than
thirteen times, the <span class="smcap">Old Coach and Horses</span> once, the <span class="smcap">Horse and Groom</span> seven
times, and the <span class="smcap">Horse and Wheel</span> once. This latter is, however, a misprint
on the part of the compilers of the <i>Post Office Directory</i>. Twenty
years ago it appeared in the list as the <span class="smcap">Horse and Well</span>, and as the
house is situated at Woodford Wells, this is undoubtedly its correct
form. The sign is not mentioned by Larwood and Hotten. That part of
Woodford known as Woodford Wells, takes its name from a mineral spring
which once existed there. It was formerly in great repute, but is now
quite dry and neglected. An <i>Itinerary of Twenty-five Miles round
London</i>, published towards the end of last century, and quoted by Mr.
Walford in <i>Greater London</i> (vol. i. p. 464), indicates that the name of
the house was then the <span class="smcap">Horse and Groom</span>. The adjoining mineral spring,
says the author, “was formerly in good repute, and much company resorted
to drink the waters at a house of public entertainment called ‘<span class="smcap">Woodford
Wells</span>;’ but the waters have long lost their<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_58" id="page_58"></a>{58}</span> reputation.” Hood, in his
witty poem on the Epping Hunt, refers to the house as follows:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Now many a sign at Woodford Town,<br /></span>
<span class="i3">Its Inn-vitation tells;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">But Huggins, full of ills, of course,<br /></span>
<span class="i3">Betook him to the <span class="smcap">Wells</span>.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The <span class="smcap">Horse and Groom</span> at Great Warley seems to be at least a century old,
as it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on March 10, 1786. At
Margaret Roothing there is a <span class="smcap">Horseshoe</span>, which is a comparatively rare
sign by itself. The <span class="smcap">Bull and Horseshoe</span> at North Weald is, doubtless,
merely an impaled sign. Our three <span class="smcap">Horseshoes</span> and ten <span class="smcap">Three Horseshoes</span>
have already been referred to (p. 40). At Finchingfield there is a
beer-house with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Kicking Dickey</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Cross Keys</span> at
Roxwell is commonly known in the parish by the same name. The origin of
the sign, which Larwood and Hotten do not mention, is hard to explain.</p>

<p>The Lion, with frequent variations of colour and position, is of common
occurrence in the county. This great variety in colouring clearly shows
that we are indebted to the art of Heraldry for most of our sign-board
lions. Messrs. Larwood and Hotten say (p. 118): “The <i>lion rampant</i> most
frequently occurs, although in late years naturalism has crept in, and
the <i>Felis leo</i> is often represented standing or crouching, quite
regardless of his heraldic origin.”</p>

<p>When it is remembered that <i>three lions passant, guardant, or</i> occur on
the Royal Arms of England, and a <i>lion rampant gules</i> on the arms of
Scotland; that a <i>crowned lion statant, guardant or</i> is used as the
Royal Crest of England, a <i>crowned lion sejant affrontée gules</i> as the
Royal Crest of Scotland, and a <i>lion rampant guardant, or</i> as the dexter
supporter of the Royal Arms of England; and that lions of various
colours and in different attitudes have served as charges, badges,
crests, and supporters to many of our earlier sovereigns, and now appear
in the armorial bearings of innumerable private families, it will not be
found in any way surprising that the lion figures so commonly as he does
upon our sign-boards.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_59" id="page_59"></a>{59}</span> So frequently, indeed, are lions made use of in
Heraldry that it is almost impossible to assign the variously-coloured
examples now to be seen on our sign-boards to their original wearers.
<i>Lions rampant</i> appear on the trade-tokens of John Rayment of Brentwood,
in 1669, and of Richard Boyse and Richard Rich, both of Colchester, in
1668 and 1656 respectively. At present the animal occurs eight times in
Essex as a simple <span class="smcap">Lion</span>, and once as a <span class="smcap">British Lion</span>. The <span class="smcap">Lion</span> at
Chelmsford, although it has now disappeared, was once evidently a very
important inn. The Rev. R. E. Bartlett finds several mentions of it in
the parish registers, the earliest before the middle of the sixteenth
century. They are as follows: “1543. William Knight, a stranger, who by
misfortune and his own lewdness was drowned at the Lion, and was buried
the 22nd of May.” Again, in 1545, “Wyllyam Pemberton, servaunte to the
Irle of Essex, was slayne at the Lion by one of his Fellows and bury’d
the 19th Day of Januarii.” From the first of these it appears that the
inn was near the river. Taylor, in his <i>Catalogue of Tavernes</i>, also
mentions the <span class="smcap">Lion</span> as one of the chief inns in Chelmsford in 1636.
Whether this was the same inn afterwards known as the <span class="smcap">White Lion</span>, and
mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on April 14, 1786, as then
existing at Chelmsford, is hard to say. Possibly the latter house was
identical with that shown with the sign of a rampant lion in the
frontispiece. Its back premises would probably abut upon the river bank.
The site is now occupied by an inn with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Arms</span>.
The <span class="smcap">Golden Lion</span>, if it does not represent the true “lion of England,”
may represent the <i>lion passant, guardant, or</i> which appears on the arms
of the Haberdashers’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_53_53" id="FNanchor_53_53"></a><a href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a> The sign now occurs at Prittlewell,
*Chelmsford, *Romford, and Rayleigh. There are also beer-shops so-called
at Braintree, Hatfield Peverell, Rochford, and elsewhere. The <span class="smcap">Golden
Lion</span> at Rayleigh is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for February
24, 1786. Sixty years ago another house of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_60" id="page_60"></a>{60}</span> this name existed. A <span class="smcap">Golden
Lion</span> at Harwich in 1764 is also mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i>
for that year. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Blue Lion</span> occurs at Galleywood and at
Great Baddow. Larwood and Hotten think that it “may possibly have been
first put up at the marriage of James I. with Anne of Denmark.” There
can, however, be very little doubt that in Essex this sign represents
the arms of the Mildmay family,<a name="FNanchor_54_54" id="FNanchor_54_54"></a><a href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a> which was once of very great
influence in the county. At the time of James I. there were nine several
families of this name possessed of very large estates in the county, the
heads of eight of them being knights. Our nine <span class="smcap">White Lions</span> perhaps
represent the badge of Edward IV., though the Dukes of Norfolk, the
Earls of Surrey, and other prominent personages have also borne <i>lions
argent</i>. Forty years since an <span class="smcap">Old White Lion</span> existed at Epping, being
probably the *<span class="smcap">White Lion</span> which lived there in 1789 (p. 7). As he has now
disappeared, it is only natural to suppose that he has died of old age.
The sign-board of the existing house at Epping is fully pictorial. The
<span class="smcap">White Lion</span> at Waltham Abbey is mentioned in the parish registers in
July, 1746, when W. Chesson (presumably the landlord) was buried. <span class="smcap">Black
Lions</span> are to be seen at Plaistow, Stisted, Althorne, Layer Marney, High
Roothing, and *Epping. At the last-mentioned place two houses of this
name existed forty years ago, one of which has existed since 1789, at
least. According to advertisements in the issues of the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> for February 10 and April 14, 1786, a <span class="smcap">Black Lion</span> then existed
at Braintree; but, unless identical with the <span class="smcap">Lion and Lamb</span> or <span class="smcap">White
Lion</span>, still in existence there, it has now disappeared. Larwood and
Hotten say (p. 120), “The <span class="smcap">Black Lion</span> is somewhat uncommon; it may have
been derived from the coat of arms of Queen Philippa of Hainault, wife
of Edward III.,” or it may represent the <i>lion sable</i> in the arms of
Owen Glendower. The <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span> is, however, by far our commonest leonine
sign in Essex. It occurs as many as thirty-four times. The authors<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_61" id="page_61"></a>{61}</span> so
frequently quoted, say (p. 119) that it doubtless originated in the
badge of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who bore the lion of Leon and
Castille on his arms as a token of his claim to the throne of those
countries. In after years it may often have been used to represent the
lion of Scotland. The <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span>, opposite the church at Stambourne, has a
truly heraldic sign&mdash;<i>a lion, rampant, gules, armed, langued, &amp;c.,
argent, on a wreath argent and sable</i>. On one of its gables this inn has
two designs&mdash;one representing an old man with long white hair, wearing a
large green coat and boots of the same colour, and apparently blowing a
long horn or trumpet; the other a monogram “I.<span class="ups">W.</span>E.” and the date
1709. This may indicate that it was formerly known as the <span class="smcap">Green Man</span>. The
<span class="smcap">Red Lion</span> at *Colchester is a very well-known house. Like the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>
at Brentwood, it is one of the few examples now remaining in the county
of the old-fashioned inn of several centuries ago. Its capacious
courtyard has evidently once been galleried, and it is altogether one of
the most ancient inns now existing in Colchester, or even in the county,
as well as being certainly one of the most quaint and antique in its
appearance. Its uppermost story considerably overhangs the others, and
the whole of the front shows much old carving which is certainly not
later than the fifteenth, and probably the fourteenth, century, to which
has been added some good modern work. Probably if the plaster were
removed much more old carving would be brought to light. Among other
faces, are those of two lions, which look down upon the entrance. The
doorway is also carved. Miss L. S. Costello, in an article on Colchester
in <i>Bentley’s Miscellany</i> for 1840 (vol. xviii. p. 62), says, that among
the few interesting houses in the High Street, she “was struck with a
wooden doorway at the entrance of the [<span class="smcap">Red</span>] <span class="smcap">Lion Inn</span>. It has evidently
been elaborately carved on the different storeys all over, but very
little of its ornament remains. The spandrels of the arch have a
representation, on one side, of a dragon, huge and grim, and on the
other of a knight on foot, with an immensely long spear, tilting at the
monster.” An entry, dated Jan. 9, 1603-4, in one of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_62" id="page_62"></a>{62}</span> the old Corporation
assembly books, states that “the Lion, the Angel, and the White Hart
were appointed the only three wine taverns in y<sup>e</sup> towne, being
auncyent Innes and Taverns.” Mr. Chas. Golding of Colchester has,
however, traced its existence back many years earlier, having found
mention of it under its present name in the Corporation records of the
year 1530 or thereabouts. The still-extant <span class="smcap">Red Lions</span> at Great Wakering
and Ilford are referred to in advertisements in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> on Jan. 20 and 27, 1786, respectively. The latter was a
posting-house of great importance in the days when coaching was at its
height; but, like its neighbour, the <span class="smcap">Angel</span> (another house once of
considerable fame), it has now sunk into comparative insignificance,
though still quite one of the leading inns of the district. It is a
large, massive square brick building, before which on the top of the
sign-post reposes a graven representation of a Red Lion <i>couchant</i>. The
<span class="smcap">Red Lion</span> at Waltham Abbey is referred to in the parish registers in
1644, when 1s. 8d. was “given to the woman that lay in at the Reed
Lyon.” Capt. Andrew Hamilton has given<a name="FNanchor_55_55" id="FNanchor_55_55"></a><a href="#Footnote_55_55" class="fnanchor">[55]</a> an interesting account of an
old house at Kelvedon, formerly known as the <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span> Inn. It is now
converted into four good-sized tenements, and is known as Knight
Templars Terrace, from a tradition that the inn once belonged to that
fraternity. In its day it was probably the most considerable inn in
Kelvedon, and the largest on the main road between Chelmsford and
Colchester. It was certainly built before the year 1420, and is now an
excellent example of a half-timbered house of that date. Until lately,
however, the original work has been hidden by no less than two false
fronts of lath and plaster of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
respectively. Capt. Hamilton describes in detail both the internal and
external construction of this singularly interesting house, but his
remarks are too lengthy to quote here. Opposite to it stood the <span class="smcap">Angel</span>.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span> at Abberton figures in the Rev. S. Baring-Gould’s
<i>Mehalah</i>. The <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span> at Springfield is<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_63" id="page_63"></a>{63}</span> an extremely ferocious one,
if one may judge from the appearance of his effigy, which is rudely cut
out of a thin sheet of iron, painted red, and placed upon the top of the
beer-house to which he serves as a sign. A <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span> at Radwinter
(perhaps the existing <span class="smcap">Lion</span>) finds mention in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i>
on January 20, 1786. The <span class="smcap">Lion and Boar</span> at Earls Colne may represent the
lion and boar which sometimes appear as the supporters of the arms of
King Richard III., or it may simply be an impaled sign. The sign is not
mentioned by Larwood and Hotten. The <span class="smcap">Lion and Key</span> at Leyton is a sign of
somewhat obscure origin. It is not a modern invention, as there was a
house of the same name near Lion’s Quay, London, in 1653. Our house,
which is over forty years old, and was formerly a blacksmith’s shop, may
have taken its sign from this one, or it may have derived its name
independently from the popular version of some family crest. This is
rendered extremely likely from the fact (supplied by the present
landlord, who, however, is unable to give any further information as to
the sign) that among the old property taken with the house is a
punch-bowl bearing the heraldic device of a lion rampant, its paw
resting upon the ring of an upright key, and dated either 1756 or 1786.
Whose this crest is, it is hard to say. The Rev. H. L. Elliot has
ascertained that it is not included among those in <i>The Book of Family
Crests</i>, although the family of Lyngard of Northants bore <i>a lion sejant
guardant sable, in the dexter fore paw a key in pale or</i>; while the
families of Knox, Criall, and Chamberlain had crests with a demi-lion
holding a key. The very common sign of the <span class="smcap">Lion and Lamb</span> is now met with
at Braintree, Stratford, Takeley, Chelmsford, and Brentwood, although,
twenty years ago, the county only contained three examples. At the
last-named place the sign seems to have existed since 1786 at least, as
it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on March 17th in that
year. At *Chelmsford a <span class="smcap">Lion and Lamb</span> carved in stone repose peacefully
upon the parapet of the building, while a newly-painted sign-board, very
well designed, depicts them in the same attitude. The fact of the name
containing an<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_64" id="page_64"></a>{64}</span> alliteration has, no doubt, had something to do with its
adoption; but it is also an emblematic representation of the Millennium,
when (as Larwood and Hotten say) “the lion shall lie down by the kid.”
Those gentlemen, however, together with all who use the sign, appear to
be a little at fault in their knowledge of Scripture. The passage
describing the “Millennium” (Isaiah xi. 6) says nothing about a lion
lying down, either with a lamb or a kid. It runs as follows: “The wolf
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together.” The sign
first came into use over two centuries ago. In connection with this sign
there is an amusing tale, which is worth repeating, told of a sceptical
American. When the significance of the sign was explained to him, he
remarked that the state of things depicted might possibly come to pass
some time, but that, when it did, he “guessed that there Lamb would be
inside that there Lion!”</p>

<p>Bovine signs are very frequently to be seen upon our Essex sign-boards.
The simple sign of the <span class="smcap">Bull</span> is the commonest device, occurring no less
than twenty-two times. Its intimate connection with Christmas beef,
heraldry, and bull-baiting is sufficient to account for the frequent
appearance of this animal on the sign-board. About seventy years ago the
<span class="smcap">Bull</span> Inn, Whitechapel, was the resort of the Essex farmers, who came to
London once a week to dispose of their corn, &amp;c. The landlord, named
Johnson, who was formerly “boots” at this inn, being in good credit with
his customers, they occasionally left their samples with him, and he
acted as a middle man so much to their satisfaction, that he shortly
after opened an office upon Bear Quay, styling himself “Factor of the
Essex Farmers.” The business ultimately grew to one of great extent. In
old deeds Mr. King finds mention of a <span class="smcap">Bull</span>&mdash;either shop, inn, or
dwelling-house&mdash;at Billericay as early as 1616, also of another house
with the same sign at Hockley early in the seventeenth century. Taylor,
in his <i>Catalogue of Tavernes</i>, mentions a <span class="smcap">Bull</span> (probably the existing
inn of that name) at Barking in 1636, and another at Brook Street, where
also there is a still existing Bull.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_65" id="page_65"></a>{65}</span> The <span class="smcap">Black Bull</span> appears at Fyfield,
Chelmsford, Margaretting, and Old Sampford, while an <span class="smcap">Old Black Bull</span>
occurs at Stratford. Very probably these two signs owe their existence
to the fact that a <i>bull sable</i> formed one of the badges, as well as the
sinister supporter of the arms, of Edward IV. In 1662 there was a <span class="smcap">Black
Bull</span> Inn at Romford, as appears from a mention made of it in the
<i>Account of the Murder of Thomas Kidderminster</i>, already referred to. In
1789 there were other examples of the <span class="smcap">Black Bull</span> at Loughton and Harlow,
and that at Fyfield was then existing. Sixty years ago there was also
one at Grays. On the map of the road between London and Harwich, given
in Ogilby’s <i>Itinerarium Angliæ</i>, published in 1675, “Ye <span class="smcap">Bull
Inn</span>”&mdash;evidently a house of some importance&mdash;is shown about midway
between Ingatestone and Widford. In the <i>Traveller’s Guide</i>, a smaller
edition of the same work, published in 1699, the same house figures as
the <span class="smcap">Black Bull</span> Inn. Probably this is the still existing <span class="smcap">Black Bull</span> at
Margaretting. The <span class="smcap">Bull and Crown</span>, which has been in existence at
Chingford for at least forty years past, may be simply an impaled sign,
or it may (like the last sign spoken of) be derived from the black bull
of Edward IV., or from the white bull used as a supporter by Henry VIII.
In either case the bull would probably be crowned. This device is not
referred to in the <i>History of Sign-boards</i>, nor is that of the <span class="smcap">Bull and
Horseshoe</span>, which occurs at North Weald. It is probably only an impaled
sign. The <span class="smcap">Bull’s Head</span>, to be seen at Loughton, is, as already stated (p.
34), probably taken from the arms of the Butchers’ Company. There was
once a famous <span class="smcap">Bull</span> Inn at Newport. It has now disappeared, having, it is
said, been compelled to close owing to the opening of the <span class="smcap">Hercules</span> just
opposite; but there are old folks still living who can recollect the
shields of arms in coloured glass in the windows, and the “Bull Orchard”
still remains. The house is mentioned in the Corporation records of
Saffron Walden for the year 1734. Cole also, in his MSS., speaks of it
by the name of the <span class="smcap">Red Bull</span> (a rather uncommon sign, of which Essex does
not now possess an example). The sign,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_66" id="page_66"></a>{66}</span> however, seems to have undergone
a change of colour, for it is referred to as the <span class="smcap">Black Bull</span> in <i>Poor
Robin’s Perambulation from Saffron Walden to London, performed this
month of July, 1678</i>.<a name="FNanchor_56_56" id="FNanchor_56_56"></a><a href="#Footnote_56_56" class="fnanchor">[56]</a> The author says:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“To Newport Pond my course I next way bent,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And in at the sign of the Black Bull went.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Where scarcely in a room I had set down,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">When in came my old friends, kind Mr. Br ...<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And Mr. Woo ..., two who love their friend<br /></span>
<span class="i1">With true and hearty love unto the end;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">For though they in another town do live,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">They to their neighbour some kind visits give.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">’Twas twelve o’clock; dinner time did approach,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">When men whet knives on wheels of cart or coach.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">The cloth was laid, and by the scent o’ th’ meat,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">One might perceive there something was to eat.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And so it proved, indeed; for from the pot<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Came forth a rump of beef, was piping hot,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And from the spit was brought a loyn of mutton,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Would satisfy the stomack of a glutton,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">For like a loyn of beef it might well have been knighted,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">To which our hostess kindly us invited;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Which we accepted of, and to delight her,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Told her that none could deny such an inviter;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">For she’s a widow of such excellent carriage,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Would make a man most happy in her marriage,” &amp;c.<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">Boyne describes a halfpenny token issued by “Thomas Rvnham at y<sup>e</sup> Bull
[represented in the centre] in Newport, 1667.” He assigns the token to
Newport in Shropshire; but, as Mr. Joseph Clarke, F.S.A., has informed
the author that no less than seven examples have been found at Newport,
Essex, and as the man’s name also occurs in the parish register, there
can be no doubt that Boyne was wrong.<a name="FNanchor_57_57" id="FNanchor_57_57"></a><a href="#Footnote_57_57" class="fnanchor">[57]</a> At Chingford Hatch there is a
house with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Dun Cow</span>. This is an ancient device, and
probably has reference to the feat of Guy, Earl of Warwick, who,
according to an old ballad, slew a “dun cow bigger than an elephaunt” on
Dunsmore Heath. The <span class="smcap">Red Cow</span>, as a sign, may be seen at Chrishall, Ashen,
and Shelley. A once well-known <span class="smcap">Red Cow</span> at *Chelmsford<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_67" id="page_67"></a>{67}</span> is now an equally
well-known coffee-tavern with the same sign. At Waltham Holy Cross a
beer-shop displays the very strange sign of the <span class="smcap">Spotted Cow</span>, which is in
all probability unique. Larwood and Hotten do not mention it. The sign
of the <span class="smcap">Red Cow</span> is probably intended to express the idea that good drink
may be obtained within, as from a cow; but, in former times, especial
value seems to have attached to the milk of red cows. At Cold Norton,
near Maldon, there is a house with the very strange, and probably
unique, sign of the <span class="smcap">Fly and Bullock</span>, kept by one William Pond. It is at
first difficult to see what possible sign-board connection the two
creatures can have. Farmers have reasons for believing that, during hot
weather, a great animosity exists between the two. Inquiry has at last
elicited the fact that the sign is a corrupted one, but this was not
arrived at until after much amusing and erudite speculation, as the sign
in its present form is a very perplexing one. The first guess was that
it was a corruption of the “Flying Bullock” or “Winged Bull,” the usual
emblem of St. Luke. This seemed the more likely, as we have in Essex
signs which might represent at least two other of the Apostolic emblems,
namely, the <span class="smcap">Angel</span> for Matthew, and the <span class="smcap">Eagle</span> for John; and who can say
but that some of our <span class="smcap">Lions</span> were not once winged, thus representing the
only remaining Evangelist, Mark? Moreover, Larwood and Hotten, although
they do not refer to this sign, mention (p. 73), when speaking of the
sign of the <span class="smcap">Flying Horse</span>, “a facetious innkeeper at Rogate, Petersfield,
who has put up a parody in the shape of a <i>Flying Bull</i>.” But then arose
the question, “Why should Luke be thus commemorated?” It was next
suggested in several quarters that the sign might have originated in the
old fable of <i>La Mouche et le Toreau</i>, of which Miss Elliot of Gosfield
has kindly forwarded a copy, and which is thought to be of Oriental
origin. This, however, did not decide the question, so inquiry was made
of the landlord, who, though knowing nothing of the origin of his sign,
stated that it formerly was, and should now be, the <span class="smcap">Butchers’ Arms</span>,
thereby clearing up the doubt, the crest and supporters<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_68" id="page_68"></a>{68}</span> of those arms
being “Flying Bulls.”<a name="FNanchor_58_58" id="FNanchor_58_58"></a><a href="#Footnote_58_58" class="fnanchor">[58]</a> There can be no doubt, therefore, that the <span class="smcap">Fly
and Bullock</span> originally represented one of the <span class="smcap">Flying Bullocks</span> in the
Butchers’ Arms. It seems, moreover, that the sign does after all
represent the winged ox of St. Luke, that Evangelist being, in a way,
the Patron Saint of butchers, for in Chambers’s <i>Book of Days</i> (ii. p.
464) it is stated this symbol has been associated with St. Luke,
“because, to quote the words of an ancient writer, ‘he deviseth about
the presthode of Jesus Christ,’ the ox or calf being the sign of a
sacrifice, and St. Luke entering more largely than the other Evangelists
into the history of the life and sufferings of our Saviour.”</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span> is, perhaps, the most interesting of all our Essex signs.
At present it occurs five times in the county&mdash;namely, at *Prittlewell,
*Maldon, *Colchester, *Stratford, and Abridge. The two first-named
houses have been in existence at least a century, as they are mentioned
in advertisements in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> in 1786 and 1788
respectively, while the last-named is marked on Greenwood’s Map of
Essex, published in 1824. Forty years ago there was another example of
the sign at Stanford Rivers, and Mr. H. W. King informs the author that
the house at Hadleigh, now known as the <span class="smcap">Castle</span>, displayed the sign of
the <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span> until late in the last century. Taylor (see p. 28)
mentions another <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span> at Ilford in 1636. In 1789, too, there was
one at Fyfield. In the year 1750, a <span class="smcap">Blue Boar’s Head</span> Inn existed
opposite the Church at Waltham Abbey. Mr. Charles Golding, of
Colchester, in writing to <i>Notes and Queries</i><a name="FNanchor_59_59" id="FNanchor_59_59"></a><a href="#Footnote_59_59" class="fnanchor">[59]</a> to inquire the latest
date at which bull-baiting is known to have taken place in England,
mentions that an entertainment of this kind was announced, in an old
advertisement that he had seen, to take place at the above house on
Whitsun Monday, 1750, and “any gentleman bringing a dog should be
entertained at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_69" id="page_69"></a>{69}</span> a dinner free.” The same house is referred to in an
entry in the parish registers in 1647, when 12s. 6d. was “paid for a
dinner at the Borsehed when the ould Churchwardens gave up their
accounts.” The sign of the <span class="smcap">Boar’s Head</span> occurs at East Horndon,
*Braintree, and *Dunmow. The first of these houses appeared in the list
forty years ago as the <span class="smcap">Old Boar’s Head</span>. Our houses of this name have,
perhaps, been named after the famous <span class="smcap">Boar’s Head</span> tavern which used to
exist in Eastcheap, or they may have had a separate origin. As to the
derivation of the sign itself, Larwood and Hotten are inclined to
believe that it represents the boar’s head as formerly often brought to
table, rather than a charge taken from some one’s arms; but, in this, it
is difficult altogether to agree with them. A boar’s head forms part of
the arms of the Butchers’ Company (p. 34), and we have had in Essex
several families bearing the same charge in their arms, such as the
Borehams of Haverhill, the Welbores of Clavering, and the Tyrrells,
Baronets, of Boreham House&mdash;the charge and the name of the place being
very probably connected in some way in the latter case. Indeed, so far
as the <span class="smcap">Boar’s Head</span> at East Horndon is concerned, there can be no doubt
whatever that it represents the crest of the family of Tyrrells,
Baronets (connected with the Boreham Tyrrells), formerly of Heron Hall,
in the same parish, which was demolished about the year 1789. Their
crest, which was <i>a boar’s head, couped and erect, argent, issuant out
of the mouth a peacock’s tail proper</i>, is now correctly represented on
the sign-board, exactly as upon several of the family monuments in the
church. Both the sign-board and the heraldic device it bears are new,
having been recently set up under the supervision of the rector of the
parish. The old board, which is altogether unheraldic, is displayed over
the door, and exhibits the head of an extremely ferocious-looking boar
emerging from a clump of rushes in a most threatening manner.</p>

<p>There can be very little doubt that in Essex the sign of the <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span>
represents the <i>boar azure, armed, unguled, and bristled or</i>, which
served as a crest, as one of the supporters,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_70" id="page_70"></a>{70}</span> and also as one of the
principal badges of the once powerful De Veres, Earls of Oxford,
formerly of Hedingham Castle. This is shown to be the more probable by
the fact that we have still no less than five examples of the sign in
the county, while the adjacent counties of Kent, Middlesex, and Herts
possess none. Elsewhere, too, the sign is very uncommon. Not a single
example now appears in Surrey, Sussex, Durham, Devonshire,
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland,
or Cheshire. Norfolk, Kent, and Cambridge have one each. Leicestershire
and Suffolk (in which county the De Veres also had large estates) have,
however, two each. In London, although there is both a <span class="smcap">Boar’s Head</span> and a
<span class="smcap">Blue Boar’s Head</span>, there is not now a <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span>. However, a tradesman’s
token issued “at the Bleu Boore without Bishopsgate” in the seventeenth
century still exists. Much valuable information concerning the <i>Blue
Boar</i> as used by the De Veres, is contained in a paper by the Rev. H. L.
Elliot, of Gosfield, <i>On Some Badges and Devices of the De Veres, on the
Tower of Castle Hedingham Church</i>.<a name="FNanchor_60_60" id="FNanchor_60_60"></a><a href="#Footnote_60_60" class="fnanchor">[60]</a> Four of these&mdash;the Boar, the
Mullet, the Whistle, and the Windlass&mdash;are here reproduced.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_070_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_070_sml.jpg" width="350" height="293" alt="Image not available: BLUE BOAR.

MULLET.

WHISTLE.

WINDLASS.

(Badges of the De Veres.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">BLUE BOAR.

<span style="margin-left: 16%;">MULLET.</span>
<br />
WHISTLE.

<span style="margin-left: 16%;">WINDLASS.</span>
<br />
(Badges of the De Veres.)</span>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_71" id="page_71"></a>{71}</span></p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 243px;">
<a href="images/i_071_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_071_sml.jpg" width="243" height="248" alt="Image not available: BADGE OF THE DE VERES.

(Front the Black Boy, Chelmsford.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">BADGE OF THE DE VERES.

(Front the Black Boy, Chelmsford.)</span>
</div>

<p>The motto of the family, <i>Vero nihil verius</i> and <i>Verite vient</i> formed a
rebus on the name. The boar as a badge was evidently assumed for the
same reason. The Latin name for the animal is <i>verres</i>, though the De
Veres probably got it through the Dutch (<i>veer</i> or <i>vere</i>), as they were
a branch of the House of Blois, and owned the Lordship of Vere in
Zetland. The boar has been a favourite device of the De Veres from a
very early period. The feet of the cross-legged and mail-clad figure of
Robert, the fifth Earl, who died in 1296, still existing at Earls Colne
Priory, are placed against a boar, and the same animal appears in
different capacities on all, or nearly all, the other existing monuments
of the family. Stowe speaks of John, the sixteenth Earl, “riding into
the city, to his house by London Stone, with eighty gentlemen in a
livery of Reading tawney, and chains of gold about their necks, before
him, and one hundred tall yeomen in the like livery to follow him,
without chains, but all having his cognizance of the Blew Boar
embroydered on their left shoulder.” As a badge, the boar is carved,
alternately with the mullet (another device of the De Veres<a name="FNanchor_61_61" id="FNanchor_61_61"></a><a href="#Footnote_61_61" class="fnanchor">[61]</a>), over
the clerestory windows of Castle Hedingham Church; on several parts of
Lavenham Church, Suffolk; on the roof of the south aisle of Sible
Hedingham Church; over the west door of Chelmsford Church, and
elsewhere. In the Chelmsford Museum, moreover, is preserved a wooden
boss, taken from the ceiling of a room of the old <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> Inn when it
was pulled down. On this is carved a boar, within a circular ribbon
charged with seven mullets. Some information as to how these devices
came into these positions is given hereafter.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_72" id="page_72"></a>{72}</span> For close upon five
centuries this mighty family, whose riches were immense, and whose power
was second only to that of the sovereign, ruled over a large portion of
East Anglia in semi-regal fashion. For 567 years, too, was the same
title retained in this one family. It is no wonder, therefore, that
their armorial bearings should have been largely used as signs by those
who were in various ways dependent upon them; but it is interesting to
find at the present day such comparatively clear evidence of this fact.
The principal Essex inn exhibiting the sign of the <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span> (and the
one from which, in all probability, some, at least, of our others have
taken the name) was the once famous <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span> at Castle Hedingham. This
ancient house may be cited as a good example of an inn deriving its sign
directly from the armorial bearings of a great historical family which
formerly resided in the immediate vicinity, and, without doubt, owned
the house. Its sign, of course, represented the badge of the mighty
Earls of Oxford. The inn was a fine old house standing in St. James’s
Street, where its ornamental chimneys once formed the most prominent
feature. After being injured by fire it was pulled down in 1865. On this
occasion various old coins and other relics were discovered, the most
interesting being an inscription in Early English characters, written in
chalk on a blackened beam behind the wainscot. It ran thus:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Hans pes withe yore nebor whilom ye maye,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">For oftyn tymes favore do the passe withe ye daye.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">This may be translated as follows:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Be at peace with your neighbour while ye may,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">For often times the favour will pass with the day.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">According to the authors of the <i>History of Sign-boards</i> (p. 116), this
sign was originally a <i>white</i> boar, and represented the <i>boar argent</i>,
which formed the favourite badge of Richard III., as well as one (or,
more generally, both) of the supporters of his arms.</p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 171px;">
<a href="images/i_072_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_072_sml.jpg" width="171" height="138" alt="Image not available: THE WHITE BOAR.

(Badge of Richard III.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">THE WHITE BOAR.
<br />
(Badge of Richard III.)</span>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_73" id="page_73"></a>{73}</span></p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The fondness of Richard for this badge appears from his wardrobe
accounts for the year 1483, one of which contains a charge ‘for
8,000 bores made and wrought upon fustian,’ and 5,000 more are
mentioned shortly afterwards. He also established a herald of arms
called ‘Blanc Sanglier,’ and it was this trusty squire who carried
his master’s mangled body from Bosworth battle-field to
Leicester.... After Richard’s defeat and death the <span class="smcap">White Boars</span> were
changed into <span class="smcap">Blue Boars</span>, this being the easiest and cheapest way of
changing the sign; and so the [<span class="smcap">White</span>] <span class="smcap">Boar</span> of Richard, now painted
‘true blue,’ passed for the [<span class="smcap">Blue</span>] <span class="smcap">Boar</span> of the Earl of Oxford, who
had largely contributed to place Henry VII. on the throne.”</p></div>

<p class="nind">Shakespeare in Richard III. (act v., scene 3) alludes to the dead king
and his badge as follows:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar<br /></span>
<span class="i1">That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">... This foul swine ... lies now ...<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">It is related that in this king’s reign one William Collingbourne was
executed for composing the following couplet:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“The Cat, the Rat, and Lovell our Dog,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Rule all Englonde under an Hogge.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The king and his ministers, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Sir William Catesby,
and Lord Lovell, were, of course, thus referred to. At Earls Colne, as
already stated (p. 63), there is a <span class="smcap">Lion and Boar</span>. Here, in all
probability, we have again represented the boar of the De Veres, Colne
Priory having been another seat of the family, some members of which lie
buried there. Other signs, which have, in all probability, been derived
(partly, at least) from other badges of the De Veres, will be noticed
hereafter.</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Flitch of Bacon</span> is most conveniently described in
connection with the boar. The authors just quoted say (p. 420), “The
<span class="smcap">Flitch of Dunmow</span> is a common sign in Essex, and is sometimes seen in
other counties;” but it does not appear that we have had more than one
in the county for forty years past, that one being, of course, the
well-known inn at *Little Dunmow. How the sign originated is too well
known to need any explanation here. A similar custom has occasioned a
similar sign at Wichnor, near Lichfield (<i>Gent’s Mag.</i>, 1819). A
beer-shop,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_74" id="page_74"></a>{74}</span> about thirty years old, in the market-place at Romford, is
known by the appropriate name of the <span class="smcap">Pig in the Pound</span>. A <span class="smcap">Pig and Whistle</span>
is in existence at Thames Haven, and there are beer-shops of the same
name in Broomfield and Writtle parishes. The origin of this sign appears
not to have come down to us out of the mists of antiquity. Very many and
very learned are the explanations which have, of late, been proposed as
the solution of it. Half the European languages have been ransacked for
its derivation, but so far without any satisfactory results. Larwood and
Hotten dismiss it as “simply a freak of the mediæval artist.” Possibly
it may represent, in a corrupted form, the peg said to have been placed
in the wassail-bowl by King Edgar, who, in order to discourage
drunkenness, imposed a penalty upon any one who drank so deeply as to
leave it uncovered. There is, however, a by-no-means-unlikely origin for
the sign, and one which the author believes has never before been
suggested. In Mr. Elliot’s interesting paper just quoted (p. 70) it is
stated that, in addition to the <i>blue boar</i>, the De Veres, among several
other devices, made use of a <i>Whistle and Chain</i> as a household badge.
Thus, among the devices of this one family, are found the two objects&mdash;a
pig (or boar) and a whistle&mdash;which, when combined, constitute this most
perplexing sign. It is very difficult&mdash;perhaps impossible&mdash;to prove now
that the sign was actually derived from these two badges of the De
Veres, but, remembering the enormous past importance of the family, it
must be admitted that the sign was in no way unlikely to have been so
derived. Mr. Elliot himself writes that he considers this suggestion not
unlikely to be the correct one. Very probably this description of the
Earl’s badges was a derisive one, applied to them by the Yorkist party
during the Wars of the Roses. A whistle, like that adopted by the De
Veres, was formerly worn by sea-captains, even of high rank; and Mr.
Elliot is of opinion that it was assumed by the De Veres as a symbol of
the office of Lord High Admiral, an appointment held by John, the
thirteenth Earl, who was very active on behalf of the Lancastrian
party.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_75" id="page_75"></a>{75}</span></p>

<p>Forty-six inns in Essex exhibit signs which are more or less canine. A
few of these may have had their origin in Heraldry; but there can be no
doubt that, in the great majority of cases, the signs have originated in
the modern use of the dog, whether for sporting or other purposes. At
Wethersfield and Halstead the <span class="smcap">Dog</span> appears alone; at East Horndon there
is an <span class="smcap">Old Dog</span>; a <span class="smcap">Pointer</span> exists at Alresford; and at Colchester, East
Mersey, and Tolleshunt Knights the <span class="smcap">Dog and Pheasant</span> appears; while at
Stifford and Great Leighs (beer-house) the <span class="smcap">Dog and Partridge</span> is used, as
it was also at *Halstead sixty years ago. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Spotted Dog</span>,
although it is not mentioned by Hotten, occurs four times, namely at
Witham, Barking, Chelmsford, and West Ham, and there is a beer-house of
the same name at Braintree. The sole use of the Spotted, or Dalmatian,
Dog in this country, says a writer in the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i>, “is to
contribute, by the beauty of its appearance, to the splendour of the
stable establishment, constantly attending the horses and carriage to
which he belongs.” On October 22, 1804, a disastrous and fatal fire took
place at the <span class="smcap">Spotted Dog</span>, *Chelmsford. The details are given in a scarce
pamphlet, reprinted in Hughson’s <i>London</i> (vol. vi. p. 246). It seems
that about 120 Hanoverian soldiers marched into Chelmsford on the day in
question, and about 70 of them took up their lodgings in the stables of
this inn. While most of them were asleep it was discovered that the
straw upon which they lay had caught fire. All were, of course, at once
aroused, but being unused to the fastening of the door, they were unable
to open it. When at last it was opened and the inmates liberated, many
of them were sorely burned, and others had their clothing on fire. The
flames were got under after a time, but not until they had extended to
other stables and burned several horses. On clearing away the rubbish,
the bodies of no less than thirteen of the Hanoverian soldiers who had
perished in the flames were found. They were afterwards buried with
military honours in the church. At Hordon-on-the-Hill there is a <span class="smcap">Black
Dog</span> (beer-house). The <span class="smcap">Shepherd and Dog</span> is a device which<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_76" id="page_76"></a>{76}</span></p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 201px;">
<a href="images/i_076_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_076_sml.jpg" width="201" height="155" alt="Image not available: DOG’S HEAD IN POT.

