British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

17th Century Tokens, Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, Thomas Hill, Farthing, 1.24g/6h (BM 20; P-M 908; N –; BW. 16); Buckingham, John Hartley, Halfpenny, 1660, 2.12g/12h (BM 45; P-M 918; N 298; D 34A); High Wycombe, John Rowell, Halfpenny, 1667, 0.76g/12h (BM 230; P-M 953; N –; BW. 177); Newport Pagnell, Samuell Lambert, Halfpenny, 1.49g/9h (BM 132; P-M 973; N 322; BW. 101); Olney, Moses Freeman, Farthing, 1668, 1.17g/12h (BM 146; P-M 979; N 330; BW. 110), John Gaynes, Farthing, 1652, 0.76g/6h (BM 147; P-M 980; N 331; BW. 111) [6]. BM 132 good fine, others in varied state, BM 20 an obverse brockage £70-90

Provenance: BM 20 bt P. Morris November 2007; BM 45 bt J. Theobald June 2010; *BM 132 A Collection of Seventeenth Century Tokens, Spink Auction 210, 6-7 October 2011, lot 303 (part); BM 146 and 230 Simmons Mailbid Sale 51, 31 March 2010 (32, 33); BM 147 DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 957 (part).

Thomas Hill (†May 1676), mercer and draper, Baptist, tried and condemned to death as a heretic in 1662 for refusing to conform but reprieved by a personal pardon granted by Charles II; John Hartley (1605-79), mercer and draper, wife’s name Elizabeth; John Rowell, carpenter, wife’s name Mary; Samuel Lambert (b.1639), wife’s name Mary; Moses Freeman (†November 1673), bonelace merchant, wife’s name Elizabeth (†October 1707); John Gaynes (†1694), mercer, baker and draper, first wife Sarah (†June 1671), second wife Elizabeth (†1689)