DORSET TRADE TOKENS. lot 



DORCHESTER. 



53-7. The meaning of the initials H.D upon the Dor- 



chester town farthings was unexplained until the 

 Rev. J. H. Ward, writing in S. & D. N & Q. 

 Vol. III., p. 104, suggested that " Hospital of 

 Dorchester" was the true interpretation. This 

 solution seems satisfactory. "Thomas Clench 

 at ye hospital " was taxed for 5 hearths in 

 1663. 



60. O. Thomas Applegat at y e = A crown. 



A 



R. Crown in Dorchester. 69 = His halfe peny. p 



This token should, I think, be transferred to Dorchester in 

 Oxfordshire. It was first assigned to the county town of Dorset 

 in the second edition si Hut chins (1796), but there is apparently 

 no affirmative evidence in favour of our historian's attribution. 

 On the other hand, the name Applegate, with variants, occurs in 

 the parish register of Dorchester, Oxon., from 1650 to 1700, and 

 the Crown Inn still survives there. A search among Oxfordshire 

 wills confirms the register, and a tax roll of that county for 17 

 Charles II. yields the name of "Thomas Applegath " as an 

 inhabitant of the village on the Thame. 



61. O. William Brock = The Grocers' Arms. 

 R. Of Dorchester = W.B. 



This item must also be surrendered to the Oxfordshire parish. 

 Hutchins was the first to annex it in 1796, but the register of 

 Dorchester, Oxon., proves that Brock was a name well known 

 there before 1700. The subsidy rolls point to the same con- 

 clusion, which is further supported by a grant of administration 

 of the estate of Wm. Brock, mercer, in 1686 by the Peculiar 

 Court of Dorchester, Oxon , to Ann his widow. 

 64. O. Richard Cheney = The Grocers' Arms. 



R. In Dorchester 1666 = R.C. 



64_\. A variety in which the letters of the legends, and the 



inner circles, are smaller. 