(After Larwood and Hotten.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">DOG’S HEAD IN POT.
<br />
(After Larwood and Hotten.)</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">is now to be seen at Upminster, Ramsden Cray, and Great Stambridge
(beer-house). Two centuries ago it appeared on the farthing token of
“Peeter Pearcce” of Braintree; while a <small>DOG WITH CHAIN</small>, <i>passant</i>, occurs
on that of “Thomas Peeke, Wyre Street, in Colchstr,” and a dog eating
out of a fleshpot (the <span class="smcap">Dog’s Head in Pot</span>) on the halfpenny issued by
John Phillips of Plaistow in 1670. This device seems to have been
originally used to indicate a dirty, slovenly housewife. It was never
common. The <span class="smcap">Hare and Hounds</span> occurs seven times, the <span class="smcap">Fox and Hounds</span> ten
times, and the <span class="smcap">Huntsman and Hounds</span> once (at Upminster). Both the <span class="smcap">Fox</span> and
the <span class="smcap">Fox and Hounds</span> are very common beer-house signs. The <span class="smcap">Hare</span>, an
unusual sign when not accompanied by the Hounds, appears at Great
Parndon. The <span class="smcap">Talbot</span> at North Weald may be named after the famous <span class="smcap">Talbot</span>
in Southwark, which, under its former name of the <span class="smcap">Tabard</span>, sheltered
Chaucer’s pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. Talbot is the name of an
old variety of hunting dog which, at the present day, is never heard of
except in connection with Heraldry; and, as the sign in question is not
now a pictorial one, most of the inhabitants of North Weald would
probably be much puzzled to explain what it originally represented.
There was another <span class="smcap">Talbot</span> in Stapleford Tawney until about ten years ago,
but it is now a private house. The county contains no less than thirteen
<span class="smcap">Greyhounds</span>, one of which is an <span class="smcap">Old Greyhound</span>. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Greyhound</span>
existed at Chelmsford in 1786, according to the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i>
for July 21st in that year, but it is not now extant, though Greyhound
Lane still exists. In all probability this was the house that existed
under the same name in 1662, as mentioned in the <i>Account of the Murder
of Thomas Kidderminster</i>, to which reference has been already made. The
<span class="smcap">Greyhound</span> at Waltham Abbey is mentioned in the parish<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_77" id="page_77"></a>{77}</span> registers on June
4, 1735, when “John Munns from y<sup>e</sup> Greyhound was Bur.” The <span class="smcap">Greyhound</span>
at Barking is mentioned in the parish register as early as 1592.<a name="FNanchor_62_62" id="FNanchor_62_62"></a><a href="#Footnote_62_62" class="fnanchor">[62]</a> An
entry states that “Henry, the supposed son of Henry Fisher of London,
from the Greyhound, was bap<sup>d</sup> the 17th of October.” For this sign we
are probably about equally indebted both to the sport of coursing and
the art of Heraldry. <i>Greyhounds argent</i> formed either one or both of
the supporters of Henry VII., the badge, and often one of the
supporters, of Henry VIII., and one of the supporters of Elizabeth and
Mary; so that in all probability the sign found its origin in Heraldry,
but owes its use in the present day, largely at least, to coursing.</p>

<p>In a hunting district like Essex it is in no way surprising that there
should be as many as twenty-five references to the fox on our
sign-boards. Although twenty years ago the sign of the Fox only occurred
five times, it now occurs eleven times; while there are ten signs of the
<span class="smcap">Fox and Hounds</span>, and three of the <span class="smcap">Fox and Goose</span>. The latter is a
combination which mediæval artists never tired of representing. It may
be seen, among other places, on a carved oak screen in Hadstock Church.
Of the <span class="smcap">Flying Fox</span> at Colchester, Larwood and Hotten say (p. 170)&mdash;“It
may represent some kind of bat or flying squirrel (?) so denominated, or
is a landlord’s caprice.” It seems much more probable, however, that the
device is intended to represent a fox flying before the hounds.</p>

<p>There is a beer-house known as the <span class="smcap">Wolf</span> at Great Coggeshall. The origin
of the sign, which is not mentioned by Larwood and Hotten, is hard to
explain. Probably it is unique.</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Hare and Hounds</span>, of which, as previously stated (p. 76),
we have seven examples, is, doubtless, entirely derived from the sport
of coursing; but the <span class="smcap">Rabbits</span>, a very old house still in existence at
Little Ilford, has probably an heraldic origin. Most likely the sign is
derived from three coneys appearing on some family coat of arms, but<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_78" id="page_78"></a>{78}</span>
whose, it is now difficult to say. The sign appeared in the list as the
<span class="smcap">Three Rabbits</span> forty years ago, and as the <span class="smcap">Three Coneys</span> on Jean Roque’s
<i>Map of Ten Miles Round London</i>, published in 1746. Lysons, in his
<i>Environs of London</i> (1796, vol. iv. p. 157), says&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“A great mart for cattle from Wales, Scotland, and the North of
England is held annually, from the latter end of February till the
beginning of May, on the flat part of the forest of Waltham
(commonly called Epping Forest), within the parishes of Ilford,
Eastham, Westham, Leyton, and Wanstead. A great part of the
business between the dealers is transacted at the <span class="smcap">Rabbits</span> in this
parish&mdash;on the high road.”</p></div>

<p class="nind">There is also a beer-shop known as the <span class="smcap">Rabbits</span> in Stapleford Tawney
parish. It is probably named after the foregoing. There is another
beer-house so called at West Thurrock. Larwood and Hotten do not mention
the sign under any of the above forms, although they say that in 1667
Hugh Conny, of Caxton and Elsworth, Cambridge, had <span class="smcap">Three Conies</span> for a
sign, and a <small>RABBIT</small> is depicted on the farthing token of one William
Hutchenson, of Chelmsford.</p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 131px;">
<a href="images/i_078_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_078_sml.jpg" width="131" height="145" alt="Image not available: FLEECE." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">FLEECE.</span>
</div>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Fleece</span> occurs twice at *Colchester, once at *Coggeshall,
and once at Brentwood. That of the <span class="smcap">Golden Fleece</span> appears at Chelmsford
and East Ham, although the former seems to have become golden only
during the last forty years. There were also <span class="smcap">Fleeces</span> at Halstead and
Witham sixty years ago. Both forms of the sign are, of course, intended
to represent Jason’s Golden Fleece, or Gideon’s, and their use
commemorates the time when the woollen trade was one of the staple
industries of Essex. The Fleece also formed the pendant of the Order of
the <span class="smcap">Golden Fleece</span>, which was founded in 1429 by Philip, Duke of Burgundy
and Count of Flanders, “to perpetuate the memory of his great revenues
raised by wools with the Low Countries,” as Ashmole says. Ancient
encaustic tiles have been found, Mr. Elliot writes, both in Witham and
Maldon (St. Mary’s) Churches bearing the arms of the Dukes of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_79" id="page_79"></a>{79}</span> Burgundy,
with their badge of flint, steel, and sparks in the upper and side
spandrels, and the figure of the Fleece below. A fleece forms a charge
in the arms of the town of Leeds,<a name="FNanchor_63_63" id="FNanchor_63_63"></a><a href="#Footnote_63_63" class="fnanchor">[63]</a> now the principal seat of the
woollen trade. Larwood and Hotten facetiously remark that “a fleece at
the door of an inn or public-house looks very like a warning of the fate
a traveller may expect within.” The <span class="smcap">Star and Fleece</span> is an odd
combination, which does not appear to be noticed in the <i>History of
Sign-boards</i>. It may simply be an impaled sign, or may represent the
fleece of one of the mullets in the arms of Leeds. An example has
existed at Kelvedon for over forty years, and another was in existence a
few years since. Another emblem of the woollen trade is the <span class="smcap">Woolpack</span>, of
which, as already stated (p. 39), we have six examples, arranged in an
almost straight line across the county, namely, at *Romford,
Ingatestone, Chelmsford, Witham, *Coggeshall, and *Colchester. Three, at
least, of these were in existence sixty years since, at which time there
was another at Bocking. It is recorded in <i>Bufton’s Diary</i><a name="FNanchor_64_64" id="FNanchor_64_64"></a><a href="#Footnote_64_64" class="fnanchor">[64]</a> that on
May 1, 1693, at Coggeshall, “Y<sup>e</sup> soldiers set up a Maypole at y<sup>e</sup>
<span class="smcap">Woolpacke</span> doore.” The <span class="smcap">Woolpack</span> is a device which appears commonly on the
tokens of the seventeenth century. It is met with at Billericay, Dunmow,
Castle Hedingham (twice), Braintree, Bocking, Witham, and Colchester.
The sign of the <span class="smcap">Woolpack</span>, it should be noticed, is still, or was lately,
to be seen at the three last-named places. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Shears</span>, as
pointed out elsewhere (p. 41), is another relic of the now departed
woollen trade. From the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the
eighteenth century, the spinning, carding, and weaving of wool formed
the staple industry in most of the larger towns and villages of Eastern
England. Several prominent families of the district in former days owed
their wealth to this trade. In the neighbourhood of Hedingham it is said
that several old houses, of which remnants only<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_80" id="page_80"></a>{80}</span> now exist, were once
“wool-halls,” combining a residence for the merchant with a warehouse
for his wools, worsteds, and “pieces.” Very high wages were earned by
the workpeople, even by children and old persons. It has been estimated
that, at the middle of last century, not less than 20,000 hands in and
around Colchester were employed in the woollen trade; but by the end of
the century the number had sunk to less than 8,000. Many old persons
still living can remember their parents’ or grand-parents’ accounts of
the festivities on St. Blaize’s Day, the 3rd of February, when there
were processions in mediæval fashion, with shepherdess and lamb, and men
and women spinning and weaving, accompanied by a great deal of noise and
fun, bell-ringing and band-playing, ribbons and banners, roystering and
drinking. In the evening bonfires were lit upon the hills to commemorate
(as the common people thought) the name of their patron, St. Blaize. The
weaving of bunting for ships’ flags lingered in and around Sudbury until
about twenty years ago, but has now quite died out in East Anglia. The
<span class="smcap">Ram</span>, at North Woolwich, perhaps, represents the crest of the
Clothworkers’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_65_65" id="FNanchor_65_65"></a><a href="#Footnote_65_65" class="fnanchor">[65]</a> Our six examples of the sign of the <span class="smcap">Lamb</span> may,
or may not, have had an heraldic origin. They probably represent the
Lamb with the flag of the Apocalypse; but this was used as a crest by
the Merchant Taylors’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_66_66" id="FNanchor_66_66"></a><a href="#Footnote_66_66" class="fnanchor">[66]</a> The farthing issued in 1654 by “Tho.
Lambe at Bvttls Gate in Colchester” bears a <i>Holy Lamb couchant</i>, and
that of “Joseph Lamb of Lee [Leigh], 1664,” bears the same device. In
both cases a rebus or pun on the name of the issuer is, of course,
intended. The <span class="smcap">Lambs</span> at *Colchester and *Romford are both at least sixty
years old. Probably the sign was first set up as an emblem of the
woollen trade. The five instances in which the Lamb occurs in
conjunction with a Lion have already been noticed (p. 63), and attention
has also been drawn to the fact (p. 23) that some, at least, of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_81" id="page_81"></a>{81}</span> our
<span class="smcap">Ships</span> are probably intended for <i>sheep</i>. The <span class="smcap">Shoulder of Mutton</span>, which
occurs both at Great Totham and Fordham, probably represents the joint
so often brought to table.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Bear</span> occurs by himself only twice, namely, at Buttsbury (where he is
at least forty years old), and at Romford. The <span class="smcap">Bear</span> at Buttsbury is
mentioned in the Stock parish registers in 1673. Forty years ago there
were also <span class="smcap">Bears</span> at Colchester and Great Baddow. We are probably more
indebted to the old custom of bear-baiting for this sign than to
Heraldry. Larwood and Hotten say that it was originally adopted by
ale-houses as a pun on the word “beer.” If so, the pun was a very weak
one. The <span class="smcap">White Bear</span> is to be seen at Galleywood and at Stanford Rivers.
At the latter place he has existed at least since 1789, and is
represented on a board over the door, but not upon the swinging
sign-board, as a Polar Bear picking his way over blocks of ice. The sign
of the <span class="smcap">White Bear</span> is not a modern one. It was used in the seventeenth
century, and both of our Essex examples are over forty years old. The
Queen of Richard III. used a White Bear as her badge, and this perhaps
originated the sign.</p>

<p>Of the <span class="smcap">Elephant and Castle</span>, a very old device, we have two instances in
Essex, one at Harwich, and the other at Colchester. Neither seems to
have been in existence twenty years ago. Most probably they are named
after the famous old coaching inn at Newington Butts; but they may have
originally been cutlers’ signs. The elephant with a castle on his back
(as he was generally represented in the Middle Ages) formed the crest of
the Cutlers’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_67_67" id="FNanchor_67_67"></a><a href="#Footnote_67_67" class="fnanchor">[67]</a> At Great Baddow, Rayleigh, and elsewhere the
device serves as a beer-house sign.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Goat and Boots</span> on *East Hill, Colchester, though over forty years
old, is a sign which is not noticed in the <i>History of Sign-boards</i>. It
is, doubtless, a corruption of the not-uncommon sign of the <span class="smcap">Goat in
Boots</span>, which appears to be a caricature of Welshmen, and not a
corruption of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_82" id="page_82"></a>{82}</span> Dutch description of Mercury, <i>der goden boode</i> (the
gods’ messenger), as is often stated. We have in Essex no example of the
not-uncommon sign of the <span class="smcap">Goat and Compasses</span>, which is usually supposed
to be a corruption of the Puritan motto, “God encompasses us.” This
explanation, however, is not sound. The motto could never have been
represented pictorially upon the sign-board, and we know that pictorial
representation was the sole aim and object of the sign in olden times.
Probably the sign is merely a compound one; or it may represent the arms
of the Cordwainers’ Company<a name="FNanchor_68_68" id="FNanchor_68_68"></a><a href="#Footnote_68_68" class="fnanchor">[68]</a> in a corrupted form. To this origin may
be certainly traced the sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Goats’ Heads</span>, which, however,
does not occur in Essex.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Squirrel’s Head</span> at Squirrel’s Heath, Romford, has no doubt some
connection with the locality. It was not in existence forty years ago.
The sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Squirrels</span>, which is not found in Essex, has been
in use for over two centuries.</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Sea Horse</span>, which has existed at *Colchester for at least
sixty years past, is not noticed by Larwood and Hotten. Very likely it
commemorates the capture in the Colne, and subsequent exhibition in the
town, of some such strange creature as a seal or porpoise, which vulgar
belief set down as a “sea horse.”</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Dolphin</span> occurs four times in the county, namely, at
*Colchester, *Chelmsford, Maldon, and *Romford. The animal also figures
as a beer-house sign at Stisted, Goldhanger, &amp;c. The houses bearing it
may have taken their sign from the many representations of the dolphin
in private coats of arms; but, most likely, they have simply been called
after the famous <span class="smcap">Dolphin</span> Inn which existed in London for several
centuries, and is said to have been occupied by Louis, the Dauphin of
France, who, in 1216, came over to contest the English crown with King
John. It was once adorned with fleurs-de-lys, dolphins, and other French
cognizances. The dolphin formed the badge of the Dauphins of France,
just as the three ostrich feathers form the badge<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_83" id="page_83"></a>{83}</span> of our own Princes of
Wales. Larwood and Hotten do not notice the sign of the <span class="smcap">Whalebone</span> of
which Essex possesses four examples, namely, at Woodham Ferrers,
*Colchester, Fingringhoe, and White Roothing. That at the latter place
has apparently been in existence for at least a century, as it is
mentioned more than once in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> in the year 1786,
while the one at Colchester figured in the list as the <span class="smcap">Old Whalebone</span>
forty years ago. The <span class="smcap">Fishbone</span>, however, spoken of by Larwood and Hotten
as being “rarely met with as a public-house sign,” though frequently
used by dealers in rags and bones, is probably the same sign under a
different name. In the museum at Saffron Walden there has been, for
nearly fifty years past, a large whale’s scapula, which is said formerly
to have hung as a sign in one of the streets of that town. Mr. Joseph
Clarke believes it was displayed at the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>, and it has on it an
almost illegible letter R, probably part of the monogram G. R.; but more
likely it formed the sign of the <span class="smcap">Whalebone</span> at some house not now in
existence, or not under that name. Of the <span class="smcap">Sun and Whalebone</span> which has
existed at Latton since 1789 at least, the authors so frequently quoted
say that “it may have originated from a whalebone hanging outside the
house or [it may indicate] that the landlord had laid the foundation of
his fortune as a rag merchant.” More probably, however, its origin was
the impalement of two distinct signs. The sign-board is not pictorial.
This sign was very fully discussed in <i>Notes and Queries</i> in 1862 (3rd
series, vol. i. pp. 250, 335, 359, 397, 419, and 473). Several most
profound speculations were advanced to account for it, but they were all
more or less far fetched. The <span class="smcap">Whalebone</span> at Chadwell Heath has now
disappeared, though a beer-shop so named existed there until about the
year 1870. From it, in all probability, our four existing houses of this
name, as well as the <span class="smcap">Sun and Whalebone</span> at Latton, have taken their
designation; for the sign is a very uncommon one in the adjoining
counties, and does not appear at all in London. The house in question
originally took its name from two whale’s jaw-bones (not <i>rib</i>-bones, as
is commonly<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_84" id="page_84"></a>{84}</span> supposed) set up in the form of an archway over the road
close at hand. Local tradition says that the bones were those of a whale
that was stranded in the Thames near Dagenham during the great storm
that prevailed on the night preceding September 3, 1658, when Oliver
Cromwell died.</p>

<p>This was, perhaps, the case, as “Ye Whalebone” is marked against the
tenth milestone from London on the map of the high-road from London to
Harwich, given in Ogilby’s <i>Itinerarium Angliæ</i>, published in 1675, only
seventeen years after the whale is said to have been stranded. Also in
Dr. Howell’s <i>Ancient and Present State of England</i>, first published in
1678, it is stated (6th Ed. p. 263) that, “near about this time [1658],
there came up the Thames as far as Greenwich a whale of very great
length and bigness.” Daniel Defoe, too, in his <i>Tour through the whole
Island of Great Britain</i>, first published in 1724, says (vol. i. p. 3)
the <span class="smcap">Whalebone</span> was “so called because the rib-bone of a large Whale,
taken in the River of Thames, was fixed there in 1658, the year Oliver
Cromwell died, for a monument of that monstrous creature, it being at
first about Eight and Twenty Foot long.” The <span class="smcap">Whale’s Bone</span> is also marked
on <i>Andrew and Drury’s Map of Essex</i>, published in 1777. That a storm of
most unusual magnitude did rage on the night in question, is certain.
Prideaux, in his <i>Introduction to History</i> (1682), speaks of “that most
horrid tempestuous night which ushered in this day [on which Cromwell
died].” Pepys also mentions the storm. Nor is it anything new for whales
and similar animals to appear in the Thames. In Sir Richard Baker’s
<i>Chronicles of the Kings of England</i> (p. 425), published in 1684, it is
recorded that on the 19th of January, 1606, “a great Porpus was taken at
West Ham, in a small creek a mile and a half within the land; and within
a few days after a Whale came up within eight miles of London, whose
body was seen divers times above the water, and was judged to exceed the
length of the largest ship in the River: but when she tasted the fresh
water and scented the land, she returned again into the sea.” On the
morning of April 31, 1879, too, a whale<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_85" id="page_85"></a>{85}</span> alarmed some fishermen by his
spouting near Hole Haven. Many other records might be cited. It is,
however, a curious circumstance that in M. J. Farmer’s <i>History of
Waltham Abbey</i>, published in 1735, there is given as an appendix “The
Inquisition taken the 17th of King Charles I. [1642] of a Perambulation
of Waltham Forest in the County of Essex,” in which occurs the following
passage:&mdash;[The Forest boundary runs] “from Great Ilford directly by the
same King’s High Way leading towards Rumford, to a certain <i>Quadrivium</i>
(or way leading four ways), called the Four Wants, where late was placed
and yet is a certain side of a whale, called the <i>Whale bone</i>.” From
this it would appear that the spot was known as the Whalebone long
before Cromwell’s death. Possibly, however, there is an error in the
above date, Charles I. being inserted instead of Charles II.</p>

<p>A good deal of discussion upon the subject took place several years ago
in the pages of <i>Notes and Queries</i>. In 1871 (p. 4), “G. S.” wrote that
he had often seen whales’ bones set upright in Holland for cattle to rub
against, and that he “was once struck with the same in a large park
between Ingatestone and Chelmsford. The owner was a Dutch gentleman, who
had introduced this sensible idea into England.” Other correspondents
wrote that they knew of whales’ bones having been set up in various
parts of England. Later on (p. 195), Mr. J. Perry, of Waltham Abbey,
wrote that&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“There is (or was lately) a pair of whale’s ribs placed over the
old toll-gate at Chadwell Heath, near Romford, Essex, which form a
kind of Gothic arch across the roadway. They must have been there
for a considerable period, as it is beyond the memory of any of the
good old country-folks living in the locality to tell when first
erected. At a little distance from the toll-house occurs a similar
pair, set up over the carriage entrance to a residence.”</p></div>

<p class="nind">Afterwards (1878, p. 397) “S. P.” wrote as follows:&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“When I was a boy, there stood by the roadside, about two miles
west of Romford, at the east end of the long straggling village of
Chadwell Heath, and on the left hand going from London, a
tremendous pair of bones, forming an arch. The bases were deeply
rooted in the earth, but even then the space spanned was
considerable. Near by was a toll-house, with its bar, known from
the adjacent relic as ‘Whalebone Gate.’ I think, too, if I remember
rightly, there stood near the spot a road-side<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_86" id="page_86"></a>{86}</span> inn called by the
sign of ‘the <span class="smcap">Whalebone</span>.’ My father, an Essex man, long since dead,
used to tell me that he had it from his grandfather, that the bone
was the upper [should be lower] jaw of an immense whale, which had
been cast ashore about three miles to the south of the spot, on the
north bank of the Thames, at Dagenham, while the Great Storm was
raging on the night that Oliver Cromwell died. In course of time,
toll on suburban roads was abolished; the toll-house and gate were
cleared away; and the jaw was appropriated to serve as an entrance
arch to the front garden of a neighbouring suburban villa&mdash;the
rural residence, I believe, of a Whitechapel pork-butcher&mdash;an
edifice known, and still indicated on suburban maps of a tolerably
modern date, as ‘Whalebone House.’ ... What became of the worthy
tradesman I have above alluded to, I do not know. Probably his
house is still standing, but I am unable to identify it now by its
former title or peculiar gate. I am under the impression that what
remains of the relic has been transferred to its original site; for
I was past the spot where, so far as my memory serves me, it
formerly stood, on July 25th in this year. Half the arch (<i>i.e.</i>,
one bone) stood upright, still deeply rooted in the earth, but
alone, forgotten and deserted, by the side of the high road in a
fallow field. No one in the neighbourhood seemed to know anything
about it or its history.”</p></div>

<p>To this, Mr. J. A. Sparvel-Bayly, of Billericay, wrote (1879, p. 58):&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“In the little village of East Tilbury in Essex, situate on the
banks of the Thames, and not far from Romford, is a house known as
‘Whalebone Cottage,’ in front of which is an arch composed of the
jawbones of a huge whale. From their weather-worn appearance they
may possibly have belonged to that alluded to by S. P.”</p></div>

<p>In reply to this, Mr. W. Phillips (p. 338) stated that&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The jawbones spoken of by Mr. Sparvel-Bayly as being at East
Tilbury, ‘not far from Romford’ (it is twelve miles from Romford as
the crow flies), cannot be identical with those mentioned by S. P.,
whose account I can corroborate, so far as knowing the jawbones he
mentions, forty years ago, when travelling on the box-seat of the
old Colchester Coach alongside a coachman of the Mr. Weller sort,
of some sixty-five summers. The two bones were then in existence on
the north side of the road near the tenth milestone, and two miles
the London side of Romford, in front of a roadside public-house
with the sign of the ‘<span class="smcap">Whalebone</span>,’ which my coachman said used to be
the resort of the many highwaymen that once infested Chadwell Heath
close by. He spoke of his being told when a boy that the bones had
been there from the time of Cromwell.”</p></div>

<p>From the foregoing, it is clear that there were formerly <i>two</i> pairs of
bones set up near together; indeed, Mr. J. Perry distinctly says there
were. One pair has now entirely disappeared. The other pair still stand
(although S. P. seems to have overlooked them), as described, over the
entrance of an adjoining house, known to this day as “Whalebone<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_87" id="page_87"></a>{87}</span> House”
or “Lodge,” and marked as such in local directories. There is also in
the immediate vicinity a “Whalebone Farm,” as well as a “Whalebone
Lane.” The bones (of which an illustration is here given) are of the
following dimensions:&mdash;</p>

<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="">
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td class="r">Feet.</td><td class="r">Inches.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height out of ground (along curve)</td><td class="r">15</td><td class="r">6&nbsp; &nbsp; </td></tr>
<tr><td>Circumference (at base)</td><td class="r">3</td><td class="r">3½</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="ditto">“</span>(near top)</td><td class="r">2</td><td class="r">0&nbsp; &nbsp; </td></tr>
<tr><td>Breadth at base (flat inner side)</td><td class="r">1</td><td class="r">5&nbsp; &nbsp; </td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="ditto">“</span>(round outer side)</td><td class="r">1</td><td class="r">10½</td></tr>
</table>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_087_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_087_sml.jpg" width="312" height="191" alt="Image not available: GATEWAY AT WHALEBONE HOUSE.

(Chadwell Heath.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">GATEWAY AT WHALEBONE HOUSE.
<br />
(Chadwell Heath.)</span>
</div>

<p>If, as seems probable, the bones are those of the Greenland whale
(<i>Balœna mysticetus</i>), it is extremely unlikely that the creature
which owned them was ever stranded in the Thames. The following letter
from Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., is of much interest. He says&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Pairs of the lower jawbones of the Greenland whale, erected
usually as gate-posts, occur in many parts of the eastern counties,
especially in the neighbourhood of the old whaling-ports&mdash;the
Thames, Yarmouth, Hull, Whitby, &amp;c. They have all been brought from
the Arctic Seas by whalers, at any time since 1611, when the first
ships left England for the Spitzbergen whaling, which (with the
Baffin’s Bay whaling) has been carried on with more or less success
ever since, though now confined to Peterhead and Dundee. I very
much doubt Defoe’s ‘28 feet long.’ Twenty feet, following the
curve, is the maximum of the Greenland whale, and no other whale
has such large jaws. I also doubt the story of the creature being
stranded, because, if so, it cannot have been a Greenland whale&mdash;a
species which never visits our shores.”</p></div>

<p>Larwood and Hotten, in common with nearly all heraldic writers,
innocently treat of whales and dolphins as <i>fishes</i>, as<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_88" id="page_88"></a>{88}</span> they were
commonly supposed to be in the Middle Ages. A writer in <i>All the Year
Round</i>, so lately as the year 1879, commits the same absurd error.</p>

<p>It will here be necessary to ask pardon of modern men of science for
discussing, under the heading “Zoology,” certain monstrous beasts which,
though unknown to us in these enlightened times, were accredited with a
material existence by the ancient heralds, and others who wrote in the
dark days of several centuries ago. Such imaginary creatures as dragons,
griffins, unicorns, and the like, are, of course, here referred to.</p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 90px;">
<a href="images/i_088_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_088_sml.jpg" width="90" height="112" alt="Image not available: DRAGON." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">DRAGON.</span>
</div>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Dragon</span> in his own proper colour (whatever that may be) does not
occur in the county; but we have four examples of the <span class="smcap">Green Dragon</span>,
situated respectively at Shenfield, Black Notley, *Saffron Walden, and
Waltham Abbey. Sixty years ago there were also <span class="smcap">Green Dragons</span> at
*Colchester and elsewhere. It is very easy to account for the origin of
the use of the Dragon as a sign, but it is not so easy to say why he
should so often be green. The <span class="smcap">Green Dragon</span>, however, has been a common
sign for over two centuries. As the badge and supporter of the arms of
many of our sovereigns, he was generally red, though occasionally black
or golden. The Dragon appeared on the standard of the Saxons, and was
used as a badge by several early Princes of Wales. It formed one or
other of the supporters of the arms of Henry VII., and of all the Tudor
sovereigns except Queen Mary. It appears also in the heraldic bearings
of many private families. There can, therefore, be very little doubt as
to its heraldic derivation, although it was formerly used as a chemist’s
sign, in which case its origin was probably non-heraldic. Perhaps, as
the Rev. H. L. Elliot writes, the strange colour in which this monster
usually appears on sign-boards is due to the fact that a Green Dragon,
holding in his mouth a bloody hand, was a badge of William Herbert, Lord
Steward, created Earl of Pembroke in the time of Edward VI. The <span class="smcap">George
and Dragon</span> is a sign which occurs eight times in Essex.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_89" id="page_89"></a>{89}</span> This very
common sign has increased greatly in popularity since the institution of
the Order of the Garter, of which a representation of St. George killing
a dragon forms the pendant; but the fact that several of our recent
kings have borne the name of George has no doubt had a good deal to do
with its adoption. The legendary act of St. George, the patron-saint of
England, is alluded to in the following amusing little rhyme:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“To save a mayd, St. George the Dragon slew&mdash;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">A pretty tale, if all that’s told be true.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Most say there are no dragons, and ’tis sayd<br /></span>
<span class="i1">There was no George;&mdash;let’s hope there was a mayd.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p>A representation of St. George killing the Dragon appears on the token
issued by J. Lark of Coggeshall in 1667.<a name="FNanchor_69_69" id="FNanchor_69_69"></a><a href="#Footnote_69_69" class="fnanchor">[69]</a></p>

<p>There are also in Essex three examples of the sign of the <span class="smcap">Griffin</span>,
situated respectively at Great Canfield, Halstead, and Danbury. The
<span class="smcap">Griffin</span> at Danbury, an ancient and well-known inn, is mentioned in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on May 9, 1788. It is also several times
prominently alluded to (ii. p. 174, iii. pp. 130 and 144, and iv. p. 66)
in Mr. Joseph Strutt’s Essex and Herts Romance of <i>Queenhoo Hall</i>,
published in 1808. Although in former ages people firmly believed in the
existence of griffins, the animal has never yet been seen except in
Heraldry. Consequently it is only natural to assign the origin of its
use as a sign to that art; but griffins appear upon the escutcheons of
so many families that it is now quite impossible to say in whose honour
it made its first appearance upon the sign-board.</p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 89px;">
<a href="images/i_089_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_089_sml.jpg" width="89" height="113" alt="Image not available: GRIFFIN." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">GRIFFIN.</span>
</div>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Unicorn</span> appears as a public-house sign at West Ham and at Romford.
At the latter place the house is situated in Hare Street, and is at
least a century old, as it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i>
for March 2, 1787. A<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_90" id="page_90"></a>{90}</span> <i>unicorn rampant</i> is depicted on the farthing
tokens of William Alldred of Colchester, and a <i>unicorn passant</i> on
those of “Will. Anger of Mvch Clafton [? Clacton] in Esex, 1654.” The
original use of the <span class="smcap">Unicorn</span> as an inn-sign may be attributed to the fact
that it was formerly a common chemist’s sign, and is one of the
supporters of the arms of the Apothecaries’ Company, or to the fact that
it now forms the sinister supporter of the Royal Arms. Much interesting
information as to the ancient belief in its existence, and the power of
its horn as an antidote to all poison, is given in the <i>History of
Sign-boards</i>.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_090_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_090_sml.jpg" width="147" height="131" alt="" /></a>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_91" id="page_91"></a>{91}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a><img src="images/barra-swan.jpg" width="500" height="103" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER IV.<br /><br />
<i>ORNITHOLOGICAL SIGNS.</i></h2>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_o.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="80"
alt="O"
/></span>RNITHOLOGICAL signs stand next in turn for notice. They are fairly
numerous, and many are of strictly heraldic derivation.</p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 83px;">
<a href="images/i_091_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_091_sml.jpg" width="83" height="116" alt="Image not available: SPREAD EAGLE." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">SPREAD EAGLE.</span>
</div>

<p>The Eagle appears in one form or another on nineteen Essex sign-boards.
On seven occasions a simple <span class="smcap">Eagle</span> is intended. Twenty years ago,
however, there were but three. Ten times the sign of the <span class="smcap">Spread Eagle</span>
occurs, and the same device is depicted on the tokens issued by John
Millbank of Colchester in 1665, and by Samuel Wall of Witham in 1668.
The <span class="smcap">Spread Eagle</span> at Harwich, which is a house still extant, is referred
to in the issue of the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for March 31, 1786. At
Little Bardfield a carved and gilded <span class="smcap">Spread Eagle</span> is set up on the top
of a post before the inn. The sign is truly heraldic, inasmuch as the
bird does not seem to require to use its legs, but stands upon its tail.
In the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for March 2, 1787, there appears an
advertisement stating that a “Main of Cocks” was to be fought on the 7th
of that month at the *<span class="smcap">Spread Eagle</span> in Prittlewell, between the Gentlemen
of that place and the Gentlemen of Great Wakering. Eagles occur so
frequently in Heraldry that there can be no doubt whence the sign of the
<span class="smcap">Eagle</span> is derived; and the fact that the bird is, more often than not,
described as “spread,” goes far to confirm its heraldic derivation. An
eagle was displayed upon the ensign of the Roman emperors, and has since
formed one of the chief<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_92" id="page_92"></a>{92}</span></p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 180px;">
<a href="images/i_092_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_092_sml.jpg" width="180" height="207" alt="Image not available: EAGLE AND CHILD." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">EAGLE AND CHILD.</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">cognizances of the sovereigns of Germany, Russia, Prussia, Austria,
France, &amp;c. Edward III. bore a crowned eagle as his crest, and Henry IV.
adopted a spread eagle as one of his badges. The bird is also of very
frequent occurrence in the armorial bearings of private families. The
<span class="smcap">Eagle</span> at Snaresbrook is a well-known old hostelry, and is a very
favourite Bank Holiday resort of “&nbsp;‘Arry and ‘Arriet” from the East End
of London. The <span class="smcap">Eagle and Child</span>, which is to be seen at Shenfield and
Forest Gate, is not uncommon elsewhere, and will be at once recognized
as the crest of the Stanleys, Earls of Derby, which represents an eagle
carrying off a child, as told in the well-known legend,<a name="FNanchor_70_70" id="FNanchor_70_70"></a><a href="#Footnote_70_70" class="fnanchor">[70]</a> and as here
depicted. In a curious collection of miscellanea relating to signs
formed by a Mr. G. Creed, and now preserved in the British Museum, it is
stated that in the parlour of the last-named inn there is (or was in
1850) framed “a MS. bit of Doggrell,” commencing as follows:&mdash;</p>

<p class="c">
<i>The Essex Flats too Knowing for the Yorkshire Sharps.</i><br />
</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“An Essex Landlord of some fame,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Whose honesty deserves a name,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Near to the Forest hangs his sign,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">A house well known for Bowls of wine.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">It represents a lovely boy,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Such as would give a father joy;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Beside him (don’t say ’tis absurd)<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Stands the majestic kingly Bird,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And both are named and known together,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">As birds are known that’s of one feather.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The rest of the poem, which is long, does not merit reproduction. This
house is marked on Jean Roque’s <i>Map of Ten Miles round London</i>,
published in 1741. The <span class="smcap">Falcon</span> occurs three times, namely, at Southend,
Littlebury, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_93" id="page_93"></a>{93}</span> Wivenhoe. Twenty years ago one of these figured in the
list as the <span class="smcap">New Falcon</span>, and sixty years since there was another in the
High Street at *Braintree. A farthing token showing a bird holding a
sceptre, and issued by “John Parker at the Falken in Wevenhoe,” is
described by Boyne. Taylor (see p. 28) also mentions this Parker in
1636. As the sign of the <span class="smcap">Falcon</span> still exists at Wivenhoe it is probably
the same house kept more than two centuries ago by John Parker,
especially as the same house is mentioned again in an advertisement in
the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 13, 1786. At the end of last
century there was an inn with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Falcon</span> close against the
Cross at Waltham. Two illustrations of it, published respectively in
1787 and 1791, are preserved in Mr. Creed’s collection. They show the
sign-board (a pictorial one, inscribed with the name of the
landlord&mdash;Sibley) suspended from a beam which extends across the road.
Above this beam is hung a bunch of grapes within an iron frame, as here
shown. The sign has now been altered to that of the <span class="smcap">Great Eastern</span>.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_093_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_093_sml.jpg" width="429" height="192" alt="Image not available: FALCON.

(At Waltham Cross in 1787.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">FALCON.
<br />
(At Waltham Cross in 1787.)</span>
</div>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Old Falcon</span> Inn, which formerly existed at Castle Hedingham, though
now reduced to a mere beer-shop, was once evidently a very good house.
Its beams and rafters are very massive, and bear the crest and badge of
the Earls of Oxford, like not a few other old houses in the vicinity.
The sign is probably identical with that of the <span class="smcap">Hawk</span>, which<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_94" id="page_94"></a>{94}</span> occurs at
Battles Bridge. Its origin may have been the ancient sport of hawking;
but, more probably, it has an heraldic derivation. A <i>falcon volant</i>
forms part of the arms of the Stationers’ Company, and it was probably
adopted by booksellers on this account. Both Edward III. and Richard II.
used a falcon as one of their badges, and the <span class="smcap">Falcon holding a Sceptre</span>,
which, as just mentioned, existed at Wivenhoe in the seventeenth
century, was presumably derived from one of the badges of Queen
Elizabeth, <i>a falcon crowned, holding a sceptre</i>. It is, however, by no
means improbable that the particular instance of the sign of the <span class="smcap">Falcon</span>
in Falcon Square, Castle Hedingham (which happens to be <i>triangular</i>!),
may be a relic of the ancient family of the Hawkwoods, who resided in
the adjoining parish of Sible Hedingham. Sir John Hawkwood, the famous
soldier who became so prominent in the Italian wars of the fourteenth
century, was buried in Florence, but upon the beautiful crocketted
canopy of the monument erected to him in the south aisle of Sible
Hedingham Church, his badge (?), a Hawk or Falcon, is carved several
times, with other devices.</p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 154px;">
<a href="images/i_094_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_094_sml.jpg" width="154" height="150" alt="Image not available: WHITE SWAN.

