British Tokens

Southwark/Bermondsey, Bridge Foot, Abraham Browne, Halfpenny, 1.69g/12h (N 4891; Berry p.35; BW. 197); Cornelius Cooke, Farthing, 0.91g/6h (N 4893; Berry p.35; BW. 198) [2]. First good fine but pierced, second about fine £40-50

Provenance: *First bt Format 1965; second bt N.A. Clark 1979.

Abraham Browne (†1672), vintner, The Bear, previously vintner, The White Horse, Lombard Street, first wife Penelope (†1652), second wife Frances, a ‘very pretty woman’ according to Pepys, committed suicide in February 1667 by jumping from a window of The Bear into the river Thames; Cornelius Cooke, vintner, The Bear, previously a colonel in Cromwell’s army