Baronets, of Boreham House--the charge and the name of the place being very probably connected in some way in the latter case. Indeed, so far as the BOAR’S HEAD at East Horndon is concerned, there can be no doubt whatever that it represents the crest of the family of Tyrrells, Baronets (connected with the Boreham Tyrrells), formerly of Heron Hall, in the same parish, which was demolished about the year 1789. Their crest, which was _a boar’s head, couped and erect, argent, issuant out of the mouth a peacock’s tail proper_, is now correctly represented on the sign-board, exactly as upon several of the family monuments in the church. Both the sign-board and the heraldic device it bears are new, having been recently set up under the supervision of the rector of the parish. The old board, which is altogether unheraldic, is displayed over the door, and exhibits the head of an extremely ferocious-looking boar emerging from a clump of rushes in a most threatening manner. There can be very little doubt that in Essex the sign of the BLUE BOAR represents the _boar azure, armed, unguled, and bristled or_, which served as a crest, as one of the supporters, and also as one of the principal badges of the once powerful De Veres, Earls of Oxford, formerly of Hedingham Castle. This is shown to be the more probable by the fact that we have still no less than five examples of the sign in the county, while the adjacent counties of Kent, Middlesex, and Herts possess none. Elsewhere, too, the sign is very uncommon. Not a single example now appears in Surrey, Sussex, Durham, Devonshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, or Cheshire. Norfolk, Kent, and Cambridge have one each. Leicestershire and Suffolk (in which county the De Veres also had large estates) have, however, two each. In London, although there is both a BOAR’S HEAD and a BLUE BOAR’S HEAD, there is not now a BLUE BOAR. However, a tradesman’s token issued “at the Bleu Boore without Bishopsgate” in the seventeenth century still exists. Much valuable information concerning the _Blue Boar_ as used by the De Veres, is contained in a paper by the Rev. H. L. Elliot, of Gosfield, _On Some Badges and Devices of the De Veres, on the Tower of Castle Hedingham Church_.[60] Four of these--the Boar, the Mullet, the Whistle, and the Windlass--are here reproduced. [Illustration: BLUE BOAR. MULLET. WHISTLE. WINDLASS. (_Badges of the De Veres._)] [Illustration: BADGE OF THE DE VERES. (_Front the Black Boy, Chelmsford._)]