(The Badge of the De Bohuns.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">WHITE SWAN.
<br />
(The Badge of the De Bohuns.)</span>
</div>

<p>The Swan, including several variations in colour, &amp;c., is a very common
Essex sign, and appears in thirty-eight different places; while, forty
or fifty years ago, it seems to have been even commoner. Thirty-two
times he occurs as a simple <span class="smcap">Swan</span>; at Harwich he appears as a <span class="smcap">New Swan</span>;
at Rayne and Roydon (where he is at least one hundred years old) as a
<span class="smcap">Black Swan</span>; at Chelmsford as an <span class="smcap">Old Swan</span>; and at Epping and West Ham as
a <span class="smcap">White Swan</span>. The <span class="smcap">Swan</span> now existing at Brentwood is, apparently, at
least a century old, as it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on
March 24, 1786. The fondness of the bird for liquid (though of a purer
kind than that usually supplied at public-houses) is said to have been
the reason for its very common adoption<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_95" id="page_95"></a>{95}</span> as a public-house sign; but the
custom is equally likely to have had an heraldic origin. Kings Henry IV.
and V. both used a swan among other badges, and the same device formed
part of the coat of arms of the De Bohun and other families. The annexed
wood-cut of the <i>swan proper, ducally gorged and chained or</i>, which
formed the badge of the De Bohuns, is taken from the central spandrel of
the canopy of the brass in Westminster Abbey to Alianore De Bohun,
Duchess of Gloucester, who died in 1399. It is also very probable that
the white swan which formed the badge of the great De Mandevilles, once
Earls of Essex, has had something to do with the abundance of this sign
in the county. In <i>Tavern Anecdotes</i> (p. 241) it is stated that in 1825
the landlord of the *<span class="smcap">Swan</span> at Stratford recommended the charms of his
house in the following poetic strain:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“At the Swan Tavern kept by Lound<br /></span>
<span class="i1">The best accommodation’s found,&mdash;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Wine, Spirits, Porter, Bottled Beer,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">You’ll find in high perfection here.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">If in the garden with your lass<br /></span>
<span class="i1">You feel inclined to take a glass,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">There Tea and Coffee of the best<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Provided is, for every guest.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And, females not to drive from hence,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">The charge is only fifteen pence.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Or, if disposed a Pipe to smoke,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">To sing a song or crack a joke,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">You may repair across the Green,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Where nought is heard, though much is seen;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">There laugh and drink, and smoke away,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And but a moderate reckoning pay,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Which is a most important object<br /></span>
<span class="i1">To every loyal British subject.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">In short, the best accommodation’s found<br /></span>
<span class="i1">By those who deign to visit Lound.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p>In Mr. Chas. Golding’s <i>List of Essex Tokens</i>,<a name="FNanchor_71_71" id="FNanchor_71_71"></a><a href="#Footnote_71_71" class="fnanchor">[71]</a> pieces inscribed
“Abel Bond at y<sup>e</sup> <span class="smcap">White</span> [<span class="smcap">Swan</span>] in Stratford, His Halfe Penny,” and
“John Chandler [a <span class="smcap">Swan</span>] in Stratford, J. C.” are mentioned. The
still-existing <span class="smcap">Swan</span> at Baythorn End, Birdbrook, appears to be over two
centuries<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_96" id="page_96"></a>{96}</span> old. In the parish register is the following entry: “Martha
Blewitt, y<sup>e</sup> wife of nine husbands successively, buried eight of y^m,
but last of all y<sup>e</sup> woman dy’d allsoe, was bury’d May 7th, 1681.” A
slab in the Church shows that Martha Blewitt was landlady of the above
inn.</p>

<p>In Cromwell’s <i>Excursions through Essex</i> (i. p. 17) it is stated that
“The <span class="smcap">Swan</span>, a very large and famous inn, anciently stood in the road near
the farm called Shakestones.” The view of Romford given in Wright’s
<i>History of Essex</i> (1831, ii. p. 435) shows the graven sign of the <span class="smcap">White
Swan</span> Inn, projecting from the front of the building exactly as it does
now. It appears from an old Manor Roll<a name="FNanchor_72_72" id="FNanchor_72_72"></a><a href="#Footnote_72_72" class="fnanchor">[72]</a> that in 1572 there was a
“tenement called the <span class="smcap">Swan</span>”&mdash;not necessarily an inn&mdash;in Coggeshall. The
sign still exists there&mdash;namely, in East Street&mdash;though possibly not at
the same house. It is, however, again mentioned in 1678 in <i>Bufton’s
Diary</i>.<a name="FNanchor_73_73" id="FNanchor_73_73"></a><a href="#Footnote_73_73" class="fnanchor">[73]</a> Mr. King finds mention in ancient deeds of a <span class="smcap">Swan</span>&mdash;either
inn, shop, or tenement&mdash;at Prittlewell in 1652. In the <i>Records of the
House of Gurney</i> (p. 539) there is mention of “a messuage or tenement
heretofore called or known by the name or sign of the <span class="smcap">Swan</span>, situate in
the parish of St. Mary, Maldon,” in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the
*<span class="smcap">Swan</span> Inn still existing in the High Street is the same house. In 1678
there was a <span class="smcap">Black Swan</span> at or near Audley End. Poor Robin (see p. 66)
mentions it in his <i>Perambulation from Saffron Walden to London</i>. After
his acquaintances had drunk heavily with him at the <span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span>,
Saffron Walden, whence he started, he says&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Yet would my jovial friends on me attend,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Part of my Journey unto Audley End,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">By them called Ninevah, but no great city,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Though too much sin may be there, more’s the pity.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">There at the sign (of such a thing, I think,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">As never swam on pond or river’s brink)<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Of a Black Swan, I entered in.<br /></span>
<span style="margin-left: 4em;">. . . . . . . . . .</span><br />
<span class="i1">Yet although of this sign there’s no such thing,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">It was a sign there was good drink within.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_97" id="page_97"></a>{97}</span></p>

<p>Of the well-known <span class="smcap">Old Four Swans</span> at Waltham Cross Mr. E. Walford, in
<i>Greater London</i> (vol. i. p. 393), writes as follows:&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“It is undoubtedly an old building; but it is questionable whether
it can properly lay claim to the antiquity that is locally assigned
to it; for in it, according to tradition, the body of Queen Eleanor
remained for the night preceding its solemn entry into London.
Salmon considers this inn to have been the original manor-house of
the honour of Richmond; and Gough says that it ‘bears marks of
great antiquity in the forms of its chimneys, and the quantity of
chestnut timber employed about it.’ A large signboard, supported on
tall posts, placed on the opposite sides of the way, swings across
the road, having on it the inscription, ‘Ye Olde Foure Swannes
Hostelrie, 1260.’&nbsp;”</p></div>

<p>David Hughson, in his work on <i>London</i> (vol. ii. p. 339), says of this
house, that in 1805 it was a good specimen of the old style of house,
“consisting of three sides, sometimes of four, with an entrance by a
square aperture in the front, into the quadrangle.... It is the
manor-house of the manor of Theobalds, and was formerly the residence of
a natural son of Henry VIII., whom he created Earl of Richmond.” In the
parish register of Waltham Holy Cross, or Waltham Abbey, there is the
following entry: “Julii, 1612, Margarett, the daughter of Edward
Scarlett of Cestrehunt, was buried 26 daye, dwelling at the signe of Ye
Old Swanne in Waltham Cross.” In days gone by this inn was a well-known
posting-house, and more recently it numbered Charles Lamb among its
patrons. The <span class="smcap">Swan with Two Necks</span> was formerly the sign of a private
house in Head Street, Colchester, once occupied by Miles Gray, the
celebrated bell-founder. In his day he was quite the head of his craft.
Bells founded either by him or his son and successor Miles, who died in
1686, are still found in many belfries throughout Essex. In his will,
dated May 17, 1649,<a name="FNanchor_74_74" id="FNanchor_74_74"></a><a href="#Footnote_74_74" class="fnanchor">[74]</a> he bequeaths unto his wife Dorothy all the
“rents, issues, p’fits, cominge, growinge, and arisinge out of the east
end of the capitall messuage or tenement, lately burned downe, scituate
and beinge below Head Gate, in Colchester aforesayd, commonly called or
knowne by the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_98" id="page_98"></a>{98}</span> name of the Swann w<sup>th</sup> two Neckes,” &amp;c. It is commonly
supposed that the word “necks” has been corrupted from “nicks,” swans
having formerly been marked by nicks or notches on the bill. The Rev.
Stephen Weston, in the <i>Archæologia</i> for 1812, states that the king’s
swans were formerly marked by <i>two nicks</i>, as shown in the two
illustrations given below, which represent the royal swan-marks of Henry
VIII. and Edward IV. respectively. These, he says, were not afterwards
understood, and the double-headed two-necked swan was invented. Larwood
and Hotten, however, doubt this derivation, chiefly because the nicks
would have been so small when represented on the sign-board as to be of
no practical use as a distinctive sign.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_098_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_098_sml.jpg" width="444" height="155" alt="Image not available: SWAN BILLS WITH TWO NICKS.

(After Yarrell.)" /></a>
<br />
<div class="caption">
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" summary="">

<tr valign="top"><td>
SWAN BILLS WITH TWO NICKS.<br />

(After Yarrell.)</td><td><span class="spc"> &nbsp;</span>
&nbsp;</td><td>
SWAN WITH TWO NECKS.<br />

(<i>After Larwood and Hotten.</i>)</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Cock</span> is a very ancient and very common sign. Larwood and Hotten say
that it was already in use in the time of the Romans. We have no less
than eighteen examples of the simple <span class="smcap">Cock</span>, and an <span class="smcap">Old Cock</span> occurs at
Sheering. The ancient and well-known <span class="smcap">Cock</span> Hotel at Epping finds frequent
mention in the numbers of the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for the year 1786.
Taylor (see p. 28) also mentions it by name as long ago as 1636. It is a
very old house, though now re-fronted with brick. The Rev. Wm. Cole, in
his voluminous MSS. in the British Museum, says that on the 26th of
October, 1774, he “arrived at Epping in the dusk of the evening, and
lodged and dined late at the <span class="smcap">Cock</span> Inn.” The <span class="smcap">Cock</span> Inn still existing at
Stock is several times mentioned in the parish registers, namely, in
1634, 1639, and 1693. On the latter occasion, “a stranger who died at
the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_99" id="page_99"></a>{99}</span> Cock, being a poor man, was buried by the constables, November 20.”
The <span class="smcap">Cocke</span> Inn at Great Coggeshall (not now existing) was once a house of
good standing. In 1614 James I. granted it to Henry Eades, and in 1616
to Peregrine Gastrell and Ralph Lounds.<a name="FNanchor_75_75" id="FNanchor_75_75"></a><a href="#Footnote_75_75" class="fnanchor">[75]</a> Not improbably in this case
the sign was derived from the arms of the Abbey of Coggeshall.<a name="FNanchor_76_76" id="FNanchor_76_76"></a><a href="#Footnote_76_76" class="fnanchor">[76]</a> The
<span class="smcap">Cock</span>, near the Church at Waltham Abbey, is a very ancient inn. It finds
frequent mention in the old parish registers. The marriage of John
Broadly, of the <span class="smcap">Cock</span> Inn, is recorded as early as February, 1599. In
1662 there was a <span class="smcap">Cock</span> at Chelmsford, which does not appear to be in
existence now. It is mentioned as being “on the hither side of the
bridge” (<i>i.e.</i>, the side nearest to Romford) in the <i>Account of the
Murder of Thomas Kidderminster</i>, already referred to. This was probably
the same inn mentioned by Foxe in his <i>Book of Martyrs</i> when he says
that “one Richard Potto the elder, an inn-holder, dwelling at the sign
of the Cocke, did much trouble” George Eagles, who was martyred in 1557.
For the prevalence of this sign we have probably to thank the barbarous
old custom of cock-fighting, as is obvious in the case of the sign of
the <span class="smcap">Fighting Cocks</span>, which occurs at Little Sampford and Wendens Ambo,
and the <span class="smcap">Game Cock</span> at Chadwell Heath. But the cock is also by no means an
uncommon heraldic bearing, and several combinations into which the bird
enters have probably had an heraldic origin. For instance, the sign of
the <span class="smcap">Cock and Crown</span>, which existed at Colchester forty years back, may
have represented one of the badges of Henry VIII., which was a <i>white
cock crowned, with the cypher H.R.</i> The same king also often used a
<i>white cock crowned</i>, as one of his supporters. At the same time it may
simply have been an impaled sign of very modern date. In any case it is
very rare. The <span class="smcap">Cock and Bell</span>, which appears at High Easter, Writtle, and
*Romford, is an apparently meaningless sign, and is probably an
impalement. The last-named example seems, however, to have been in
existence for at least a century, as it is mentioned in an advertisement
in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_100" id="page_100"></a>{100}</span> <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for September 14, 1764. In Wright’s
<i>History of Essex</i> the inn itself is depicted. Taylor, too, probably
refers to this house in his <i>Catalogue of Tavernes</i> when he mentions a
<span class="smcap">Cock</span> at Romford in 1636. The example at Writtle has an old pictorial
sign-board representing a resplendent, though faded, cock, with a bell
over his head. The <span class="smcap">Cock and Magpie</span>, which has existed since 1789 at
least on Epping Green, is probably called after a celebrated London
tavern of the same name. The sign is identical in its origin with that
of the <span class="smcap">Cock and Pie</span>. By the latter name is known some wine and spirit
vaults of repute which for over a century have been established on
*North Hill, Colchester. Several more or less likely meanings for the
sign have been suggested, but the authors of the <i>History of
Sign-boards</i> consider it to be a corrupted sign. They believe that it
originally represented the <span class="smcap">Peacock Pie</span>, formerly a very favourite dish.
When the dish went out of fashion the sign became abbreviated into the
<span class="smcap">Cock and Pie</span>; and as that appeared meaningless, it was in time corrupted
into the <span class="smcap">Cock and Magpie</span>, in both of which forms we still have it. Forty
years ago the sign of the <span class="smcap">Magpie</span> existed at Great Warley, and there is
now a <span class="smcap">Peacock</span> at Canning Town. A rebus upon the name of the issuer,
Richard Cock of Colchester, occurs on a farthing token dated 1658. The
<span class="smcap">Raven</span> as a sign is found at Berden. It was a badge of the old Scotch
kings, and may have been set up as a Jacobite symbol. The <span class="smcap">Blackbirds</span>,
which occurs at Bulmer, and the <span class="smcap">Three Blackbirds</span>, which occurs at
Leyton, are, doubtless, two signs which were identical in their origin,
and are probably connected with the <span class="smcap">Raven</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three Ravens</span>, the <span class="smcap">Three
Crows</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Three Choughs</span>, all of which are fairly common in other
counties, and are supposed by Larwood and Hotten to typify Charles,
James, and Rupert. It is, however, just as likely that they represent
the modern version of some family coat of arms. Many such coats bear
three birds, which might, with almost equal correctness, be referred to
any of the species just mentioned. Various doves and pigeons have
already been spoken of (p. 38), but there<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_101" id="page_101"></a>{101}</span> still remains to be mentioned
the curious sign of the <span class="smcap">Rainbow and Dove</span>, which is to be found at North
Weald. In the list of signs in 1789 (p. 7) it appears as the <span class="smcap">Rainbow</span>
merely. The sign is apparently quite meaningless, unless it typifies the
rainbow and dove which figure in the account of “the Flood” (Genesis,
chaps. viii. and ix.). The <span class="smcap">Nightingale</span> at Wanstead is another inn-sign
which does not seem to be mentioned by Larwood and Hotten. It is at
least forty years old, and, doubtless, takes its name from, or gives its
name to, Nightingale Square, in which it stands. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Owl</span>,
which has existed at High Beech since 1789 at least, is spoken of in the
<i>History of Sign-boards</i> as occurring only once elsewhere, namely, at
Calverley, near Leeds. A bird (presumably a <span class="smcap">Finch</span>) occurs on the
halfpenny token of John Finch of Halstead, who was probably a maltster,
as the other side of his token bore the representation of a <span class="smcap">Malt-scoop</span>.
The <span class="smcap">Bird in Hand</span> occurs five times in Essex, namely, at Braintree,
Halstead (twice), Coggeshall, and *Stratford. There are also beer-houses
so called at Goldhanger and Chelmsford. Mr. G. F. Beaumont of Coggeshall
states that the *<span class="smcap">Bird in Hand</span> at that place was formerly known as the
<span class="smcap">Thorough</span> Inn, because there was a right of way or thoroughfare through
it from Earl Street to Church Street. He also mentions, as a curious
coincidence, that a short time since the name of the tenant was Joseph
<i>Bird</i>, and that of the owner Richard <i>Bird</i> Holmes. The same gentleman
contributes to the <i>Coggeshall Almanac</i> for the present year an
interesting “Programme of a Procession, exhibited by the Weavers of
Coggeshall, on Wednesday, the 15th of June, 1791,” and which was to “set
out precisely at eight o’clock from the <span class="smcap">Bird in Hand</span>.” The idea of the
sign is suggested by the proverb&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“A bird in hand is better far,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Than two that in the bushes are.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The device is to be seen on some of the trade tokens of the seventeenth
century. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Feathers</span> at Hatfield Broad Oak is clearly
identical with that of the <span class="smcap">Plume of Feathers</span> at Loughton; indeed, the
former appears<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_102" id="page_102"></a>{102}</span> in Mr. Creed’s list (p. 7) as having been the <span class="smcap">Plume of
Feathers</span> in 1789. The house at Loughton is also mentioned in the same
list, so that both are at least a hundred years old. Both, of course,
now at least represent the badge of our Princes of Wales. Ostrich
feathers have been among the devices of our kings and princes from very
early times; and the pretty tale of how the Black Prince took them from
the King of Bohemia, whom he killed in the battle of Creci, is a pure
delusion. As the Rev. H. L. Elliot points out, “Single feathers,
differenced in various ways, were used as badges by the kings and the
Beauforts before the Wars of the Roses. Henry VI. used two feathers in
saltire, the sinister argent, surmounted of the dexter or, as here
depicted, as one of his badges.”</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_102_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_102_sml.jpg" width="483" height="200" alt="Image not available: PLUME OF FEATHERS.

(Badge of the Prince of Wales.)" /></a>
<br />
<div class="caption">
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" summary="">

<tr valign="top"><td>PLUME OF FEATHERS.<br />
(Badge of the Prince of Wales.)</td><td><span class="spc">&nbsp; </span> </td>

<td>THE FEATHERS.<br />
(<i>Badge of Henry VI.</i>)</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>

<p class="nind">Twenty years since a house at Stanstead bore the sign of the <span class="smcap">Bell and
Feathers</span>, which is a combination not mentioned by Larwood and Hotten. It
was probably merely an impaled sign, as it was formerly the <span class="smcap">Bell</span> simply,
and has now returned to its old name, under which it will be hereafter
referred to. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Phœnix</span> now only occurs at Rainham,
though there was another example at Billericay forty years since. The
sign was formerly often set up by chemists, but other tradesmen also
used it. The fact that a phœnix forms the crest of the Blacksmiths’
Company (p. 32) has, perhaps, had something to do with bringing the bird
into favour as a sign. This completes our list of ornithological signs.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_103" id="page_103"></a>{103}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a><img src="images/barra-fleur.jpg" width="500" height="106" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER V.<br /><br />
<i>PISCATORY, INSECT, AND REPTILIAN SIGNS.</i></h2>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">... “Ye ale-house painted signs.”<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>: <i>Titus Andronicus</i>, Act iv., Scene 3.<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_t.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="77"
alt="T"
/></span>HIS class of signs&mdash;or rather combination of several small groups,
taken together for the sake of convenience&mdash;is, naturally, very far from
a large one. It contains, indeed, only four signs, all told.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Fish and Eels</span>, which is a very strange device appearing at Roydon,
is our only existing sign connected with fish, although <span class="smcap">Two Fishes</span>
appeared on the tokens of the two William Wildmans (father and son) of
Saffron Walden, issued in 1656 and 1667 respectively. The former spells
the name Saffron Wallding. The sign, perhaps, originated in the arms of
the Fishmongers’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_77_77" id="FNanchor_77_77"></a><a href="#Footnote_77_77" class="fnanchor">[77]</a> Larwood and Hotten do not notice the Fish
and Eels, although this house has displayed the sign since 1789 at
least. It may be a meaningless impalement.</p>

<p>Only two signs occurring in the county are in any way connected with
insects. These are the <span class="smcap">Fly and Bullock</span>, already described (p. 67), and
the <span class="smcap">Beehive</span>, which occurs five times, namely, at Great Baddow, Witham,
Horkesley, Ilford, and Lambourne. The sign is generally represented (as
at Witham and Baddow) by an old straw hive, or skep, with a great many
bees, <i>volant, counter-volant</i> (as heraldic<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_104" id="page_104"></a>{104}</span> writers say), around it,
probably to indicate that a busy trade is carried on within. It is
recorded<a name="FNanchor_78_78" id="FNanchor_78_78"></a><a href="#Footnote_78_78" class="fnanchor">[78]</a> in the Barking parish register, that in 1653, “Francis, the
sonne of an Ethiopian, born at the <span class="smcap">Beehive</span>,” was baptised. Under this
heading must be noticed a sign which, although it does not occur in
Essex, is, nevertheless, connected with the county. This sign is the
<span class="smcap">Essex Serpent</span>, which still exists in King Street, Covent Garden; and,
when Larwood and Hotten wrote, there was also another example in Charles
Street, Westminster. Those gentlemen think that it was, perhaps,
originally set up “in allusion to a fabulous monster recorded in a
catalogue of wonders and awful prognostications contained in a broadside
of 1704,<a name="FNanchor_79_79" id="FNanchor_79_79"></a><a href="#Footnote_79_79" class="fnanchor">[79]</a> from which we learn that ‘Before Henry the second dyed, ...
a Dragon of marvellous bigness was discovered at St. Osyph in Essex.’
Had we any evidence that it is an old sign, we might almost be inclined
to consider it as dating from the civil war, and hung up with reference
to Essex, the Parliamentary General; for, though we have searched the
chroniclers fondest of relating wonders and monstrous apparitions, we
have not succeeded in finding any authority for the St. Osyph Dragon,
other than the above-mentioned broadside.” Another reference to the same
unwelcome visitor is, however, to be found in Dr. Howell’s <i>Ancient and
Present State of England</i> (1712), wherein it is recorded (p. 75) that
“At St. Osyphs in Essex was seen a dragon of marvellous bigness, which
by moving burned houses.” The dragon is also mentioned in Sir Richard
Baker’s <i>Chronicles of the Kings of England</i>, published in 1684. It is,
nevertheless, fairly certain that the sign has no reference to the St.
Osyth dragon; for there is a much more likely origin. In the British
Museum Library may be seen a highly remarkable tract of the year 1669,
entitled, <i>The Flying Serpent, or Strange News out of Essex: being a
true relation of a Monstrous Serpent which hath divers times been seen
at a parish called Henham on the Mount, within four miles of Saffron
Walden. Showing the length, proportion, and bigness of the</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_105" id="page_105"></a>{105}</span></p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_105_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_105_sml.jpg" width="705" height="392" alt="Image not available: THE FLYING SERPENT.

(Facsimile of Original.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">THE FLYING SERPENT.
<br />
(Facsimile of Original.)</span>
</div>

<p><i>Serpent, the place where it commonly lurks, and what means hath been
used to kill it. Also a discourse of other Serpents, and particularly<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_106" id="page_106"></a>{106}</span>
of a Cockatrice killed at Saffron Walden</i>,” &amp;c.<a name="FNanchor_80_80" id="FNanchor_80_80"></a><a href="#Footnote_80_80" class="fnanchor">[80]</a> The truth of the
statements contained in the tract is attested by the Churchwarden, the
Constable, the Overseer of the Poor, and four Householders. The
title-page bears no author’s name, and the imprint of the copy in
question is partially destroyed; but there can be little doubt that it
is one of the many curious productions of “Poor Robin,” whose
<i>Perambulation from Saffron Walden to London</i> has already been noticed
(p. 66).<a name="FNanchor_81_81" id="FNanchor_81_81"></a><a href="#Footnote_81_81" class="fnanchor">[81]</a> In addition to an awe-inspiring portrait of the beast, here
reproduced, the tract contains a very amusing, though now highly absurd,
account of the first discovery of the serpent, the nature of its
habitat, the means taken to kill it, and other details, as set forth in
the title. Doubtless the appearance of the tract caused sufficient talk
and attracted enough attention to induce some enterprising publican or
other tradesman to set up the <span class="smcap">Essex Serpent</span> as a sign; or perhaps some
former <span class="smcap">Griffin</span> or <span class="smcap">Green Dragon</span> was rechristened under that name in order
to attract customers. That it is a fairly old sign is certain. Gough, in
his <i>British Topography</i>,<a name="FNanchor_82_82" id="FNanchor_82_82"></a><a href="#Footnote_82_82" class="fnanchor">[82]</a> after alluding to the pamphlet just spoken
of, says: “Mr. Oldys [who died in 1761] says there is a public-house in
King Street, Covent Garden, called the Essex Serpent, and having a
serpent painted on its sign.” Sussex had a “strange and monstrous
Serpent (or Dragon)” in 1614, as may be learned from a very curious old
pamphlet of that date, entitled <i>True and Wonderful</i>, republished in the
<i>Harleian Miscellany</i>.<a name="FNanchor_83_83" id="FNanchor_83_83"></a><a href="#Footnote_83_83" class="fnanchor">[83]</a> Essex can boast of a reptilian sign which
probably exists nowhere else, a beer-house keeper at Ingatestone having,
for some inscrutable reason, selected the <span class="smcap">Viper</span>&mdash;a device not noticed by
Larwood and Hotten.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_107" id="page_107"></a>{107}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a><img src="images/barra-flower.jpg" width="500" height="102" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER VI.<br /><br />
<i>BOTANICAL SIGNS.</i></h2>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_t.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="77"
alt="T"
/></span>HE next great class of signs which will be noticed includes those which
are derived from the Vegetable Kingdom. These may be called “Botanical
Signs.” Though not so numerous as the Zoological Signs, they are,
nevertheless, fairly common; but only a comparatively small number can
be traced back to an heraldic origin.</p>

<p>Those signs will be noticed first which are obviously derived from some
prominent tree or trees growing close to the houses called after them.
These seem generally to be of very modern origin, as they figure but
sparsely in the list printed forty years ago. Most of them, it will be
noticed, are in the vicinity of London. There is a <span class="smcap">Bay Tree</span> at
Stratford, a <span class="smcap">Chestnut Tree</span> at Walthamstow, an <span class="smcap">Elms</span> at Leytonstone, a <span class="smcap">Fir
Trees</span> at Wanstead, a <span class="smcap">Four Ashes</span> at Takeley, a <span class="smcap">Grove</span> Tavern at
Walthamstow, a <span class="smcap">Holly Bush</span> at Leyton, and another at Loughton, a <span class="smcap">Holly
Tree</span> at Forest Gate, and a <span class="smcap">May Bush</span> at Great Oakley. The sign of the
<span class="smcap">Willows</span> appears at Willingale Doe. There is also on the list a <span class="smcap">Three
Ashes</span> at Cressing, and another at Chelmsford, while forty years since
there was another at Rochford, a <span class="smcap">Yew Tree</span> at Great Horkesley, and
another at Felstead (beer-house), a <span class="smcap">Three Elms</span> at Chignal St. James
(which has three elm trees in front of it), and no less than seven
<span class="smcap">Cherry Trees</span> in different parts of the county, although forty years ago
only four were in existence. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_108" id="page_108"></a>{108}</span> <span class="smcap">Thorn Inn</span> at *Mistley seems to have
been in existence since 1786 at least, as it is mentioned in an
advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for February 24th in that
year. Its sign is, obviously, connected with the old name of the place,
which was Mistley Thorn. In the <i>Very Young Lady’s Tour from London to
Aldborough and Back</i> (1804, see p. 37) occurs the following:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Our first stage is to Mistley; we stop at the Thorn,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And shall see the fine sights which that village adorn.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">There is a <span class="smcap">Round Bush</span> (beer-shop) at Purleigh. At Havering there is an
<span class="smcap">Orange Tree</span>, and in the *Cattle Market at Braintree there is another
house with the same name. The latter has been in existence for at least
forty years. At Chelmsford, too, near the New London Road, there is a
beer-shop known as the <span class="smcap">Orange Tree</span>. Inquiry has shown that the house was
built some years ago by a woman who had saved sufficient money for the
purpose out of dealing in oranges. She named her beer-shop the <span class="smcap">Orange
Tree</span>, a name which it has since retained, though it has long since
passed out of her hands. There are <span class="smcap">Walnut Trees</span> at Little Horkesley and
Great Waltham (beer-house). In 1662 there was another house of the same
name at “Mile-end Green” (probably Mill Green, Writtle, or Mile End
Green, Great Easton), as mentioned in the <i>Account of the Murder of
Thomas Kidderminster</i>, already referred to (p. 56). There is some doubt
as to whether or not the sign of the <span class="smcap">Oak</span>, which occurs three times,
namely, at Halstead, Messing, and Great Saling, and that of the <span class="smcap">Old Oak</span>,
which occurs at Romford, ought to be included in this catalogue. These
signs may be, and probably are, identical with that of the <span class="smcap">Royal Oak</span>,
which occurs eighteen times in different parts of the county, and of
course commemorates the incident of King Charles II. hiding in an oak
tree, though it is certainly strange that this comparatively trivial
incident should have continued to be so long and so frequently
commemorated. It is also a very common beer-house sign. The <span class="smcap">Oak</span>, too, is
put to the same<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_109" id="page_109"></a>{109}</span> use at Braintree. The following very unpoetical
production, by H. Jopson, the landlord, is displayed in the tap-room of
the <span class="smcap">Royal Oak</span> at Saffron Walden:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“As customers come, and I do trust them,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">I lose my money, likewise my custom;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Though chalk is cheap, say what you will,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Chalk won’t pay the brewer’s bill;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">So I must try to keep a decent tap,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">For ready-money and no strap.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The <span class="smcap">Theydon Oak</span> at Theydon Garnon until last year bore upon one side of
its sign-board a very good representation of the fine old oak from which
it takes its name, and close to which it stands. The <span class="smcap">King’s Oak</span> at High
Beech is a sign which is probably quite distinct from the <span class="smcap">Royal Oak</span>. The
author of <i>Nooks and Corners in Essex</i> says that the house takes its
name “from an old stump near thereto, formerly called Harold’s Oak.”
This, however, is probably an error, as the large old oak which stands
on the green before the house has long been known as the “King’s Oak.”
Local tradition says that Henry VIII., while hunting in the forest on
the day on which Ann Boleyn was beheaded, rested under this tree while
waiting to hear the gun, fired from the Tower, which announced the death
of the Queen. Other localities also claim the oak under which the king
listened, but this is as likely as any other to be the right one. The
<span class="smcap">King’s Oak</span> is marked on Cary’s <i>Map of Fifteen Miles round London</i>
(1786), and also on Andrew and Drury’s <i>Map of Essex</i> (1777). There was
formerly an <span class="smcap">Oaks</span> in Stifford. It now serves as three cottages, standing
opposite the school. At it, in the beginning of last century, the
churchwardens treated themselves to costly dinners. In 1712, for
instance, the records in the parish chest inform us that the “vestory
stood adjourned” to the <span class="smcap">Oaks</span>. A <span class="smcap">Tree</span> occurs upon the farthing token of
“W. Spiltimber of Hatfild Broad Oake,” doubtless in allusion both to the
name of the issuer and to the old oak, commonly called the “Doodle Oak,”
from which the village takes its name. At the same place a beer-house is
still known as the <span class="smcap">Doodle Oak</span>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_110" id="page_110"></a>{110}</span></p>

<p>A public-house on Shenfield Common has, for at least forty years, borne
the sign of the <span class="smcap">Artichoke</span>. This is one of the very last productions of
the vegetable kingdom which one would expect to find represented upon a
sign-board; but Larwood and Hotten, who think it originally found a
place there when first introduced, say that “it used to be a great
favourite, and still gives name to some public-houses.” Another very
extraordinary sign, unnoticed in the <i>History of Sign-boards</i>, is the
<span class="smcap">Cauliflower</span>, which appears at Great Ilford. Unless due merely to a
landlord’s caprice, it is difficult to suggest any possible origin for
it. The present landlord, in whose family the house has been for 120
years, can give no information about the matter, further than that the
existing house was built forty-eight years ago, the old inn having been
pulled down to make room for the railway. There is also a beer-house so
called at Rainham. Of the <span class="smcap">Bush</span>, which, according to Larwood and Hotten
(p. 4), “must certainly be counted amongst the most ancient and popular
of signs,” Essex does not appear to have a single example. The same
authorities elsewhere (p. 233) declare it to be “the oldest sign
borrowed from the vegetable kingdom,” and state that it came originally
from the Romans, together with the common saying, “Good wine needs no
bush.” As late as the reign of James I. many inns used it as their sign.
At Bardfield, and probably other towns in the county, houses specially
licensed for the sale of liquor at fair time still fasten branches of
oak and other trees to their fronts as a sign, a custom which is not
unknown in other parts of the country. It is without doubt a modern form
of the ancient sign of the <span class="smcap">Bush</span>. It appears, too, in every way probable
that the curious besom-like ornaments so often to be seen upon the ends
of old sign-irons are also conventional representations of the same
venerable device. Examples are to be seen in the drawings of the
sign-irons of the <span class="smcap">Six Bells</span> at Dunmow (p. 168), and the <span class="smcap">Sugar Loaves</span> at
Sible Hedingham (p. 39). At Theydon Garnon there is a beer-house called
the <span class="smcap">Garnon Bushes</span>, so named doubtless after a part of Epping Forest,
which goes by that name. At Hornchurch<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_111" id="page_111"></a>{111}</span> there is a beer-shop known as
the <span class="smcap">Furze</span>, probable a unique sign. The <span class="smcap">Tulip</span> at Springfield appears to
be also unique. Possibly the landlord who adopted the sign was a
cultivator of tulips.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Barley Mow</span>, meaning a barley stack, is an ancient sign which still
occurs at Stanstead and at *Colchester. Doubtless it was first put up as
a sign in honour of John Barleycorn, just as the <span class="smcap">Vine</span>, which occurs at
Great Bardfield and Black Notley (beer-house), and the <span class="smcap">Grapes</span>, which
occurs at Colchester (the latter being still the recognized sign of a
vintner), both undoubtedly found a place on the sign-board because they
helped to supply the wherewithal for the worship of Bacchus. Forty years
since there was another <span class="smcap">Vine</span> Inn at Thaxted. The <span class="smcap">Hop-pole</span>, which is a
sign occurring at Good Easter, and the <span class="smcap">Hop-poles</span>, which is another
occurring at Great Hallingbury, both obviously found their place on the
sign-board for the same reason. There are also beer-houses with the sign
of the <span class="smcap">Hop-poles</span> at Little Hallingbury and Roydon, although the
cultivation of hops has now ceased at those places. Hop-growing once
flourished extensively in Essex, and these two signs are relics of the
now almost relinquished industry. At the beginning of this century they
were grown at the Hedinghams, the Maplesteads, the Colnes, Halstead,
Wethersfield, Finchingfield, Great Bardfield, and Shalford, as well as
at Moulsham, Good Easter, Roxwell, Chignal St. James, and other places
round Chelmsford. Fifty years earlier the cultivation of hops in the
county was spread over a wider area, though the number of acres grown
was about the same. At the present time the cultivation is all but
discontinued. Until the year 1883 there was a hop-ground adjoining
Skreen’s Park, Roxwell, but it is now devoted to other purposes. Round
the Hedinghams, however, hops are still grown, their cultivation having
been introduced by a former Mr. Majendie in 1792. Daniel Defoe says, in
his <i>Tour through Great Britain</i>, that in 1724, hops were brought direct
from Chelmsford for sale at the great Stourbridge Hop Fair.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_112" id="page_112"></a>{112}</span></p>

<p>The description of the <span class="smcap">Maypole</span> at Chigwell, given by Dickens in <i>Barnaby
Rudge</i>, will occur to every one. It runs as follows:&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“In the year 1775, there stood upon the Borders of Epping Forest,
at a distance of about twelve miles from London&mdash;measuring from the
standard in Cornhill, or rather from the spot on or near to which
the standard used to be in days of yore&mdash;a house of public
entertainment called the Maypole; which fact was demonstrated to
all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and sixty-six
years ago a vast number, both of travellers and stay-at-homes, were
in this condition) by the emblem reared on the roadside over
against the house, which, if not of those goodly proportions that
maypoles were wont to present in olden times, was a fair young ash,
thirty feet in height, and as straight as any arrow that ever
English yeoman drew.</p>

<p>“The Maypole&mdash;by which term henceforth is meant the house and not
its sign&mdash;the Maypole was an old building, with more gable ends
than a lazy man would care to count on a sunny day; huge zig-zag
chimneys, out of which it seemed as though even smoke could not
choose but come in more than naturally fantastic shapes, imparted
to it in its tortuous progress; and vast stables, gloomy, ruinous,
and empty. The place was said to have been built in the days of
King Henry the Eighth; and there was a legend not only that Queen
Elizabeth had slept there one night while upon a hunting excursion,
to wit in a certain oak panelled room with a deep bay-window, but
that next morning, while standing on a mounting-block before the
door with one foot in the stirrup, the virgin monarch had then and
there boxed and cuffed an unlucky page for some neglect of duty.
The matter-of-fact and doubtful folks, of whom there were a few
among the Maypole customers, as unluckily there always are in every
little community, were inclined to look upon this tradition as
rather apocryphal; but, whenever the landlord of that ancient
hostelry appealed to the mounting-block itself as evidence, and
triumphantly pointed out that there it stood in the same place to
that very day, the doubters never failed to be put down by a large
majority, and all true believers exulted, as in a victory.</p>

<p>“Whether these, and many other stories of the like nature, were
true or untrue, the Maypole was really an old house, a very old
house, perhaps as old as it claimed to be, and perhaps older, which
will sometimes happen with houses of an uncertain, as with ladies
of a certain, age. Its windows were all diamond-pane lattices, its
floors were sunken and uneven, its ceilings blackened by the hand
of time and heavy with massive beams. Over the doorway was an
ancient porch, quaintly and grotesquely carved; and here on summer
evenings the more favoured customers smoked and drank&mdash;ay, and sang
many a good song too, sometimes&mdash;reposing on two grim-looking
high-backed settles, which, like the twin dragons of some fairy
tale, guarded the entrance to the mansion.</p>

<p>“In the chimneys of the disused rooms, swallows had built their
nests for many a long year, and from earliest spring to latest
autumn whole colonies of sparrows chirped and twittered in the
eaves. There were more pigeons about the dreary stable-yard and
outbuildings than anybody but the landlord could reckon up. The
wheeling and circling<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_113" id="page_113"></a>{113}</span> flights of runts, fantails, tumblers, and
pouters, were perhaps not quite consistent with the grave and sober
character of the building, but the monotonous cooing, which never
ceased to be raised by some among them all day long, suited it
exactly, and seemed to lull it to rest. With its overhanging
storys, drowsy little panes of glass, and front bulging out and
projecting over the pathway, the old house looked as if it were
nodding in its sleep. Indeed it needed no very great stretch of
fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity. The bricks of
which it was built had originally been a deep dark red, but had
grown yellow and discoloured like an old man’s skin; the sturdy
timbers had decayed like teeth; and here and there the ivy, like a
warm garment to comfort it in its age, wrapped its green leaves
closely round the time-worn walls.</p>

<p>“It was a hale and hearty age, though, still; and in the summer or
autumn evenings, when the glow of the setting sun fell upon the oak
and chestnut trees of the adjacent forest, the old house, partaking
of its lustre, seemed their fit companion, and to have many good
years of life in him yet.”</p></div>

<p>The house indicated in the foregoing description still stands, much as
it was in the days of which Dickens wrote. It is, however, <i>not</i> the
<span class="smcap">Maypole</span> at Chigwell. Dickens, to suit the purposes of his tale, made
free use of that license usually allowed to poets and writers of
fiction. His description, as above, gives a very fair idea of the fine
old hostelry known as the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>, situate opposite the church in
the village of Chigwell, where it has displayed the same sign since 1789
at least. It was in what has since been known as the “Chester Room” in
this house, that a portion, at least, of <i>Barnaby Rudge</i> was penned. On
the sign-board swinging over the door, there is a large portrait of King
Charles I., painted some years ago by Miss Herring. At Chigwell Row,
about two miles distant, there <i>is</i> a <span class="smcap">Maypole Inn</span>, with a maypole still
before the door, and on the site which Dickens indicates; but the
foregoing description is (as has been said) that of the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>. The
present <span class="smcap">Maypole</span> is an inn of no special pretensions, and is not the same
house that displayed the sign at least as early as 1789. A writer in
<i>Notes and Queries</i>,<a name="FNanchor_84_84" id="FNanchor_84_84"></a><a href="#Footnote_84_84" class="fnanchor">[84]</a> says that the following was formerly to be seen
on the sign:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“My liquor’s good,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">My measure’s just,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Excuse me, sirs,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">I cannot trust.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_114" id="page_114"></a>{114}</span></p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_114_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_114_sml.jpg" width="691" height="482" alt="Image not available: KING’S HEAD INN.

