The Trade Signs of Essex: A popular account of the origin and meanings of the public houses & other signsChristy, Miller
Philosophy
The Trade Signs of Essex: A popular account of the origin and meanings of the public houses & other signs
Christy, Miller
Essex (England) -- Social life and customs; Hotels -- England -- Essex; Signs and signboards -- England -- Essex
[31] Gyronny of eight, gules and sable; on a chevron between three
annulets or, a grose between two adzes azure; on a chief vert, three
lilies slipped, stalked and leaved argent.
[32] Gules; three pairs of swords in saltire argent, hilts and pomels
or, two pair in chief and one in base.
[33] Barry-wavy of six, argent and azure; on the middle bar a boat,
or; on a chief of the second two bars in saltire, of the third,
between two cushions of the first, tasselled or.
[34] Argent; on a Chevron between three storks gules, as many swans
proper.
[35] Azure; on a chevron engrailed or, between two plasterers’ hammers
and a trowel argent in chief and a flat brush in base, a rose, &c.
[36] Per chevron, azure and gules; three covered sprinkling-salts
argent.
[37] Journal of a very young Lady’s Tour from Canonbury to Aldborough,
through Chelmsford, Sudbury, and Ipswich, and back through Harwich,
Colchester, &c., September 13-21, 1804. Only 24 copies printed. 16
pp., 8vo.
[38] Azure; on a mount in base vert, the tree of paradise environed
with the serpent between Adam and Eve, all proper.
[39] Per fess, azure and argent; a pale counter-changed; three doves
of the last, each holding in the beak an olive-branch or.
[40] Quarterly; first and fourth sable; a chevron between three fleams
argent; second and third per pale, argent and vert, &c.
[41] Argent; a chevron gules between nine cloves sable, three, three
and three.
[42] Gules; a woolpack argent.
[43] Azure; Apollo proper, a bow in left hand and an arrow in the
right or, supplanting a serpent argent.
[44] Azure; three clouds proper, radiated in base, or each surmounted
with a triple crown or.
[45] Ermine; on a chief gules, three princes’ crowns composed of
crosses pattée and fleurs-de-lys or.
[46] Argent; three horseshoes sable, pierced of the field.
[47] Sable; a chevron ermine between two habicks in chief argent and a
teazle in base, slipped, or.
[48] Azure; on a chevron argent between three leopards’ heads, each
having in the mouth a shuttle or, as many roses gules, seeded of the
third, barbed vert.
[49] _Trans. Essex Arch. Soc._, vol. v. p. 77.
[50] A once-famous coaching house mentioned by Dickens in _Pickwick_.
[51] Dale’s _Annals of Coggeshall_, p. 261.
[52] Ibid. p. 265.
[53] Barry nebulée of six, argent and azure; on a bend gules, a lion
passant guardant or.
[54] Argent; three lions rampant azure, armed and langued gules. Crest
and supporters, the same device in different positions.
[55] _Trans. Essex Arch. Soc._, N. S., vol. i. p. 153.
[56] Only a single copy is now known to exist of this remarkable
production of the effusive Walden poet and would-be wit, Robert
Winstanley.
[57] It is interesting, too, to note that tokens are still in
existence, inscribed “Henry Woodley, 1657, at Newport Pond, H. W.”
This, in all probability, was the “Mr. Woo ...” mentioned by Poor
Robin.
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