. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 316 Transactions at Cirencester. tokens beng suppressed.^ This term having also expired a similarprivilege was conceded to the Duke of Lennox and the MarquisHamilton for nineteen years. ^ Great abuses arose under these patents, and in 1644 they weresuppressed by the house of commons, who ordered that the tokensshould be re-changed from money raised out of the estates of thepatentees. No authorised currency was however issued in lieuduring the disturbed period before the death of the King, butimmediately afterwards privat
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 316 Transactions at Cirencester. tokens beng suppressed.^ This term having also expired a similarprivilege was conceded to the Duke of Lennox and the MarquisHamilton for nineteen years. ^ Great abuses arose under these patents, and in 1644 they weresuppressed by the house of commons, who ordered that the tokensshould be re-changed from money raised out of the estates of thepatentees. No authorised currency was however issued in lieuduring the disturbed period before the death of the King, butimmediately afterwards private copper tokens began to be cir-culated without authority, which were received by the issuers,when presented, at their nominal value. Some such tokens arefound at so early a date as 1648.^ No copper coinage, with theexception of a few farthings, was issued during the interregnum;and it is remarkable, as an index of popular feeling, that the armsof the Commonwealth are rarely found on private tokens of thatperiod, whereas, after the Restoration the Kings arms and otheri
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