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towards the Rev. R. Warner in 1797, and make a grant for the 
purpose. 
The extracts from the Hall or Minute Books of the City, were 
copied by permission of the late Town Clerk (B. H. Watts, Esq.), 
some of the writing in these Books is almost illegible, and a few 
of the pages have been misplaced in binding up, should errors 
be found in the dates I have given, this must be my apology. 
For access to the Abbey Registers I have to acknowledge the 
kind permission of the Rev. Preb. S. Boyd. 
As to the Registers of the Churches of St. Michael and of St. 
James, I am indebted to the type-written copies of these, recently 
made by the Rev. C. W. Shickle and by him most kindly presented 
to the City (Reference Library), 
The numbers under wILL* refer to the Somerset section of the 
work on “Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century” by 
Dr. G. C. Williamson. 
Contractions used :—O for obverse ; R for reverse. 
= signifies that what follows is in the central part. 
| denotes that the inscription is in lines divided at that point. 
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but for the convenience of printing they are placed in line, thus, 
R-I-P- 
Three initials generally appear on the tokens, thus R 
