CHINGFORD: King’s Head, Bull. EPPING: White Lion, Bell, Cock, Swan, Black Lion, Epping Place, Cock and Magpie, Green Man, Globe, George, Rose and Crown, Thatched House, White Hart, Harp, White Horse, Sun, Chequers. NAZING: Chequer, Sun, Coach and Horses, Crown, King Harold’s Head. ROYDON: Fish and Eels, Black Swan, New Inn, White Hart, Green Man. WALTHAM ABBEY: Owl, Green Man, Harp, Greyhound, Ship, Cock, Chequer, Angel, Rose and Crown, Red Lion, Bull’s Head, Three Tons (_sic_), Sun, Cock, New Inn, Green Dragon, White Horse, Compasses, White Lion, King’s Arms. CHIGWELL: Three Jolly Wheelers, Roebuck, King’s Head, Maypole, Bald Hind, Fox and Hounds, Bald Stag. LOUGHTON: Reindeer, Crown, King’s Head, Plume of Feathers. MORETON: Nag’s Head, Green Man, White Hart. NORTH WEALD: Rainbow, King’s Head. STANFORD RIVERS: White Bear, Green Man. THEYDON BOIS: White Hart. THEYDON GARNON: Merry Fiddlers. GREAT HALLINGBURY: George. LATTON: Sun and Whalebone, Bush Fair House. FYFIELD: Black Bull, Queen’s Head. LAMBOURNE: White Hart, Blue Boar. HIGH LAVER: Chequer. LITTLE LAVER: Leather Bottle. MAGDALEN LAVER: Green Man. CHIPPING ONGAR: White Horse, King’s Head, Anchor, Crown, Red Lion, Bull, Cock. HIGH ONGAR: Red Lion, White Horse, Two Brewers. HARLOW: King’s Head, Black Bull, George, Green Man, White Horse, Horns and Horseshoes, Queen’s Head, Black Lion, Marquis of Granby. HATFIELD BROAD OAK: Plume of Feathers, White Horse, Cock, Duke’s Head, Bald-Faced Stag, Red Lion, Crown. SHEERING: Crown, Cock. NETTESWELL: White Horse, Chequer. GREAT PARNDON: Cock, Three Horse Shoes. In the last edition of the _London Directory_, 82 firms are still described as “sign-painters,” and in the _Essex Directory_, 10; but it is certain that most of these follow also some other trade than sign-painting. In some cases artists of eminence have been known to paint signs for inns, but there does not appear to have been any notable instances of this in Essex. As a rule our pictorial sign-boards are not works of art. That this is a common failing elsewhere, is shown by the fact that the French say of a bad portrait or picture, “qu’il n’est bon qu’à faire une enseigne à bière.” Signs, it must be admitted, are among those things which the enlightenment of this go-ahead nineteenth century is rapidly improving off the face of the earth. Yet one cannot but agree with the writer in _Frazer’s Magazine_, already quoted, who aptly observes that it is a thousand pities the old signs were ever taken down. “Men might,” he says, “read something of history (to say nothing of a hash of heraldry) in their different devices.”