xlvi. CLUB NOTES. 



A RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TOKEN OF SHERBORNE. 



Obv. : Richard Pounsfoot A castle with three towers ; 

 in the centre a gateway. 



Rev. : In Sherbon, 1667 B p . 



As far as I am aware, no other example of this little piece 

 is at present known. The description in the list printed by 

 Hutchins (3rd. ed.) gives the place-name as " Sherborne," 

 and the castle is said to have two towers. When Mr. J. S. 

 Udal wrote the Dorset section of the second edition of Boyne's 

 text book he had not seen the token, and was therefore 

 obliged to follow Hutchins's reading and description (Boyne, 

 2nd ed., p. 191, No. 171). Having regard to the rarity of 

 this farthing it seems most probable that two distinct 

 varieties were not struck, and that the specimen now described 

 represents the tokens issued in Sherborne by the occupier 

 of the Castle inn. I think that Hutchins examined, or heard 

 of, a worn specimen which was partly illegible, hence his 

 rendering of the legend on the reverse and of the architectural 

 details on the obverse. 



An inn with this sign in Long-street, near the Market 

 Place, was advertised for sale in 1787 (Western Flying Post). 

 Possibly it was the building occupied by Richard Pounsfoot 

 in 1667. 



EDITOR. 



