At Buckhurst Hill there is also a _Roebuck_, as well as a REINDEER. The former is marked on Cary’s map, published in 1768, and is probably the same house several times spoken of (p. 6) as the BUCK in _The Trials of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffries_, published in 1752. It is still one of the best and most widely-known inns on the Forest. In its large Assembly Room public gatherings often take place. The old REINDEER, which is shown on Cary’s map, published in 1768, is now a private house, inhabited by Captain Mackenzie, the Forest Superintendent, and known as “Warren House.” The present REINDEER is situated about a mile distant from the old one. An ARCHER SHOOTING AT A STAG is also depicted on the undated halfpenny token of “John Unwin at Layton Stone.” It is in every way probable that the fallow deer, formerly living in the surrounding forests of Epping and Hainault, and still existing in considerable numbers in the former, gave rise in some way to these numerous cervine signs in and around the parish of Buckhurst Hill. It is, however, a moot point whence the parish derived its name. Some connect the name with Lord Buckhurst, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth; others regard it as composed of two Anglo-Saxon words, _Boc_, a beech, and _hurst_, a wood or forest, which is not unlikely to be the true derivation; others, however, state that this part of the forest was severed from the remainder by Royal Charter, and so termed Book-hurst, meaning book-forest; while yet others consider the name to mean Buckhurst, the wood or forest in which bucks lived. The latter derivation seems in every way the most likely one. Nevertheless, the place was formerly often called “Buckit’s Hill,” as, for instance, in _The Trial of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffries_ (p. 8), published in 1752, but this was probably a corruption. The farthing of “William Locken in Tollsbvry in Esex, 1668,” bore a STAG, and that of “John Attewell in Black Notle in Esex, 1670,” bore THREE STAGS’ HEADS couped, probably taken from the coat of arms of some private family. The STAG’S HEAD at Colchester is also, probably, a form of some family crest. Forty years ago there was a DOE INN at Halstead. There is now a STAG at Hatfield Heath, and another at Little Easton. Concerning the latter, there can be very little doubt that it represents the crest of the Maynard family (_a stag statant or_). It would be interesting to learn whether this house has come to be known as the STAG after having first been called the MAYNARD ARMS. The STAG also serves as a beer-house sign at High Ongar. It is not very easy to say what first led to the REINDEER being used as a sign; but that it was in use as early as the [Illustration: CROWN HOUSE. (_Newport, Essex._)]