ENGLISH
AND TOKENS.
COINS
BY
LLEWELLYNN JEWITT,
F.S.A., " Grave of Half-Hours among some English A ntiquities ;" Mounds and tlieir Contents ;" " The Ceramic Art in Great " Britain ;" Plate and Insignia Corporation " " The Stately Homes of Office; of England" etc., etc.
A iithor
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WITH
Cftaptn* on ame arms, quartering two goats, statant, affrontee and attired, in fesse, were granted to the Leathersellers' Company as an im;
palement in 1505.
GOLDSMITHS. Quarterly, first and fourth a leopard's face, second and third a covered cup ; and in chief two buckles, their tongues fessewise, pointed to the dexter. GOLD AND SILVER WIRE DRAWERS. On a chevron between, in chief, two coppers, and, in base, two points in saltire, a drawing iron between two rings.
GROCERS. A chevron between nine cloves, three, three and Sometimes seven (three, three, and one) are used. Not unfrequently on tokens three cloves are used as a grocer's trade three.
device, as are also one, two, or three sugar-loaves.
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HABERDASHERS leners)."
(Anciently called
Barry nebulee (or wavy) of
"Huvrers" and "Milsix
;
on a bend, a lion
passant-guardant.
HATTERS, OR HATTER MERCHANTS. On a chevron between three felt hats with strings, as many escallops. On some tokens a hat, or hat and feather, or cap, alone occurs. INNHOLDERS. A chevron, quarterly per chevron, and per The crest of this company, a star pale, between three garbs. of sixteen rays, was also a common device on tokens.
On a chevron between three steel gads (bilas many swivels, the middle one palewise, the other two with the line of the chevron. IRONMONGERS.
lets)
JOINERS OR CARPENTERS.
A chevron (sometimes engrailed)
between three pairs of compasses expanded at the points. Or, a chevron between two pairs of compasses extended, in chief, and a sphere in base ; on a chief a pale between two roses, the pale charged with an escallop. LEATHERSELLERS. Three bucks passant reguardant attired and unguled. LORINERS. A chevron between three curbits and as many bosses.
MASONS.
On
castles, a pair of
a chevron (sometimes engrailed) between three compasses, extended.
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A demi-vivgin, couped below the shoulders, crowned with an Eastern crown, her hair dishevelled and wreathed about her temples with roses, issuing from clouds, and all within an orle of the same. This device is sometimes, on tokens, shorn of its clouds, and used without shield. MERCERS.
vested,
MERCHANT ADVENTURERS. Barry nebulee (or wavy) of six, on a chief quarterly, first and fourth, a lion passant-guardant, second and third two roses in fesse, barbed. MERCHANT TAILORS (or "Taylors and Linen Armourers"). A royal tent between two Parliament robes, lined ermine ; the tent garnished, with tentstaff and pennon ; on a chief a lion passant-guardant.
MERCHANTS OF THE STAPLE.
Barry nebulee (or wavy) of on a chief, a lion passant-guardant. MUSICIANS. A swan with wings expanded, within a double tressure fleury-counter-fleury ; a chief charged with on a pale between two lions passant-guardant a rose seeded and barbed. NEEDLE MAKERS. From three crowns in fesse as many six
;
needles, pendant.
PAINTERS
AND
PAINTER-STAINERS.
Three
escutcheons
quarterly with three phoenix' heads, erased. PARISH CLERKS. fleur-de-lis ; on a chief a leopard's head
A
between two song-books (shut), stringed. PEWTERERS. On a chevron between three limbecks, as many roses stalked, leaved, and seeded. Or PEWTERERS. On a chevron between three single-handled cups, each containing so many sprigs of lilies, the Virgin accompanied by four cherubs, between two pairs of limbecks. PIN MAKERS. A demi-virgin couped at the waist, mantle turned down ermine, her hair dishevelled, on her head an :
Eastern crown.
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PLAISTEREKS. On a chevron engrailed between, in chief, two plaisterers' hammers, and, in base, a treble flat brush, handle upward, a rose seeded and barbed between two fleurs-de-lis in ;
chief a trowel fessewise with handle to the sinister.
PLUMBERS.
On
a chevron between, in
chief,
two plummets
reversed, two soldering irons in saltire between a cutting knife on the dexter and a shave hook on the
and, in base, a level sinister
;
in chief a cross-staff fessewise.
SADDLERS.
A
chevron between three manage saddles com-
plete.
SALTERS OR DRYSALTERS. cups sprinkling
salt
;
crest,
Party per chevron, three covered a cubit arm erect, holding a covered
cup, or salt sprinkler.
SCRIVENERS. An eagle with wings expanded, holding in his beak a penner and inkhorn, standing on a book, closed, fessewise, the clasps downwards. SHIPWRIGHTS. On an antique hulk, the stern terminating with the head of a dragon in the hulk, the Ark with three doors in the side, from the Ark against the side a slep-ladder
;
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cross of St.
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George charged on the centre with a
lion passant-guardant.
SILKMEN.
A
ship of three masts in full sail on the sea, in silk, corded, between two bundles of
on a chief a bale of
base
;
silk,
pendant.
SOAPMAKERS. STATIONERS.
A dolphin On
naiant between three eel spears. a chevron between three Bibles fessewise,
claspsdownwards, garnished and leaved, an eagle, rising, between tsvo roses seeded and barbed ; from the chief a demi-circle of glory edged with clouds, therein a dove displayed and nimbed.
TALLOWCHANDLERS.
1'arty perfesse a pale counterchanged ; In place three doves each holding an olive branch. of these arms the devices commonly found on tokens issued by tallowchandlers are a man making candles a stick of candles ;
on the
first
:
a stick of candles within a crescent with olive branch, etc.
moon
;
one or three doves
TIN PLATE WORKERS AND WIREWORKE'RS. between three lamps, the two in chief (one each other, the one in base with two lights, illuminated.
A
chevron
light each) facing all
garnished and
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TOBACCONISTS.
Usually a roll of tobacco ; or one, l\vo, or or a combination of pipes and tobacco. UPHOLDERS OR UPHOLSTERERS. On a chevron between three tents (without poles) ermine and lined, as many roses.
three pipes
;
A
chevron between three tuns (barrels). Barry wa-vy of six on the middle bar a boat ; on a chief two oars in saltire between two cushions, tasselled. WAX-CHANDLERS. On a chevron between three mortcours
VINTNERS.
WATERMEN.
as
many
;
roses.
WEAVERS. On a chevron between three leopards' heads, each holding a shuttle, as many roses, seeded and barbed. On tokens sometimes three leopards' faces alone, without shield, are used.
WOODMONGERS.
A
sword erect, hilled and crowned (or between twoflaunches each charged with a faggot (or bundle of laths). On one token, that of Govin Gouldegay, of Whitefriars, the arms are a chevron between three
entiled -with a dncal coronet)
faggots.
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A woolpack. Ale-house and shop-signs were much used as devices on tokens ; but, of course, occurring as they do by the hundred, are too WOOLMEN OR WOOLPACKERS.
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King's Arras," Uttoxeter.
"Crown," Repton.
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"
Red
Lion,''
TOKE.VS.
Ajhbouruc.
'George and Dragon," Uttoxctcr.
Hunch
of Grapes," Bolsovcr.
to particularise. Sometimes the sign was named in addition to the device, but at others the name or the device was alone used. Thus for instance Oh\ WILLIAM WEBB AT THE = "Within the inner circle the figure of St. George and the Dragon. 7vV