(At Chigwell.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">KING’S HEAD INN.
<br />
(At Chigwell.)</span>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_115" id="page_115"></a>{115}</span></p>

<p class="nind">Over the fireplace was seen these lines:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“All you who stand<br /></span>
<span class="i3">Before the fire,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">I pray sit down.<br /></span>
<span class="i3">It’s my desire<br /></span>
<span class="i1">That other folks<br /></span>
<span class="i3">As well as you<br /></span>
<span class="i1">May see the fire<br /></span>
<span class="i3">And feel it too.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">An inscription upon the stable-door ran as follows:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Whoever smokes tobacco here,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Shall forfeit sixpense to spend in beer.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Your pipes lay by when you come here,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Or fire to me may prove severe.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The only other sign of the kind now to be seen in Essex is the <span class="smcap">Old
Maypole</span> at Barkingside. Andrews and Drury’s <i>Map of Essex</i>, however,
published in 1777, shows houses with this sign then existing at
Chigwell, Barking, and Collier’s Row. A writer in the <i>Gentleman’s
Magazine</i>, speaking of Maypoles, says, “The last in London was taken
down in 1717, and removed to Wanstead in Essex. It was more than 100
feet high, and stood on the east side of Somerset House.” The custom of
celebrating Mayday has now almost died out in the county, except at
Saffron Walden, where, every “Garland Day,” it is customary to see the
High Street of the town crowded during the morning with children, each
bearing a “garland” more or less tastefully arranged upon a hoop, or in
some other way. They diligently visit all the houses asking for coppers,
which are generally given with liberality. The <span class="smcap">Wheatsheaf</span>, as already
stated (p. 33), appears as a sign no less than seven times in Essex.
Wheatsheaves form charges on the arms of at least three of the great
Trade Companies, namely, the Brewers’ (p. 32), the Bakers’ (p. 33), and
the Inn-holders’.<a name="FNanchor_85_85" id="FNanchor_85_85"></a><a href="#Footnote_85_85" class="fnanchor">[85]</a> Although the sign of the <span class="smcap">Bakers’ Arms</span> now only
occurs once in Essex, two tokens issued in Chelmsford, one issued in
Braintree, and several issued in Colchester, bear the arms of the
Bakers’ Company; and as there are now houses displaying the sign of the
<span class="smcap">Wheatsheaf</span> in each of those places, and all of them have existed for at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_116" id="page_116"></a>{116}</span>
least forty years, it is quite possible that they are the same
establishments kept, two centuries ago, by the issuers of the tokens. As
a beer-house sign, too, the <span class="smcap">Wheatsheaf</span> is still common.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Crown and Thistle</span>, which occurs at Great Chesterford, is a rather
uncommon sign. It, of course, represents the royal badge of Scotland, <i>a
thistle, imperially crowned</i>.</p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 136px;">
<a href="images/i_116_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_116_sml.jpg" width="136" height="246" alt="Image not available: ROSE AND THISTLE.

(Badge of James I.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">ROSE AND THISTLE.
<br />
(Badge of James I.)</span>
</div>

<p>Few will be surprised to learn that the <span class="smcap">Rose</span> is very common as a sign. A
rose imperially crowned is now the national badge of England; white and
red roses formed the cognizances of the rival factions of York and
Lancaster in the “Wars of the Roses;” the same flower, under different
forms, served as the badge of nearly all the English sovereigns from
Edward I. to Anne; and it is one of the very commonest “vegetable”
charges known in Heraldry. The fact that, while the sign of a simple
<span class="smcap">Rose</span> occurs only three times in Essex, namely, at Southchurch, Peldon,
and West Mersea, the <span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span> occurs as many as twenty-five times,
clearly shows the heraldic origin of the sign, most of our kings and
queens having worn the rose crowned. The Rose and the Thistle combined
together in a very absurd heraldic style, and crowned, were used as a
badge by James I. to typify the union of the two kingdoms of England and
Scotland. On the beautiful chapel of Henry VII. at Cambridge the rose
and crown are repeated innumerable times, together with the king’s other
badges, a portcullis and a fleur-de-lys, both of them crowned. A rose
crowned also appears on the token of “Iohn Freeherne iunior, in Witham,
1667.” The authors of the <i>History of Sign-boards</i> say (p. 124):
“Hutton, in his <i>Battle of Bosworth</i>, says that ‘upon the death of
Richard III., and consequent overthrow of the York Faction, all the
sign-boards with white roses were pulled down, and none are to be found
at the present day.’ This last part of the statement, we<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_117" id="page_117"></a>{117}</span> believe, is
true.” The rose in the sign of the <span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span> at Thaxted is,
nevertheless, painted white, though this is certainly unusual. On Cary’s
and other old maps of Essex, published about a century ago, may be seen
marked two houses, presumably inns, known as the <span class="smcap">White Rose</span> and the <span class="smcap">Red
Rose</span>, situated near one another on the edge of Epping Forest. Neither of
these signs appear in Essex at the present day, nor do Larwood and
Hotten mention them. There is also a <span class="smcap">White Rose</span> in Castle Street,
Leicester Square, London. The <span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span> at Saffron Walden has long
been the principal inn in the town. One of the earliest references to it
in the Corporation records occurs in 1654, when 2s. were expended “For 1
Quart of canary at the Rose when Moulton and Douglas suffered.” In 1660,
2s. 4d. was “Spent at the Rose and Crown when Captain Turner sent about
the town armes.” In the following year, and again in 1682, the name
appears again; while in the years 1689, 1704, 1709, and 1819, the
Corporation seems to have expended various sums at “the <span class="smcap">Rose</span>”
(undoubtedly the same house) upon certain special occasions. It was from
this house, too, that “Poor Robin” started on his <i>Perambulation from
Saffron Walden to London</i> in 1678 (see p. 66), as shown by the following
extracts. He says:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span style="margin-left: 4em;">. . . . . . . . . .</span><br />
<span class="i0">“Thus, having shown you <i>when</i>, in the next place<br /></span>
<span class="i1">I’ll show you <i>whence</i>, my journey I did trace.<br /></span>
<span style="margin-left: 4em;">. . . . . . . . . .</span><br />
<span class="i1">It was from the Rose and Crown, where Mr. Eve<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Doth keep a house like to an Under Sheriff;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">There is good Sack, good French wine and good Beer.<br /></span>
<span style="margin-left: 4em;">. . . . . . . . . .</span><br />
<span class="i1">There, at my parting, some kind friends of mine,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Would needs bestow on me a quart of wine,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Where, with stout drinking, ere my parting hour,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">That quart was made at least a three or four.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Yet would my jovial friends on me attend,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Part of my journey unto Audley End.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p>The Mr. Eve mentioned herein is undoubtedly the same landlord mentioned
in the Saffron Walden <i>Mayor’s Book</i> in 1680, when the Corporation “Pd.
Mr. Eves for wine at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_118" id="page_118"></a>{118}</span></p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_118_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_118_sml.jpg" width="567" height="416" alt="Image not available: ROSE INN AT PELDON (after the earthquake)." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">ROSE INN AT PELDON (after the earthquake).</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">the Dinner, &amp;c., when the King came to Audley End, when we delivered the
Address&mdash;£5 2s. 0d.” The <span class="smcap">Rose</span> at Peldon appears to be at least a century
old, as it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on May 5, 1786.
The inn plays a rather conspicuous part in the Rev. Baring-Gould’s
<i>Mehalah</i>, wherein (ii. p. 58) it is described as “an old-fashioned
house with a vine scrambling over the red tile roof, and an ancient
standard sign on the green before the door, bearing a rose painted the
size of a gigantic turnip.” Few houses suffered<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_119" id="page_119"></a>{119}</span> more severely from the
earthquake of April 22, 1884, than this. An illustration of its
appearance immediately after that event is here given.</p>

<p>Mr. King finds mention in ancient deeds of a <span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span>&mdash;either inn,
shop, or tenement&mdash;at Rochford in 1693. In the Stock parish registers it
is recorded that on August 23, 1676, “Richard Barnes, a citizen of
London, dwelling (as he sayd) in the Minories, taken sick in travell,
dyed in y<sup>e</sup> highway neare y<sup>e</sup> house called y<sup>e</sup> Rose, and was
burried at y<sup>e</sup> p’ishes charge.” Presumably this <span class="smcap">Rose</span> was not an inn. A
<span class="smcap">Rose</span> appears on the token, dated 1670, of Thomas Guyon of Coggeshall,
but no house with that sign now exists there. The <span class="smcap">Rose and Crown</span> at
Rochford is referred to in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on April 14, 1786.
The sign of the <i>Rose of Denmark</i> occurs at Canning Town. Its origin is
not obvious. Larwood and Hotten do not refer to the sign.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_119_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_119_sml.jpg" width="167" height="132" alt="" /></a>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_120" id="page_120"></a>{120}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>
<img src="images/barra-wheat.jpg" width="500" height="104" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER VII.<br /><br />
<i>HUMAN SIGNS.</i></h2>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">... “And make my image but an ale-house sign.”<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><span class="smcap">Shakespeare</span>: <span class="smcap">Henry V.</span>, Part II., Act iii., Scene 2.<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_t.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="77"
alt="T"
/></span>HE next class of signs to be treated of is that which includes those
derived from “Man and His Parts,” as the old books on Heraldry have it.
Such signs may be styled “Human Signs.” They are numerous, though
usually of but very slight interest; and, as might be expected, very few
are of heraldic origin. In speaking of them it will not be necessary to
give much more than a mere list. The numerous “heads” obviously indicate
a portrait once to have been the sign; and most of these portraits
represent persons of very modern fame. Many Human Signs have already
been noticed under the heading “Arms,” and elsewhere, and it will be
quite unnecessary to refer to them again.</p>

<p>By no means a few of our inns are named after personages who have made
themselves eminent either in the political, military, literary, or
social worlds. The mere mention of these will call to mind many
historical events of importance during the last two centuries. Thus our
six examples of the <span class="smcap">Duke of Wellington</span>, our two of the <span class="smcap">Wellington</span>, and
our six of the <span class="smcap">Duke’s Head</span>, remind us of the hero of Talavera and
Salamanca&mdash;<i>the</i> Duke of his day&mdash;who died in 1852. A <span class="smcap">Duke’s Head</span>,
however, which existed at Hatfield Broad Oak in 1789, evidently
commemorated some other and earlier Duke, perhaps one of the Dukes of
York. There<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_121" id="page_121"></a>{121}</span> is also a <span class="smcap">Duke of Wellington</span> (beer-house) at Bocking. The
<span class="smcap">Admiral Rous</span> at Galleywood, where Chelmsford Races are held,
commemorates the father of modern English racing, who died only a year
or two ago. The <span class="smcap">Oliver Twist</span> at Leyton was doubtless set up in honour of
the popular Dickens, who well deserves further sign-board honours. The
same may be said of another great Englishman, who is commemorated only
by the <span class="smcap">Shakespeare’s Head</span> at Canning Town. In various parts of the
county we meet with two examples of the <span class="smcap">Earl of Essex</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Duke
of Norfolk</span>, three of the <span class="smcap">Grosvenor</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Lord Henniker</span>, and one of
the <span class="smcap">Clifton</span>, all of which were unquestionably set up in honour of great
titled families. Statesmen are represented by two examples of the <span class="smcap">Earl
of Derby</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Lord Stanley</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Lord Palmerston</span>, two of
the <span class="smcap">Clarendon</span>, and one of the <span class="smcap">Pitt’s Head</span>. <span class="smcap">Lord Denman</span> alone seems to
have been selected to represent the legal profession. Among great
military commanders, we have the <span class="smcap">Marquis of Granby</span> (represented by three
examples), the <span class="smcap">Lord Raglan</span> (by three), the <span class="smcap">Lord Gough</span> (by one), the
<span class="smcap">Marlborough’s Head</span> (by three&mdash;one of which is mentioned in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> in 1764, while another at Maldon, not now
existing, is mentioned in the same paper on March 2, 1787), and the
*<span class="smcap">Blucher’s Head</span> (by one at Romford). The <span class="smcap">King of Prussia</span> still figures
as a sign at *Stratford. Prominent Indian officers seem to be well
represented. Thus we have a <span class="smcap">General Havelock</span> (very modern), a <span class="smcap">Sir Colin
Campbell</span>, and a <span class="smcap">Sir John Lawrence</span>. Sign-writers seem to have been unable
to keep pace with the rapid promotion of these gentlemen. For instance,
the first became Sir Henry Havelock so long ago as 1857; the second
became Lord Clyde in the same year, and died in 1863; while the third
was created Lord Lawrence in 1869, and died in 1879. Eminent naval
commanders are commemorated by four examples of the <span class="smcap">Lord Nelson</span>, one of
the <span class="smcap">Nelson’s Head</span>, and one of the <span class="smcap">Lord Napier</span>. Sixty years ago, too,
there was a *<span class="smcap">Duncan’s Head</span> at Colchester. It was doubtless in honour of
Admiral Duncan, who died in 1804. Larwood and Hotten<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_122" id="page_122"></a>{122}</span> do not notice this
sign. The <span class="smcap">Rodney</span> at Little Baddow is a house well known to the
worshippers of “St. Lubbock” and to other holiday-keepers in the
neighbourhood of Chelmsford. It, of course, commemorates Admiral Lord
Rodney, who died in 1792.</p>

<p>Mr. H. W. King writes:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The taking of Porto Bello in 1739, and the popularity of Admiral
Vernon at the time, caused many <span class="smcap">Vernon’s Heads</span>. One formerly
existing at *Rochford is now demolished and has ceased to be.
Either entirely new inns were thus named, or else old signs were
abolished to make way for the portrait of the new favourite.
Probably there were often similar changes for the sake of
popularity.”</p></div>

<p>One of the most notable signs in the county belonging to this class is
the <span class="smcap">Sir Wilfrid Lawson</span> at Woodford. It will be quite unnecessary to
state that this is not an ordinary inn-sign. A Conservative politician
would be more likely to deliver himself of an oration in praise of Mr.
Gladstone and his virtues, than a publican to erect a sign to the honour
of Sir Wilfrid Lawson. The house which exhibits this sign is a Coffee
Tavern erected by an ardent abstainer and opened by Sir Wilfrid in May,
1883. The following amusing lines were penned by a member of the company
present at the opening. They are, it is said, still to be seen in the
house.</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“All hops abandon, ye who enter here;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The wicked Wilfrid haunts this Watery Cavern;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">No wine, no whisky, nor even bitter beer,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Flow through the channels of this Coffee Tavern.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">The steaming coffee and the fragrant tea<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Are ready, where each eye can plainly see ’em;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Tea-total, then, let each incomer be,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And while ‘Te-total’ let him sing Te Deum.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p>On the map of the road between London and Harwich, given in Ogilby’s
<i>Itinerarium Angliæ</i>, published in 1675, a house&mdash;presumably an
inn&mdash;called the <span class="smcap">Monk’s Head</span> is shown on the east side of the road,
exactly opposite New Hall Park. There can be no doubt that this sign
represented, not the head of an ecclesiastic, but that of General Monk,
the great promoter of the Restoration, although he had been created Duke
of Albemarle some fifteen years before. After the Restoration, New Hall
was purchased by, or for, General<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_123" id="page_123"></a>{123}</span> Monk, and he lived there, as Morant
says, “in very great splendour, to the diminution of his estates.” He
died in 1670, and was succeeded by his son. Forty years ago there was a
<span class="smcap">Friar’s</span> Inn in Fryer’s Street, Chelmsford, but it has now disappeared.
At Rayleigh there is a <span class="smcap">Paul Pry</span> (beer-house). At Widford a beer-house
keeper has adopted as his sign that modern, though distinguished, Essex
worthy, <span class="smcap">Sir Evelyn Wood</span>. Another at Waltham Abbey has selected the
<span class="smcap">Sultan</span>. Others, at Saffron Walden and Waltham Abbey respectively, do
honour to the <span class="smcap">Old English Gentleman</span>. Probably these latter have in their
minds the hero of the song, rather than any gentleman in particular. At
Theydon Garnon there is a <span class="smcap">Merry Fiddlers</span>, which displays no less than
three sign-boards. At Becontree Heath there is a beer-shop with the same
sign. The landlord of the former states that, although he has
endeavoured to unearth the meaning of his sign, he has hitherto failed.
He adds, however, that, previous to his own occupation, the house had
been in one family for many generations, and that for long it displayed
a pictorial sign-board representing <span class="smcap">Three Fiddlers</span>, but these have of
late given place to the present sign. What particular three fiddlers are
meant, is difficult to explain. The house bore merely its present name
of the <span class="smcap">Merry Fiddlers</span> in 1789. Larwood and Hotten do not mention the
sign. At Abbots Roothing there is a <span class="smcap">Coopers</span> (beer-house), a sign which
is doubtless the same as that of the <span class="smcap">Coopers’</span> Arms. At Willingale Doe
there is a <span class="smcap">Ferry Man</span>. Probably he has retired from business and settled
there, as it is hard to discover any ferry at that place. About
sixty-five years ago *<span class="smcap">Bishop Blays</span>, the patron saint of wool-combers,
appeared as a sign at Colchester. It was a most appropriate sign in that
town in the seventeenth century, when it was an important seat of the
woollen trade. *<span class="smcap">Neptune</span> appears beside his “native element” at the
Hythe, Colchester. Sixty years ago there was a *<span class="smcap">Jolly Sailor</span> at Harwich,
a *<span class="smcap">Sailor’s Return</span> at Grays, and a *<span class="smcap">Mariner</span> at Colchester. These signs
were all appropriate enough, being situated in maritime places, but the
same cannot be said of the *<span class="smcap">Three Mariners</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_124" id="page_124"></a>{124}</span> which appeared at Chelmsford
at the same period. Sixty years ago, too, there was to be seen at
Colchester the curious sign of the *<span class="smcap">Sailor and Ball</span>, which Larwood and
Hotten do not mention. Probably it was not an impaled sign, but took its
name from some game of ball played by sailors.</p>

<p>Numerous other signs are connected with Royalty. Thus we have two
examples of the <span class="smcap">Albert</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Royal Albert</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Albert
House</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">King of Prussia</span> (formerly a very common sign), one of
the <span class="smcap">Queen Adelaide</span> (which is at least forty years old), one of the <span class="smcap">Queen
Elizabeth</span>, four of the <span class="smcap">Prince Alfred</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Duke of Cambridge</span>, two
of the <span class="smcap">Duke of Edinburgh</span> (neither of which existed twenty years ago),
one of the <span class="smcap">Clarence</span> (of course commemorating the <span class="smcap">Duke of Clarence</span>,
afterwards King William IV.), three of the <span class="smcap">Duke of York</span> (probably
commemorating the second son of George III., who died in 1827, though
one or more of the earlier Dukes of York may also be intended), five of
the <span class="smcap">Royal Inn</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Queen</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Queen Victoria</span>, ten of the
<span class="smcap">Victoria</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Royal Sovereign</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Royal Arms</span>, one of the
<span class="smcap">Royal Forest Hotel</span>, one <span class="smcap">Royal Steamer</span>, one <span class="smcap">Royal Essex Arms</span>, five of the
<span class="smcap">Royal Hotel</span>, eighteen of the <span class="smcap">Royal Oak</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Old Royal Oak</span>, one of
the <span class="smcap">King’s Oak</span>, four of the <span class="smcap">Royal Standard</span>, three of the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Arms</span>,
nineteen of the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Head</span>, seventeen of the <span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span>, forty-nine
of the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Old King’s Head</span>, twelve of the <span class="smcap">Prince of
Wales</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Princess of Wales</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Prince Albert Victor</span>,
one of the <span class="smcap">Princess Alice</span>, two of the <span class="smcap">Princess Alexandra</span>, one of <span class="smcap">William
the Conqueror</span> (at Widdington), two of <span class="smcap">William the Fourth</span>, and two of
<span class="smcap">King William the Fourth</span>, one of which is placed at a “four-want-way” at
Leaden Roothing, and forms a landmark well known to every one who rides
to hounds or travels by road in “The Roothings.” The <span class="smcap">King William</span> and
the <span class="smcap">King William IV.</span> are both common beer-house signs, probably because
the act authorizing the opening of these houses was passed in his reign.
The beer-retailers of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_125" id="page_125"></a>{125}</span> the time, when casting about for a sign,
naturally selected the sovereign of their day. In the first form the
sign occurs at Bocking, Springfield, &amp;c., and under the latter at
Braintree, Chigwell, and elsewhere. The <span class="smcap">Prince of Wales</span>, too, is a very
common beer-house sign, as also the <span class="smcap">Victoria</span>, the <span class="smcap">Queen Victoria</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Queen’s Head</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Arms</span>. <span class="smcap">Prince Alfred</span> is commemorated on a
beer-house sign at Chigwell. At the same place is a <span class="smcap">British Queen</span>
(beer-house), by which probably is intended Queen Boadicea, who received
her last overthrow in the neighbourhood. The <span class="smcap">Prince of Orange</span> still
figures as a beer-house sign at Chelmsford. The sign of <span class="smcap">Prince of Wales’
Head</span> existed at Harwich in 1764, as it is mentioned in a number of the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for that year; and a <span class="smcap">Royal Mortar</span> (whatever that
might be) was to be seen at Colchester twenty years ago. Messrs. Larwood
and Hotten mention the strange sign of the *<span class="smcap">Three Queens</span>, which was,
until lately, to be seen at Moulsham. They surmise that it was suggested
by the common sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Kings</span>, of which we have no example in
Essex, unless the <span class="smcap">Three Travellers</span>, which occurs near Romford, and is
apparently unique, be another form of it. The three kings represent the
three wise men or Magi from the East. A writer in <i>Notes and Queries</i>
(1st Series, vol. viii. p. 627) says that the following rhyme was
formerly appended to the sign of a <span class="smcap">Victoria</span> beer-shop at Coopersale:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“The Queen some day<br /></span>
<span class="i1">May pass this way<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And see our Tom and Jerry;<a name="FNanchor_86_86" id="FNanchor_86_86"></a><a href="#Footnote_86_86" class="fnanchor">[86]</a><br /></span>
<span class="i1">Perhaps she’ll stop<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And stand a drop<br /></span>
<span class="i1">To make her subjects merry.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">On the other side of the sign-board were some different lines which the
writer had forgotten.</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span> is by no means of modern introduction. It
occurs on the seventeenth century tokens of Robert Adson of Colchester
in 1668, of Thomas Bribrist of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_126" id="page_126"></a>{126}</span> Felstead (no date), and of Thomas
Livermer of Wethersfield, and it is mentioned in advertisements in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for March 10, 1787, as then occurring at
Prittlewell and Stebbing. As the sign still exists at all these places,
except Felstead and Wethersfield, it is at least probable that the same
houses which were known by it in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries are known by it now. The famous <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>, opposite the
church at Chigwell, so well described by Dickens in <i>Barnaby Rudge</i>
under the name of the <span class="smcap">Maypole</span>, has been already spoken of (p. 113). It
is a long, large, plastered building, with many gables, and projecting
upper storeys&mdash;evidently dating from the era of the Stuarts or earlier.
Arthur Young, in 1771, declares that “of all the cursed roads that ever
disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled
that from Billericay to the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span> at Tilbury.” In 1678 a <span class="smcap">King’s
Head</span> at Rickling formed a house of call for Poor Robin on his
<i>Perambulation from Saffron Walden to London</i>. After recounting how he
fared at the <span class="smcap">Black Bull</span> at Newport, he says&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“We having dined and joined a pint or two,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Then forwards on my journey I did go;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And first came unto a town called Rickling,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Where for to stay I made no stickling,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">But presently at the King’s Head fell a tippling,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Where of Compounding Dick<a name="FNanchor_87_87" id="FNanchor_87_87"></a><a href="#Footnote_87_87" class="fnanchor">[87]</a> I there heard tell.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span> on the Balkern Hill, Colchester, is an ancient and
memorable inn, though the present house is not very old. At the time of
the surrender of the town to Fairfax, in 1648, it was a general
<i>rendezvous</i> of the noblemen and gentry of the Royalist party. Foxe,
too, in his <i>Book of Martyrs</i> mentions that “at the <span class="smcap">Kinge’s Head</span> in
Colchester, and at other innes in the sayd towne, the afflicted
Christians had set places appointed for themselves to meet at.” Mr. H.
W. King has kindly informed the author that the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>, now
existing at Leigh, is not the same house as one which existed there
under the same name in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_127" id="page_127"></a>{127}</span> eighteenth century. The latter is traceable
(writes Mr. King) as a private house from 1671 to about 1720, being
described in 1702 as a “messuage and shop.” Between 1718 and 1723 it was
rebuilt, as in the latter year it is spoken of as a new house, and is
described as an inn with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Head</span>. In 1740 it is
described as “the <span class="smcap">Angel</span>, heretofore the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Head</span>.” In 1766 it is
described as “the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>, heretofore the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Head</span>, afterwards
the <span class="smcap">Angel</span>.” It then became a private house, as it has ever since
remained. It was probably soon after this, about 1766, that the present
<span class="smcap">King’s Head</span> at Leigh assumed that name. These three changes, all within
the short space of fifty years, or less, are very interesting. They seem
to suggest that the house was first named the <span class="smcap">Queen’s Head</span> in honour of
Queen Anne; but that, when she died in 1714, the same sign (perhaps
slightly altered) was made to do duty for some time as an <span class="smcap">Angel</span>, and
still later was changed to the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span>, probably on the accession of
one of the Georges. At Harold Wood there is a <span class="smcap">King Harold</span>, which is no
doubt connected with the name of the place. At Nazing, which was one of
the estates with which Harold endowed the neighbouring Abbey of Waltham,
there has been for at least a century past a <span class="smcap">King Harold’s Head</span>.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">George</span>, which occurs seventeen times in Essex, is another royal
sign. In some instances it doubtless represents St. George, our patron
saint, disconnected from his dragon; but, more probably, it has usually
been set up&mdash;at least, of late&mdash;in honour of our Hanoverian kings. There
is, however, abundant evidence that even as early as the very beginning
of the seventeenth century, St. George, the Patron Saint of England, had
already appeared on the sign-board without his usual antagonist the
Dragon. Thus, “Blague, the merry host of the <span class="smcap">George</span> at Waltham,” figures
prominently in <i>The Merry Divel of Edmonton</i>, published in 1617&mdash;a
curious play, which Kirkman attributed to Shakespeare. The scene is
partly laid in Waltham Forest. Poor Robin, too, in his <i>Perambulation</i>
also mentions a <span class="smcap">George</span> at Bishops Stortford in 1678. Mr. H. W. King also
finds evidence in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_128" id="page_128"></a>{128}</span> ancient deeds that the <span class="smcap">George</span> at Leigh was an inn as
early as 1680, but the house itself is probably somewhat earlier. In
1777 it is described as “now and for some time past known as the sign of
the George.” It had ceased to be an inn by 1801, though then and long
afterwards described as “a messuage called the George,” the words “known
by the sign of” being omitted. It was also a brewery. Mr. King also
finds evidence in other ancient deeds of the existence of a <span class="smcap">George</span> at
Rayleigh in 1623, but whether an inn, shop, or private house, does not
appear. The *<span class="smcap">George</span> at Epping (perhaps identical with the <span class="smcap">George and
Dragon</span> which now occurs there) is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> in 1764; while the <span class="smcap">George</span> at Halstead and the *<span class="smcap">George</span> at
Witham (perhaps both identical with the well-known houses now existing
under the same name at each of those places) are frequently referred to
in advertisements in the same paper for 1786, the latter as being then
to let. A small stone slab, let into the front of the <span class="smcap">George and Dragon</span>
Inn at Wanstead, bears the following inscription:&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“<i>Restorat.</i> 1858. R. C.&mdash;In memory of y<sup>e</sup> Cherrey Pey as cost ½
a Guiney, y<sup>e</sup> 17th of July, 1752.</p></div>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">That day we had good cheer,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I hope to so do many a year.&mdash;David Jersey.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The <span class="smcap">George and Dragon</span> also occurs eight times elsewhere in the county,
as well as on several beer-house signs. At Chelmsford there is an <span class="smcap">Old
George</span> (beer-house). Mr. H. W. King also finds mention in early deeds of
a house known as the <span class="smcap">George and Tankard</span> at Shopland in 1579. It is not
stated that it was an inn, but from the sign there can be very little
doubt that it was. The appearance of an apparently impaled sign at so
early a date is certainly very remarkable. Larwood and Hotten do not
notice this device.</p>

<p>Various military signs occur at places where there are barracks. For
instance, there are at Colchester houses with such signs as the <span class="smcap">Bugle
Horn</span>, the <span class="smcap">Artillery-man</span>, the <span class="smcap">Rifleman</span>, the <span class="smcap">Dragoon</span>, the *<span class="smcap">Fencers</span> (a sign
which is at least forty years old, though it is not mentioned by
Larwood<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_129" id="page_129"></a>{129}</span></p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 286px;">
<a href="images/i_129_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_129_sml.jpg" width="286" height="684" alt="Image not available: GRENADIER." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">GRENADIER.</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">and Hotten), an <span class="smcap">Ordnance Arms</span>, and a <span class="smcap">Royal Artillery</span>; whilst at Great
Warley there is a <span class="smcap">Horse Artillery</span> and a <span class="smcap">Soldier’s Hotel</span>, which seems to
have been the <span class="smcap">Soldier’s Hope</span> forty years ago. At Waltham Abbey there is
a <span class="smcap">Volunteer</span>; there are <span class="smcap">Riflemen</span> at Colchester and Black Notley
(beer-house); at Kelvedon Hatch there is a <span class="smcap">Guardsman</span>, at Rettendon a
<span class="smcap">Life Guards</span>, and at Leyton a <span class="smcap">Grenadier</span>. The figure of a Grenadier, here
reproduced, is taken from the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i> for December, 1845
(p. 591), to which it was contributed by the late Mr. J. A. Repton,
F.S.A., formerly of Springfield. A <span class="smcap">Soldier</span> is represented on three
different farthing tokens issued by John Allen of Braintree, one of
which bears the date 1657. All bear his initials, but one has the
inscription, “Turne a penny,” in the place of the name of the issuer. On
these tokens the orthography is decidedly peculiar. Thus,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_130" id="page_130"></a>{130}</span> Braintree is
twice spelled “Brantre” and once “Brantry,” while Essex is twice spelled
“Esex” and once “Esaxes.”</p>

<p>Among the more miscellaneous of Human Signs we meet with a <span class="smcap">Crown’s Inn</span>
at Ongar, a <span class="smcap">Forester</span> at Coggeshall, a <span class="smcap">Forester’s Inn</span> at Plaistow, an
<span class="smcap">Ancient Foresters</span> at Hatfield Broad Oak (all, of course, connected with
the “ancient order”), three <span class="smcap">Freemasons’ Taverns</span>, several <span class="smcap">Freemasons’
Arms</span>, a <span class="smcap">Merry Fiddlers</span> at Theydon Garnon, eight examples of the
<span class="smcap">Cricketers</span> (against five in 1862), two of the <span class="smcap">Cricketers’ Arms</span>, a <span class="smcap">Jolly
Cricketers</span>, a <span class="smcap">Jolly Fisherman</span>, a <span class="smcap">Jolly Sailor</span>, a <span class="smcap">Sailor’s Return</span>, two
<span class="smcap">Welcome Sailors</span>, an <span class="smcap">Old Welcome Sailor</span>, a <span class="smcap">Three Travellers</span> (perhaps
representing the three wise men from the East), and a <span class="smcap">Minerva</span> at
Southend, which, as Mr. H. W. King has ascertained, was recently
christened by its owner after a barge of the same name that he
possessed. At Chigwell there has been for at least a century past a
house with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Jolly Wheelers</span> (whatever they might
be). There are <span class="smcap">Travellers’ Friends</span> at Moulsham and Woodford Wells (the
former being at least forty years old), as well as a beer-house of the
same name at Epping; <span class="smcap">Travellers’ Rests</span> at Forest Gate and Wethersfield
(the latter being a beer-house); <span class="smcap">Britannias</span> at Canning Town, Barking,
Southend, and Hornchurch (beer-house); and <span class="smcap">Two Brewers</span> at *Stratford,
Springfield, High Ongar, and Chigwell (beer-house). This is a sign once
common, but now becoming rare. They were usually represented carrying a
barrel of beer between them, slung on a pole. There are <span class="smcap">Woodmen</span> at
Halstead, Elmdon, Waltham Abbey, Stanford Rivers, Thundersley, Romford,
&amp;c., all but the first two being beer-houses. The <span class="smcap">Three Mariners</span> is an
odd sign which occurs at Colchester and at Moulsham (Chelmsford). At the
latter place it seems to have existed for at least a century, being
referred to in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 27, 1786. In the
garden of the <span class="smcap">Adam and Eve</span> at West Ham (p. 37) stands the remains of an
old stone arch, now almost the only remaining portion of the ancient
abbey of Stratford Langthorn. In the kitchen are (or were lately) a
coffin, a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_131" id="page_131"></a>{131}</span> seal, some coins, and some urns dug up in an adjoining field
towards the end of last century. The <span class="smcap">Essex Head</span>, in Essex Street,
Strand, London, W.C., probably commemorates the Earl of Essex, who was a
favourite of Queen Elizabeth, rather than the county of that name. It
clearly either takes its name from, or gives its name to, the street in
which it stands. The inn was established in the last century. On the
Forest, near High Beech, is a beer-shop known as the <span class="smcap">Dick Turpin’s Cave</span>.
It clearly takes its name from a hole in the ground not far distant,
commonly spoken of as “Dick Turpin’s Cave.” The “cave” (if such it ever
was) is now thickly overgrown with trees and brushwood. It is well known
that Messrs. Dick Turpin and Co. especially haunted the neighbourhood of
Epping and Hainault Forests, and until the end of last century it was
not considered safe to traverse the roads thereabouts unless well armed.
It may very well be, therefore, that the famous highwayman did, at some
time or other, use this hole as a place of refuge.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Hercules</span> at Newport (the only example in Essex of this rather
uncommon sign) has already been mentioned (p. 65), also the tradition
that the <span class="smcap">Bull</span>, which stood opposite to it, was by it compelled to close
its doors. With regard to this inn Mr. C. K. Probert of Newport sends an
interesting note. He says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The <span class="smcap">Hercules</span> stands next to the old Vicarage. Now we know it was a
common custom among village clergymen to take their pipe and pot at
the village inn, as mentioned in the old song, which says:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">‘At the sign of the Horse,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Old Spintext, of course,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Each night takes his pipe and his pot,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">O’er a Jorum of “nappy,”<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Contented and happy,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">There sits this canonical sot,’ &amp;c., &amp;c.<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">Further, it is my belief that the <span class="smcap">Hercules</span> was started in
opposition to the <span class="smcap">Bull</span>, our Pastor (being the most learned
individual in the place at the period) probably suggesting the
classical name, in reference to the seventh labour of Hercules&mdash;the
slaying of the Cretan Bull.”</p></div>

