mentions a BELL at Romford, probably the same house. The sign of the FIVE BELLS occurs at Vange and Colne Engaine. At the latter place there are five church bells, but at the former only one, although there may formerly have been more. There was another example of the sign at Bocking forty years ago, when perhaps there were only five bells there. Now, however, there are _six_, and the sign of the SIX BELLS (probably the same house) appears there, as also at Dunmow and Great Waltham. At the former place there are six bells, but at the latter eight. At Boreham a beer-house is known as the SIX BELLS, that being the number at that place. At Mashbury is a cottage still known as the BELLS. In a MS. dated 1761 it is spoken of as the FIVE BELLS, and was probably then an inn with that sign, though no church in the immediate vicinity has that number of bells. The sign of the EIGHT BELLS appears at *Saffron Walden, Great Tey, Belchamp Walter, and Bures Hamlet, at all of which there seem to be peals of eight bells. In addition to these, we have a NEW BELL at Harwich, and two RAILWAY BELLS, one near the station at Maldon, and the other in Trinity Street, Halstead. The bell also enters into numerous combinations, most of which are impalements, and therefore quite meaningless. Thus we have a BELL AND ANCHOR at Canning Town, a COACH AND BELL (a sign not referred to in the _History of Sign-boards_) at Romford, the OLD WINDMILL AND BELLS, also at Romford, and examples of the COCK AND BELL at High Easter, Writtle, and Romford. The latter has apparently been in existence since 1786, as it is mentioned in the _Chelmsford Chronicle_ for January 13th in that year. Twenty years ago there was a BELL AND FEATHERS at Stanstead, which seems now to have returned to the use of its former sign, which was a BELL simply (see p. 102). Though the fact is not mentioned by Boyne, tokens with the following inscriptions are extant: “George Perrin at y^{e} Bell in Stanstead. His Half Peny. 1669.” The same house and the same landlord are also mentioned in Poor Robin’s _Perambulation_, already referred to (p. 66). The writer (one cannot say _poet_) says: “From Ugley I next way to Stanstead travell’d, Upon a plain highway, well ston’d and gravelled. This town of Stanstead, for distinction’s sake, Doth unto itself the name Montfitchet take, From the Montfitchets, once Lords of great fame, And who erewhile were owners of the same. There at the Bell, at my old friend George Perrin’s, We drank and tippled like unto a herring; For there is ale and stale beer, strong and mighty, Will burn i’ the fire like unto _aqua vitæ_, And that the reason is, as you may know, That this Bell’s liquor makes men’s clappers go.” In 1868 there was a CLAPPER at Woodham which, perhaps, belonged to one or other of the bells just mentioned.