Documentary Evidence for Hampshire Seventeenth Century Token Issues – Susan Stewart

In the late 1970s the author’s father, Harold J.M. Good, began a search for the surviving dies used to strike seventeenth century tokens. When he passed away in 1984,⁽¹⁾ the project was continued and updated with new findings. The results will be published in the next year or two.

The following notes present two contemporary documents relating to the town issues of seventeenth century tokens from Hampshire. The first is a series of transcriptions from 1669 to 1680 for Southampton Corporation, found in the Southampton Assembly Book,^(2,3) and is published here for the first time.

The second revisits a document from the Winchester Book of Ordinances from 1669,⁽⁴⁾ first published by H.S. Gill in 1889.⁽⁵⁾ Several minor discrepancies were found between Gill’s transcription and the new readings. Gill’s original transcription is reproduced with corrections, along with images from the microfiche.