<p>Forty years ago there existed at Colchester a <span class="smcap">Maltster’s Inn</span>, a
<span class="smcap">Mariner’s Inn</span>, and a <span class="smcap">Neptune</span>; at Stratford a <span class="smcap">Chinaman</span>, and at Tendring a
<span class="smcap">Crown and Blacksmith</span>, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_132" id="page_132"></a>{132}</span> latter being, perhaps, an impaled sign
signifying that the landlord of the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> was also a blacksmith.</p>

<p>It will be most convenient to treat of the sign of the <span class="smcap">Angel</span>, which
occurs eleven times in Essex, among Human Signs, although an angel is
commonly accounted to be something more than human. An <span class="smcap">Angel</span> occurs on
the seventeenth-century tokens of “Francis Aleyn at the Angell in
Brentwood,” of “Georg Silke at the Angell in Rvmford,” of Francis Dilke,
also of Rumford, of William Hartley of Colchester, and of George Taylor
of Ilford in 1665. As the sign still exists at the two last-named
places, the probabilities are that the two houses bearing it are
identical with those from which the tokens were issued a couple of
centuries ago. The <span class="smcap">Angel</span> at Ilford was formerly a posting-house of great
importance; but, like its neighbour, the <span class="smcap">Red Lion</span>, and all the other
once-busy inns on this great highway from London into the Eastern
counties, it is now sadly decayed from its old importance, though still
a house of high standing. Its massive sign-post and ornamental sign-iron
date from at least a century ago. Probably it was at this house that, on
August 18, 1662, Pepys, “while dinner was getting ready, practised
measuring of the tables and other things, till [as he says] I did
understand measure of timber and board very well.” This he did that he
might know how to detect fraud on the part of those who bought timber
for the navy. Taylor (see p. 28) in 1636 mentions <span class="smcap">Angels</span> at Romford and
Brentwood, which do not now exist. The *<span class="smcap">Angel</span> in the High Street at
Colchester is, perhaps, the modern representative of the <span class="smcap">Angel</span> mentioned
in one of the Corporation records (see p. 62) as being an “auncyent
inne” in 1603. There are beer-houses with the same sign at Braintree,
Bocking, and elsewhere. In the Corporation records of Saffron Walden for
the year 1645 it appears that the sum of 6s. 2d. was expended upon “a
pottle of sack, 3 qts. of claret and white wine burnt, for the
committee, when they sat at the <span class="smcap">Angel</span>.” This is probably the same house
which continued to exist in Gould Street up to about fifty years ago,
when it was kept by one Butterfield,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_133" id="page_133"></a>{133}</span> who was also a barber, and who
displayed the following rhyme upon his sign-board:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Rove not from pole to pole, but call in here,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Where nought exceeds the shaving, but the beer.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The pole referred to is, of course, the barber’s pole. The couplet was,
however, not original. The <span class="smcap">Angel</span>, which still continues to exist at
Kelvedon, is referred to in an advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> for December 29, 1786. It is also stated in the Bufton
MSS.<a name="FNanchor_88_88" id="FNanchor_88_88"></a><a href="#Footnote_88_88" class="fnanchor">[88]</a> that on the 20th of October, 1692, King William III. “stayed
and dined at the <span class="smcap">Angell</span>,” at Kelvedon. Doubtless he was on his way to
Holland, <i>viâ</i> Harwich. Larwood and Hotten say (p. 266) that this sign
“was derived from the Salutation; for, that it originally represented
the Angel appearing to the Holy Virgin at the Salutation or
Annunciation, is evident from the fact that, even as late as the
seventeenth century, on nearly all the trades-tokens of houses with this
sign, the Angel is represented with a scroll in his hands; and this
scroll we know, from the evidence of paintings and prints, to contain
the words addressed by the Angel to the Holy Virgin: <i>‘Ave Maria, gratia
plena, Dominus tecum</i>.’ Probably at the Reformation it was considered
too Catholic a sign, and so the Holy Virgin was left out, and the Angel
only retained.” The supporters of the arms of Richard II. were also two
angels, blowing trumpets. The <span class="smcap">Angel and Harp</span> at Church End, Dunmow, is a
strange sign which does not appear to be noticed by the authors so often
quoted. Probably it is a modern, though by no means inappropriate,
impalement, as it appears in the list of sixty years ago simply as the
*<span class="smcap">Harp</span>.</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> occurs seven times in the county, namely, at
Chelmsford, Wrabness, Bocking, Weeley, *Coggeshall, Wivenhoe, and Great
Bromley. At the latter place it seems to have existed since 1786, as a
sale is advertised to take place at the <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> in Great Bromley, in
the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for March 3rd in that year. There<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_134" id="page_134"></a>{134}</span> is also a
beer-house of this name at Danbury, and the large brick house in the
High Street at Epping, lately occupied by that eminent naturalist, Henry
Doubleday, was an inn with this sign before the Doubleday family
acquired it about 1770. The <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> now existing at Chelmsford is not
the same house that went under that name during the last and previous
centuries, though standing on the same site. The old inn ranked as a
coaching-inn of the first importance. It was pulled down in 1857, having
been fairly run off the road by the opening of the railway in 1843. Two
wooden bosses, taken from the ceiling of one of the rooms, and now to be
seen in the Chelmsford Museum, are carved, respectively, with the Blue
Boar of the De Veres (to which family the house probably once belonged),
and the red and white rose combined. Mr. John Adey Repton, F.S.A.,
formerly of Springfield, writing to the <i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i> in May,
1840, sends sketches of these two bosses, which were duly inserted. He
says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“There is a tradition that Richard III. was hunting in the forest,
and being missed by his courtiers was afterwards found at this
house.... The beam is massive, being not less than 16 inches wide.
The room, although only 9½ feet high, was originally a hall 28½
feet long, but subsequently reduced to 18½ feet by a partition,
leaving a passage to the inn. Yet this partition, from the style
and character of the panels, appears to have been added so early as
the reign of Henry VIII. The doors to the buttery-hatch, &amp;c., may
still be traced on the wall of the passage.”</p></div>

<p>Writing again to the same Magazine in December, 1845, Mr. Repton says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“I send you a sketch of a Chambermaid. The figure is now at the
White Hart, Chelmsford, having been recently removed thither from
the Black Boy. It was formerly the custom in ancient family
mansions to introduce a painting which represents a housemaid
holding a broom in her hands, which was cut out of a board, and
generally placed in a passage or at the top of the stairs. The
earliest specimens I have seen are of the date of Charles I., or
the early part of Charles II.... The enclosed specimen is of a
later period, having the Fontaine head-dress which prevailed about
the time of William III. or Queen Anne.... Sometimes the figure of
a soldier, like a sentry, was exhibited in like manner.... Such a
figure is on the staircase of the Bull at Dartford. Another, of
which I send you a sketch [see p. 129], is at the Black Boy in
Chelmsford.”</p></div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_135" id="page_135"></a>{135}</span></p>

<p>Mr. Chancellor of Chelmsford writes that&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“In 1424 [when Chelmsford Church was largely built] John De Vere,
12th Earl of Oxford, was at the head of that family, having
succeeded to the title in 1415. From his known adherence to the
House of Lancaster, he may be presumed to have been a person of
some importance, and as a consequence in constant communication
with the Court. Undoubtedly, therefore, he would journey to and
from Hedingham Castle, his baronial seat, to London, many times in
the course of the year; and as it would appear that the old
hostelry, known as the Black Boy, in this town, belonged to the De
Vere family, it is a very fair presumption that Chelmsford was not
only a halting-place for the Earl and his retainers upon the
occasion of their journeys, but probably used as an occasional
residence; and as he lived in almost royal state, his comings to
and fro would be a matter of as much importance to the then
townsfolk as a visit of the sovereign in the present day.... We can
readily believe that so powerful and wealthy a man would be the
first applied to for aid. That he did assist, is proved by the fact
of his shield, charged with the mullet, being carved in the
spandrel of the west door of the tower; and his crest, the boar,
being introduced in the apex of the arch of the same door; this
latter corresponds with the carved boar which formed part of the
ceiling of an apartment in the old Black Boy [see p. 71]. For five
centuries did this mighty family rule it most royally over many
parts of the country, their riches being immense, and their power
and influence being second only to the sovereign; and yet now a
cubic foot of stone in our parish church, and a cubic foot of oak
deposited in our museum, are all that remain in this town to remind
us of the De Veres.”</p></div>

<p>A good view of this famous old inn is given in Ryland’s view of
Chelmsford High Street, engraved in 1762, and reproduced as the
frontispiece of this volume. From it, in all probability, our six other
Essex Black Boys have taken their name, as the sign is unusually common
in the county. It stood at the corner of Springfield Lane and the High
Street. The <i>Ipswich Express</i>, in speaking of the closing of this
ancient house, which, as it remarked, had been “for centuries one of the
oldest inns on the road,” remarked as follows:&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“There are not only pleasant recollections of ‘slippered ease,’ but
historical associations, connected with the old Inn. Here royal
heads have rested, and warriors have halted as they hurried off to
draw the sword on fields of military renown. Within its rooms,
martyrs have passed the last night of life, in the fiery days of
religious persecution, on their way to the fatal stake. In the old
war, its roof often resounded with the mad jollity of prizemen and
privateers, who had just brought their rich booty into Harwich,
and, as they posted off to London, had halted at the well-known
hostelry to make merry with their gains. A quarter of a century
ago, between forty and fifty stage-coaches passed its<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_136" id="page_136"></a>{136}</span> door daily,
most of which pulled up, if they did not pause, to allow the
travellers to partake of the provision made for them; while
numberless pairs of post-horses stood saddled in its capacious
stables.”</p></div>

<p>Dickens mentions this house in <i>Pickwick Papers</i> (1st Edition, p. 161),
when Mr. Weller, Senior, relates how he transported Messrs. Job Trotter
and Charles Fitz-Marshall from “the Black Boy at Chelmsford ... right
through to Ipswich.” Mr. Chancellor has ascertained that, in a deed
dated 1642, this inn is described as “heretofore known by the name or
sign of the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> or <span class="smcap">New Inn</span>, or the <span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span>, and later as the <span class="smcap">Black
Boy</span>.” That it was the <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> in 1636 is certain, for Taylor, “the
Water Poet,” in his <i>Catalogue of Tavernes</i>, mentions it as one of the
chief inns in the town at that time. In 1660, the Rev. R. E. Bartlett
finds it recorded in the Chelmsford registers that “Andrew Speller, a
dumb man, who lived at the Black Boy in Chelmsford, was buried the 2 day
of August.” It has probably retained the same sign ever since. This
frequent change at so early a date is very interesting. It seems to
indicate (as Mr. Chancellor suggests) that, on the house passing out of
the hands of the De Veres, it became an inn, and that, although it may
have displayed the sign of the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> (see p. 166), it was commonly known
as the <span class="smcap">New Inn</span>. Afterwards, for some reason, it came to be styled the
<span class="smcap">King’s Arms</span>, and still later the <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span>, though why, it is not
apparent. At the time of his demise, this “Old Boy” (as he may be
familiarly styled) was, therefore, at least 250 years old. It might be
thought strange that having existed so long, and having begat the seven
sons already mentioned, he never grew into a “Black Man,” but died as he
had so long lived, a “Black Boy”! A <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> formerly existed in
Saffron Walden, as shown by the following entries in the Corporation
records:&mdash;“March 27th, 1682, ‘Spent at the Black Boy 12 pence,’&nbsp;” and a
little later 4s. 6d. was “spent at the Black Boy with the Chamberlains
when we assessed the fines on the Quakers.” In the Waltham Abbey parish
register is the following entry:&mdash;“Judith Sutton, from y<sup>e</sup> Blacks,
Bur. May 26, 1740.” This was probably the <span class="smcap">Black</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_137" id="page_137"></a>{137}</span> <span class="smcap">Boy</span> Inn that formerly
stood in Town-mead Lane. The <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> is a sign of venerable antiquity.
From the first it has been largely used as a tobacconist’s sign. The
crest of the Tobacco-pipe Makers’ Company, incorporated in 1663, was a
demi-Moor, while the supporters were <i>two young Moors proper, wreathed
about the loins with tobacco leaves vert</i>. A black Saracen’s head, too,
was the badge of Lord Cobham in the time of Edward IV., and also of Sir
John Harlwyn.</p>

<p>Essex contains at the present time no less than twenty-seven houses
showing the sign of the <span class="smcap">Green Man</span>. The <span class="smcap">Green Man</span> at Leyton is mentioned
in the <i>Trials of Swan and Jeffries</i> in 1752, while the <span class="smcap">Green Man</span> at
Leytonstone is mentioned by Daniel Defoe in his <i>Tour through Great
Britain</i>, first published in 1724, and is also marked on Roque’s <i>Map of
Ten Miles round London</i>, published in 1741. It is recorded in the
<i>Gentleman’s Magazine</i> (vol. xxiii. p. 148) that Charles, Earl of
Tankerville, died of an apoplectic fit at the <span class="smcap">Green Man</span> on Epping Forest
on the 14th of March, 1753, as he was travelling to London. Old maps of
the latter half of last century show quite a number of <span class="smcap">Green Men</span> round
Epping and Hainault Forests, showing the connection even then existing
in the minds of men between the sign-board <span class="smcap">Green Men</span> and foresters. In
Mr. Creed’s list of signs round Epping in 1789, <span class="smcap">Green Men</span> are named at
the following places: Epping, Waltham Abbey, Moreton, Stanford Rivers,
Magdalen Laver, Harlow, and Roydon. Evidently this sign was very common
a century ago. Although this device has a two-fold origin, it is rather
difficult to account for its great prevalence in the present day.
Originally, no doubt, the sign represented the green-clad morris-dancers
that played an important part in the shows and pageants of mediæval
times; but, when these went out of date and were forgotten by the common
people, the sign was made to represent a forester in his coat of green.
As early as the seventeenth century the sign had come to be connected
with that celebrated forester, Robin Hood, as is shown by the designs on
many of the tokens, which represent the outlaw accompanied by his
friend<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_138" id="page_138"></a>{138}</span> Little John. At Elsenham and at High Beech the sign now takes
the name of the <span class="smcap">Robin Hood</span>, while <span class="smcap">Robin Hood and Little John</span> occur in
combination at Brentwood, although in an advertisement in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 20, 1786, the house is spoken of
simply as the <span class="smcap">Robin Hood</span>. At High Beech, as is often the case, the
following couplet is appended to the sign:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“If Robin Hood be not at home,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Step in and ask for Little John.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p>Mrs. F. B. Palliser says,<a name="FNanchor_89_89" id="FNanchor_89_89"></a><a href="#Footnote_89_89" class="fnanchor">[89]</a> “Queen Anne bore, as one of the supporters
of her arms, one of the savage men, wreathed with ivy and bearing clubs,
of Denmark, since designated and adopted for an inn-sign as the <span class="smcap">Green
Man</span>.” This, however, is probably not the only origin of the sign. At the
present day the sign is generally represented on Essex signboards by a
gamekeeper in a green velveteen coat. At Grays there is a <span class="smcap">Green Man and
Bell</span> (beer-house), which is doubtless an impaled sign.</p>

<p>A beer-shop at Great Chesterford displays a pictorial sign&mdash;evidently of
some age&mdash;representing, apparently, the <span class="smcap">Man and Plough</span>. A rustic in a
green smock-frock stands at the handle of his plough, politely touching
his hat to passers-by.</p>

<p>At Chelmsford and Dunmow the principal inn in each of the two towns has
for its sign the <span class="smcap">Saracen’s Head</span>. The former is mentioned in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 6, 1786. It is also many times named
in the <i>Trials of Swan and Jeffries</i> in 1752, on account of a robbery
having been committed there. It also finds mention in Mr. Joseph
Strutt’s Essex and Herts romance, entitled <i>Queenhoo Hall</i>, published in
1808. The hero of the tale says (ii. p. 179) that “on my arrival at
Chelmsford, I went to one of the principal inns, distinguished by the
sign of the Saracen, or Man Quintain, where I took some small
refreshment.” Other examples, making five in all, occur at Danbury,
Braintree, and Thaxted. Though not described by Boyne,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_139" id="page_139"></a>{139}</span> tokens, bearing
a representation of a Saracen’s head, and issued by John Havers at the
house of that name in Thaxted, are still extant, showing the house and
its sign to be of considerable antiquity. Mr. Joseph Clarke, F.S.A., of
Saffron Walden can recollect that, many years ago, the sign-board bore
the representation of a man’s head with a very ferocious countenance,
but the sign-board is not now pictorial. The sign owes its origin
(largely, at least) to the Crusades. It was formerly much more common
than now.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Maid’s Head</span> at Thorpe-le-Soken is, in all probability, not a sign
put up by some enamoured publican. As a general rule the sign, wherever
it appears, has been derived from the arms of the Mercers’ Company,
already given (p. 33). Sir William Parr, K.G., and also his
grand-daughter, Queen Catherine Parr, both bore the same device as a
badge. But in the case of the example at Thorpe there can be little
doubt that the sign is a really ancient one, and that it represents the
crest of the D’Arcy family, Barons of Chiche,<a name="FNanchor_90_90" id="FNanchor_90_90"></a><a href="#Footnote_90_90" class="fnanchor">[90]</a> to whom, in 1551,
Edward VI. granted the manor of Thorpe and neighbouring lands, which
long afterwards remained in the family. The same sign often occurs
elsewhere as the <span class="smcap">Maiden Head</span>. There was apparently a house of this name
(not necessarily an inn) at Chelmsford in the seventeenth century, as
the Rev. R. E. Bartlett finds the following entry in the parish
registers:&mdash;“1620, Matthew Prentys of Chelmsford, husbandman and
householder at the Maidenhead in Chelmsford, was buried the xiiii. of
May, being Sunday.” The <span class="smcap">Village Maid</span>, which occurs at Bradfield, is a
very modern sign, and is not mentioned by Larwood and Hotten. Probably
the landlord set it up in honour of some damsel of his acquaintance.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Mermaid</span>, though only a semi-human sign, is most conveniently noticed
here. There is no example of it now existing in the county, though it
occurs on the farthing token of Michael Arnold of Colchester. As a sign
it used formerly to be not uncommon.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_140" id="page_140"></a>{140}</span></p>

<p>The *<span class="smcap">Silent Woman</span> is the name of a public-house, with a truly pictorial
sign, at Widford. The signs of the <span class="smcap">Good Woman</span> and the <span class="smcap">Quiet Woman</span>, which
occur occasionally in other counties, are identical with this, and, all
alike, constitute a piece of unwarrantable slander on the fair sex,
being intended to convey the idea that a woman can only be silenced by
being deprived of her head. Larwood and Hotten say (p. 455):</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“There is a very curious example of this sign at Widford, near
Chelmsford, representing on one side a half-length portrait of
Henry VIII., on the reverse, a woman without a head, dressed in the
costume of the latter half of the last century, with the
inscription <i>Forte Bonne</i>. The addition of the portrait of Henry
VIII. has led to the popular belief that the headless woman is
meant for Anne Boleyn, though probably it is simply a combination
of the <span class="smcap">King’s Head</span> and <span class="smcap">Good Woman</span>.”</p></div>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_140_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_140_sml.jpg" width="434" height="230" alt="Image not available: THE SILENT WOMAN AT WIDFORD." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">THE SILENT WOMAN AT WIDFORD.</span>
</div>

<p>The inscription on the sign-board is, presumably, intended to be the
French for “Very Good,” but it is spelled “<i>Fort Bon</i>,” and it has been
“<i>Fort Bone</i>.”</p>

<p>A writer in <i>Once a Week</i> (N. S., ii. p. 487) says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The Essex tradition is that St. Osyth, when the convent was
attacked by the Danes [<small>A.D.</small> 635], fled down the park to a thicket,
since called ‘Nun’s Wood,’ where she was overtaken, and her head
cut off; and that on the spot where the head fell, a spring of
water burst forth, which flows to this day. Another local tradition
asserts that on one night in each year St. Osyth revisits the scene
of her former abode, walking with her head under her arm. It is
this legend which probably gave rise to the sign of the ‘Good
Woman,’ at Widford, near Chelmsford,&mdash;of whom, by the way, I may
remark that she is currently said to be the only good woman in
Essex.”</p></div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_141" id="page_141"></a>{141}</span></p>

<p>Larwood and Hotten say that the sign was largely used by oilmen, which
makes it very probable that the device has some reference to the
“heedless virgins” who had no oil in their lamps when the bridegroom
came&mdash;<i>heed</i> and <i>head</i> having formerly been pronounced alike, according
to those authors. The sign is not uncommon on the Continent also.</p>

<p>A writer in <i>Notes and Queries</i> (Fifth Series, vol. iv. p. 337) very
ingeniously explains the origin of this sign. He says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“In the days of old it was <i>la bone fame</i>, with a meaning the same
as that of <i>la bonne renommée</i> in later times. According to Virgil,
Fame walks on the earth while her head is concealed in the clouds&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">‘Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit.’<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p>Consequently <i>la bone fame</i> was represented by a headless woman&mdash;at
times, no doubt, very roughly drawn. By degrees the word <i>fame</i>
dropped out of the French language, and then people read <i>la bonne
femme</i>, correcting what they deemed an orthographical error. But
[then arose the question] why should the ‘good woman’ have no head?
The explanation was, of course, suggested by some hen-pecked cynic
at the wineshop.”</p></div>

<p>On the high road between Braintree and Chelmsford, and in the parish of
Great Leighs, stands an inn with the strange sign of the <span class="smcap">St. Ann’s
Castle</span>. On the map of the road between Chelmsford and Bury, given in
Ogilby’s <i>Itinerarium Angliæ</i>, published in 1675, the words “St. Ann’s”
appear against a house beside the high road at Leighs and on the site of
the present inn. It appears from this that the word “Castle” is a modern
addition to the name, perhaps connected with the adjacent ruins of
Leighs Priory. The house is, however, marked as the <span class="smcap">St. Ann’s Castle</span> on
Greenwood’s map of Essex, published as long ago as 1824. In White’s
<i>Gazetteer of Essex</i> it is stated that there formerly stood upon the
spot a hermitage, known as St. Ann’s, “where pilgrims rested on their
way to and from the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket. At the Dissolution,
in 1571, it was given to Thos. Jennings, and its site is now occupied by
an inn, called the St. Ann’s Castle, and said to be the oldest licensed
public-house in England.” Morant says of it in 1768, “&nbsp;‘Tis now converted
into an ale-house.” Probably it had become an inn much earlier, for
Taylor, in 1636, mentions<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_142" id="page_142"></a>{142}</span> one Will. Chandler as being a keeper of
“innes at Plashie and St. Annes.”</p>

<p>According to G. W. Johnson’s <i>History of Great Totham</i>, it is stated
that a hill at that place “seems to have been dedicated to the Virgin
Mary, for at its base is a small public-house known now [1831], and as
far back as memory can go, as the <span class="smcap">Virgin’s Tavern</span>.” The sign is not now
in existence.</p>

<p>In speaking of the <span class="smcap">Lame Dog</span>, which does not occur as a sign in this
county, Larwood and Hotten say that it is sometimes accompanied by the
following couplet:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Stop, my friends, and stay awhile<br /></span>
<span class="i1">To help the lame dog over the style.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">They continue (p. 450): “Sometimes, as at Bulmer, Essex, we see a
somewhat similar idea expressed by a <span class="smcap">Man struggling</span> through a
globe&mdash;head and arms protruding on one side, his legs on the other&mdash;with
the inscription, ‘Help me through this world.’&nbsp;” This sign is not now to
be seen at Bulmer.</p>

<p>A <span class="smcap">Hand</span> occurs on the halfpenny token issued by Lawrence Brown, junior,
of Wickham, in 1669; a <span class="smcap">Hand and Glove</span> on that of Henry Cordall of
Chelmsford in 1658; a <span class="smcap">Hand and Pen</span> on that of Samuel Cox of Coggeshall;
and a <span class="smcap">Hand and Ball</span> on that of “D. G.” issued at “The Hand and Bowle in
Barking” in 1650. In 1675, a house of some kind displayed the sign of
the <span class="smcap">Cross and Hand</span> at Marks Tey (see p. 163). Although the hand does not
now appear, either singly or in combination, on any Essex sign-board, it
is not uncommon in other counties. Its use is attributable to the fact
that early sign-painters often represented it issuing out of a cloud to
perform some action or support some object. This brings to a close the
list of human signs now occurring in the county of Essex.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_143" id="page_143"></a>{143}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a><img src="images/barra-wheat.jpg" width="500" height="104" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER VIII.<br /><br />
<i>NAUTICAL SIGNS.</i></h2>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_t.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="77"
alt="T"
/></span>HE small class which will next receive notice contains what may be
called “Nautical Signs.” Essex supports quite a considerable fleet of
ships upon its sign-boards. These are of widely different builds, and
are very variously rigged. Most of them are, of course, situated near
the coast; but others are, strange to say, far inland. The author would
be guilty of great impropriety did he not speak first of <span class="smcap">Noah’s Ark</span>&mdash;the
greatest feat of early ship-building on record. As a sign, it was to be
seen at Kelvedon twenty years ago, but is now non-existent. <i>An ark or,
on the top a dove argent, holding in the beak an olive-branch vert</i>,
forms the crest of the Shipwrights’ Company, incorporated in 1605. As
already stated, no less than twenty-two <span class="smcap">Ships</span> are to be found in
different parts of the county. The surmise that some of these are
intended to represent <i>sheep</i> has been elsewhere advanced (p. 23). Mr.
King finds evidence in ancient deeds of no less than three different
houses at Leigh which have formerly borne the sign of the <span class="smcap">Ship</span>. The
existing example was probably converted into an inn about the end of
last century. It was a private house in the middle of the century.
Another inn is first spoken of as the Ship in 1728. In 1732, it was
“known by the sign of the Ship,” but before 1756, when it was spoken of
as “formerly known by the sign of the Ship,” it had ceased to be an inn.
The third and probably the earliest house of this name was a private
residence in 1756, having formerly been called the <span class="smcap">Ship</span>. A <span class="smcap">Ship</span> is
depicted on the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_144" id="page_144"></a>{144}</span> tokens of “William Martin at the Key [? Quay] in
Barking,” and of “Thomas Pollard at the [Ship] in Plaistowe,” 1668, and
the <span class="smcap">Ship</span> at *Colchester is several times mentioned in the advertisements
appearing in the various numbers of the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> issued
during February, 1786. The first and last are, perhaps, identical with
the houses of the same name still existing at those places. In addition
to the foregoing we have five <span class="smcap">Old Ships</span>. If Mr. Plimsoll were informed
of this fact it would probably cause him some alarm; but he would be
reassured on learning that, with one exception, all are some distance
inland. They are situated respectively at West Thurrock, Debden,
Chelmsford, Aveley, and Rochford. The *<span class="smcap">Old Ship</span> at the last-named place
must be in very unseaworthy condition, for it was described as <i>old</i> in
an advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 27, 1786.
There is also a *<span class="smcap">New Ship</span> at Rochford&mdash;doubtless a house started in
opposition to the <span class="smcap">Old Ship</span> at the same place. The sign of the *<span class="smcap">Ship and
Anchor</span>, which occurs at Maldon, is a combination the meaning of which
will be at once apparent. The <span class="smcap">Ship and Shovel</span> at Rippleside, Barking, is
at least forty years old. It is probably in some way connected with Sir
Cloudesley Shovel, as there is a portrait of that gentleman in the inn.
The sign also occurs elsewhere, namely, in Steel Yard, St. Thomas’
Street, London, S.E. An old newspaper cutting says a house known as the
<span class="smcap">Ship and Shovel</span> “is situated near to Dagenham Beach, in Essex, eleven
miles from London, where Parish and Hadbrook fought a hard battle of 41
rounds, on the 13th of March, 1820, which terminated in favour of Parish
in thirty-eight minutes. The <span class="smcap">Ship and Shovel</span> was the house of call for
that day.” There is a <span class="smcap">Lobster Smack</span> at Canvey Island, a <span class="smcap">Fishing Smack</span> at
Barking, an <span class="smcap">Oyster Smack</span> at Burnham, and a <span class="smcap">Smack</span> at Leigh, concerning
which Mr. H. W. King writes, that it was no doubt so named when the
oyster-fishery flourished there in the last century. There is not now a
smack belonging to the port. The house itself was for centuries a
private residence of persons of good account. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Peter
Boat</span>,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_145" id="page_145"></a>{145}</span> which also occurs at Leigh, is apparently unique. A peter-boat
was a sort of fishing-vessel, sharp both stem and stern, and
half-decked, with a spritsail, instead of a mainsail and boom. Mr. King
states that the inn derives its name from the fact that “all the
fishing-boats at Leigh were formerly peter-boats. But, out of a fleet of
120 or more fishing-boats here now, only one peter-boat, I am told,
remains, and that I have not seen. The house itself, of the descent of
which I have a complete record since 1645, is built of timber and is of
the middle of the seventeenth century or earlier. The present owners
have held it since 1662, the landlord who now keeps the inn being about
the sixth in direct descent. It is first mentioned as known by the sign
of the Peter-boat in 1757. The then owner had come into possession in
1739, and had so named the house between those years.” At Vange there is
a <span class="smcap">Barge</span>, at North Woolwich an <span class="smcap">Old Barge House</span>, at Forest Gate a
<span class="smcap">Steamship</span>, and at Chelmsford a <span class="smcap">Royal Steamer</span> (probably an impaled sign).
The Barge here mentioned was formerly the <span class="smcap">Man with Seven Wives</span>, as Mr.
King can recollect. At the time it belonged to a man named <i>Wife</i>.
Presumably his family numbered seven individuals. There is also a
beer-house of the same name at Rettendon, up to which place the river
Crouch is navigable for barges. The <span class="smcap">Packet</span> occurs at *Harwich and
*Manningtree. Sixty years ago there was another example at *Colchester.
The sign of the <span class="smcap">Ferry-boat</span> occurs at Walthamstow, North Fambridge, and
Canewdon. Another house of the same name has recently disappeared from
the county, as also a <span class="smcap">Ferry House</span>. Sixty years ago the sign of the
<span class="smcap">Wherry</span> (not noticed by Larwood and Hotten) occurred at *Mistley. The
sign of the <span class="smcap">Hoy</span> still occurs at Tollesbury and at South Benfleet. Mr.
King remarks that one would naturally expect to find this sign at the
latter place, “as a long succession of hoymen carried on a lucrative
business there. The <span class="smcap">Hoy</span> is now pictorially represented on the sign-board
by a barge, though the house is still called the <span class="smcap">Hoy</span>; and a trade in
hay, straw, and corn is still carried on in two or three barges.” The
sign is not<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_146" id="page_146"></a>{146}</span> referred to in the <i>History of Sign-boards</i>. The following
epitaph upon a Hoyman appears in the churchyard at South Benfleet.
Though not a very scholarly production, it is said to be the work of a
former rector of the parish.</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i10">“James Mathews, Ob. July 14, 1728.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Sixty-three years our Hoyman sailed merrily round,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Forty-four lived parishioner where he’s aground,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Five wives bare him thirty-three children&mdash;enough:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Land another as honest before he gets half.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">A hoy was a one-masted, sloop-rigged coasting vessel, formerly much
used. It is extremely difficult to suggest any likely origin for the
sign of the <span class="smcap">Plough and Sail</span>, which occurs no less than four times in the
county, namely, at Tollesbury, East Hanningfield, Paglesham, and Maldon.
Larwood and Hotten do not allude to it. The two first are each at least
forty years old. At first one might suppose it a meaningless impalement
of two distinct signs, the <span class="smcap">Plough</span> and the <span class="smcap">Sail</span>, but it does not appear
that the latter figures as a sign, either singly or in combination with
any other article except a plough, in any part of England. Moreover, it
is hardly likely that the two signs would appear impaled four times in
Essex, while the combination is (with one exception) unknown in all
other counties of England. An examination of the lists of signs in
thirty of the principal counties of England will show that it does not
occur in any of them, with the exception of the adjoining county of
Suffolk, wherein the sign occurs twice. It appears probable, therefore,
that the sign has some local significance, though it is difficult to say
exactly what. Several gentlemen have offered suggestions as to its
origin. It has been thought to be a corruption of the “Plow and Flail”
(and therefore doubly agricultural), or a representation of the old
toast of “Agriculture and Commerce” (represented by a plough and a
ship), but the most likely suggestion seems to be one put forward by the
Rev. H. L. Elliot, who thinks it is intended as an appeal for the custom
of thirsty souls working both on land and sea. All our Essex examples,
except that at Hanningfield, are upon the coast. The same gentleman
suggests that<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_147" id="page_147"></a>{147}</span> the sign may be a corruption of the “Plough-tail” or
handle, which Edwards, in his <i>Words, Facts, and Phrases</i>, says is
probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon <i>stail</i>, a handle. The word is
still in use, meaning a handle, in Warwickshire and other parts of the
country. An appeal to the readers of <i>Notes and Queries</i> has so far
thrown no light on the meaning of this sign. Forty years ago there was a
<span class="smcap">Ship and Excise Office</span> at Waltham Abbey and a <span class="smcap">Privateer</span> at Harwich. At
Wivenhoe there is a <span class="smcap">Ship at Launch</span>. Forty years ago it was known as the
<span class="smcap">Ship Launch</span>. This large fleet of sign-board ships is, however, supplied
with only eighteen <span class="smcap">Anchors</span>; and, as some of these may represent the
symbol of Hope, the supply must be regarded as very inadequate. One of
them, belonging to Barking, is described as a <span class="smcap">Blue Anchor</span>. Another of
the same description used formerly to exist on Canvey Island, but it
appears to have been lost in some storm during the last forty years;
while another at Mersey, which is mentioned in the Rev. Baring-Gould’s
<i>Mehalah</i>, has also disappeared, unless it be identical with the <span class="smcap">Anchor</span>
still existing at that place. The <span class="smcap">Anchor</span> at Canewdon seems to have
existed there since at least 1787, as it is mentioned in an
advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for the 5th of January in
that year. At Grays there is an <span class="smcap">Anchor and Hope</span>. The <span class="smcap">Crown and Anchor</span>,
the emblem of the Royal Navy, occurs at Aveley and Braintree; and the
<span class="smcap">Sun and Anchor</span>, which is probably nothing but an impaled sign, occurs at
Steeple. A token is extant bearing an <span class="smcap">Anchor</span>, the initials “R. <span class="ups">S.</span>
I.,” and the inscription, “At the Anker, in Lee [Leigh], 1664.” Mr. H.
W. King writes:<a name="FNanchor_91_91" id="FNanchor_91_91"></a><a href="#Footnote_91_91" class="fnanchor">[91]</a> “This is undoubtedly the token of Robert Sayer and
Joan his wife, shopkeepers, at this precise date. The <span class="smcap">Anchor</span> was their
shop sign. There was no inn of that name. Joan Sayer survived her
husband and died in 1689.” Most of our <span class="smcap">Anchors</span> are situated upon the sea
coast, but there are not a few inland&mdash;at Ingatestone, Chelmsford,
Abbots Roothing, &amp;c. In 1789 there was one at Chipping Ongar.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_148" id="page_148"></a>{148}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a><img src="images/barra-fleur.jpg" width="500" height="106" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER IX.<br /><br />
<i>ASTRONOMICAL SIGNS.</i></h2>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_a.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="81"
alt="A"
/></span>STRONOMICAL signs fall naturally into another small class, which will
be treated of next. In Essex we have six examples of the sign of the
<span class="smcap">Half Moon</span>, which may represent either crescents taken from some one’s
arms or else the emblem of temporal power. The <span class="smcap">Half Moon</span> at *Chelmsford,
a small, though ancient, house, possesses a quaint and truly pictorial
sign-board. At 94, Great Suffolk Street, London, S.E., there has been
for three-quarters of a century, at least, a house with the most
extraordinary sign of the <span class="smcap">Moonrakers</span>. It is all but impossible to
conceive any origin for so strange a device. It is just possible,
however, that the sign may have some connection with a tale told of the
inhabitants of the town of Coggeshall, about whom so many similar
stories are told. One fine night, so says the tale, certain of the
natives of that celebrated town observed what they took to be a fine
round cheese floating on the surface of a pond. Thereupon, it is further
stated, they procured rakes and endeavoured to draw the supposed cheese
to land. Nor did they discover, until they had been some time so
engaged, that their cheese was merely the reflection of the moon in the
water! The <span class="smcap">Sun</span> is met with twelve times and the <span class="smcap">Rising Sun</span> nine times.
The use of the sun as a sign is very ancient, both in England and on the
Continent. A rising sun formed one of the badges of Edward III., and
shining suns were used as badges by several other English sovereigns. A
sun also<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_149" id="page_149"></a>{149}</span></p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 175px;">
<a href="images/i_149_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_149_sml.jpg" width="175" height="198" alt="Image not available: SUN IN SPLENDOUR.

(Badge of Richard II.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">SUN IN SPLENDOUR.
<br />
(Badge of Richard II.)</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">forms a prominent charge in the arms of the Distillers’ Company. The
<i>Sun in Splendour</i>, used as a badge by Richard II., is here shown. The
engraving is taken from an illuminated manuscript in the Harleian
Collection, wherein the badge is painted on the sail of a ship. Larwood
and Hotten suggest that the <span class="smcap">Rising Sun</span> was, perhaps, adopted as a sign
“on account of the favourable omen it presents for a man commencing
business.” The <span class="smcap">Sun</span> at *Thaxted seems to have existed since the year 1786
at least, for it is mentioned in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January
20th in that year. The <span class="smcap">Sun</span> Inn at Romford bears the monogram “T. <span class="ups">W.</span>
L.” and the date 1632. The <span class="smcap">Sun Inn</span> in Church Street, Saffron Walden, was
once a house of note, but is now a private residence. It was probably
built about 1625. The devices, more grotesque than elegant, which adorn
its many gables, make it one of the best remaining Essex examples of
houses adorned with parge work. In 1646, when it was probably the chief
inn in the town, it lodged no less important an individual than Oliver
Cromwell. His portrait, painted on the tiles at the side of a
fire-place, was found during some recent restorations, and is now in the
Museum. It was, doubtless, covered up at the Restoration.<a name="FNanchor_92_92" id="FNanchor_92_92"></a><a href="#Footnote_92_92" class="fnanchor">[92]</a> Until
about forty years ago there stood beside the main road to Colchester,
just outside the parish of Kelvedon, an inn known as the <span class="smcap">Sun</span>. It is
still a curious old house, worthy of notice from the passer-by, but up
to the date named it, and even the furniture it contained, exhibited all
the characteristics of a sixteenth century house. Its carved woodwork,
however, was sold and afterwards accidentally burned and its furniture
scattered. The pictorial sign-board of the <span class="smcap">Rising Sun</span> at Castle
Hedingham is very grotesque. It is here represented<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_150" id="page_150"></a>{150}</span></p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_150_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_150_sml.jpg" width="367" height="443" alt="Image not available: RISING SUN.

