. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. nd again, by feoffment of March 19, 1678, by StephenPittway—unto tiustees (being Quakers), their heirs and assigns, for such purposesonly as between the parties and other persons concerned were formerly agreedupon, and no otherwise. The property is described as a small piece of gardenground in Bengeworth, adjoining the Parsonage Close, and behind the dwelling-house of the said Edward Pittway. with way or passage through the yard gates onthe south side of the said dwelling house. An engraving of this token appears
. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. nd again, by feoffment of March 19, 1678, by StephenPittway—unto tiustees (being Quakers), their heirs and assigns, for such purposesonly as between the parties and other persons concerned were formerly agreedupon, and no otherwise. The property is described as a small piece of gardenground in Bengeworth, adjoining the Parsonage Close, and behind the dwelling-house of the said Edward Pittway. with way or passage through the yard gates onthe south side of the said dwelling house. An engraving of this token appears in Tindals History and Antiquities of theAbbey and Borough of Evesham (plate v., p. 142), reading on the WORCESTERSHIRE. 1259 3. R. RED LION . IN . BENGWORTH^E . F . P. Nash gives an engraving of what was evidently a poor specimen of this token,reading O PITTWAY AT THE = A lion rampant. K. RED LYON IN B£NGWORT£ = E . I . P. J There was probably a considerable number of tokens issued by Pittway, as theyare comparatively common ; 1 have several in my own collection. BEWDLEY. The tokens of Bewdley are, perhaps, the most interesting of any town in thecounty, presenting a variety of shapes unknown in other places, and includingtown-piece, the above illustration, bearing the arms of the borough, representingthe reverse side of the same. Bewdley church is a chapel-of-ease to the motherchurch of Ribbesford. 4. O. The I Wardens . | Halfe . peny | . of . Bewdley (in fourlines). (Script.)B. 1668 = An anchor between a rose and a sword. ^ This token is octagonal in shape. Boyne, in the letter-press of his work, givesthe inscription on the obverse of the token with a small h in the word halfe,but in his illustration of this town-piece it is correctly represented with a capital H. An engraving of the token appears in Nash, and in Snelling(plate i., No. 7). The arms of Bewdley, as given in Grazebrooks Heraldry ofWorcestershire (vol. i., p. 50), are, Argent, an anchor in pale azure, the rin
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