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 and bought by a certain Francis Marriage, who after several law-suits resold it. A CROWN also appears on the token, dated 1667, of “Abra. Langley, iunior, of Colchester, Baymakr.” The CROWN at *Billericay (a house not now existing) is referred to in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for February 17, 1786, and the CROWN at Chesterford is referred to in the same newspaper on the 2nd of March, 1787. Daniel Defoe, in his _Tour through Great Britain_, published in 1724, also mentions the CROWN at Chesterford. Probably this is the house at Little Chesterford still known as the CROWN. The CROWN INN 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 _History and Antiquities of Essex_ (p. 262):-- “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.” The CROWN at Ilford finds mention in the Barking parish register as early as 1595.[96] Fox, in his _Book of Martyrs_, says that George Eagles, who was martyred in 1557, “was carried to the new inn, called by the sign of the CROWN, at Chelmsford” (see p. 136). The sign does not now appear there.