The Trade Signs of Essex: A popular account of the origin and meanings of the public houses & other signs
John Stuart Mill · en
[58] _Arms_ (see p. 34). _Crest_: On a wreath a Flying Bull argent,
wings endorsed or, armed and hoofed of the last, over the head a
small circle of glory, proper. _Supporters_: Two Flying Bulls argent,
winged, armed and hoofed or, over each head a small circle of glory,
proper.
[59] Fifth Series, vol. xii. p. 328.
[60] _Trans. Essex Archæological Soc._, N. S., vol. ii. part iv. p.
335.
[61] See _post_.
[62] _Trans. Essex Arch. Soc._, vol. ii. p. 128.
[63] Azure; a fleece or; on a chief of the last, three mullets of five
points of the first.
[64] Dale’s _Annals of Coggeshall_, p. 267.
[65] A mount vert, thereon a ram statant.
[66] Argent; a royal tent between two parliament robes gules, lined
ermine; on a chief azure, a lion passant guardant or. _Crest_: On a
mount vert, a lamb passant argent, holding a banner of the last, staff
proper, on the banner a cross pattée gules within a glory of the third.
[67] An elephant argent, armed or, on his back a tower of the first,
the trappings, &c., of the second.
[68] Azure; a chevron or, between three goats’ heads erased argent.
[69] It is worth mention here that in the _Account of the Trials of
John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffries_, published in 1752, reference is
made (p. 10) to a certain “John Mills [who resided] at the WHY NOT
BEAT DRAGON? at Mile End.” This most extraordinary sign, however, is
just outside Essex. Larwood and Hotten do not allude to it.
[70] On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an eagle, wings extended
or, preying on an infant in its cradle proper, swaddled gules, the
cradle laced gules.
[71] Lowestoft, 1867.
[72] Dale’s _Annals of Coggeshall_, p. 160.
[73] Ibid. p. 261.
[74] _Vide Trans. Essex Arch. Soc._, N. S., vol. iii. part i. p. 74.
[75] Dale’s _Annals of Coggeshall_, p. 79.
[76] Three Cocks.
[77] Azure; three crowned dolphins in pale between two pairs of
crowned lucies saltire; on a chief, three pairs of keys in saltire.
[78] _Trans. Essex Arch. Soc._, vol. ii. p. 128.
[79] Reprinted in _Notes and Queries_ for January 15, 1859.
[80] This amusing and curious tract has since been reproduced in
facsimile, illustration and all, with an introduction by the author
of this work. It may be obtained from Mr. Wm. Masland, Bookseller, of
Saffron Walden, price 6d.
[81] See a list of many of his effusions, by Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith, in
_Notes and Queries_ for April 28, 1883 (p. 321).
[82] 1780, vol. i. p. 355.
[83] Vol. iii. p. 109.
[84] First Series, vol. x. p. 32.
[85] Azure; a chevron, per pale and per chevron, gules and argent
counterchanged, between three garbs or; on a chief argent, a St.
Julian’s cross sable.
[86] The use of the term “Tom and Jerry” has already been mentioned
(p. 26).
[87] A usurer.
[88] _Trans. Essex Arch. Soc._, vol. i. p. 125.
[89] _Historic Devices, Badges_, &c., p. 386.