48 DORSET SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TOKENS. 



The following order relating to the Poole town-piece 



POOLE. appears in the corporation books of the borough, and 



was agreed upon at a common hall held 22nd August, 



1667, and is here given in the abridged form adopted by Boyne. 



"August 22nd, 1667. Moses Durell, Mayor, disbursed the 



" sum of Ten pounds for copper money with the stamp of 



" the Town Arms on them, and the inscription ' For the 



" Mayor of the Town and County of Poole,' and received 



"in farthings (four to the penny) nineteen pounds four 



" shillings, to be passed in exchange betwixt man and man 



"as current money until it shall be prohibited by His 



"Majesty's order. If not prohibited, the Mayor shall 



"transfer to his successor the sum of nine pounds four 



" shillings in current monies or the same farthings." 



This order is given at greater length in Hutchins (i., 14), and is 



also mentioned in Sydenham's History of Pools (ed: 1839, pp. 



135, 136). The arms as given on the token, however, do not 



quite represent the full armorial bearings of the Corporation of 



Poole, which are : barry of eight, sable and vert, over all a dolphin 



naiant argent ; on a chief of the third, three escallops of the first. 



These were confirmed in 1579 by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, and 



are allusive to the maritime situation of the town, and its patron 



saint St. James, whose symbol was the scallop-shell (Hutchins i., 21). 



We now come to the last of the boroughs which 



WEYMOUTH. issued any orders respecting their town-farthings 



at least, so far as I have been able to ascertain 



namely, Weymouth. Mr. H. J. Moule (the able and courteous 



curator of the County Museum) in his Catalogue of the Weymouth 



and Melcombe Regis Borough Records (ed: 1883, v. 62, p. 144) 



gives the following note relative to the issuing of this token : 



"Order to lay out 10 on minting farthings 'for the Towne's 



"use and profitt for the poore,' the 'superscription' to be 'a 



"W. ffarthing' on one side, and on the other 'ffor the 



"poore,' with the Town's Arms. Nov: 5, 1669." 



In Ellis's History of Antiquities of Weymouth (ed. 1829) occurs 



