. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. et cross on market days,preaching to the people, particularly the wife of one Edmond Adlington, whowent naked through the streets there. This is corroborated by Mrs. Greer, who, in The Society of Friends, vol. ii.,p. 189, says, The wife of Edmund Adlington, of Kendal, went through the streets nakedon the 21st of November, 1653 ; and Mary Collinson, another Quaker lady in thesame town, rebuked those who covered her, by telling them they had hindered thework of the Lord. The Dyers seem to have been associated corpor
. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. et cross on market days,preaching to the people, particularly the wife of one Edmond Adlington, whowent naked through the streets there. This is corroborated by Mrs. Greer, who, in The Society of Friends, vol. ii.,p. 189, says, The wife of Edmund Adlington, of Kendal, went through the streets nakedon the 21st of November, 1653 ; and Mary Collinson, another Quaker lady in thesame town, rebuked those who covered her, by telling them they had hindered thework of the Lord. The Dyers seem to have been associated corporately in Kendal with the Shear-men, the full title of the ancient Free Company being that of Shearmen-Dyers,Fullers and Websters. The Shearman-dyers are mentioned in a poetical accountof a guild procession in Kendal in 1759, the last that took place. The compliment paid to the Kendal industry is as follows : The English Wool by Shearmen-dyers wroughtEquals the finest silk from India brought. O. iames . cocke . ivnior = A cock to left. R. OF . KENDALL . 1667 = HIS HALFE James Cocke was sworn a member of the Mercers Company in 1655 (Kendal Boke of Recorde ), and a burgess in 1659. He was Mayor of Kendal in 1681-2,and died in 1694. His residence was in The Park, and his family owned property in the ButchersRow. The British Museum possesses a specimen restruck upon a Yorkshire token ofBradford (No. 37, ). Will Bancks, of Bradford, Carrier for Kendal.—Numismatic Chronicle,3rd series, vol. iv., p, 334. WESTMORLAND. 1223 10. O. iohn . hadwen = A sugar-loaf. R. IN . KENDALL = I . E . H.
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