Hidden behind a corner of the market-place at Aylesbury is the noble old _King’s Head_, presenting to a narrow turning its broad mullioned windows and Tudor entrance gateway. The interior has an open spacious staircase, and a lofty tap-room with massive oak cornice, and moulded ceiling-ribs meeting in a carved boss. It is lighted by a magnificent window, the ancient stained glass in which represents the arms of England and France quartered, the arms of Margaret of Anjou, and numerous heraldic and ecclesiastical symbols. A strong opinion exists that this house was a refectory for the Grey Friars; others have suggested that it was a hall of one of the town Guilds, built soon after the marriage of Henry VI, in 1444. With regard to the glass, there is some question whether it was not brought hither from some other position, especially as one of the heraldic shields has been reversed during insertion. But the whole apartment remains very much in its original state except that the chimney piece is ordinary and modern. [Illustration: King’s Head, Aylesbury] The yard of the old _King’s Head_ is still a busy picturesque one on market days, but the scene has lost a delightful background since the removal of the old galleries. Even finer in its carvings and the richly-moulded cornice and ceiling beams is the great hall in the _Bull_ at Long Melford. Probably this is a little earlier in date than the Aylesbury house. Unfortunately, the beauty of this exquisite hall is marred by glass partitions and modern wall decoration of an inferior quality. Three miles away at Sudbury there is another _Bull_ also of Edwardian date, full of quaint nooks and retaining its original front, altered only by the insertion of a few eighteenth-century window frames. It stands near the site of an old friary, but we are inclined to believe that it owes its name, not to a monastic origin, but to the Black Bull of the House of Clarence. [Illustration: Tap-room at the Bull, Sudbury] Other fine old inns of this period are the _New Inn_ at Gloucester, built by Abbot Seabrook from the designs of John Twyning, a monk; the _Sun_ at Feering in Essex, formerly a manor-house; and the _George_ at Glastonbury, unique in the possession of its original stone front, bold oriels and richly-traceried windows. The _Crown_ at Shipton-under-Wychwood has a fine archway in the Perpendicular style and also some mullioned windows.