referred to in the _History of Sign-boards_, nor is that of the BULL AND HORSESHOE, which occurs at North Weald. It is probably only an impaled sign. The BULL’S HEAD, to be seen at Loughton, is, as already stated (p. 34), probably taken from the arms of the Butchers’ Company. There was once a famous BULL Inn at Newport. It has now disappeared, having, it is said, been compelled to close owing to the opening of the HERCULES just opposite; but there are old folks still living who can recollect the shields of arms in coloured glass in the windows, and the “Bull Orchard” still remains. The house is mentioned in the Corporation records of Saffron Walden for the year 1734. Cole also, in his MSS., speaks of it by the name of the RED BULL (a rather uncommon sign, of which Essex does not now possess an example). The sign, however, seems to have undergone a change of colour, for it is referred to as the BLACK BULL in _Poor Robin’s Perambulation from Saffron Walden to London, performed this month of July, 1678_.[56] The author says: “To Newport Pond my course I next way bent, And in at the sign of the Black Bull went. Where scarcely in a room I had set down, When in came my old friends, kind Mr. Br ... And Mr. Woo ..., two who love their friend With true and hearty love unto the end; For though they in another town do live, They to their neighbour some kind visits give. ’Twas twelve o’clock; dinner time did approach, When men whet knives on wheels of cart or coach. The cloth was laid, and by the scent o’ th’ meat, One might perceive there something was to eat. And so it proved, indeed; for from the pot Came forth a rump of beef, was piping hot, And from the spit was brought a loyn of mutton, Would satisfy the stomack of a glutton, For like a loyn of beef it might well have been knighted, To which our hostess kindly us invited; Which we accepted of, and to delight her, Told her that none could deny such an inviter; For she’s a widow of such excellent carriage, Would make a man most happy in her marriage,” &c.