Irle of Essex, was slayne at the Lion by one of his Fellows and bury’d the 19th Day of Januarii.” From the first of these it appears that the inn was near the river. Taylor, in his _Catalogue of Tavernes_, also mentions the LION as one of the chief inns in Chelmsford in 1636. Whether this was the same inn afterwards known as the WHITE LION, and mentioned in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ on April 14, 1786, as then existing at Chelmsford, is hard to say. Possibly the latter house was identical with that shown with the sign of a rampant lion in the frontispiece. Its back premises would probably abut upon the river bank. The site is now occupied by an inn with the sign of the QUEEN’S ARMS. The GOLDEN LION, if it does not represent the true “lion of England,” may represent the _lion passant, guardant, or_ which appears on the arms of the Haberdashers’ Company.[53] The sign now occurs at Prittlewell, *Chelmsford, *Romford, and Rayleigh. There are also beer-shops so-called at Braintree, Hatfield Peverell, Rochford, and elsewhere. The GOLDEN LION at Rayleigh is mentioned in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for February 24, 1786. Sixty years ago another house of this name existed. A GOLDEN LION at Harwich in 1764 is also mentioned in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for that year. The sign of the BLUE LION occurs at Galleywood and at Great Baddow. Larwood and Hotten think that it “may possibly have been first put up at the marriage of James I. with Anne of Denmark.” There can, however, be very little doubt that in Essex this sign represents the arms of the Mildmay family,[54] which was once of very great influence in the county. At the time of James I. there were nine several families of this name possessed of very large estates in the county, the heads of eight of them being knights. Our nine WHITE LIONS perhaps represent the badge of Edward IV., though the Dukes of Norfolk, the Earls of Surrey, and other prominent personages have also borne _lions argent_. Forty years since an OLD WHITE LION existed at Epping, being probably the *WHITE LION which lived there in 1789 (p. 7). As he has now disappeared, it is only natural to suppose that he has died of old age. The sign-board of the existing house at Epping is fully pictorial. The WHITE LION at Waltham Abbey is mentioned in the parish registers in July, 1746, when W. Chesson (presumably the landlord) was buried. BLACK LIONS are to be seen at Plaistow, Stisted, Althorne, Layer Marney, High Roothing, and *Epping. At the last-mentioned place two houses of this name existed forty years ago, one of which has existed since 1789, at least. According to advertisements in the issues of the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for February 10 and April 14, 1786, a BLACK LION then existed at Braintree; but, unless identical with the LION AND LAMB or WHITE LION, still in existence there, it has now disappeared. Larwood and Hotten say (p. 120), “The BLACK LION is somewhat uncommon; it may have