36 THE TOKENS OF CORNWALL. 



KILKHAMPTON. 



18. 0. lOHN . COVRTis . 1667 — I . C conjoined \ 



R. OF . KILKHAMPTON — IN CORNWALL 



B. — John Courtis, as appears by his "stately monument" in Kilkhamp- 

 ton Church, died in 1705, aged 65. He was a mercer. 



LAUNCESTOK 



19. 0. DECORY . BEWES . OF . SANT — The Mercers' Arms 



B. STEPHENS . LANCESTON — D . B 



G. — The issuer of this token was probably a member of the family of 

 Bewes, now of Plymouth. According to Lysons, (p. 192), the barton of 

 Carnedon, near Launceston, was purchased in 1715 by an ancestor of the 

 present representative, the Eev. T. A. Bewes. C. S. Gilbert (v. ii, p. 17) 

 says the St. Stephens branch became extinct in 1811. 



20. *0. THOMAS . BEWES — Three Castles | 



B. IN LANCESTON .59 — T . B 



B. — Chesten, daughter of William Stokes, who married with John, son 

 of Thomas Bewes, of Launceston, gent., was buried in St. Mary's, Laun- 

 ceston, Jan. 1679, in her 19th year. — Inscription therein. 



21. *0. OSSOLD . KiNGDON — The Chandlers' Arms i 



B. OF . LAUNCESTON — . K 



22. 0. RICH , KINGDOMS — The Haberdashers' Arms ^ 



B. OF . LANCESTON — R . K 



Both these tokens are in Mr. Golding's collection. The Kingdons were 

 an ancient family of Trehunsey, in Quethiock, and Trenowth, in St. Cleer. 

 (Lysons, p. cxx.). Oswald Kiugdon was a gentleman of large fortune, who 

 owned a great part of the land within the borough. He was three times 

 Mayor, as his father Oswald had been before him. His son, Eichard 

 Kingdon, carried on business in Launceston and Boscastle, where he owned 

 many ships. He was also three times mayor of the borough. A daughter 

 of Richard Kingdon married Langford Frost, from whom descends the family 

 of Frost now living in Launceston and Saltash. For these particulars I am 

 indebted to Mr. Eichard Kingdon Frost, of Launceston, 



LISKEARD. 



23. 0. i^ENiAMiN . CHAPMAN — The Mercers' Arms | 



B. IN . LISCARD — B . C 

 Bod. — The Chapmans were a family of weight in Liskeard. Benjamin 

 Chapman was Mayor in 1654, and in 1680 was presented by the Grand Jury, 

 with "Jonathan Chapman, Merchant, deceased" (he had been Mayor in 

 1649, 1653, 1657) and others, " for that the said persons did take upon them- 

 selves to be Mayors and Magistrates of the borough, not being thereunto 

 lawfully elected." (Allen's "History of Liskeard," pp. 246, 258). They 

 were of course Puritans. 



