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and towards the maintenance and breeding up of them or any of 
them.””! 
The name of the place in which these men from Holland lived, is 
still called the “Dutch Barton:’” it is situated at the west end of 
Church street, on the right hand side of the passage leading to the © 
Abbey yard. The house at the corner and the large adjoining 
malt-house occupy the site on which stood, formerly, some of the 
cottages in which the foreigners lived. Memorials of their resi- 
dence amongst us are often found in those Flemish or Nuremburg 
Tokens, as they are called, a kind of spurious coin, which they 
brought with them from their native country, and specimens of 
which are very abundant. 
Whilst speaking of coins, we may allude to the issue of Bradford 
Tokens which was made during this century by many of the in- 
habitants of the town, employed in trade of one kind or other. 
1 T have searched in vain for the original of this deed in the Parish Chest. I 
was indebted for the loan of a copy of it to the late Mr. John Bush. In looking 
for this deed, however, I met with another of precisely similar character, dated 
a few years later (1674), and endorsed,—‘‘ Mr. Wm. Brewer his bond of £100 
to save harmless the Parish of Bradford against the Dutchmen.”—The deed 
recites that ‘‘ whereas att the desire and request of the said William Brewer of 
Trowbridge, and for his benefitt and profit in his trade of a clothier, three 
straungers called by the names of Adolfe, Gregorius, and Jone, Dutchmen by 
nation, or of Powland, are suffered and permitted to abide in the parish of 
Bradford as workmen to the said William Brewer,” &c., that, therefore, a bond 
has been taken from him to hold the parish harmless in the event of any of them 
or their families becoming ‘‘ for or by reason of poverty, sickness, lameness, or 
impotencie” chargeable to it. The ‘ William Brewer,’ above alluded to, is 
spoken of by Aubrey (‘Natural History of Wilts,’ p. ii. ch. xii.) —‘‘ Now (temp. 
Jacobi ii.) Mr. Brewer of Trowbridge driveth the greatest trade for medleys of 
any cloathier in England.” 
2 In the year 1721 aresolution was passed in Vestry to purchase from Anthony 
Methuen, Esq., a portion of the ‘ Dutch Barton’ for a Parish Workhouse. Be- 
fore that time there was nothing but ‘out door’ relief. The Poor-house, as it 
was called, was afterwards removed to a spot close to the present railway station, 
the Vestry having resolved 25 June, 1754, ‘to hire and take the houses called 
‘the Catch’ for the purpose of a Workhouse,’ The premises were afterwards 
taken down for the construction of the railway, and the Workhouse removed to 
Avoncliff. In an account of lands and tenements belonging to the Prebendal 
Manor of Bradford in 1767 the premises are still described as ‘‘ A house called 
* The Catch.” Of the meaning of this term, I can, as yet, offer no satisfactory 
explanation. 
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