. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. Grayrigg, where he carried on his business, as well as atKendal, Kirkby-Stephen, and Kirkby-Lonsdale. To the above he seems to have combined that of stationer, as appears from thefollowing entry in the accounts of the churchwardens of Kendal : 1665. Paid Mr. Richard Rowlandson for a booke of Homilies 00 06 00.—Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society, ix.,p. 270. It is stated that he walked to London and back, on business, three times, andthat he was there in the time of the Great Plague in 1
. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. Grayrigg, where he carried on his business, as well as atKendal, Kirkby-Stephen, and Kirkby-Lonsdale. To the above he seems to have combined that of stationer, as appears from thefollowing entry in the accounts of the churchwardens of Kendal : 1665. Paid Mr. Richard Rowlandson for a booke of Homilies 00 06 00.—Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society, ix.,p. 270. It is stated that he walked to London and back, on business, three times, andthat he was there in the time of the Great Plague in 1665. There is an entry in the parish register of burials, July 18, 1735, of RichardRowlandson, at Grayrigg, supposed to have been the issuer of this token : if so, helived to a great age, which he is said to have done. One Richard Rowlandson was Town Clerk of Kendal in 1683.—Nicolson andBurns History of Cumberland and Westmorland, i., p. 71. WESTMORLAND. KENDAL. 5. O. mercers . company . in . kendal = The Mercers k . k . 1657 = Arms of the Corporation of Kendal. \. The arms are those adopted by the Corporation of Kendal when the charter ofCharles I. was obtained, as they are not registered ; they are quarterly, first andfourth, three spindles, second and third, three woolhooks—the bearings being in-dicative of the staple trade of the town. The same arms are engraved on a silvertankard and a sword, belonging to the Corporation, with the motto Pannusmihi panis (Cloth is my bread). The letters K. k. probably stand for the initials of Kirkby-Kendal, andare engraved on the silver seal which has been in use in the Corporationsince the first charter of Elizabeth in 1576, the date of which it bears. InSnelling it is engraved without the K. k. above the shield—probably avariety. The original dies, much worn, were found in 1803 among the ruins of the NewBiggin, where the Cordwainers had their hall, and are now preserved in themuseum at Kendal.—Gateshead Observer, March
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