(At Castle Hedingham.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">RISING SUN.
<br />
(At Castle Hedingham.)</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">within the sign-iron of the <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at the same place (p. 158). The <span class="smcap">Rising
Sun</span> at Salcot is many times mentioned in the Rev. Baring-Gould’s
<i>Mehalah</i>. It is therein (ii. p. 4) thus described:&mdash;“At the end of the
village stands a low tavern, the Rising Sun, a mass of gables. Part of
it (the tavern drinking-room) is only one storey high, but the rest is a
jumble of roofs and lean-to buildings, chimneys and ovens&mdash;a miracle of
picturesqueness.” As previously stated (pp. 147 and 83) the sun enters
into two very absurd combinations, a <span class="smcap">Sun and Anchor</span> at Steeple, and a
<span class="smcap">Sun and Whalebone</span> at Latton. Both of these are, in all probability,
impaled signs. The <span class="smcap">Star</span> appears on Essex sign-boards eight times. Its
use is probably due to the fact that in mediæval times<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_151" id="page_151"></a>{151}</span></p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 95px;">
<a href="images/i_151a_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_151a_sml.jpg" width="95" height="116" alt="Image not available: STAR." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">STAR.</span>
</div>

<div class="figright" style="width: 98px;">
<a href="images/i_151b_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_151b_sml.jpg" width="98" height="120" alt="Image not available: MULLET." /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">MULLET.</span>
</div>

<p class="nind">it was the symbol of the Virgin Mary, and that it forms the crest of the
Innholders’ Company; but it is very probable that in Essex the sign of
the <span class="smcap">Star</span> often represents the <i>mullet argent</i> which formed one of the
chief badges of the De Veres, Earls of Oxford, and also the most
prominent charge in the family arms (see p. 70).<a name="FNanchor_93_93" id="FNanchor_93_93"></a><a href="#Footnote_93_93" class="fnanchor">[93]</a> It was probably
first adopted by Robert, the third Earl, who died in 1221. It appears on
his seals and on his monument at Hatfield Broad Oak. Thenceforth it was
borne by all his descendants. Mr. Elliot, in the interesting article
already quoted (p. 70), says that at the Battle of Barnet, in 1471, the
defeat of the Lancastrians is attributed to a mistake made by the Earl
of Warwick’s men; who, in the morning mist, took the badge of the Earl
of Oxford’s men for the Yorkist badge of the Sun in Splendour. They
accordingly shot at their friends, who, suspecting treachery, cried
“Treason!” and fled from the field. Mr. Elliot adds that “this badge is
frequently found on houses and churches in this county and Suffolk.” It
is in every way probable that it was often put upon the former as a
sign. In Heraldry the star, or <i>étoile</i>, is represented with six wavy
points and not pierced in the centre, as here shown, thus distinguishing
it from the mullet, which has five straight points and is usually
pierced. The latter is said originally to have represented, not a star,
but a spur-rowel. It appears from the parish registers,<a name="FNanchor_94_94" id="FNanchor_94_94"></a><a href="#Footnote_94_94" class="fnanchor">[94]</a> that there
was also a <span class="smcap">Star</span> at Grays in 1724. At Ilford there is a coffee-shop with
the sign of the <span class="smcap">Morning Star</span>, probably to indicate that it is open early
for working men. A beer-house at Witham, however, has the same sign. Mr.
King finds in ancient deeds mention of a <span class="smcap">Star</span>&mdash;either inn, shop, or
tenement&mdash;at Rochford in 1693. There are now beer-shops of the same name
at Ingatestone, Woodham Ferris, and elsewhere, while a <span class="smcap">Northern Star</span>
exists at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_152" id="page_152"></a>{152}</span> Romford. At Brightlingsea there is a <span class="smcap">Star of Denmark</span>
(whatever that might be), and an <span class="smcap">Old Star</span> occurs at Good Easter. Twice,
also, as elsewhere mentioned (p. 79), we meet with the <span class="smcap">Star and Fleece</span>,
namely, at Kelvedon and Romford; while the <span class="smcap">Star and Garter</span>, representing
the Insignia of the Order of the Garter, occurs at Chelmsford and at
Newport. An advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for February 10,
1786, refers to the <span class="smcap">Star</span> at Writtle, and another in the same journal for
March 31st following refers to the <span class="smcap">Star</span> at Dunmow, at both of which
places the sign still exists. The <span class="smcap">Star</span> at Kelvedon, perhaps identical
with the <span class="smcap">Star and Fleece</span> now existing there, is mentioned in the issue
for the 29th of December in the same year. The *<span class="smcap">Star and Anchor</span> which
appeared at Colchester sixty years ago was in all probability an
impalement. Mr. E. W. Bingham of Castle Hedingham is in possession of
documentary evidence showing that during the latter part of last century
the present vicarage at that place was known as the <span class="smcap">Black Mullet</span>. It may
or may not have been an inn at the time. The sign may have been set up
originally as a contrast to the silver mullet of the De Veres.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_152_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_152_sml.jpg" width="154" height="173" alt="" /></a>
</div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_153" id="page_153"></a>{153}</span></p>

<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a><img src="images/barra-flower.jpg" width="500" height="102" alt="" />
<br />CHAPTER X.<br /><br />
<i>MISCELLANEOUS SIGNS.</i></h2>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_t.png"
class="drop-cap"
width="80" height="77"
alt="T"
/></span>HE signs which still remain to be treated of defy all efforts to
classify them. All classification, indeed, when applied to this subject,
is very vague and unsatisfactory. The following will, therefore, be
spoken of as “Miscellaneous Signs,” and will be taken in any order found
most convenient. Those already noticed under other headings will not be
referred to again, and many are not of sufficient interest to be worth
noticing. The great majority are uninteresting modern vulgarisms, while
very few are of heraldic origin.</p>

<p>Many signs of this class are named after places or towns, or after
objects of local or general celebrity. Such are the <span class="smcap">Albion</span>, the <span class="smcap">Balmoral
Castle</span>, the <span class="smcap">Windsor Castle</span>, the <span class="smcap">Walmer Castle</span>, the <span class="smcap">Trossachs Hotel</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Bridge Hotel</span>, the <span class="smcap">Gibraltar Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Graving Dock Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Higham
Hill Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Hallsville Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Cambridge Hotel</span>, the <span class="smcap">Common
Gate</span>, the <span class="smcap">London Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Dock House Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Forest Gate</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Forest Glen</span>, the <span class="smcap">Town of Ayr</span>, the <span class="smcap">Trafalgar Tavern</span>, the *<span class="smcap">Waterloo Tavern</span>
(at Colchester), the <span class="smcap">Tidal Basin Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Half-way Tavern</span> (at
Southchurch), the <span class="smcap">Norfolk Inn</span>, the <span class="smcap">Ground Rent Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Brick and
Tile Inn</span> at Copford, two <span class="smcap">British Inns</span>, two <span class="smcap">Canteens</span>, two <span class="smcap">Flags</span>, two
<span class="smcap">Union Flags</span>, two <span class="smcap">Fountains</span>, the <span class="smcap">Stores</span> at Willingale Doe (beer-house),
the <span class="smcap">Golden House</span> at Forest Gate, an <span class="smcap">Ivy Chimneys</span> (beer-house) at Theydon
Bois, the <span class="smcap">Red House</span> at Ilford, two <span class="smcap">Guns</span>, two <span class="smcap">Hopes</span> (one at<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_154" id="page_154"></a>{154}</span> Southend
being at least sixty years old), the <span class="smcap">Imperial Tavern</span>, the <span class="smcap">Locomotive</span>,
the <span class="smcap">New Mill</span>, the <span class="smcap">Old Mill</span>, two <span class="smcap">Pier Hotels</span>, two <span class="smcap">Punch Bowls</span>, the <span class="smcap">Quart
Pot</span>, the <span class="smcap">Red Tape Tavern</span>, several <span class="smcap">Royal Standards</span>, the <span class="smcap">Telegraph</span>, the
<span class="smcap">Temple</span>, the <span class="smcap">Thatched House</span>, the <span class="smcap">Old Thatched House</span> (a very old inn at
Epping), the <span class="smcap">Warren Inn</span>, the <span class="smcap">Tollhouse</span>, the <span class="smcap">Waggon</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Waggon and
Horses</span>, all of which are probably less than forty years old. It is
doubtful whether a single one of these signs could claim an heraldic
origin. Most of them lie upon the outskirts of London. There are now
four <span class="smcap">Alma Taverns</span>, though twenty years ago there was but one. The name,
of course, commemorates the battle of Alma, but why fresh inns should be
thus named so long after the event, is by no means obvious. There is a
<span class="smcap">Bowling Green</span> at Elmstead, near Colchester, and sixty years ago there
was another at Dunmow.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Windmill</span>, which is an ancient sign, occurs no less than eight times
within the county. In most cases houses have adopted this sign on
account of there being a windmill adjacent to them. At Romford there has
been for at least sixty years an <span class="smcap">Old Windmill and Bells</span>, which is
doubtless an impaled sign.</p>

<p>At Laindon there is a <span class="smcap">Fortune of War</span>, well known as a meet of the
Hounds. Larwood and Hotten do not notice the sign, though there are
several examples of it in London. The <span class="smcap">Title Deed Tavern</span> is a small house
of recent origin at Buckhurst Hill. Thirty years ago the ground on which
it stands was unenclosed forest. At Hornchurch there is an inn with the
strange sign of the <span class="smcap">Good Intent</span>, which is not mentioned by Larwood and
Hotten. It was opened as a beer-shop, some fifty years ago, by the
father of the present landlord, who had been so far an unfortunate man.
In opening his new house with good intentions for the future, he thus
appropriately named it, and his hopes appear to have been realized, as
his house still remains. There is a beer-house with the same name at
Waltham Holy Cross. At Springfield there is an <span class="smcap">Endeavour</span>, which
presumably derived its name from some similar circumstance. There are
beer-houses<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_155" id="page_155"></a>{155}</span> with the motto <span class="smcap">Live and Let Live</span> at Little Canfield,
Theydon Bois, and Chadwell Heath. Another at Pitsea was, within the
recollection of Mr. King, thus inscribed:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Live and let live<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Whod a though it;”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">which was intended to mean “who would have thought it?” but the
landlord’s orthographical knowledge was very imperfect. The <span class="smcap">Havering
Bower</span> Inn, situated in Ann Street, Shadwell, close to Bow Station, is a
house connected with, though not situated in, Essex. Why an inn of this
name should appear thus fifteen miles at least from the place from which
it takes its name, is not very clear.</p>

<p>In the Roman Road at Colchester appears the sign of the <span class="smcap">Roman Urn</span>. One
would conclude that the house had been named after some Roman urn that
had been dug up on its site, did it not figure in the list years ago as
the <span class="smcap">Roman Arms</span>. Possibly, however, this is a misprint, although the sign
of the <span class="smcap">Roman Arms</span> does actually occur elsewhere, namely, in the Roman
Road, London, E. Mr. Walford, in <i>Greater London</i> (vol. i. p. 385), says
that there is another example of the sign of the <span class="smcap">Roman Urn</span> just over the
county boundary at Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire. “It is to be seen
embedded in the front of the inn in Crossbrook Street. The urn was found
on the spot many years ago, but its date is far from certain.” Messrs.
Larwood and Hotten do not allude to the sign, which is certainly very
uncommon.</p>

<p>One of our very strangest signs&mdash;that of the <span class="smcap">Coal Hole</span>&mdash;occurs at Leigh.
It has only appeared there within the last few years, and Mr. H. W. King
is of opinion that it is probably named after the once-well-known <span class="smcap">Coal
Hole</span> Tavern in the Strand. At the same place another beer-house is known
as the <span class="smcap">United Brethren</span>, probably after a Friendly Society there; but
their club-house is now the Crooked Billet.</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">New Inn</span>, which is the commonest sign in Devonshire, and
occurs no less than one hundred and four times in that county, is only
twice met with in Essex, but<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_156" id="page_156"></a>{156}</span> there is also a beer-house so called at
Romford. Evidently the Conservative nature of the majority of Essex folk
leads them to prefer things <i>old</i>, instead of new. At Plaistow there is
a <span class="smcap">Green Gate</span>, and forty years since there was a *<span class="smcap">Blue Posts</span> at Witham,
in both of which cases the colour of the portals probably served the
same office as a sign in distinguishing the house. Neither sign is
mentioned in the <i>History of Sign-boards</i>, though the former is
certainly a century old, as it is mentioned in an advertisement in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 5, 1787, and the latter is referred
to in another advertisement on the 23rd of the following month. It was
an old house of good standing, as it is also mentioned in the <i>Very
Young Lady’s Tour from London to Aldborough and Back</i> (1804, see p. 37).
The writer says:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Travellers frequently boast of the charms of an inn,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">But the Blue Posts at Witham’s the best I have seen,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">The rooms are so clean, so delicious the diet,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">The landlord so civil, so spruce, and so quiet,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">The servants all round so desirous to please,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">That you find yourself here most completely at ease.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">So we supp’d, and we slept, and we breakfasted too,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And then bid to Witham a parting adieu.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">The house was closed as an inn some time since, and is now a china shop,
kept by a prominent Witham teetotal advocate. Its door-posts are still
painted blue. Sixty years ago there was another inn of this name at
*Colchester. No Essex inn now displays the sign of the <span class="smcap">Gate</span>, but there
are beer-houses of that name at Saffron Walden, Bardfield, and Dagenham.
At the two last-named places the houses bear the following very unpoetic
couplet:&mdash;</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“This Gate hangs high, and hinders none,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Refresh and pay and travel on.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">At Wanstead there is a <span class="smcap">Red House</span>, presumably so called from its colour.
In 1789 there was an <span class="smcap">Epping Place</span> Inn at Epping, and a <span class="smcap">Bush-fair House</span>
at Latton. The <span class="smcap">Essex Inn</span>, No 41, Aldgate High Street, London, E., is,
without doubt, so named because it forms the stopping-place of many
hay-carters and other travellers by road from Essex up to town.</p>

<p>Railways are referred to thirty-one times in all on Essex<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_157" id="page_157"></a>{157}</span> sign-boards,
although, as might be expected, mention is very rarely made of railways
among the signs of forty years ago. Thus we have five examples of the
<span class="smcap">Railway Inn</span>, one of the <span class="smcap">Railway Arms</span>, two of the <span class="smcap">Railway Bell</span>, seven of
the <span class="smcap">Railway Hotel</span>, and sixteen of the <span class="smcap">Railway Tavern</span>.</p>

<p>Twenty years ago there was an <span class="smcap">Abbey Gate</span> in Stanwell Street, Colchester,
doubtless named after the beautiful gateway of St. John’s Abbey, which
still stands. At the same time there was a <span class="smcap">Betting-stand</span> at Galleywood,
where the Chelmsford Races are held, as well as an <span class="smcap">Exchange Inn</span> and a
<span class="smcap">Chelmer Inn</span>, both at Heybridge. There is a <span class="smcap">Mark’s Gate</span> in Markgate,
Dagenham; and a <span class="smcap">Marsh Gate</span> at Stratford. Eight Essex inns are named
after the great <span class="smcap">Globe</span> itself, while the <span class="smcap">World’s End</span> appears, at last, to
have been discovered near Tilbury Fort. This is a very proper name, if,
as has been thought, Tilbury is derived from two Saxon words, <i>Til</i>,
end, and <i>burgh</i>, city, <i>i.e.</i>, the city at the end of the river road. A
beer-house keeper at Paglesham, however, seems also to consider that the
<span class="smcap">World’s End</span> is situated in the vicinity of his house. Probably both are
equally right and equally wrong. The <span class="smcap">Globe</span> at *Epping is mentioned in
the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 13, 1786. At Bocking there is a
beer-house known as the <span class="smcap">Dial</span>, a device not named by Larwood and Hotten.
At the same place there is a <span class="smcap">Park End</span> beer-house, and at Felstead
another, known as the <span class="smcap">Pye’s Bridge</span> tavern. A beer-house at Chigwell
styles itself the <span class="smcap">Retreat</span>. At Waltham Abbey is a <span class="smcap">Flower Pot</span>. A
beer-house at Inworth is known as the <span class="smcap">New Times</span>, while another not far
off styles itself the <span class="smcap">Old Times</span>, probably out of rivalry. At Great
Baddow a beer-house appears as the <span class="smcap">New Found Out</span>. At Chelmsford there is
a <span class="smcap">United</span> beer-house, and a <span class="smcap">Cornucopia</span> at Southend.</p>

<p>No less than forty-two Essex inns display the sign of the <span class="smcap">Bell</span>. Bells
were set up as signs as early as the fourteenth century. The origin of
their use in this way is probably due largely to our national fondness
for bell-ringing, but partly also to the great veneration in which bells
were held in superstitious times. Advertisements which appeared in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_158" id="page_158"></a>{158}</span>
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> refer to the inns with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at
Castle Hedingham, Sible Hedingham, and Purleigh on January 6th, July 21,
1786, and March 2, 1787, respectively. These houses all exist at the
present day. The <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at *Saffron Walden, though it does not now exist,
must formerly have been a house of some standing, for it is fairly often
referred to in the records of the Corporation. It is mentioned, for
instance, in 1642, in 1645, and in 1650. In 1664 3s. was “paid at the
Bell when the Quakers were committed,” and in 1714 4s. 4d. was “spent at
the Bell when Lord Suffolk took the oaths.” Tokens are extant, issued by
“Will. Mason at the [<span class="smcap">Bell</span>] in Thaxtead, 1662,” though the sign does not
now exist there. The <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at Castle Hedingham, still a first-class
hostelry, was a house of considerable note in the old coaching days. It
was a stopping-place for the “Old Bury Coach,” which passed through the
town. The building is ancient and extensive, though now much cut up and
divided. The spacious kitchen is roofed with massive timber, black with
age. In the large room upstairs have been held for many years the annual
meetings of the once-famous Hinckford Hundred Conservative Club. In
times past these meetings regularly formed the subject of a leader in
the <i>Times</i>, and addresses were delivered by Disraeli and other
prominent Conservative statesmen, but the club has now lost its old
importance. The ornamental sign-iron is represented elsewhere (p. 150).
Of the <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at Leigh, Mr. King writes that he has no particular account,
but he believes “it has been an inn for probably a century, and that it
was pulled down to make way for the railroad, but rebuilt on part of the
same site.” The present rectory at West Tilbury was once an inn with the
sign of the <span class="smcap">Bell</span>. The house was built by a speculator about the year
1780, and opened as an hostelry for the accommodation of the gentry that
always crowded to the Fort during war time. Six years later, however, it
had to be closed, and about the beginning of this century it was
purchased for the sum of £700 by the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon, Bart., who
then held the living, and presented to the parish as a rectory. A
certain number of Bells frequently appear<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_159" id="page_159"></a>{159}</span> on a sign-board. In such
cases the peal of bells in an adjacent belfry is generally alluded to,
as may be seen on reference to the Rev. H. A. Cockey’s <i>List of Essex
Rings</i>. In 1662 there was a house with the sign of the <span class="smcap">One Bell</span> at
Romford. It is mentioned in the <i>Account of the Murder of Thomas
Kidderminster</i>, already referred to (p. 56). Taylor also, in 1636,
mentions a <span class="smcap">Bell</span> at Romford, probably the same house. The sign of the
<span class="smcap">Five Bells</span> occurs at Vange and Colne Engaine. At the latter place there
are five church bells, but at the former only one, although there may
formerly have been more. There was another example of the sign at
Bocking forty years ago, when perhaps there were only five bells there.
Now, however, there are <i>six</i>, and the sign of the <span class="smcap">Six Bells</span> (probably
the same house) appears there, as also at Dunmow and Great Waltham. At
the former place there are six bells, but at the latter eight. At
Boreham a beer-house is known as the <span class="smcap">Six Bells</span>, that being the number at
that place. At Mashbury is a cottage still known as the <span class="smcap">Bells</span>. In a MS.
dated 1761 it is spoken of as the <span class="smcap">Five Bells</span>, and was probably then an
inn with that sign, though no church in the immediate vicinity has that
number of bells. The sign of the <span class="smcap">Eight Bells</span> appears at *Saffron Walden,
Great Tey, Belchamp Walter, and Bures Hamlet, at all of which there seem
to be peals of eight bells. In addition to these, we have a <span class="smcap">New Bell</span> at
Harwich, and two <span class="smcap">Railway Bells</span>, one near the station at Maldon, and the
other in Trinity Street, Halstead. The bell also enters into numerous
combinations, most of which are impalements, and therefore quite
meaningless. Thus we have a <span class="smcap">Bell and Anchor</span> at Canning Town, a <span class="smcap">Coach and
Bell</span> (a sign not referred to in the <i>History of Sign-boards</i>) at
Romford, the <span class="smcap">Old Windmill and Bells</span>, also at Romford, and examples of
the <span class="smcap">Cock and Bell</span> at High Easter, Writtle, and Romford. The latter has
apparently been in existence since 1786, as it is mentioned in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for January 13th in that year. Twenty years ago
there was a <span class="smcap">Bell and Feathers</span> at Stanstead, which seems now to have
returned to the use of its former sign, which was a <span class="smcap">Bell</span> simply (see p.
102). Though<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_160" id="page_160"></a>{160}</span> the fact is not mentioned by Boyne, tokens with the
following inscriptions are extant: “George Perrin at y<sup>e</sup> Bell in
Stanstead. His Half Peny. 1669.” The same house and the same landlord
are also mentioned in Poor Robin’s <i>Perambulation</i>, already referred to
(p. 66). The writer (one cannot say <i>poet</i>) says:</p>

<div class="poetry">
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“From Ugley I next way to Stanstead travell’d,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Upon a plain highway, well ston’d and gravelled.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">This town of Stanstead, for distinction’s sake,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Doth unto itself the name Montfitchet take,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">From the Montfitchets, once Lords of great fame,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And who erewhile were owners of the same.<br /></span>
<span class="i1">There at the Bell, at my old friend George Perrin’s,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">We drank and tippled like unto a herring;<br /></span>
<span class="i1">For there is ale and stale beer, strong and mighty,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">Will burn i’ the fire like unto <i>aqua vitæ</i>,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">And that the reason is, as you may know,<br /></span>
<span class="i1">That this Bell’s liquor makes men’s clappers go.”<br /></span>
</div></div>
</div>

<p class="nind">In 1868 there was a <span class="smcap">Clapper</span> at Woodham which, perhaps, belonged to one
or other of the bells just mentioned.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Castle</span> is a frequent Essex sign, occurring thirteen times in all. It
is an ancient sign, which is thought by Larwood and Hotten to have
originated in the fact that anciently entertainment was to be had at the
castles of the great, as at an inn. In later times the custom arose of
naming inns after particular castles, and it is easy to see that the
example of the sign now found at Hadleigh, and the two examples now
existing at **Colchester, originated in this way. Sixty years ago there
was another at *Saffron Walden, which was, of course, named after the
old castle there. Not improbably, in some cases, the sign may have been
derived from the arms of the Masons’ Company.<a name="FNanchor_95_95" id="FNanchor_95_95"></a><a href="#Footnote_95_95" class="fnanchor">[95]</a> A castle is
represented on the seventeenth century token of Thomas Hewes of Castle
Hedingham&mdash;being, of course, the fine old castle of the De Veres at that
place. Mr. King finds mention in some old deeds dated 1693 of the <span class="smcap">Castle
at Trimme</span> at Rochford in that day. This was probably an inn-sign, but
perhaps that of a shop or tenement. It was doubtless so called from the
ancient castle of the De Lacys, built in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_161" id="page_161"></a>{161}</span> 1220, at Trim in Ireland,
which figured in the Civil War. As this castle does not appear to have
had any connection with Essex, the most probable conclusion is that the
sign was set up by some one who was present at the surrender of the
castle to Cromwell in 1649. The following advertisement appeared in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> on March 2, 1787:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“<span class="smcap">Cocking.</span> On Friday, March 9th, will be fought a Main of Cocks, at
the sign of the <span class="smcap">Castle</span>, Great Oakley, for Two Guineas a Battle, and
Five the odds; where the company of all gentlemen and others will
be esteemed a favour, by their humble servant William Rayner. The
Cocks to be pitted at eleven o’clock, and a good ordinary to be
provided at two.”</p></div>

<p class="nind">Mr. H. W. King writes:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The present <span class="smcap">Castle</span> at Hadleigh changed its name (though remaining
at the same house) late in the last, or early in the present,
century. It was formerly the <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span>, and old people persistently
called it so within my memory, in spite of the change. I have also
found evidence of this change in some old Court Rolls. This kind of
change is not infrequent. I conceive that the <span class="smcap">Blue Boar</span> may have
been the sign of the inn for centuries, but the <span class="smcap">Castle</span> was, I
suppose, thought more attractive to the many visitors to the old
Castle.”</p></div>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Chequers</span> is a sign of great interest and antiquity. It is very
common in Essex, as it appears no less than twenty times, including one
<span class="smcap">Old Chequers</span>. It is equally common as a beer-house sign. Robt. Bowyer
kept the <span class="smcap">Chequers</span> at Bardfield in the seventeenth century, as shown by
his token, but no house now exists there under that name. Mr. Creed’s
list (p. 7) shows inns with this sign at Epping, Nazing, Waltham Abbey,
High Laver, and Nettleswell in 1789. The <span class="smcap">Chequers</span> at Roxwell seems to
have existed since 1787, as it is referred to in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> for February 2nd in that year. As a sign it is said to be
found even among the ruins of Pompeii, and, according to Larwood and
Hotten, it “is, perhaps, the most patriarchal of all signs.” The same
writers say (p. 488) that in England it is “said to represent the coat
of arms of the Earls de Warrenne and Surrey, who bore <i>chequy, or and
azure</i>, and in the reign of Edward IV. possessed the privilege of
licensing ale-houses.” The old money-changers used boards divided up<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_162" id="page_162"></a>{162}</span>
into squares like a modern chess-board, and the sign of the <span class="smcap">Chequers</span> may
have originated, partly, at least, in these “exchequers,” as they were
called, being hung up outside their places of business. Not improbably
the sign also represents the “chequer,” or board divided into squares,
and still used in some country inns for keeping a tally or record of the
amount drunk by each regular customer. As the sign is now painted it is
almost as often <i>lozengy</i> as <i>chequy</i>. In the year 1764, according to an
advertisement of that date in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i>, the present
<span class="smcap">Ipswich Arms</span> at Ingatestone was impaled with a <span class="smcap">Chequers</span>, forming the
<span class="smcap">Ipswich Arms and Chequers</span>.</p>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Coach and Horses</span>, which occurs thirteen times in the
county, has already been alluded to. As might be expected, it was
considerably commoner forty years ago than now. An inn of this name at
Chelmsford has a pictorial sign-board, representing a number of
gentlemen, in the costume of fifty or sixty years ago, riding on the top
of a coach.</p>

<div class="figleft" style="width: 222px;">
<a href="images/i_162_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_162_sml.jpg" width="222" height="171" alt="Image not available: CROOKED BILLET.

(After Larwood and Hotten.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">CROOKED BILLET.
<br />
(After Larwood and Hotten.)</span>
</div>

<p>Four houses in Essex, situated respectively at Leigh, Barking, Chadwell
Heath, and Nazing, now make use of the <span class="smcap">Crooked Billet</span> as their sign.
Twenty years ago another did so, and there is still a beer-house so
styled at Felstead. There is also an <span class="smcap">Old Crooked Billet</span> at Walthamstow,
and a <span class="smcap">Crown and Crooked Billet</span> (doubtless merely an impaled sign) at
Woodford Bridge. It is not by any means clear what this sign was derived
from. Larwood and Hotten confess that they “have not been able to
discover any likely origin; it may have been originally a ragged staff,
or a pastoral staff.... Frequently the sign is represented by an
untrimmed stick suspended above the door.” Mr. H. W. King writes that
the sign existed at Leigh in the earlier part of last century, being<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_163" id="page_163"></a>{163}</span>
used by a small house which still stands, but is not the inn now
displaying the sign in that town. He says:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The first mention I find of the existing inn is an admission dated
1765, and referring to a certain tenement adjoining eastward to the
lane leading to the <span class="smcap">Crooked Billet</span>. This previous house of the same
name is a small plaster cottage. It must have been a very mean
little public-house. At some period its sign was transferred to the
present house in the main street, which was formerly a gentleman’s
residence, and on the same property as the cottage.”</p></div>

<p>Mr. King adds:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“I incline to think that the <span class="smcap">Crooked Billet</span> was originally a <i>fess
dancetté</i> or a <i>chevron</i>&mdash;more probably the former&mdash;and that it is,
therefore, an heraldic sign. The sign in this town was originally a
pictorial one, and certainly it rudely represented the former. Now
that it is written a different origin is assigned to it here; but
there are so many others that I rather incline to the heraldic
origin. They said here formerly that faggots were shipped from the
wharf opposite the present house. But so they were from other
wharves.”</p></div>

<p>The sign of the <span class="smcap">Cross</span> might, with equal probability, be ascribed either
to an ecclesiastical or an heraldic origin: in the one it is the symbol
of Christianity, and in the other it is a very common ordinary. It came
to be used very commonly as an heraldic charge at the time of the
Crusades. The house with this name at Mistley was, however, probably so
called on account of its being situated at a “four-want-way,” where two
roads cross. There is another example of the sign at Boxted, and in 1823
there was a <span class="smcap">Red Cross</span> at *Colchester. On the map of the road between
London and Harwich, given in Ogilby’s <i>Itinerarium Angliæ</i>, published in
1675, a house&mdash;presumably an inn of importance&mdash;known as the <span class="smcap">Cross and
Hand</span>, is shown at Marks Tey, and just forty-five miles from London.
Salmon (<i>History of Essex</i>, p. 69) quotes an ancient document,
describing the ceremonies connected with the annual making and
presenting of the Wardstaff in Ongar Hundred, in which another
house&mdash;probably an inn&mdash;with the sign of “the <span class="smcap">Cross with a Hand</span> at the
three wants in Fiffield” [Fyfield] is mentioned. In Essex, three or four
roads meeting are spoken of respectively as the three or four “wants.”
“The Cross [says Jewitt] whether golden, red, blue, or otherwise, was
formerly a much more common sign<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_164" id="page_164"></a>{164}</span> than now.” Several other Essex signs
are more or less ecclesiastical. For instance, the *<span class="smcap">Mitre</span> at Colchester
is at least sixty years old. Very probably it was first so called after
one or other of the several well-known taverns of the same name which
formerly existed in London. Though it may have been derived from the
fact that the Abbot of St. John’s Abbey, at Colchester, was one of the
twenty-eight mitred abbots, and sat in the Upper House of Parliament.
The <span class="smcap">Cardinal’s Hat</span>, formerly a not uncommon sign, was displayed by a
house in Bocking forty years since, but has now disappeared. At
Coggeshall, one of the chief inns has long been known as the *<span class="smcap">Chapel
Inn</span>. Mr. G. F. Beaumont has kindly supplied the following information
concerning it:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“In the will of Thomas Halle of Coksale, dated Jan. 15th, 1499, and
proved Feb. 5th following, is this Bequest:&mdash;’I bequeath towarde
the edifyng and making of a Chapell within the said towne of
Coksale XX^s, to be paid when the said Chapell is in werkyng.’ In
the <i>Certificate of Chantry Lands</i> (1549) is the following under
Coggeshall:&mdash;’Item, one olde Chaple in the Street there, with a
little Garden, which is worth by the year 4s.’&nbsp;”</p></div>

<p>Mr. Beaumont adds: “By deed, dated Oct. 7th, 1588, a messuage called the
old Chapel was conveyed to the fullers and weavers of Coggeshall. The
site of this building, which was pulled down in 1795, is now open
ground, on the west side of which is the <span class="smcap">Chapel</span> Inn.” The sign is
probably unique. The <span class="smcap">Cross Keys</span>, which represent the arms of the Papal
See, appear five times on Essex sign-boards, namely, at Saffron Walden,
*Colchester, White Notley, Dagenham, and Chadwell St. Mary, while there
is a beer-house so distinguished at North Weald. The Cross Keys have
survived the Reformation on account of their appearing also in the coats
of arms of several English sees, namely, York, Cashel, Exeter,
Gloucester, and Peterborough. Three pairs of keys crossed also form a
prominent charge in the arms of the Fishmongers’ Company (see p. 103).
Sometimes the <span class="smcap">Cross Keys</span> was used as a locksmith’s sign, as may be
learned from the trade-tokens of the seventeenth century. Thus <span class="smcap">Three
Keys</span> are represented on the farthing of “Thomas Haven, Locksmith, in
Chelmsford, 1669,” and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_165" id="page_165"></a>{165}</span> the <span class="smcap">Crossed Keys</span> on that of “Edward Keatchener
of Dunmow, Locksmith.” The sign of the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> is very common in Essex,
occurring twenty-eight times altogether. Judging from Mr. Creed’s list
(p. 7) it was equally common in Essex a century ago. There is also an
<span class="smcap">Old Crown</span> at Sandon. As an emblem of Royalty, the badge of several of
our Kings and Queens, and as a very frequent heraldic bearing, the Crown
is in every way likely to be common. Larwood and Hotten (p. 101) say
that it “seems to be one of the oldest of English signs. We read of it
as early as 1467, when a certain Walter Walters, who kept the Crown in
Cheapside, made an innocent Cockney pun, saying he would make his son
heir to the Crown, which so displeased his gracious Majesty, King Edward
IV., that he ordered the man to be put to death for high treason.” The
<span class="smcap">Crown</span> at Romford, a once-famous hostelry, built about three centuries
ago, was demolished in the spring of 1881, when fine specimens of Tudor
work, and some massive beams beautifully carved, were brought to light.
It was once of large size, with frontages both to High Street and what
is now known as South Street. At the beginning of this century, however,
having declined before younger rivals, it was divided into shops. Later
a considerable portion was pulled down to make room for a new bank. This
demolition, and that of 1881, left nothing standing of the old house
except a portion which still remains between the Bank and the <span class="smcap">White Hart</span>
Hotel. Mr. King learns from old deeds and from other sources that an inn
with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> existed at Leigh in the time of Queen
Elizabeth, when it was known as the “Crown Brewery” or “Crown House,”
but it does not seem to have retained its existence later than the end
of last century or thereabouts. Mr. King believes that this was the inn
referred to by “Taylor the Water Poet,” in his <i>Catalogue of Tavernes</i>,
as being kept by a certain James Hare in 1636. No doubt it was an inn
also, for, as Mr. King remarks, “all, or nearly all, inns formerly
brewed their own beer.” He can trace it actually from 1619 and
practically from 1570. After it ceased to be an inn it was converted
into a private house<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_166" id="page_166"></a>{166}</span> and bought by a certain Francis Marriage, who
after several law-suits resold it. A <span class="smcap">Crown</span> also appears on the token,
dated 1667, of “Abra. Langley, iunior, of Colchester, Baymakr.” The
<span class="smcap">Crown</span> at *Billericay (a house not now existing) is referred to in the
<i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for February 17, 1786, and the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> at
Chesterford is referred to in the same newspaper on the 2nd of March,
1787. Daniel Defoe, in his <i>Tour through Great Britain</i>, published in
1724, also mentions the <span class="smcap">Crown</span> at Chesterford. Probably this is the house
at Little Chesterford still known as the <span class="smcap">Crown</span>. The <span class="smcap">Crown Inn</span> at
Brentwood, which was mentioned by Taylor in 1636, was closed many years
ago. In 1740, Salmon, who seldom noticed the inns, wrote of it as
follows in his <i>History and Antiquities of Essex</i> (p. 262):&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The Crown Inn here is very ancient, as appears from the buildings
of the back part of it. Mr. Symonds in his collection saith he was
informed from the Master (who had writings in custody to show it)
that it had been an Inn 300 years with this sign; that a family
named Salmon held it two hundred years; and that there had been
eighty-nine owners, amongst which [were] an Earl of Oxford and an
Earl of Sussex.”</p></div>

<p class="nind">The <span class="smcap">Crown</span> at Ilford finds mention in the Barking parish register as
early as 1595.<a name="FNanchor_96_96" id="FNanchor_96_96"></a><a href="#Footnote_96_96" class="fnanchor">[96]</a> Fox, in his <i>Book of Martyrs</i>, says that George
Eagles, who was martyred in 1557, “was carried to the new inn, called by
the sign of the <span class="smcap">Crown</span>, at Chelmsford” (see p. 136). The sign does not
now appear there.</p>

<p>The <i>Builder</i> of July 8, 1848, contains an illustration of a fine, old,
timber-roofed hall at Saffron Walden. Its interior, we are told, was “so
completely hidden by the subdivision of walls and ceilings within it, to
adapt it to the necessities of a dwelling-house, that until the
demolition of the buildings in the spring of the present year all that
could be seen were the carved heads of the ends of the hammer-beams.
These heads were beautifully and spiritedly carved, and, indeed, the
ornamentation of the entire hall was well and boldly cut. It was of
small dimensions.... The buildings with which it was connected were old,
but no record of the history or occupation of the place is known, except
that about two<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_167" id="page_167"></a>{167}</span> centuries ago it was an inn, the sign being the <span class="smcap">Iron
Crown</span>. The Hall appears to be of the time of Henry VII., judging from
its detail. It may have been the hall of some wealthy tradesman, for
Walden had many rich traders in the olden time.... The ancient hall, and
the buildings with which it was connected, have been pulled down in
order to construct a new market-place. The carved heads from the
hammer-beams (six in all) have been preserved by the Hon. R. C. Neville
(afterwards Lord Braybrooke) in his museum at Audley End.” The origin of
this sign is very doubtful. Larwood and Hotten do not notice it.
Goldsmith, in <i>The Traveller</i>, speaks of “Luke’s Iron Crown.” George and
Luke Doza were two brothers who led a revolt against the Hungarian
nobles at the beginning of the sixteenth century. They were defeated,
captured, and cruelly tortured. George, <i>not</i> Luke (Goldsmith’s memory
must have been at fault), had, among other things, a red-hot iron crown
placed on his head. John of Leyden, an Anabaptist leader, was also
tortured to death in the same way in 1536, but it is difficult to
imagine any connection between these incidents and the inn at Saffron
Walden. What was known as the “Iron Crown of Lombardy,” was not a crown
of torture, but one of the nails used in the Crucifixion, beaten out
into a thin rim of iron, magnificently set in gold and adorned with
jewels. Charlemagne and Napoleon I. were both crowned with it, but it is
hard to see what this had to do with the inn at Saffron Walden. The sign
of the <span class="smcap">Three Crowns</span> occurs at Rainham, Rowhedge, North Woolwich, and
*Halstead. The sign at the latter place was in existence forty years
ago, at which time another was also in existence. In 1668, Anne Ellis
kept the <span class="smcap">Three Crowns</span> (not necessarily an inn) at Southminster, as shown
by tokens of hers, still extant. An <span class="smcap">Old Three Crowns</span> also existed in the
county in 1786 according to an advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford
Chronicle</i> for the 5th of May in that year. There are several sources
from which the sign of the <span class="smcap">Three Crowns</span> may have been derived. They
might be taken from the arms of the Essex family of Wiseman (<i>sable; a
chevron between three crowns argent</i>), or<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_168" id="page_168"></a>{168}</span> from the arms of Chich Priory
(<i>or; three ducal coronets, gules, two and one</i>), or from the arms of
the Drapers’ or the Skinners’ Companies, which have already been given.
The signs of the <span class="smcap">Crown and Thistle</span>, the <span class="smcap">Crown and Crooked Billet</span>, and
the <span class="smcap">Crown and Anchor</span> have all been previously noticed. The <span class="smcap">Crown and
Sceptre</span>, which existed at Chelmsford in 1764, as we learn from an
advertisement in the <i>Chelmsford Chronicle</i> for that year, was a sign
which was doubly emblematic of Royalty. It was, doubtless, merely an
impalement. Sixty years ago there was a *<span class="smcap">Crown and Punch Bowl</span> at
Colchester. Doubtless, it too was merely an impaled sign.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_168_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_168_sml.jpg" width="475" height="321" alt="Image not available: LEATHER BOTTLE.

