apparently unique, be another form of it. The three kings represent the three wise men or Magi from the East. A writer in _Notes and Queries_ (1st Series, vol. viii. p. 627) says that the following rhyme was formerly appended to the sign of a VICTORIA beer-shop at Coopersale:-- “The Queen some day May pass this way And see our Tom and Jerry;[86] Perhaps she’ll stop And stand a drop To make her subjects merry.” On the other side of the sign-board were some different lines which the writer had forgotten. The sign of the KING’S HEAD is by no means of modern introduction. It occurs on the seventeenth century tokens of Robert Adson of Colchester in 1668, of Thomas Bribrist of Felstead (no date), and of Thomas Livermer of Wethersfield, and it is mentioned in advertisements in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for March 10, 1787, as then occurring at Prittlewell and Stebbing. As the sign still exists at all these places, except Felstead and Wethersfield, it is at least probable that the same houses which were known by it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known by it now. The famous KING’S HEAD, opposite the church at Chigwell, so well described by Dickens in _Barnaby Rudge_ under the name of the MAYPOLE, has been already spoken of (p. 113). It is a long, large, plastered building, with many gables, and projecting upper storeys--evidently dating from the era of the Stuarts or earlier. Arthur Young, in 1771, declares that “of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the KING’S HEAD at Tilbury.” In 1678 a KING’S HEAD at Rickling formed a house of call for Poor Robin on his _Perambulation from Saffron Walden to London_. After recounting how he fared at the BLACK BULL at Newport, he says-- “We having dined and joined a pint or two, Then forwards on my journey I did go; And first came unto a town called Rickling, Where for to stay I made no stickling, But presently at the King’s Head fell a tippling, Where of Compounding Dick[87] I there heard tell.”