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_of any part of that valuable and extensive stock, now selling in 
CHEAP STREET, consisting of at least £2000 worth of useful and 
well assorted articles in Linen and Woollen Drapery, Hosiery, 
Haberdashery and Millinery Goods. He begs to observe that he 
cannot positively give the Public a longer indulgence than 
Saturday next, the 22nd instant.” 
Various tradesmen of the time issued paper tickets for sums as 
low as One Shilling, and some Poor Law Authorities, in addition 
to issuing Tokens, put into circulation Notes of varying amounts, 
notably at Birmingham, where Notes of the value of 45, £1, 
5/- and 2/6 were issued, and a somewhat similar issue took place 
in Bath, as the Authorities of the Parish of Walcot advertised :— 
“Walcot, January 2oth, 1814. 
In consequence of the great Scarcity of Silver, the Committee 
_ for Distributing Relief to the Poor of the Parish, Issue Tickets, 
of the value of 2/-, 4/-, 8/- and 10/- each, which the Committee 
_ request Tradesmen and others to take, and to bring to Mr. 
_ Percival, Overseer (of Walcot Parish) in Sums of not less than 
_ ONE POUND for payment. 
, J. C. TuFNex1i, Chairman.”’ 
, (Of these Tickets I have never seen specimens, and confess I 
_ should like to add a series of them to my collection). On the 
_ 1st of September, 1814, the foundation stone of Bathwick New 
Church was laid, “the stone being laid in its bed, a Collection of 
_ Coins, Medals and Tokens were placed therein, the inscription 
plate soldered down, and the ceremony concluded.” (If a 
| complete series of Local Medals and Tokens of the time is in 
- existence there, disinterment of that stone would be an operation 
of interest for a collector.) I have previously referred to the 
Act suppressing the Tokens, and the Chronicle of December 
22nd, 1814, contains the following :— 
‘“ WHITCHURCH and DORE TOKENS. 
2 reas the Act of Parliament, restricts the payment of and for 
Local Silver Tokens, to the original issuers of such TOKENS, after 
