. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. on Cloth Fair, Ob. +fIENRY + DOWNING =Within an inner ring, corded, themercers arms :—a demi-virgin couped below the shoulders, hairdishevelled, crowned, issuing out of clouds, and within an orle ofclouds. The orle is not seen on the token and it rarely is. R +IN : CLOATH • FAYRE+j^j+ ^ C • B • (For Civitas,Ob.+A*BRISTOL-FARTHING = i652 Bristol.) R The small letter r below the date is the personal mark of theengraver. This is usually considered to be Thomas Rawlings, aRoyalist engraver, but the l

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. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. on Cloth Fair, Ob. +fIENRY + DOWNING =Within an inner ring, corded, themercers arms :—a demi-virgin couped below the shoulders, hairdishevelled, crowned, issuing out of clouds, and within an orle ofclouds. The orle is not seen on the token and it rarely is. R +IN : CLOATH • FAYRE+j^j+ ^ C • B • (For Civitas,Ob.+A*BRISTOL-FARTHING = i652 Bristol.) R The small letter r below the date is the personal mark of theengraver. This is usually considered to be Thomas Rawlings, aRoyalist engraver, but the late Mr. Nicholls {Bristol: Past andPresent, Yol., 27) states that he has discovered good evidence toprove that many were made by David Ramage, a workman in theLondon mint. R +THE-ARMS-OF-BRISTOL L = Within a corded innerring the Arms of Bristol. | 45 Ob. * A • B RI S T O L • F A R T H I N G=^*^- This is without the little letter r under the As the last except that the mint mark is a cinque foil instead of a mullet. ^ Tokens found at Cikencester. 323. 46 Ob. The device or mark of the issuer. Not identified.

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