(At Pleshey.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">LEATHER BOTTLE.
<br />
(At Pleshey.)</span>
</div>

<p>Of the sign of the <span class="smcap">Leather Bottle</span> we have three examples, situated
respectively at Little Laver, Blackmore, and Lexden. The first-named has
existed since 1789 at least. There is also a beer-house so called at
West Hanningfield. It is an old sign, taken from the “leathern bottels”
formerly used to hold liquor, and, as previously mentioned (p. 3), is
still to be seen on the cheques and over<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_169" id="page_169"></a>{169}</span> the door of Messrs. Hoare’s
Bank in Fleet Street. A beer-shop at Pleshey had on its sign-board until
recently a faded, but correct, representation of the <span class="smcap">Leather Bottle</span>.
Under it, and on another board, is an inscription intimating that George
Philpott, the landlord, dispenses “fine Ale’s and beer at 4d. per Pott.”
The sign-board has recently been re-painted, and the bottle is not now
so well represented as formerly. Below is a figure of the old board
(with the sign-iron of the <span class="smcap">Six Bells</span> at Dunmow (p. 159)), its faded
“bottle” having been restored from one of several still preserved in the
Museum at Saffron Walden. The example at Lexden had, but has not now, a
pictorial sign. The house is probably an old one under its present sign,
as it appears to have given the name of “Bottle End” to that part of the
parish in which it stands&mdash;a name it seems to have long had, it being
marked on an old map published in 1802. Mr. Thos. B. Daniell writes:</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Not every one has formed an opinion as to what a leather bottle
was like. My father&mdash;now over eighty years of age&mdash;remembers the
pictorial sign of the <span class="smcap">Leather Bottle</span>, and says that when a boy he
distinctly recollects a veritable leather bottle being purchased at
a sale by his father. It was a cylindrical belt of black leather,
very stout, with two circular ends (also of leather) sewn in, a
double thickness of the same material over the bung-hole (which
received a cork for stopper) and a short strap to carry it by. Its
capacity was about a gallon, and it was nothing like the skin
bottles of the East, as some might suppose.”</p></div>

<p class="nind">Portions of the Rev. Baring-Gould’s <i>Mehalah</i> are laid at the <span class="smcap">Leather
Bottle</span> at Mersey&mdash;a fictitious name, unless there is a beer-house there
with that sign.</p>

<p>At Bardfield there is a beer-house with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Boot</span>, so
distinguished unquestionably because the landlord is also a boot and
shoe maker, as a partly pictorial board over his door informs
passers-by. His pictorial sign-board is here depicted (p. 170) within
the old sign-iron of the <span class="smcap">Bell</span> Inn at the same place. Immediately
opposite to the <span class="smcap">Boot</span> is another beer-house known as the <span class="smcap">Three
Horseshoes</span>, because the landlord also carries on the trade of a farrier
and blacksmith. This is not an uncommon way of naming beer-houses and
small inns. The *<span class="smcap">Evening Gun</span> (which may<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_170" id="page_170"></a>{170}</span> be regarded as a military sign)
appeared at Colchester sixty years ago.</p>

<div class="figcenter">
<a href="images/i_170_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_170_sml.jpg" width="354" height="301" alt="Image not available: BOOT.

(At Great Bardfield.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">BOOT.
<br />
(At Great Bardfield.)</span>
</div>

<p>In an agricultural county like Essex it is in no way surprising that as
many as eighteen inns should display the sign of the <span class="smcap">Plough</span>. At Great
Chishall a model of a plough, about half the usual size, set up on the
top of a pole, serves as a sign. The connection between the <span class="smcap">Plough and
Harrow</span>, which are combined to form a sign at Leyton, is at once
apparent, but not so the connection between the <span class="smcap">Plough and Sail</span>, which
is an incomprehensible combination, occurring four times in the county,
and already treated of (p. 146). The sign of the <span class="smcap">Harrow</span> occurs four
times, namely, at North Benfleet, Bulphan, *Stratford, and Hornchurch.
There is also a beer-house so called at Navestock. It may have had an
agricultural origin, but is equally likely to represent, in a corrupted
form, the portcullis, which was a favourite badge of Kings Henry VII.
and VIII., as already pointed out (p. 24). Another obviously
agricultural sign is that of the <span class="smcap">Two Hurdles</span> (beer-house) at Beauchamp
Roothing. The <span class="smcap">Drill House</span> (beer-shop) at Stanford Rivers, too, is
probably<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_171" id="page_171"></a>{171}</span> another agricultural sign. Doubtless there is, or used to be,
near it a house or shed in which a drill was kept. The <span class="smcap">Drill Inn</span> at
Romford is, however, probably a military sign. At Boxted there is a
beer-house with the very strange and probably unique sign of the <span class="smcap">Wig and
Fidget</span>. Inquiry has elicited the fact that the house was built about
forty years ago by a man who was a <i>Whig</i> in his political views. His
neighbours regarded him also as a “fidgety man;” hence, when the house
was opened the people of the parish, having regard to its owner’s
peculiarities, named it the Whig and Fidget, otherwise the Fidgety Whig.
In Stapleford Tawney is a beer-shop with the sign of the <span class="smcap">Mole Trap</span>. It
is probably unique. At Loughton is a beer-shop known as the <span class="smcap">Bag of
Nails</span>. According to Larwood and Hotten, a bag of nails, with the spikes
of the nails sticking through it, was formerly a very common sign, and
may be seen on old tokens. The sign seems, in some cases at least, to
have been a corruption from the “Bacchanals.”</p>

<div class="figright" style="width: 157px;">
<a href="images/i_171_lg.jpg">
<img src="images/i_171_sml.jpg" width="157" height="163" alt="Image not available: THE PORTCULLIS.

(Badge of Henry VII.)" /></a>
<br />
<span class="caption">THE PORTCULLIS.
<br />
(Badge of Henry VII.)</span>
</div>

<p>Of the sign of the <span class="smcap">Hoops</span> we have two examples, one at Littlebury, the
other at *Saffron Walden, while a beer-house at Buttsbury is so
designated. Anciently signs were not always painted on a sign-board, as
now, but were often carved in wood and suspended within a hoop, from
which custom many inns became known as the “Something-on-the-Hoop,” and
thus the sign of the <span class="smcap">Hoops</span> arose.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Welch Harp</span> at Waltham Abbey, probably taken from the arms of the
Principality of Wales, is presumably the modern form of the <span class="smcap">Harp</span>, which
existed there in 1789 and long after. At the same time, and long after,
there was also a <span class="smcap">Harp</span> at Epping, and twenty years since there was even a
<span class="smcap">Jew’s Harp</span> at Waltham Abbey.</p>

<p>The <span class="smcap">Still</span>, which has been used as a sign at Barking for many years, is
very appropriate for a spirit-merchant. It occurs on the arms of the
Distillers’ Company, and is also<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_172" id="page_172"></a>{172}</span> depicted on the tokens issued at
Thaxted in 1666 by William Purchas, and on those issued at Witham three
years later by George Robinson. The family of Purchas was well known in
Thaxted two centuries ago. Samuel Purchas, the author of the quaint,
though celebrated, book of travels known as <i>Purchas, His Pilgrimes</i>,
was born there in 1577. Another member of the family&mdash;very possibly a
son of the William mentioned above&mdash;came to a very bad end. He murdered
his mother in a fit of drunkenness, and was hung for it about the year
1635. His “Wofull Lamentation” on the occasion is to be found in a
quaint broadside of about that date preserved in the celebrated
collection known as the <i>Roxburghe Ballads</i> in the British Museum. A
<span class="smcap">Last</span> occurs on the token issued at Braintree in 1670 by Thomas Mirrils,
who was doubtless a shoemaker. A <span class="smcap">Pestle and Mortar</span> are depicted on the
token issued at Felstead in 1669 by Henry Bigg, who was probably an
apothecary. A <span class="smcap">Lime-kiln</span> is represented on the halfpenny issued at
“Pvrflet Limekill” in 1669 by Samuel Irons, who was without doubt a
lime-burner. <span class="smcap">Three Hats</span> are shown on the halfpenny tokens issued by
“Barge Allen at the [Three Hats] at Stebbing in Essex,” and a <span class="smcap">Hat</span> on
those issued at Stebbing in 1668 by Richard Sayer, who doubtless kept
the same house. The Rev. W. H. Beckett of Stebbing has inquired of the
oldest inhabitants of the town (two of them being over ninety) without
being able to hear of any tradition as to these signs. Both Allen and
Sayer have been, but are no longer, Stebbing names. The <span class="smcap">Two Pipes</span>
crossed, which appear on the tokens of Samuel Leader of Saffron Walden
in 1653, of William Leader of “Safforn Wallding” in 1668, and of William
Martin of “Brayntry,” the <span class="smcap">Three Tobacco-pipes</span>, which are represented on
the tokens issued in 1666 by “Miles Hacklvitt in Bilrekey in Essex,” and
in 1668 by “Thomas Warrin of Waltham Abby,” and the <span class="smcap">Roll of Tobacco</span>,
which is depicted on the token of “Iohn King, grocer, in Cooldchester,”
were probably, all of them, more or less, tobacconists’ signs. The
latter, indeed, is a very common tobacconist’s sign at the present day.
A <span class="smcap">Wooden Pail</span> occurs on the token<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_173" id="page_173"></a>{173}</span> issued in Moulsham in 1666 by Thomas
Joyce, who was perhaps a cooper, and a <span class="smcap">Bundle of Yarn</span> on that of “Iohn
Hance of Kelvedon, clothier, 1669.” At Epping a large <span class="smcap">Kettle</span>, painted
red and suspended before a house, indicates that tea and hot water are
obtainable within.</p>

<p>There still remain to be noticed several signs which are in use at the
present day, though they are not public-house signs. Several such have
already been alluded to, as, for instance, the <span class="smcap">Black Boy</span> and the <span class="smcap">Tobacco
Roll</span> for a tobacconist, and the <span class="smcap">Bunch of Grapes</span> for a vintner. The <span class="smcap">Cow</span>
or a <span class="smcap">Calf</span>, too, forms the recognized sign of a dairyman. At Witham a
harness-maker displays a harnessed <span class="smcap">Horse’s Head</span>, life-size, as his sign.
Many similar instances of tradesmen, other than publicans, displaying
signs indicative of their trades might be named throughout the county.
Few public-house signs, however, are more familiar than the <span class="smcap">Three Golden
Balls</span> displayed by pawnbrokers. The device is a truly heraldic one, the
balls being taken, according to Messrs. Larwood and Hotten (p. 128),
from&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“The lower part of the coat of arms of the Dukes of Medici, from
whose states, and from Lombardy, nearly all the early bankers came.
These capitalists also advanced money on valuable goods, and hence
gradually became pawnbrokers. The arms of the Medicis family were
<i>five besants azure</i>, whence the balls formerly were blue, and only
within the last half century have assumed a golden exterior,
evidently to gild the pill for those who have dealings with ‘my
uncle’: as for the position in which they are placed, the popular
explanation is that there are two chances to one that whatever is
brought there will not be redeemed.”</p></div>

<p>According to the same authors (p. 341), the <span class="smcap">Barber’s Pole</span> dates from the
time when barbers practised phlebotomy: the patient undergoing this
operation had to grasp the pole in order to make the blood flow more
freely. This use of the pole is illustrated in more than one illuminated
MS. As the pole was, of course, liable to be stained with blood, it was
painted red: when not in use barbers were in the habit of suspending it
outside the door with the white linen swathing-bands twisted round it;
this, in later times, gave rise to the pole being painted red and white,
or black and white, or even with red, white, and blue lines winding<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_174" id="page_174"></a>{174}</span>
round it. The <span class="smcap">Pole</span> was also once a tooth-drawer’s sign. In some cases,
too, it is probable that it was intended punningly to indicate the fact
that the barber who displayed it attended to the needs of peoples’
polls. Presumably it formed the sign of Roger Giles, who is said to have
circulated the following amusing advertisement in the neighbourhood of
Romford:&mdash;</p>

<div class="blockquot"><p>“Roger Giles, Imperceptible Penetrator, Surgin, Paroch Clarke,
Etc:, Etc:, Romford, Essex, hinforms Ladis and Gentlemen that he
cuts their teeth and draws corns without waiten a moment. Blisters
on the lowest turms, and fysicks at a penny a peace. Sells
godfathers cordial and strap-ile, and undertakes to keep any Ladis
nales by the year, and so on. Young Ladis and Gentlemen tort the
heart of rideing, and the gramer language in the natest manner,
also grate Kare takein to himprove their morals and spelling, sarm
singing and whisseling. Teaches the jews-arp, and instructs young
Ladis on the gar-tar, and plays the ho-boy. Shotish poker and all
other reels tort at home and abroad. Perfumery in all its branches.
Sells all sorts of stashionary, barth bricks and all other sorts of
sweetmeats, including bees-wax, postage stamps and lusifers:
likewise taturs, roobub, sossages, and other garden stufs: also
fruits, such as hardbake, inguns, toothpicks, ile and tin ware, and
other eatables. Sarve, treacle, winegar, and all other hardware.
Further in particular, he has laid in a stock of tripe, china,
epsom salts, lollipops, and other pickles, such as oysters, apples,
and table beer, also silks, satins, and hearthstones, and all kinds
of kimistry, including waxdolls, rasors, dutch cloks, and
gridirons, and new laid eggs evry day by me Roger Giles. P.S.&mdash;I
lectures on joggrefy.”</p></div>

<p>Two very quaint, though modern, tradesmen’s signs are now to be seen in
the town of Thaxted, one belonging to a sweep, the other to a farrier.
The former is situated at the end of the town nearest Dunmow, and
consists of a large picture representing a wide, empty street of houses.
A chimney belonging to one of these houses is belching forth flame and
smoke like a volcano, and a man is just giving the alarm with much
shouting and gesticulation. At the opposite end of the town a farrier
displays as his sign a device rudely cut out of tin or thin sheet-iron,
and representing a horse, held by a boy, and being shod by the man. The
affair evidently once formed a weather-cock, and its appearance in its
present position gives it a decidedly comical aspect.</p>

<p>None of our Essex inns appear to have names quite as<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_175" id="page_175"></a>{175}</span> jocose as that of
a small public-house to be seen on an unusually long, straight, and
uninteresting road near the city of York. It is called the <span class="smcap">Slip Inn</span>, and
probably a good many do “slip in” to relieve the weariness of the way.
Nor do our inn-keepers seem able to compete with one at Leigh in
Lancashire, who merely places over his door the pithy inscription:&mdash;“My
sign’s in the cellar.”</p>

<p>With this we will conclude our examination of “The Trade Signs of
Essex.” All that it is now possible to do towards bringing to light
their much-obscured meanings and original significance, has been done,
and it only remains for the author to express the hope that the reader
will deem the result satisfactory.</p>

<p>&nbsp; </p>

<p class="c">FINIS.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_176" id="page_176"></a>{176}</span></p>

<h2><a name="A_GLOSSARY_OF_THE_PRINCIPAL_HERALDIC_TERMS_USED_IN_THE_FOREGOING" id="A_GLOSSARY_OF_THE_PRINCIPAL_HERALDIC_TERMS_USED_IN_THE_FOREGOING"></a><i>A GLOSSARY OF THE PRINCIPAL HERALDIC TERMS USED IN THE FOREGOING
CHAPTERS.</i></h2>

<div class="blockquottt"><p><i>Affrontée</i>, full-faced and fronting.</p>

<p><i>Argent</i>, silver or white.</p>

<p><i>Azure</i>, blue.</p>

<p><i>Badge</i>, see <a href="#page_15">p. 15</a>.</p>

<p><i>Besant</i>, a Byzantine coin, represented in Heraldry as a round flat
piece of gold, without impress.</p>

<p><i>Blazon</i>, the proper technical description of armorial bearings.</p>

<p><i>Charge</i>, an heraldic bearing or emblem.</p>

<p><i>Chequy</i>, a shield divided by horizontal and perpendicular lines
into equal square spaces, alternately tinctured.</p>

<p><i>Chevron</i>, a charge resembling the rafters of a house.</p>

<p><i>Colours</i>, azure, gules, vert, sable, or purpure.</p>

<p><i>Couchant</i>, an animal lying down.</p>

<p><i>Couped</i>, the head or limb of any animal cut off by an even line.</p>

<p><i>Crest</i>, see <a href="#page_15">p. 15</a>.</p>

<p><i>Dexter</i>, the right hand.</p>

<p><i>Escutcheon</i>, a shield of arms.</p>

<p><i>Escalop</i>, a fan-shell, the pilgrim’s badge.</p>

<p><i>Fess</i>, a broad horizontal bar across the centre of a shield.</p>

<p><i>Fess dancetté</i>, an indented or zig-zag fess.</p>

<p><i>Field</i>, the ground or surface of the shield.</p>

<p><i>Guardant</i>, full-faced.</p>

<p><i>Gules</i>, red.</p>

<p><i>Impaled</i>, side by side on the same shield.</p>

<p><i>Issuant</i>, coming out of.</p>

<p><i>Lozengy</i>, a shield divided by transverse diagonal lines into equal
lozenge-shaped spaces.</p>

<p><i>Metals</i>, or (gold) and argent (silver).</p>

<p><i>Or</i>, gold.</p>

<p><i>Ordinaries</i>, certain common heraldic charges, such as the fess,
the pale, the chevron, &amp;c.</p>

<p><i>Pale</i>, a broad perpendicular bar down the centre of the shield.</p>

<p><i>Passant</i>, an animal walking past.</p>

<p><i>Proper</i>, of natural colour.</p>

<p><i>Quartered</i>, or <i>quarterly</i>, a shield divided into four quarters.</p>

<p><i>Reguardant</i>, looking back.</p>

<p><i>Sable</i>, black.</p>

<p><i>Saltire</i>, a broad cross of St. Andrew on the shield.</p>

<p><i>Sejant</i>, seated.</p>

<p><i>Sinister</i>, left hand.</p>

<p><i>Statant</i>, standing.</p>

<p><i>Supporters</i>, animals which support the shield (see <a href="#page_14">p. 14</a>).</p>

<p><i>Vert</i>, green.</p>

<p><i>Volant</i>, flying.</p></div>

<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_177" id="page_177"></a>{177}</span></p>

<h2><a name="INDEX" id="INDEX"></a><img src="images/barra-flower.jpg" width="500" height="102" alt="" />
<br />INDEX.</h2>

<p class="c"><span class="smcap">Note.</span>&mdash;<i>An asterisk indicates that the sign named is not noted as now
occurring or as having occurred, in Essex.</i></p>

<p class="c"><a href="#A">A</a>,
<a href="#B">B</a>,
<a href="#C">C</a>,
<a href="#D">D</a>,
<a href="#E">E</a>,
<a href="#F">F</a>,
<a href="#G">G</a>,
<a href="#H">H</a>,
<a href="#I-i">I</a>,
<a href="#J">J</a>,
<a href="#K">K</a>,
<a href="#L">L</a>,
<a href="#M">M</a>,
<a href="#N">N</a>,
<a href="#O">O</a>,
<a href="#P">P</a>,
<a href="#Q">Q</a>,
<a href="#R">R</a>,
<a href="#S">S</a>,
<a href="#T">T</a>,
<a href="#U">U</a>,
<a href="#V-i">V</a>,
<a href="#W">W</a>,
<a href="#Y">Y</a></p>

<p class="nind">
<span class="smcap"><a name="A" id="A"></a>Abbey</span> Gate, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Adam and Eve, <a href="#page_37">37</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Admiral Rous, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

<i>Agricultural Signs</i>, <a href="#page_170">170</a>.<br />

Albert, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Albert House, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Albion, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Alma Arms, <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Alma (Tavern), <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Anchor, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_147">147</a>.<br />

Anchor and Hope, <a href="#page_147">147</a>.<br />

Ancient Foresters, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Angel, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_67">67</a>, <a href="#page_127">127</a>, <a href="#page_132">132</a>.<br />

Angel and Harp, <a href="#page_133">133</a>.<br />

Angel and Trumpet,* <a href="#page_18">18</a>.<br />

Apothecaries’ Arms, <a href="#page_39">39</a>.<br />

Archer and Stag, <a href="#page_49">49</a>.<br />

<i>Arms</i>, <a href="#page_14">14</a>, <a href="#page_30">30</a>.<br />

Artichoke, <a href="#page_110">110</a>.<br />

Artillery-man, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

<i>Astronomical Signs</i>, <a href="#page_148">148</a>.<br />

Axe and Compasses, <a href="#page_35">35</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="B" id="B"></a><span class="smcap">Babe</span> and Tun,* <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

<i>Badges</i>, <a href="#page_15">15</a>.<br />

Bag of Nails, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Bakers’ Arms, <a href="#page_33">33</a>, <a href="#page_115">115</a>.<br />

Bald-faced Stag, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_46">46</a>.<br />

Bald Hind, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_46">46</a>.<br />

Bald Stag, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_47">47</a>.<br />

Balmoral Castle, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Barber’s Pole, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Barber-Surgeons’ Arms, <a href="#page_38">38</a>.<br />

Barge, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Barley Mow, <a href="#page_111">111</a>.<br />

Bay Tree, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Bear, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

Beavers, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_43">43</a>.<br />

Beehive, <a href="#page_103">103</a>.<br />

<i>Beer-house Signs</i>, <a href="#page_26">26</a>.<br />

Bell, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_102">102</a>, <a href="#page_150">150</a>, <a href="#page_157">157</a>, <a href="#page_169">169</a>.<br />

Bell and Anchor, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Bell and Feathers, <a href="#page_102">102</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Bell and Neat’s Tongue,* <a href="#page_21">21</a>.<br />

Berechurch Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Betting Stand, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Bird in Hand, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Bishop Blays, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Blackbirds, <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Black Boy, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_12">12</a>, <a href="#page_71">71</a>, <a href="#page_133">133</a>, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Black Bull, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_65">65</a>, <a href="#page_126">126</a>.<br />

Black Dog, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Black Horse, <a href="#page_56">56</a>.<br />

Black Lion, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_60">60</a>.<br />

Black Mullet, <a href="#page_152">152</a>.<br />

Blacksmiths’ Arms, <a href="#page_32">32</a>.<br />

Black Swan, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_94">94</a>.<br />

Blucher’s Head, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Blue Anchor, <a href="#page_147">147</a>.<br />

Blue Boar, <a href="#page_5">5</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_68">68</a>, <a href="#page_69">69</a>, <a href="#page_161">161</a>.<br />

Blue Boar’s Head, <a href="#page_68">68</a>, <a href="#page_70">70</a>.<br />

Blue Lion, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_60">60</a>.<br />

Blue Posts, <a href="#page_156">156</a>.<br />

Boar’s Head, <a href="#page_34">34</a>, <a href="#page_69">69</a>, <a href="#page_70">70</a>.<br />

<i>Booksellers’ Signs</i>, <a href="#page_2">2</a>.<br />

Boot, <a href="#page_169">169</a>.<br />

Borough Arms, <a href="#page_30">30</a>.<br />

<i>Botanical Signs</i>, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

<i>Bovine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_64">64</a>.<br />

Bowling Green, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Brewers’ Arms, <a href="#page_32">32</a>.<br />

Brick and Tile (Inn), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Bricklayers’ Arms, <a href="#page_34">34</a>.<br />

Bridge (Hotel), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Britannia, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

British (Inn), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

British Lion, <a href="#page_59">59</a>.<br />

British Queen, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Buck’s Horns, <a href="#page_50">50</a>.<br />

Bugle Horn, <a href="#page_51">51</a>, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

Bull, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_64">64</a>, <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Bull and Butcher,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

Bull and Crown, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_65">65</a>.<br />

Bull and Horseshoe, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_58">58</a>, <a href="#page_65">65</a>.<br />

Bullen Butchered,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

Bull’s Head, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_34">34</a>, <a href="#page_65">65</a>.<br />

Bunch of Grapes, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Bundle of Yarn, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Bush, <a href="#page_110">110</a>.<br />

Bush Fair House, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_156">156</a>.<br />

Butchers’ Arms, <a href="#page_34">34</a>, <a href="#page_67">67</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="C" id="C"></a><span class="smcap">Calf</span>, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Cambridge Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Cambridge (Hotel), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Camden Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<i>Canine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Canteen, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Cardinal’s Hat, <a href="#page_164">164</a>.<br />

Carpenters’ Arms, <a href="#page_34">34</a>.<br />

Cart and Horses, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Castle, <a href="#page_68">68</a>, <a href="#page_160">160</a>.<br />

Castle at Trimme, <a href="#page_160">160</a>.<br />

Cat and Fiddle,* <a href="#page_21">21</a>.<br />

Cauliflower, <a href="#page_110">110</a>.<br />

<i>Cervine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_46">46</a>.<br />

<i>Cetacean Signs</i>, <a href="#page_82">82</a>.<br />

Chadwell Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Chaise and Pair, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Chapel (Inn), <a href="#page_164">164</a>.<br />

Chatsworth Arms, <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Chelmer (Inn), <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

<i>Chelmsford High Street in 1762</i>, <a href="#page_12">12</a>.<br />

Chequer, <a href="#page_7">7</a>.<br />

Chequers, <a href="#page_161">161</a>.<br />

Cherry Tree, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Chestnut Tree, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Chinaman, <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Chobham Arms, <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

City Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Clapper, <a href="#page_160">160</a>.<br />

Clarence, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Clarendon, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Clifton, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Clothworkers’ Arms, <a href="#page_40">40</a>.<br />

Coach and Bell, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Coach and Horses, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_27">27</a>, <a href="#page_57">57</a>, <a href="#page_162">162</a>.<br />

Coal Hole, <a href="#page_155">155</a>.<br />

Cock, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_98">98</a>.<br />

Cock and Bell, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_99">99</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Cock and Crown, <a href="#page_99">99</a>.<br />

Cock and Hoop,* <a href="#page_22">22</a>.<br />

Cock and Magpie, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Cock and Pie, <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Colchester Arms, <a href="#page_30">30</a>.<br />

Colne Valley Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

<i>Coloured Signs</i>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>.<br />

Common Gate, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Compasses, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_35">35</a>.<br />

Coopers, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Coopers’ Arms, <a href="#page_35">35</a>, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Cornucopia, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

<i>Corrupted Signs</i>, <a href="#page_22">22</a>.<br />

Cow, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Cowley Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<i>Crests</i>, <a href="#page_15">15</a>.<br />

Cricketers, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Cricketers’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Crooked Billet, <a href="#page_162">162</a>.<br />

Cross, <a href="#page_163">163</a>.<br />

Cross and Hand, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_142">142</a>, <a href="#page_163">163</a>.<br />

Cross Keys, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_58">58</a>, <a href="#page_164">164</a>.<br />

Crown, <a href="#page_6">6</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_132">132</a>, <a href="#page_136">136</a>, <a href="#page_165">165</a>.<br />

Crown and Anchor, <a href="#page_147">147</a>, <a href="#page_168">168</a>.<br />

Crown and Blacksmith, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Crown and Crooked Billet, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_162">162</a>, <a href="#page_168">168</a>.<br />

Crown and Punchbowl, <a href="#page_168">168</a>.<br />

Crown and Sceptre, <a href="#page_168">168</a>.<br />

Crown and Thistle, <a href="#page_116">116</a>, <a href="#page_168">168</a>.<br />

Crown’s (Inn), <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Cuckfield Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Cups, <a href="#page_37">37</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="D" id="D"></a><span class="smcap">Dartmouth</span> Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

De Beauvoirs’ Arms, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_42">42</a>, <a href="#page_43">43</a>.<br />

<i>Decay of Inns</i>, <a href="#page_8">8</a>.<br />

Denmark Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Dial, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Dick Turpin’s Cave, <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Dock House (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Doe, <a href="#page_49">49</a>.<br />

Dog, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Dog and Chain, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Dog and Gridiron,* <a href="#page_21">21</a>.<br />

Dog and Partridge, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Dog and Pheasant, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Dog’s Head in Pot, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Dolphin, <a href="#page_82">82</a>.<br />

Doodle Oak, <a href="#page_109">109</a>.<br />

Dorset Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Dove and Olive-Branch, <a href="#page_38">38</a>.<br />

Dragon, <a href="#page_88">88</a>.<br />

Dragoon, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

Drapers’ Arms, <a href="#page_39">39</a>.<br />

Drill House, <a href="#page_170">170</a>.<br />

Drill (Inn), <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Drovers’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Ducane Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Duke of Cambridge, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Duke of Edinburgh, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Duke of Norfolk, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Duke of Wellington, <a href="#page_120">120</a>.<br />

Duke of York, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Duke’s Head, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_120">120</a>.<br />

Duncan’s Head, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Dun Cow, <a href="#page_66">66</a>.<br />

Durham Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="E" id="E"></a><span class="smcap">Eagle</span>, <a href="#page_67">67</a>, <a href="#page_91">91</a>.<br />

Eagle and Child, <a href="#page_3">3</a>, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_92">92</a>.<br />

Earl of Derby, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Earl of Essex, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Eight Bells, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Elephant and Castle, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

Endeavour, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Engineers’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

<i>Epping Inns in 1789</i>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>.<br />

Epping Place (Inn), <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_156">156</a>.<br />

<i>Equine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_55">55</a>.<br />

Escalop, <a href="#page_38">38</a>.<br />

Essex Arms, <a href="#page_30">30</a>, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Essex Head,* <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Essex (Inn), <a href="#page_156">156</a>.<br />

Essex Serpent, <a href="#page_104">104</a>.<br />

<i>Essex Signs</i>, <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

Evening Gun, <a href="#page_169">169</a>.<br />

Exchange (Inn), <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="F" id="F"></a><span class="smcap">Falcon</span>, <a href="#page_92">92</a>.<br />

Falcon and Fetterlock,* <a href="#page_24">24</a>.<br />

Falcon and Sceptre, <a href="#page_94">94</a>.<br />

Falmouth Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Feathers, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Fencers, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

Ferry-boat, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Ferry House, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Ferryman, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Fighting Cocks, <a href="#page_99">99</a>.<br />

Finch, <a href="#page_25">25</a>, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Fir Trees, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Fish and Eels, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_103">103</a>.<br />

Fishing Smack, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

Five Bells, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Flag, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Fleece, <a href="#page_78">78</a>.<br />

Fleur-de-Lys, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_29">29</a>.<br />

Flitch of Bacon, <a href="#page_73">73</a>.<br />

Flitch of Dunmow, <a href="#page_73">73</a>.<br />

Flower Pot, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Fly and Bullock, <a href="#page_34">34</a>, <a href="#page_67">67</a>, <a href="#page_103">103</a>.<br />

Flying Bullock, <a href="#page_68">68</a>.<br />

Flying Dutchman, <a href="#page_56">56</a>.<br />

Flying Fox, <a href="#page_77">77</a>.<br />

Flying Horse,* <a href="#page_67">67</a>.<br />

Forester, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Foresters’ Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Foresters’ (Inn), <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Forest Gate, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Forest Glen, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Fortune of War, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Foundry Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Fountain, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Four Alls,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

Four Ashes, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Four Awls,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

Fox, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Fox and Goose, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_77">77</a>.<br />

Fox and Hounds, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_76">76</a>, <a href="#page_77">77</a>.<br />

Fox and Seven Stars,* <a href="#page_21">21</a>.<br />

Freemasons’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Freemasons’ (Tavern), <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

<i>French Signs</i>, <a href="#page_3">3</a>.<br />

Friar’s (Inn), <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="G" id="G"></a><span class="smcap">Game</span> Cock, <a href="#page_99">99</a>.<br />

Gardeners’ Arms, <a href="#page_33">33</a>.<br />

Garnon Bushes, <a href="#page_110">110</a>.<br />

Gate, <a href="#page_156">156</a>.<br />

General Havelock, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

General’s Arms, <a href="#page_43">43</a>.<br />

George, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_127">127</a>.<br />

George and Cannon,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

George and Dragon, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_88">88</a>, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

George and Tankard, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

George Canning,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

Gibraltar (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Globe, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

<i>Glossary</i>, <a href="#page_176">176</a>.<br />

Goat and Boots, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

Goat and Compasses,* <a href="#page_82">82</a>.<br />

Goat in Boots, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

Golden Fleece, <a href="#page_5">5</a>, <a href="#page_78">78</a>.<br />

Golden Horse, <a href="#page_56">56</a>.<br />

Golden House, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Golden Lion, <a href="#page_59">59</a>.<br />

Good Intent, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Good Woman,* <a href="#page_140">140</a>.<br />

Grand Junction Arms,* <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Grapes, <a href="#page_111">111</a>.<br />

Graving Dock (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Great Eastern, <a href="#page_93">93</a>.<br />

Great White Horse, <a href="#page_56">56</a>.<br />

Green Dragon, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_88">88</a>, <a href="#page_106">106</a>.<br />

Green Gate, <a href="#page_156">156</a>.<br />

Green Man, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_61">61</a>, <a href="#page_137">137</a>, <a href="#page_138">138</a>.<br />

Green Man and Bell, <a href="#page_138">138</a>.<br />

Grenadier, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Greyhound, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Griffin, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_89">89</a>, <a href="#page_106">106</a>.<br />

Grocers’ Arms, <a href="#page_38">38</a>, <a href="#page_52">52</a>.<br />

Grosvenor, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Ground-rent (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Grove, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Guardsman, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Gun, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="H" id="H"></a><span class="smcap">Half</span> Moon, <a href="#page_148">148</a>.<br />

Half-way (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Hallsville (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Hambro’ Merchants’ Arms, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Hammer and Pincers, <a href="#page_32">32</a>.<br />

Hand, <a href="#page_142">142</a>.<br />

Hand and Ball, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_142">142</a>.<br />

Hand and Cock,* <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

Hand and Glove, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_142">142</a>.<br />

Hand and Pen, <a href="#page_142">142</a>.<br />

Hand and Scales, <a href="#page_33">33</a>.<br />

Hand and Star,* <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_28">28</a>.<br />

Hare, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Hare and Hounds, <a href="#page_76">76</a>, <a href="#page_77">77</a>.<br />

Harp, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_133">133</a>, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Harp and Lion,* <a href="#page_18">18</a>.<br />

Harrow, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_170">170</a>.<br />

Harwich Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Hat, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Havering Bower (Inn),* <a href="#page_155">155</a>.<br />

Hawk, <a href="#page_93">93</a>.<br />

Hawk and Buck,* <a href="#page_24">24</a>.<br />

Hawk and Buckle,* <a href="#page_24">24</a>.<br />

Headley Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Henley Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<i>Heraldic Origin of Signs</i>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_19">19</a>.<br />

<i>Heraldic Signs</i>, <a href="#page_29">29</a>.<br />

Hercules, <a href="#page_65">65</a>, <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Higham Hill (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Holly Bush, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Holly Tree, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Hoop and Grapes,* <a href="#page_22">22</a>.<br />

Hoop and Horseshoe,* <a href="#page_22">22</a>.<br />

Hoops, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Hope, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Hop-pole, <a href="#page_111">111</a>.<br />

Hop-poles, <a href="#page_5">5</a>, <a href="#page_111">111</a>.<br />

Horn, <a href="#page_51">51</a>.<br />

Horn and Horseshoes, <a href="#page_27">27</a>, <a href="#page_51">51</a>.<br />

Horns, <a href="#page_50">50</a>.<br />

Horns and Horseshoes, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_51">51</a>.<br />

Horse, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Horse and Groom, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Horse and Well, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Horse and Wheel, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Horse Artillery, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Horse Shoe, <a href="#page_40">40</a>, <a href="#page_58">58</a>.<br />

Horse Shoes, <a href="#page_40">40</a>, <a href="#page_58">58</a>.<br />

Hoy, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

<i>Human Signs</i>, <a href="#page_120">120</a>.<br />

Huntsman and Hounds, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Hutton Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="I-i" id="I-i"></a><span class="smcap">Iceland</span> Queen,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

<i>Impaled Signs</i>, <a href="#page_19">19</a>.<br />

Imperial (Tavern), <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

<i>Insect Signs</i>, <a href="#page_103">103</a>.<br />

<i>Introduction</i>, <a href="#page_1">1</a>.<br />

Ipswich Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Ipswich Arms and Chequers, <a href="#page_162">162</a>.<br />

Iron Crown, <a href="#page_167">167</a>.<br />

Island Queen,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

Ivy Chimneys, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="J" id="J"></a><span class="smcap">Jew</span>’s Harp, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Jolly Cricketers, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Jolly Fisherman, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Jolly Sailor, <a href="#page_123">123</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Joiners’ Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="K" id="K"></a><span class="smcap">Kent</span> Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Kettle, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Kicking Dickey, <a href="#page_58">58</a>.<br />

King Harold, <a href="#page_127">127</a>.<br />

King Harold’s Head, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_127">127</a>.<br />

King of Prussia, <a href="#page_121">121</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

