. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. This well-struck and interesting token is of brass, with a plug of copper in thecentre. The parish registers furnish us with the following information : 1650. January 16, Marryed Mr. Henry Jefferies and Miss Mary Woodcock. 1652. September I, Bapt: Elizabeth ye daughter of Henry Jeffereys. 1654. April The two and twentieth, born Sara, the daughter of Henry Jefferies,Mercer, and Mary his wife, bapt. 28. 1654. July, Buried The one and twentieth Sara, daughter of Henry and MaryJeffreyes. 1655. June The twenty-third, b
. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. This well-struck and interesting token is of brass, with a plug of copper in thecentre. The parish registers furnish us with the following information : 1650. January 16, Marryed Mr. Henry Jefferies and Miss Mary Woodcock. 1652. September I, Bapt: Elizabeth ye daughter of Henry Jeffereys. 1654. April The two and twentieth, born Sara, the daughter of Henry Jefferies,Mercer, and Mary his wife, bapt. 28. 1654. July, Buried The one and twentieth Sara, daughter of Henry and MaryJeffreyes. 1655. June The twenty-third, born Sara, the daughter of Henry Jefferies. He probably combined the business of mercer with that of grocer. Thedaughter, Sara, born on April 21, died exactly three months after, on July 21, andthe child next born being a daughter was also christened Sara. 2 1. o. R. iohn I iefferys | in . broms | . grove . (in four lines).his I half . peny | i . i | 1668 (in four lines). J. This token is engraved in Nash. It does not appear from the token whatoccupation he followed, but from his will and inventory of his effects he wasevidently a mercer, and, judging from the amount of his stock-in-trade and personalestate, we may presume he was in a fair position, which surmise is borne out bythe frequency of his signature in the parish books about the year 16*84, ar>d by hiswill, from which we gather that he was owner of the property where he carried onthe business, subject to a mortgage. He left two children—both daughters—and all his property passed to his wife, in good assurance that she wouldeducate and breede the children to the best of her ability. His stock-in-trade and debts were valued at ,£300, besides a certaine lease of houses at^250, and an item of ^io for moneyes forgott. In the name of God Amen. I John Jefferies of Bromsgrove in the Countyof Worcr Mercer beinge weake in body but of sound and pfect mind memoryand understandinge doe make this my la
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