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Brasses from the following churches will be included in this series:--Barton, Boston, Buslingthorpe, Great Coates, Croft, Covenham, Grainthorpe, Gunby, Hainton, Irnham, South Kelsey, Linwood, South Ormsby, Spilsby, Tattershall, Wrangle, &c.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES, AND THEIR WORKS.
Northampton, March 14th, 1852.
I am, Sir, yours truly, ANTI-SOCIALIST.
MR. WILLIS.
WIERX, THE ENGRAVER.
April 2nd, 1852.
SIR,--I shall be obliged by any reference you can give me, through your interesting columns, to the works and date of an old engraver, "H. Wierx," and oblige
Yours, W. W. C.
Mr. WILLIS.
THE PILLAR PRINT OF OLIVER CROMWELL.
Brompton, April 10th, 1852.
Your obedient servant and collaborateur, CHARLES EDMONDS.
Mr. WILLIS.
TOKENS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
My chief object in writing the notice was to get any information concerning the Tokens of Scotland, whether there are any besides the Royal tokens. The Scotch tokens of the 18th Century, mentioned by your correspondent "M. A. M." are well known, and engraved in the excellent work by Charles Pye, on the "Provincial Coins and Tokens issued from the year 1787 to 1801, Birmingham, 1801."
The following passage from Thoresby, the Leeds historian, who was a celebrated Numismatist in his day, gives the best information I can find on the subject: he says:--
The study of Tradesmen's tokens has met with such unmerited contempt from some of our ablest antiquaries, that it seems rash to attempt an apology for them; but any one who is well acquainted with them knows the fund of amusement and instruction that may be derived from them, and if they continue to be slighted as they have been, many specimens will be irretrievably lost to future antiquaries. A few further remarks on them may be interesting to your general readers.
After a careful calculation, I cannot estimate the number of these tokens at less than 40,000, and I think that number less than the real quantity; from various correspondence with collectors, I always find that they have a large number different to mine. Mr. Akerman has described 2461 in his list of London Tokens only. The great loss to the public compelled the Government to put them down under the severest penalties: very large numbers may be picked out of a collection, which would require a dozen to weigh a modern halfpenny; their paltry intrinsic value, no doubt, prompted many unprincipled shopkeepers to issue them, from the profit they derived from the quantity which would be lost, owing to their small size. There is scarcely a village that had not its local currency. I possess tokens of 684 cities, towns, and villages.
Amongst the different trades and professions which appear on the tokens, that of a Musician is seldom met with: the following is an interesting example, and furnishes an early example of Punch--
To those who are interested in Tokens, I would recommend the "Reliquiae Antiquae Eboracenses, or Remains of Antiquities in Yorkshire," which can be supplied by you: two numbers are published, each containing a plate of Yorkshire Tokens.
WILLIAM BOYNE.
Leeds, April 1852.
THE PERCY SOCIETY have resolved "that considering the present circumstances of the Society, it is expedient that the Society be dissolved at the close of the current year, ; and that the Books which remain in hand be divided amongst those Members, then not in arrear of their subscriptions, so far as the stock will allow, and with advantage of priority in proportion to the period of subscription."
BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERONE.
Yours truly, A BOOKWORM.
MR. WILLIS.
WILLIAM DENHAM.--Who was a Member of the Goldsmith's Company in the reign of Elizabeth. F. R. S. enquires, "Can any of G. W.'s Correspondents give me any particulars respecting him? If so, I should feel much obliged."
SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS.
Gainsborough, March 15, 1852.
I am, Sir, yours, faithfully, C. S. B.
MR. WILLIS.
QUERIES.
SIR,--I shall be greatly obliged if you will permit me to propound the following queries in your "Current Notes:"
E. P.
AUTOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY.
March 6, 1852.
SIR,--I have taken some little pains to find out S. S.'s quere , without further success than to presume that the "Orford" must be the Earl created 1742, there being a "Kendal" title then in existence: extinct 1743. Your correspondent can, without great difficulty, compare it with those mutilated documents, I should say, that have been so frequently dispersed at the various sales from the stock of Messrs. Upcott, Cole & Co., originally in the Exchequer State Paper Office, from whence no doubt it came.
Yours, "MAGOG."
Mr. WILLIS.
MRS. BODDINGTON.
Yours obediently, W.
THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION.--No less than twenty Flags have been presented to Captain Sir Edward Belcher, designed and embroidered by the fair fingers of his relatives and friends. Previous to the sailing of the "Assistance," they were displayed on the quarter-deck of that ship, for the inspection of the distinguished visitors who repaired on board to take leave of this distinguished, gallant, and enterprising officer. The following list of their devices and mottoes may not be an uninteresting record:--
"SPEED TO THE RESCUE." C. B.
"WHILST I BREATHE, I HOPE." M. R.
"HOPE ON--HOPE EVER." E. M.
"BEAR AND FORBEAR." C. M.
"PERSEVERE AND PROSPER." S. C. M.
"LEAD THOU US ON." S. A. W.
"GO FORTH IN FAITH." M. L.
"FAITHFUL AND TRUE." E. B.
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