Mrs. F. B. Palliser says,[89] “Queen Anne bore, as one of the supporters of her arms, one of the savage men, wreathed with ivy and bearing clubs, of Denmark, since designated and adopted for an inn-sign as the GREEN MAN.” This, however, is probably not the only origin of the sign. At the present day the sign is generally represented on Essex signboards by a gamekeeper in a green velveteen coat. At Grays there is a GREEN MAN AND BELL (beer-house), which is doubtless an impaled sign. A beer-shop at Great Chesterford displays a pictorial sign--evidently of some age--representing, apparently, the MAN AND PLOUGH. A rustic in a green smock-frock stands at the handle of his plough, politely touching his hat to passers-by. At Chelmsford and Dunmow the principal inn in each of the two towns has for its sign the SARACEN’S HEAD. The former is mentioned in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for January 6, 1786. It is also many times named in the _Trials of Swan and Jeffries_ in 1752, on account of a robbery having been committed there. It also finds mention in Mr. Joseph Strutt’s Essex and Herts romance, entitled _Queenhoo Hall_, published in 1808. The hero of the tale says (ii. p. 179) that “on my arrival at Chelmsford, I went to one of the principal inns, distinguished by the sign of the Saracen, or Man Quintain, where I took some small refreshment.” Other examples, making five in all, occur at Danbury, Braintree, and Thaxted. Though not described by Boyne, tokens, bearing a representation of a Saracen’s head, and issued by John Havers at the house of that name in Thaxted, are still extant, showing the house and its sign to be of considerable antiquity. Mr. Joseph Clarke, F.S.A., of Saffron Walden can recollect that, many years ago, the sign-board bore the representation of a man’s head with a very ferocious countenance, but the sign-board is not now pictorial. The sign owes its origin (largely, at least) to the Crusades. It was formerly much more common than now.