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himself Solicitor to the State, to Mr. John Leech, Secretary to the Committee 
sitting in Goldsmiths’ Hall.—Worthy Sir. It is now above four months since I 
left a paper with you, being recommended thereto by Mr. John Ashe and Mr, 
Daniel Cox. But fearing the multiplication of business hath driven them and 
me out of your mind, I presume once more to mind you of it; and have here 
enclosed a copy of the said paper, beseeching you to take a timely opportunity to 
present it to the Committee. By it you will, I know, discern my desires. I 
hope there is no man hath yet interposed to deprive me of my employment; for 
it was then your opinion that they could not displace such as had been faithful ; 
and it is manifest enough to divers Parliament-men that my defects have been 
nothing but the want of sufficient authority to act without, or else with, a better 
committee than we have had in this county. I had purposed to see you long 
since in London, but was unexpectedly prevented. 
[Mr. French’s manifest design in the paper above referred to is to cut out a 
little more work for himself, by showing in how many cases sequestrated parties 
and Romanists had been allowed to elude their lawful fines.] 
Wiltshire Trade Tokens af the Seventeenth 
Century. 
By F. M. WILtis. 
[For Boyne’s original list of Wilts Tradesmen’s Tokens, see Wilts Arch. Mag. 
vol. vi., p. 75.] 
ITH the publication of a new and revised edition of Boyne’s 
work! Dr. Williamson has supplied a want long felt by 
those, who, in spite of the contempt of Evelyn and the sneers of 
Addison, do not consider the trade tokens of the seventeenth 
eentury to be altogether devoid of interest or unworthy of notice. 
The illegal coins, of which this book treats, were first struck 
immediately after the execution of Charles I., and were put into 
circulation principally by private tradesmen for professed purposes 
1« Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century,” two vols., by George C. 
Williamson, D.Lit., F.R.S.L., etc., published by Elliot Stock, limited edit., two 
hundred and fifty only. 