King’s Arms, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_14">14</a>, <a href="#page_43">43</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_136">136</a>.<br />

King’s Head, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_42">42</a>, <a href="#page_43">43</a>, <a href="#page_83">83</a>, <a href="#page_113">113</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

King’s Oak, <a href="#page_109">109</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

King William, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

King William IV., <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="L" id="L"></a><span class="smcap">Labourers</span>’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Lamb, <a href="#page_25">25</a>, <a href="#page_80">80</a>.<br />

Lame Dog,* <a href="#page_142">142</a>.<br />

Last, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Laurie Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Leather Bottle, <a href="#page_3">3</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_168">168</a>.<br />

Lennard Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<i>Leonine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_58">58</a>.<br />

<i>Leporine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_77">77</a>.<br />

Liberty Arms, <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Libra Arms, <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Life Guards, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Lilliput Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Lime Kiln, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Lion, <a href="#page_12">12</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_59">59</a>, <a href="#page_67">67</a>.<br />

Lion and Boar, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_63">63</a>, <a href="#page_73">73</a>.<br />

Lion and Key, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_63">63</a>.<br />

Lion and Dolphin,* <a href="#page_21">21</a>.<br />

Lion and Lamb, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_63">63</a>, <a href="#page_80">80</a>.<br />

Live and Let Live, <a href="#page_155">155</a>.<br />

Liverpool Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Lobster Smack, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

Locomotive, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

<i>London Companies</i>, <a href="#page_27">27</a>.<br />

London (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Lord Denman, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Gough, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Henniker, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Napier, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Nelson, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Palmerston, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Raglan, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Stanley, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Lord Western Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="M" id="M"></a><span class="smcap">Magpie</span>, <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Maiden Head, <a href="#page_139">139</a>.<br />

Maid’s Head, <a href="#page_139">139</a>.<br />

Malt-scoop, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Maltsters’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Maltsters’ (Inn), <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

<i>Mammalian Signs</i>, <a href="#page_46">46</a>.<br />

Man and Plough, <a href="#page_138">138</a>.<br />

Manby Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Man with Seven Wives, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Mariner, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Mariners’ (Inn), <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Mark’s Gate, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Marlborough’s Head, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Marquis of Granby, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Marsh Gate, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Masons’ Arms, <a href="#page_33">33</a>.<br />

May Bush, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Maynard Arms,* <a href="#page_49">49</a>.<br />

May-pole, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_112">112</a>, <a href="#page_126">126</a>.<br />

Mechanics’ Arms,* <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Mermaid, <a href="#page_139">139</a>.<br />

Merry Fiddlers, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_123">123</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

<i>Military Signs</i>, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

Milton Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Minerva, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

<i>Miscellaneous Signs</i>, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Mitre, <a href="#page_164">164</a>.<br />

Mole Trap, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Monk’s Head, <a href="#page_122">122</a>.<br />

<i>Monsters</i>, <a href="#page_88">88</a>.<br />

Moonrakers,* <a href="#page_148">148</a>.<br />

Morning Star, <a href="#page_151">151</a>.<br />

Moulders’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="N" id="N"></a><span class="smcap">Nag</span>’s Head, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Napier’s Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<i>Nautical Signs</i>, <a href="#page_143">143</a>.<br />

Nelson’s Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Nelson’s Head, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Neptune, <a href="#page_123">123</a>, <a href="#page_131">131</a>.<br />

Neville Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

New Bell, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

New Falcon, <a href="#page_93">93</a>.<br />

New Found-out, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

New (Inn), <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_136">136</a>, <a href="#page_155">155</a>.<br />

New Mill, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

New Ship, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

New Swan, <a href="#page_94">94</a>.<br />

New Times, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Nightingale, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Noah’s Ark, <a href="#page_143">143</a>.<br />

Norfolk (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Northern Star, <a href="#page_151">151</a>.<br />

Northumberland Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

<i>Numerical Signs</i>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="O" id="O"></a><span class="smcap">Oak</span>, <a href="#page_108">108</a>.<br />

Oaks, <a href="#page_109">109</a>.<br />

Odd Fellows’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Odessa Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Old Barge House, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Old Black Bull, <a href="#page_65">65</a>.<br />

Old Boar’s Head, <a href="#page_69">69</a>.<br />

Old Chequers, <a href="#page_161">161</a>.<br />

Old Coach and Horses, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Old Cock, <a href="#page_98">98</a>.<br />

Old Crooked Billet, <a href="#page_162">162</a>.<br />

Old Crown, <a href="#page_165">165</a>.<br />

Old Dog, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Old English Gentleman, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Old Falcon, <a href="#page_93">93</a>.<br />

Old Four Swans, <a href="#page_97">97</a>.<br />

Old George, <a href="#page_128">128</a>.<br />

Old Greyhound, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Old King’s Head, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Old Maypole, <a href="#page_115">115</a>.<br />

Old Mill, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Old Oak, <a href="#page_108">108</a>.<br />

Old Royal Oak, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Old Ship, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

Old Star, <a href="#page_152">152</a>.<br />

Old Swan, <a href="#page_94">94</a>.<br />

Old Thatched House, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Old Three Crowns, <a href="#page_167">167</a>.<br />

Old Times, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Old Whalebone, <a href="#page_83">83</a>.<br />

Old Welcome Sailor, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Old White Horse, <a href="#page_56">56</a>.<br />

Old White Lion, <a href="#page_60">60</a>.<br />

Old Windmill and Bells, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_154">154</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Oliver Twist, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

One Bell, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Orange Tree, <a href="#page_108">108</a>.<br />

Ordnance Arms, <a href="#page_44">44</a>, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

<i>Origin of Signs</i>, <a href="#page_1">1</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>.<br />

<i>Ornithological Signs</i>, <a href="#page_91">91</a>.<br />

<i>Ovine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_78">78</a>.<br />

Owl, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Oxford Arms,* <a href="#page_2">2</a>.<br />

Oyster Smack, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="P" id="P"></a><span class="smcap">Packet</span>, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Pair of Scales, <a href="#page_33">33</a>.<br />

Palace Arms,* <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Park End (Beer-house), <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Paul Pry, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Paviors’ Arms,* <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Peacock, <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Peacock Pie,* <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Pestle and Mortar, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Peter Boat, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

Peto Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Petre’s Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Phœnix, <a href="#page_102">102</a>.<br />

<i>Pictorial Signs</i>, <a href="#page_6">6</a>.<br />

Pier (Hotel), <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Pig and Tinder-box,* <a href="#page_23">23</a>.<br />

Pig and Whistle, <a href="#page_74">74</a>.<br />

Pig in the Pound, <a href="#page_74">74</a>.<br />

<i>Piscatory Signs</i>, <a href="#page_103">103</a>.<br />

Pitt’s Head, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Plough, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_170">170</a>.<br />

Plough and Harrow, <a href="#page_170">170</a>.<br />

Plough and Sail, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_146">146</a>, <a href="#page_170">170</a>.<br />

Plume of Feathers, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Pointer, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

<i>Porcine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_68">68</a>.<br />

Portcullis,* <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

Poulterers’ Arms, <a href="#page_36">36</a>.<br />

Prince Albert Victor, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Prince Alfred, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Prince of Orange, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Prince of Wales, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Prince of Wales’ Head, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Princess Alexandra, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Princess Alice, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Princess of Wales, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Privateer, <a href="#page_147">147</a>.<br />

Punch Bowl, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

<i>Punning Signs</i>, <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

Pye’s Bridge (Tavern), <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="Q" id="Q"></a><span class="smcap">Quart</span> Pot, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Queen, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Queen Adelaide, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Queen Elizabeth, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Queen Victoria, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Queen’s Arms, <a href="#page_43">43</a>, <a href="#page_59">59</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Queen’s Head, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_43">43</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Quiet Woman,* <a href="#page_140">140</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="R" id="R"></a><span class="smcap">Rabbit</span>,* <a href="#page_78">78</a>.<br />

Rabbits, <a href="#page_77">77</a>.<br />

Railway Arms, <a href="#page_44">44</a>, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Railway Bell, <a href="#page_157">157</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Railway (Hotel), <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Railway (Inn), <a href="#page_26">26</a>, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Railway (Tavern), <a href="#page_26">26</a>, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

Rainbow, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Rainbow and Dove, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Ram, <a href="#page_80">80</a>.<br />

Raven, <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Rayleigh Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<i>Rebus Signs</i>, <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

Red Bull, <a href="#page_65">65</a>.<br />

Red Cow, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_66">66</a>.<br />

Red Cross, <a href="#page_163">163</a>.<br />

Red House, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_153">153</a>, <a href="#page_156">156</a>.<br />

Red Lion, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_60">60</a>.<br />

Red Rose, <a href="#page_117">117</a>.<br />

Red Tape (Tavern), <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Reindeer, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_48">48</a>, <a href="#page_49">49</a>.<br />

<i>Reptilian Signs</i>, <a href="#page_103">103</a>.<br />

Rifleman, <a href="#page_128">128</a>, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Rising Sun, <a href="#page_6">6</a>, <a href="#page_148">148</a>.<br />

Robin Hood, <a href="#page_138">138</a>.<br />

Robin Hood and Little John, <a href="#page_138">138</a>.<br />

Rod and Fish, <a href="#page_2">2</a>.<br />

Rodney, <a href="#page_122">122</a>.<br />

Roebuck, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_48">48</a>.<br />

Roll of Tobacco, <a href="#page_172">172</a>, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Roman Arms, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_44">44</a>, <a href="#page_155">155</a>.<br />

Roman Urn, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_44">44</a>, <a href="#page_155">155</a>.<br />

Romford Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Rose, <a href="#page_116">116</a>.<br />

Rose and Crown, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_96">96</a>, <a href="#page_116">116</a>.<br />

Rose of Denmark, <a href="#page_119">119</a>.<br />

Round Bush, <a href="#page_108">108</a>.<br />

Royal Albert, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal Arms, <a href="#page_30">30</a>, <a href="#page_31">31</a>, <a href="#page_43">43</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal Artillery, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Royal Essex Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal Forest (Hotel), <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal (Hotel), <a href="#page_34">34</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal (Inn), <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal Mortar, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Royal Oak, <a href="#page_108">108</a>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

<i>Royal Signs</i>, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal Sovereign, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Royal Standard, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Royal Steamer, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Running Mare, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="S" id="S"></a><span class="smcap">Sail</span>,* <a href="#page_146">146</a>.<br />

Sailor and Ball, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Sailor’s Return, <a href="#page_123">123</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

St. Ann’s Castle, <a href="#page_141">141</a>.<br />

Saracen’s Head, <a href="#page_138">138</a>.<br />

Sawyers’ Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Scales and Wheatsheaf, <a href="#page_33">33</a>.<br />

Sea Horse, <a href="#page_82">82</a>.<br />

Shakespeare’s Head, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Shears, <a href="#page_5">5</a>, <a href="#page_40">40</a>, <a href="#page_79">79</a>.<br />

Sheep, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

Sheep and Anchor,* <a href="#page_24">24</a>.<br />

Shepherd and Dog, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Ship, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_23">23</a>, <a href="#page_81">81</a>, <a href="#page_143">143</a>.<br />

Ship and Anchor, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

Ship and Excise Office, <a href="#page_147">147</a>.<br />

Ship and Shovel, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

Ship at Launch, <a href="#page_147">147</a>.<br />

Ship Launch, <a href="#page_147">147</a>.<br />

Shoulder of Mutton, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

Shuttle, <a href="#page_40">40</a>.<br />

Sidney Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

<i>Sign Irons</i>, <a href="#page_12">12</a>.<br />

Silent Woman, <a href="#page_140">140</a>.<br />

Sir Colin Campbell, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Sir Evelyn Wood, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Sir John Lawrence, <a href="#page_121">121</a>.<br />

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, <a href="#page_122">122</a>.<br />

Six Bells, <a href="#page_6">6</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_110">110</a>, <a href="#page_159">159</a>.<br />

Slaters’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Slip (Inn),* <a href="#page_175">175</a>.<br />

Smack, <a href="#page_144">144</a>.<br />

Soldier, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Soldiers’ Hope, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Soldiers’ (Hotel), <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Sol’s Arms,* <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Spencers’ Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Spotted Cow, <a href="#page_67">67</a>.<br />

Spotted Dog, <a href="#page_6">6</a>, <a href="#page_75">75</a>.<br />

Spread Eagle, <a href="#page_91">91</a>.<br />

Squirrel’s Head, <a href="#page_82">82</a>.<br />

Stag, <a href="#page_49">49</a>.<br />

Stag’s Head, <a href="#page_49">49</a>.<br />

Star, <a href="#page_150">150</a>.<br />

Star and Anchor, <a href="#page_152">152</a>.<br />

Star and Fleece, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_79">79</a>, <a href="#page_152">152</a>.<br />

Star and Garter, <a href="#page_21">21</a>, <a href="#page_152">152</a>.<br />

Star of Denmark, <a href="#page_152">152</a>.<br />

Steamship, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

Still, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Stores, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Struggling Man, <a href="#page_142">142</a>.<br />

Sultan, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Sun, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_148">148</a>.<br />

Sun and Anchor, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_147">147</a>, <a href="#page_150">150</a>.<br />

Sun and Whalebone, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_22">22</a>, <a href="#page_83">83</a>, <a href="#page_150">150</a>.<br />

Sunderland Arms, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Sussex Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Sutherland Arms, <a href="#page_24">24</a>, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Sutton Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Swan, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_94">94</a>.<br />

Swan with Two Necks, <a href="#page_97">97</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="T" id="T"></a><span class="smcap">Tabard</span>,* <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

Tailors’ Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Talbot, <a href="#page_76">76</a>.<br />

<i>Taylor, the Water Poet</i>, <a href="#page_28">28</a>.<br />

Telegraph, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Temple, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Thatched House, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Thatchers’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Theobald’s Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Theydon Oak, <a href="#page_109">109</a>.<br />

Thorn, <a href="#page_108">108</a>.<br />

Thorough (Inn), <a href="#page_101">101</a>.<br />

Three Ashes, <a href="#page_17">17</a>, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Three Blackbirds, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Three Choughs,* <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Three Colts, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Three Compasses, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_35">35</a>.<br />

Three Conies, <a href="#page_25">25</a>, <a href="#page_78">78</a>.<br />

Three Crowns, <a href="#page_6">6</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_40">40</a>, <a href="#page_167">167</a>.<br />

Three Crows,* <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

Three Cups, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_36">36</a>.<br />

Three Elms, <a href="#page_17">17</a>, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Three Fiddlers, <a href="#page_123">123</a>.<br />

Three Fishes,* <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

Three Fleurs-de-lys, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_29">29</a>.<br />

Three Goats’ Heads,* <a href="#page_82">82</a>.<br />

Three Golden Balls, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

Three Hats, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Three Horse Shoes, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_19">19</a>, <a href="#page_40">40</a>, <a href="#page_58">58</a>, <a href="#page_169">169</a>.<br />

Three Jolly Wheelers, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_17">17</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Three Kings,* <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Three Mariners, <a href="#page_17">17</a>, <a href="#page_123">123</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Three Pigeons, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_19">19</a>, <a href="#page_38">38</a>.<br />

Three Queens, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Three Rabbits, <a href="#page_78">78</a>.<br />

Three Ravens,* <a href="#page_100">100</a>.<br />

<i>“Three” Signs</i>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>.<br />

Three Squirrels, <a href="#page_82">82</a>.<br />

Three Stags’ Heads, <a href="#page_49">49</a>.<br />

Three Sugar Loaves, <a href="#page_38">38</a>, <a href="#page_110">110</a>.<br />

Three Tobacco Pipes, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Three Travellers, <a href="#page_125">125</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Three Tuns, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_19">19</a>, <a href="#page_32">32</a>.<br />

Tidal Basin (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Title Deed (Tavern), <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Tobacco Roll, <a href="#page_172">172</a>, <a href="#page_173">173</a>.<br />

<i>Tokens</i>, <a href="#page_27">27</a>.<br />

Toll House, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Tower Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Tower Hamlets Arms, <a href="#page_31">31</a>.<br />

Town of Ayr, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Trafalgar (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Travellers’ Friend, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Travellers’ Rest, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Tree, <a href="#page_25">25</a>, <a href="#page_109">109</a>.<br />

Trossachs (Hotel), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Trowel and Hammer, <a href="#page_36">36</a>.<br />

Tulip, <a href="#page_111">111</a>.<br />

Two Brewers, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Two Cocks,* <a href="#page_25">25</a>.<br />

Two Fishes, <a href="#page_103">103</a>.<br />

Two Hurdles, <a href="#page_170">170</a>.<br />

Two Pipes Crossed, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Two Swords Crossed, <a href="#page_35">35</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="U" id="U"></a><span class="smcap">Unicorn</span>, <a href="#page_89">89</a>.<br />

Union Flag, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

United (Beer-house), <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

United Brethren, <a href="#page_155">155</a>.<br />

<i>Ursine Signs</i>, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="V-i" id="V-i"></a><span class="smcap">Vernon</span>’s Head, <a href="#page_122">122</a>.<br />

Victoria, <a href="#page_124">124</a>, <a href="#page_125">125</a>.<br />

Victoria Arms, <a href="#page_43">43</a>.<br />

Village Maid, <a href="#page_139">139</a>.<br />

Vine, <a href="#page_111">111</a>.<br />

Viper, <a href="#page_106">106</a>.<br />

Virgin’s (Tavern), <a href="#page_142">142</a>.<br />

Volunteer, <a href="#page_129">129</a>.<br />

Volunteers’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>, <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="W" id="W"></a><span class="smcap">Waddington</span> Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Waggon, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Waggon and Horses, <a href="#page_57">57</a>, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Wake Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Walmer Castle, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Walnut Tree, <a href="#page_108">108</a>.<br />

Warren (Inn), <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Waterloo Arms,* <a href="#page_44">44</a>.<br />

Waterloo (Tavern), <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Waterman’s Arms, <a href="#page_35">35</a>.<br />

Weavers’ Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Welcome Sailor, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Wellington, <a href="#page_120">120</a>.<br />

Welch Harp, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Western Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

Whalebone, <a href="#page_83">83</a>.<br />

Wheatsheaf, <a href="#page_33">33</a>, <a href="#page_115">115</a>.<br />

Wheelers’ Arms, <a href="#page_33">33</a>.<br />

Wherry, <a href="#page_145">145</a>.<br />

White Bear, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_81">81</a>.<br />

White Boar,* <a href="#page_72">72</a>.<br />

White Greyhound,* <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_18">18</a>.<br />

White Hart, <a href="#page_2">2</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_13">13</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_25">25</a>, <a href="#page_52">52</a>, <a href="#page_61">61</a>, <a href="#page_165">165</a>.<br />

White Heart, <a href="#page_25">25</a>, <a href="#page_55">55</a>.<br />

White Horse, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_18">18</a>, <a href="#page_56">56</a>.<br />

White Lion, <a href="#page_6">6</a>, <a href="#page_7">7</a>, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_59">59</a>, <a href="#page_60">60</a>.<br />

White Rose, <a href="#page_117">117</a>.<br />

White Swan, <a href="#page_16">16</a>, <a href="#page_94">94</a>.<br />

Wig and Fidget, <a href="#page_171">171</a>.<br />

Wilkes Arms, <a href="#page_42">42</a>.<br />

William IV., <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

William the Conqueror, <a href="#page_124">124</a>.<br />

Willows, <a href="#page_107">107</a>.<br />

Windmill, <a href="#page_154">154</a>.<br />

Windsor Castle, <a href="#page_153">153</a>.<br />

Wolf, <a href="#page_77">77</a>.<br />

Woman Spinning, <a href="#page_40">40</a>.<br />

Woodcutters’ Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Wooden Pail, <a href="#page_172">172</a>.<br />

Woodford Wells, <a href="#page_57">57</a>.<br />

Woodman, <a href="#page_130">130</a>.<br />

Woolpack, <a href="#page_5">5</a>, <a href="#page_39">39</a>, <a href="#page_79">79</a>.<br />

World’s End, <a href="#page_157">157</a>.<br />

<br />
<a name="Y" id="Y"></a><span class="smcap">Yachtsman</span>’s Arms, <a href="#page_41">41</a>.<br />

Yorkshire Grey, <a href="#page_56">56</a>.<br />
</p>

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<p><i>In the Press, and shortly will be Published, Fcap. 8vo, about 225
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<p class="cb"><big>D U R R A N T ’ S</big></p>

<p class="cb"><big><big>HANDBOOK FOR ESSEX.</big></big></p>

<p class="c">A GUIDE TO</p>

<p class="c">The Principal Objects of Interest in each Parish in the County, for the
use of Tourists and others,</p>

<p class="c">WITH AN INTRODUCTION,</p>

<p class="c">Treating of its</p>

<p class="c">HISTORY, GEOLOGY, AREA, POPULATION, LITERATURE, ANTIQUITIES, WORTHIES,
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<p class="c">BY</p>

<p class="c"><b>MILLER CHRISTY</b>,</p>

<p class="c">Author of “The Trade Signs of Essex,” “Our Empire,” “The Genus Primula
in Essex,” “Manitoba Described.”</p>

<p><i>WITH A MAP AND PLANS.</i></p>

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<i>To be issued by Subscription in the course of 1887.</i><br />
<br />
<span class="eng"><big><big>The Ancient Sepulchral Monuments<br />
of Essex.</big></big></span><br />
<br />
<span class="smcap">By</span> FRED. CHANCELLOR, <span class="smcap">Architect</span>, F.R.I.B.A.<br />
</p>

<p class="nind"><span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_u.jpg"
class="drop-cap"
width="61" height="64"
alt="U"
/></span>NDER this title it is proposed to publish a Work containing
Illustrations, with descriptive text, of the principal Altar Tombs,
Effigies, Mural Tablets, and other Memorial Monuments of a date prior to
the year 1700, now to be found in the Parish Churches and other places
in the County of Essex.</p>

<p>The Illustrations will all be drawn to scale from measurements taken on
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<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> <i>The History of Sign-boards, From the Earliest Times to the
Present Day.</i> By Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten. London, 1867. In
this otherwise excellent work there is, unfortunately, no connection
between the illustrations and the letterpress.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Vol. viii. No. 27, p. 175 <i>et seq.</i></p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Reprinted in 1872 from the <i>Transactions of the Devonshire
Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science, and Art</i>. 93 pp.
8vo.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Geneva: Grosset et Trembley, 1878, 8vo, 542 pp.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Edited by le Bibliophile Jacob, with appendix,
frontispiece, 84 wood-engravings, and a Map of Paris in the Fifteenth
Century. Paris: E. Dentu, 1884.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Paris and Rouen, 1852, 8vo, 131 pp.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> India proofs have also been struck off, and may be obtained
separately, price 1s., from Messrs. Edm. Durrant &amp; Co., Chelmsford.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> For an explanation of this, and all other heraldic terms
hereafter, see the Glossary of such terms, given as an Appendix, at the
end.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> “Supporters,” as explained in the Glossary at the end, are
the animals represented as holding up or <i>supporting</i> the shields of
arms of royal and other distinguished personages. They are referred to
in an amusing manner by the inimitably comic Dickens, who, in <i>Little
Dorrit</i>, puts into the mouth of his by no means pleasant character,
Flora Finch, the description of them quoted at the head of the following
chapter.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> <i>Historic Devices, Badges, and War Cries</i>, p. 2.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> <i>Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century</i>, &amp;c. By William
Boyne, F.S.A. London, 1858.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> Quarterly: first and fourth, gules; three lions passant
guardant in pale, or, for England, &amp;c.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> These are commonly blazoned as follows, but they belong
equally to Middlesex, and in reality no county possesses arms:&mdash;Gules,
three seaxes proper, hilts and pomels or, points to sinister.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> Gules; two staves raguly and couped, one in pale
surmounted by another in fess, both argent, between two ducal coronets
in chief or, and the bottom of the staff enfiled with another of the
last.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> Azure; three lions passant, regardant, in pale or.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> Azure; three roses, two and one, in base, or; in chief as
many lilies, argent, stalked and leaved vert; all within a bordure gules
charged with eight plates.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> Gules; a portcullis with chains pendant, or, nailed and
pointed azure.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18"><span class="label">[18]</span></a> Argent; a cross of St. George; cantoned in the first
quarter, a dagger erect, gules.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19"><span class="label">[19]</span></a> Sable; a chevron or, between three hammers argent, handled
of the second, ducally crowned of the last.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20"><span class="label">[20]</span></a> Gules; on a chevron argent between three pair of barley
garbs in saltire or, three tuns sable, hooped of the third.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> Sable; a chevron between three tuns argent.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22"><span class="label">[22]</span></a> Gules; a balance between three garbs or; on a chief, a
hand supporting the balance, &amp;c.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23"><span class="label">[23]</span></a> Gules; a demi-virgin couped below the shoulders, issuing
from clouds all proper, vested or, crowned with an eastern crown of the
last, her hair dishevelled and wreathed around the temples with roses of
the second, all within an orle of clouds proper.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24"><span class="label">[24]</span></a> Azure; on a chevron between three towers argent, a pair of
compasses open sable.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25"><span class="label">[25]</span></a> A landscape, the base variegated with flowers, a man
proper, vested round the loins with linen argent, digging with a spade,
all of the first.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label">[26]</span></a> Gules; a chevron between three wheels, or, on a chief
argent, an axe lying fessways proper.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27"><span class="label">[27]</span></a> Azure; a chevron or; in chief a fleur-de-lys argent
between two brick axes paleways of the second; in base a bundle of laths
of the last.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> <i>More about Stifford</i>, p. 95.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> Azure; two slaughter axes indorsed in saltire argent,
handled or, between three bulls’ heads couped of the second, two in
fess, one in base; on a chief argent, a boar’s head couped, gules,
between two block-brushes vert.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> Argent; a chevron engrailed between three pairs of
compasses, extended, sable.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Gyronny of eight, gules and sable; on a chevron between
three annulets or, a grose between two adzes azure; on a chief vert,
three lilies slipped, stalked and leaved argent.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32"><span class="label">[32]</span></a> Gules; three pairs of swords in saltire argent, hilts and
pomels or, two pair in chief and one in base.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33"><span class="label">[33]</span></a> Barry-wavy of six, argent and azure; on the middle bar a
boat, or; on a chief of the second two bars in saltire, of the third,
between two cushions of the first, tasselled or.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34"><span class="label">[34]</span></a> Argent; on a Chevron between three storks gules, as many
swans proper.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35"><span class="label">[35]</span></a> Azure; on a chevron engrailed or, between two plasterers’
hammers and a trowel argent in chief and a flat brush in base, a rose,
&amp;c.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_36_36" id="Footnote_36_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_36_36"><span class="label">[36]</span></a> Per chevron, azure and gules; three covered
sprinkling-salts argent.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_37_37" id="Footnote_37_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> Journal of a very young Lady’s Tour from Canonbury to
Aldborough, through Chelmsford, Sudbury, and Ipswich, and back through
Harwich, Colchester, &amp;c., September 13-21, 1804. Only 24 copies printed.
16 pp., 8vo.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_38_38" id="Footnote_38_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_38_38"><span class="label">[38]</span></a> Azure; on a mount in base vert, the tree of paradise
environed with the serpent between Adam and Eve, all proper.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_39_39" id="Footnote_39_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_39_39"><span class="label">[39]</span></a> Per fess, azure and argent; a pale counter-changed; three
doves of the last, each holding in the beak an olive-branch or.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_40_40" id="Footnote_40_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_40_40"><span class="label">[40]</span></a> Quarterly; first and fourth sable; a chevron between three
fleams argent; second and third per pale, argent and vert, &amp;c.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_41_41" id="Footnote_41_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_41_41"><span class="label">[41]</span></a> Argent; a chevron gules between nine cloves sable, three,
three and three.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_42_42" id="Footnote_42_42"></a><a href="#FNanchor_42_42"><span class="label">[42]</span></a> Gules; a woolpack argent.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_43_43" id="Footnote_43_43"></a><a href="#FNanchor_43_43"><span class="label">[43]</span></a> Azure; Apollo proper, a bow in left hand and an arrow in
the right or, supplanting a serpent argent.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_44_44" id="Footnote_44_44"></a><a href="#FNanchor_44_44"><span class="label">[44]</span></a> Azure; three clouds proper, radiated in base, or each
surmounted with a triple crown or.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_45_45" id="Footnote_45_45"></a><a href="#FNanchor_45_45"><span class="label">[45]</span></a> Ermine; on a chief gules, three princes’ crowns composed
of crosses pattée and fleurs-de-lys or.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_46_46" id="Footnote_46_46"></a><a href="#FNanchor_46_46"><span class="label">[46]</span></a> Argent; three horseshoes sable, pierced of the field.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_47_47" id="Footnote_47_47"></a><a href="#FNanchor_47_47"><span class="label">[47]</span></a> Sable; a chevron ermine between two habicks in chief
argent and a teazle in base, slipped, or.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_48_48" id="Footnote_48_48"></a><a href="#FNanchor_48_48"><span class="label">[48]</span></a> Azure; on a chevron argent between three leopards’ heads,
each having in the mouth a shuttle or, as many roses gules, seeded of
the third, barbed vert.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_49_49" id="Footnote_49_49"></a><a href="#FNanchor_49_49"><span class="label">[49]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, vol. v. p. 77.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_50_50" id="Footnote_50_50"></a><a href="#FNanchor_50_50"><span class="label">[50]</span></a> A once-famous coaching house mentioned by Dickens in
<i>Pickwick</i>.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_51_51" id="Footnote_51_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_51_51"><span class="label">[51]</span></a> Dale’s <i>Annals of Coggeshall</i>, p. 261.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_52_52" id="Footnote_52_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_52_52"><span class="label">[52]</span></a> Ibid. p. 265.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_53_53" id="Footnote_53_53"></a><a href="#FNanchor_53_53"><span class="label">[53]</span></a> Barry nebulée of six, argent and azure; on a bend gules, a
lion passant guardant or.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_54_54" id="Footnote_54_54"></a><a href="#FNanchor_54_54"><span class="label">[54]</span></a> Argent; three lions rampant azure, armed and langued
gules. Crest and supporters, the same device in different positions.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_55_55" id="Footnote_55_55"></a><a href="#FNanchor_55_55"><span class="label">[55]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, N. S., vol. i. p. 153.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_56_56" id="Footnote_56_56"></a><a href="#FNanchor_56_56"><span class="label">[56]</span></a> Only a single copy is now known to exist of this
remarkable production of the effusive Walden poet and would-be wit,
Robert Winstanley.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_57_57" id="Footnote_57_57"></a><a href="#FNanchor_57_57"><span class="label">[57]</span></a> It is interesting, too, to note that tokens are still in
existence, inscribed “Henry Woodley, 1657, at Newport Pond, H. W.” This,
in all probability, was the “Mr. Woo ...” mentioned by Poor Robin.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_58_58" id="Footnote_58_58"></a><a href="#FNanchor_58_58"><span class="label">[58]</span></a> <i>Arms</i> (see p. 34). <i>Crest</i>: On a wreath a Flying Bull
argent, wings endorsed or, armed and hoofed of the last, over the head a
small circle of glory, proper. <i>Supporters</i>: Two Flying Bulls argent,
winged, armed and hoofed or, over each head a small circle of glory,
proper.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_59_59" id="Footnote_59_59"></a><a href="#FNanchor_59_59"><span class="label">[59]</span></a> Fifth Series, vol. xii. p. 328.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_60_60" id="Footnote_60_60"></a><a href="#FNanchor_60_60"><span class="label">[60]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Archæological Soc.</i>, N. S., vol. ii. part
iv. p. 335.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_61_61" id="Footnote_61_61"></a><a href="#FNanchor_61_61"><span class="label">[61]</span></a> See <i>post</i>.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_62_62" id="Footnote_62_62"></a><a href="#FNanchor_62_62"><span class="label">[62]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, vol. ii. p. 128.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_63_63" id="Footnote_63_63"></a><a href="#FNanchor_63_63"><span class="label">[63]</span></a> Azure; a fleece or; on a chief of the last, three mullets
of five points of the first.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_64_64" id="Footnote_64_64"></a><a href="#FNanchor_64_64"><span class="label">[64]</span></a> Dale’s <i>Annals of Coggeshall</i>, p. 267.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_65_65" id="Footnote_65_65"></a><a href="#FNanchor_65_65"><span class="label">[65]</span></a> A mount vert, thereon a ram statant.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_66_66" id="Footnote_66_66"></a><a href="#FNanchor_66_66"><span class="label">[66]</span></a> Argent; a royal tent between two parliament robes gules,
lined ermine; on a chief azure, a lion passant guardant or. <i>Crest</i>: On
a mount vert, a lamb passant argent, holding a banner of the last, staff
proper, on the banner a cross pattée gules within a glory of the third.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_67_67" id="Footnote_67_67"></a><a href="#FNanchor_67_67"><span class="label">[67]</span></a> An elephant argent, armed or, on his back a tower of the
first, the trappings, &amp;c., of the second.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_68_68" id="Footnote_68_68"></a><a href="#FNanchor_68_68"><span class="label">[68]</span></a> Azure; a chevron or, between three goats’ heads erased
argent.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_69_69" id="Footnote_69_69"></a><a href="#FNanchor_69_69"><span class="label">[69]</span></a> It is worth mention here that in the <i>Account of the
Trials of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffries</i>, published in 1752,
reference is made (p. 10) to a certain “John Mills [who resided] at the
<span class="smcap">Why not beat Dragon?</span> at Mile End.” This most extraordinary sign,
however, is just outside Essex. Larwood and Hotten do not allude to it.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_70_70" id="Footnote_70_70"></a><a href="#FNanchor_70_70"><span class="label">[70]</span></a> On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an eagle, wings
extended or, preying on an infant in its cradle proper, swaddled gules,
the cradle laced gules.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_71_71" id="Footnote_71_71"></a><a href="#FNanchor_71_71"><span class="label">[71]</span></a> Lowestoft, 1867.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_72_72" id="Footnote_72_72"></a><a href="#FNanchor_72_72"><span class="label">[72]</span></a> Dale’s <i>Annals of Coggeshall</i>, p. 160.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_73_73" id="Footnote_73_73"></a><a href="#FNanchor_73_73"><span class="label">[73]</span></a> Ibid. p. 261.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_74_74" id="Footnote_74_74"></a><a href="#FNanchor_74_74"><span class="label">[74]</span></a> <i>Vide Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, N. S., vol. iii. part i.
p. 74.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_75_75" id="Footnote_75_75"></a><a href="#FNanchor_75_75"><span class="label">[75]</span></a> Dale’s <i>Annals of Coggeshall</i>, p. 79.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_76_76" id="Footnote_76_76"></a><a href="#FNanchor_76_76"><span class="label">[76]</span></a> Three Cocks.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_77_77" id="Footnote_77_77"></a><a href="#FNanchor_77_77"><span class="label">[77]</span></a> Azure; three crowned dolphins in pale between two pairs of
crowned lucies saltire; on a chief, three pairs of keys in saltire.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_78_78" id="Footnote_78_78"></a><a href="#FNanchor_78_78"><span class="label">[78]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, vol. ii. p. 128.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_79_79" id="Footnote_79_79"></a><a href="#FNanchor_79_79"><span class="label">[79]</span></a> Reprinted in <i>Notes and Queries</i> for January 15, 1859.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_80_80" id="Footnote_80_80"></a><a href="#FNanchor_80_80"><span class="label">[80]</span></a> This amusing and curious tract has since been reproduced
in facsimile, illustration and all, with an introduction by the author
of this work. It may be obtained from Mr. Wm. Masland, Bookseller, of
Saffron Walden, price 6d.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_81_81" id="Footnote_81_81"></a><a href="#FNanchor_81_81"><span class="label">[81]</span></a> See a list of many of his effusions, by Mr. H. Ecroyd
Smith, in <i>Notes and Queries</i> for April 28, 1883 (p. 321).</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_82_82" id="Footnote_82_82"></a><a href="#FNanchor_82_82"><span class="label">[82]</span></a> 1780, vol. i. p. 355.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_83_83" id="Footnote_83_83"></a><a href="#FNanchor_83_83"><span class="label">[83]</span></a> Vol. iii. p. 109.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_84_84" id="Footnote_84_84"></a><a href="#FNanchor_84_84"><span class="label">[84]</span></a> First Series, vol. x. p. 32.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_85_85" id="Footnote_85_85"></a><a href="#FNanchor_85_85"><span class="label">[85]</span></a> Azure; a chevron, per pale and per chevron, gules and
argent counterchanged, between three garbs or; on a chief argent, a St.
Julian’s cross sable.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_86_86" id="Footnote_86_86"></a><a href="#FNanchor_86_86"><span class="label">[86]</span></a> The use of the term “Tom and Jerry” has already been
mentioned (p. 26).</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_87_87" id="Footnote_87_87"></a><a href="#FNanchor_87_87"><span class="label">[87]</span></a> A usurer.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_88_88" id="Footnote_88_88"></a><a href="#FNanchor_88_88"><span class="label">[88]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, vol. i. p. 125.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_89_89" id="Footnote_89_89"></a><a href="#FNanchor_89_89"><span class="label">[89]</span></a> <i>Historic Devices, Badges</i>, &amp;c., p. 386.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_90_90" id="Footnote_90_90"></a><a href="#FNanchor_90_90"><span class="label">[90]</span></a> A demi-woman, hair flowing proper, vested gules holding in
the dexter hand three roses, slipped and leaved vert.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_91_91" id="Footnote_91_91"></a><a href="#FNanchor_91_91"><span class="label">[91]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, N. S., vol. ii. part iv. p.
400.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_92_92" id="Footnote_92_92"></a><a href="#FNanchor_92_92"><span class="label">[92]</span></a> A view of the house is given in Lord Braybrooke’s <i>History
of Audley End and Walden</i> (p. 153).</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_93_93" id="Footnote_93_93"></a><a href="#FNanchor_93_93"><span class="label">[93]</span></a> Quarterly, gules and or; in the first quarter a mullet
argent.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_94_94" id="Footnote_94_94"></a><a href="#FNanchor_94_94"><span class="label">[94]</span></a> Palin’s <i>Stifford</i>, p. 82.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_95_95" id="Footnote_95_95"></a><a href="#FNanchor_95_95"><span class="label">[95]</span></a> Sable; on a chevron between three castles argent, a pair
of compasses of the first.</p></div>

<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_96_96" id="Footnote_96_96"></a><a href="#FNanchor_96_96"><span class="label">[96]</span></a> <i>Trans. Essex Arch. Soc.</i>, vol. ii. p. 128.</p></div>
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