(_or; three ducal coronets, gules, two and one_), or from the arms of the Drapers’ or the Skinners’ Companies, which have already been given. The signs of the CROWN AND THISTLE, the CROWN AND CROOKED BILLET, and the CROWN AND ANCHOR have all been previously noticed. The CROWN AND SCEPTRE, which existed at Chelmsford in 1764, as we learn from an advertisement in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for that year, was a sign which was doubly emblematic of Royalty. It was, doubtless, merely an impalement. Sixty years ago there was a *CROWN AND PUNCH BOWL at Colchester. Doubtless, it too was merely an impaled sign. [Illustration: LEATHER BOTTLE. (_At Pleshey._)] Of the sign of the LEATHER BOTTLE 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 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 LEATHER BOTTLE. 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 SIX BELLS 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--a name it seems to have long had, it being marked on an old map published in 1802. Mr. Thos. B. Daniell writes: “Not every one has formed an opinion as to what a leather bottle was like. My father--now over eighty years of age--remembers the pictorial sign of the LEATHER BOTTLE, 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.” Portions of the Rev. Baring-Gould’s _Mehalah_ are laid at the LEATHER BOTTLE at Mersey--a fictitious name, unless there is a beer-house there with that sign.