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On May 14th, 1812, the following advertisement appeared in 
the Chronicle :— 
“PROVINCIAL TOKENS. 
WuitcuurcH and Dorg, beg to inform their Friends, and the 
Public, that they purpose to continue to take, in exchange for 
goods at their respective Shops, so long as the wisdom of 
Parliament may permit such LocaL coIN to be circulated, the 
following Tokens, viz., those issued by the MARLBOROUGH BANK, 
the BRISTOL ANDOVER and GLOUCESTER tokens; the FROME 
tokens of one and two shillings each, also the Tokens which have 
been issued. by their neighbours in Bath.—With respect to their 
OWN TOKENS as their promise is exhibited in very legible 
characters on the face of every one of them : WuitcHuRcH and 
Dore have only to say that they hold themselves in readiness 
to perform THAT PROMISE whenever it shall be required of them. 
Market Place, Bath, 9th May, 1812.” 
It is curious that in the long correspondence anent the Tokens, 
the Margaret’s Buildings pieces are not once directly alluded to, 
and the omission apparently indicates that the number issued was 
limited and that consequently they had but a small circulation 
as compared with those issued by Whitchurch and Dore. 
Evidently the various Tokens as partially meeting a recognized 
public requirement, circulated freely and without opposition for a 
considerable time, no public notice being taken of them; the 
Chronicle of July 8th, 1813, notices however, ‘ The circulation of 
Local Tokens is allowed till six weeks after the next meeting of 
Parliament,” but that they did not completely meet the necessity 
of the time, the following references illustrative of my subject will 
shew, in an advertisement appearing in the Chronicle of January 
2oth, 1814 :— 
“Mr NIBLOCK (Davis, Somt., 43.) 
Feels exceedingly happy to have it in his power to give the 
inhabitants of Bath and its vicinity an opportunity of passing 
their REFUSED COPPER as he will accept ONE HALF in payment 
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