245. O. ANDREW. WHITE. OF=A. M. W.

R. WITNEY. SENIOR. 1667= HIS HALFE PENNY. 246. O. ROBERT. WILLY. OF HIS HALF PENY.

R. WITNEY. SENIOR = R. F. W on a woolpack. 247. O. IOHN. YOVNG = A man making candles. R. OF WITNEY. 1655 = I . A . Y.

WOODSTOCK.

248. O. ALEXANDER. IOHNSONS The Grocers' Arms. R. OF. WOODSTOCKE. 1652=A. I. I.

249. O. AT. THE. 3. CVPPS. IN = Three covered cups. R. WOODSTOCK. 1653=T. P.

250. THOMAS. SPARROW=T. A. S. R. IN. WOODSTOCKE = 1654.

251. O. THOMAS. WOODARD. OF = The Grocers' Arms. R. WOODSTOCK. GROCER = T. W.

252. O. THOMAS. WOODWARD = The Grocers' Arms. R. IN. WOODSTOCKET. W.

Rutland.

THE seventeen tokens of this county are but proportionate to the diminutive size of the county, and not more than would be expected from so quiet a county, possessing so few towns of even medium size. The series present no special feature. One token of Uppingham, No. 10, is heart-shaped and of considerable rarity. It would almost be imagined from the series that the men of greatest prosperity in the county were the tallowchandlers, as no less than five out of seventeen bear the device of a chandler or the arms of the company. Potterill of Oakham and Butler of Uppingham bear their family arms on their tokens, and were evidently members of good families engaged in trade. Three tokens are those of halfpence, the remainder being farthings.

The notes will be found to be of unusual interest and importance.

LANGHAM.

1. O. IOHN. HOMES. OF. LANGHA = The Tallowchandlers' Arms. R. IN. COVNTY. OF. RVTLAND=1. H.

1658.

LIDDINGTON.

2. O. HENRY, SEWELL. OF H. S.

1669.

R. LIDDINGTON. RVTLANDSHIRE HIS HALF PENY.

NORTH LUFFENHAM.

3. O. THOMAS. GOODMAN. OF = Man making candles. R. NORTH. LVFFENHAM. 57 =T. G.

The Goodman family had long before the issue of the token been settled in

North Luffenham.

The parish register, commencing 1565, supplies the following:

A Robert Goodman, yeoman, was here 13 Henry VIII.

Baptisms. 1633. Thomas fill Herauld Goodman, 12 May.

33

July 21, 1638.

1636. Mary, dau. of Harrauld Goodman & Ioane, July 3; bur.

In a subsidy 13 and 39 Elizabeth (Queen's Exch. Remembrancer, R.O.),

Symon Goodman's land in this place was assessed at 20s. annual value.

The Goodman family is found both in the municipal and parochial records of

Stamford.

Richard Goodman was bound apprentice to John Atton, mercer, June 17, 1616; took up his freedom Apl. 5, 1 Car. I.; was one of the constables 2 and 3 Car. I.; Overseer of Highways for the parish of St. Michael, 1633, 1655, and 1658; Collector of the Poor, 1635; Searcher of the Markets, 1636-37; and elected a capital burgess in the room of John Royce, dec., Aug. 28, 1645; and bur. as Mr. Richard Goodman at St. Michael's, Sept. 11, 1661.

In the accounts of the churchwarden (Fras. Dalby) for this parish are the two following entries :

"Received of Rich. Goodman for the closes wthout Paules' gates, the first of May, 1649, 02li 10$ ood."

"Received of Rich. Goodman for halfe a yeare's rent, Octob 3rd, 1649, OIli Ios ood."

Leonard Goodman, "tallowe chandler," took up his freedom 7 Apl., 1628; also Henry Goodman, shoemaker, 16 Aug., 8 Car. I. ; and a Richard Goodman, gent., elected a capital burgess July 20, 1674; dec. in 1679, as on Aug. 27 in that year John Palmer, jun., was elected in his room.

Mr. John Goodman paid £5 July 16, 1696, and took up his freedom.

4. O. THOMAS. HVNTT. OF= A fleur-de-lys. R. NORTH. LVFFENHAM=T. H conjoined.

5. O. THOMAS. HVNTT = A fleur-de-lys.

R. IN. LVFFVINHAM = T. H conjoined.

The village of North Luffenham was for a long period the residence of the Digby family, whose arms are azure, a fleur-de-lys argent; probably the issuer of this token was mine host of the Fluer-de-lys public-house, or had the device by way of compliment.

In the parochial registers of this parish are found the following entries relative to the name:

Baptisms. 1621. Mary, fil. Edmundi Hunt, xxv March.

1622. Barbara, fil. Edmundi Hunt, viij July.

1624. Mary, fil. Edmundi Hunt, xij Dec.

1626-7. Samuell, fil. Edmundi Hunt, xxviij Jan.

1632. John, f. Edmundi Hunt, 22 June.

1642. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hunt and Elizabeth, June 5. 1644. William, son of Thomas Hunt and Elizabeth, April 14.

1652. Samuel, son of Samuel Hunt, May 12.

1660. Susanna, daughter of Samuel Hunt, Dec. 23.

Marriage. 1648. Mr. Nathaniel Capel, of London, and Mrs. Audrey Hunt, married Dec. 26.

1626-7. Margaret Hunt, 14 March.

1630. Bezaliel Hunt, 1 Oct.

1648. Elizabeth Parratt, wife of Mr. Parratt, of London, and daughter

of Mr. Hunt, Dec. 31.

Burials. 1649. Joane, ye wife of Thos. Hunt, at ye townes ende, April 1.

1649. Thomas Hunt deceased July 26, bur. 27.

1666. Audry, wife of Mr. Edm. Hunt, April 27.

1666. Mr. Edm. Hunt, Oct. 18.

1674. Thomas Hunt, June 17.

1674. Hanah Hunt, daughter of Thomas Hunt, burnt, wth house, October 30, was bur. Nov. 24; Elizabeth, daughter of the same, Nov. 2; Nov. 27, Thomas, son of Widdow Hunt, after fire, being burnt.