At Laindon there is a FORTUNE OF WAR, 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 TITLE DEED TAVERN 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 GOOD INTENT, 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 ENDEAVOUR, which presumably derived its name from some similar circumstance. There are beer-houses with the motto LIVE AND LET LIVE at Little Canfield, Theydon Bois, and Chadwell Heath. Another at Pitsea was, within the recollection of Mr. King, thus inscribed: “Live and let live Whod a though it;” which was intended to mean “who would have thought it?” but the landlord’s orthographical knowledge was very imperfect. The HAVERING BOWER 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. In the Roman Road at Colchester appears the sign of the ROMAN URN. 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 ROMAN ARMS. Possibly, however, this is a misprint, although the sign of the ROMAN ARMS does actually occur elsewhere, namely, in the Roman Road, London, E. Mr. Walford, in _Greater London_ (vol. i. p. 385), says that there is another example of the sign of the ROMAN URN 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. One of our very strangest signs--that of the COAL HOLE--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 COAL HOLE Tavern in the Strand. At the same place another beer-house is known as the UNITED BRETHREN, probably after a Friendly Society there; but their club-house is now the Crooked Billet.