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. FINIS. _A GLOSSARY OF THE PRINCIPAL HERALDIC TERMS USED IN THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS._ _Affrontée_, full-faced and fronting. _Argent_, silver or white. _Azure_, blue. _Badge_, see p. 15. _Besant_, a Byzantine coin, represented in Heraldry as a round flat piece of gold, without impress. _Blazon_, the proper technical description of armorial bearings. _Charge_, an heraldic bearing or emblem. _Chequy_, a shield divided by horizontal and perpendicular lines into equal square spaces, alternately tinctured. _Chevron_, a charge resembling the rafters of a house. _Colours_, azure, gules, vert, sable, or purpure. _Couchant_, an animal lying down. _Couped_, the head or limb of any animal cut off by an even line. _Crest_, see p. 15. _Dexter_, the right hand. _Escutcheon_, a shield of arms. _Escalop_, a fan-shell, the pilgrim’s badge. _Fess_, a broad horizontal bar across the centre of a shield. _Fess dancetté_, an indented or zig-zag fess. _Field_, the ground or surface of the shield. _Guardant_, full-faced. _Gules_, red. _Impaled_, side by side on the same shield. _Issuant_, coming out of. _Lozengy_, a shield divided by transverse diagonal lines into equal lozenge-shaped spaces. _Metals_, or (gold) and argent (silver). _Or_, gold. _Ordinaries_, certain common heraldic charges, such as the fess, the pale, the chevron, &c. _Pale_, a broad perpendicular bar down the centre of the shield. _Passant_, an animal walking past. _Proper_, of natural colour. _Quartered_, or _quarterly_, a shield divided into four quarters. _Reguardant_, looking back. _Sable_, black. _Saltire_, a broad cross of St. Andrew on the shield. _Sejant_, seated. _Sinister_, left hand. _Statant_, standing. _Supporters_, animals which support the shield (see p. 14). _Vert_, green. _Volant_, flying. [Illustration] INDEX. NOTE.--_An asterisk indicates that the sign named is not noted as now occurring or as having occurred, in Essex._ Abbey Gate, 157. Adam and Eve, 37, 130. Admiral Rous, 121. _Agricultural Signs_, 170. Albert, 124. Albert House, 124. Albion, 153. Alma Arms, 44. Alma (Tavern), 154. Anchor, 7, 147. Anchor and Hope, 147. Ancient Foresters, 130. Angel, 2, 7, 67, 127, 132. Angel and Harp, 133. Angel and Trumpet,* 18. Apothecaries’ Arms, 39. Archer and Stag, 49. _Arms_, 14, 30. Artichoke, 110. Artillery-man, 128. _Astronomical Signs_, 148. Axe and Compasses, 35. Babe and Tun,* 25.