42 THE TOKENS OF CORNWALL. 



58. 0. STEPHEN . HARRIS . IN — The Mercers' arms \ 



R. REDRVTH . IN . CORNWAL — S . I . H 



Bod. — Stephen Harris, of Eedruth, Gent., junior, was appointed 

 Assistant Stannator in the Stannary Parliament of 1710. 



ST. AGNES. 



59. 0. EDWARD . NEWS AM — On a fesse between a star in chief 



and globe in base, three saltires \ 



R. ST. . AGNES . 1666 — A bust of the saint, half face 

 Bod. 



ST. COLUMB. 



60. 0. lOHN . OXNAM — The Mercers' Arms \ 



R. IN . ST. . CVLLAME . 1664 — I . O 



G.— The Oxenhams are a Devonshire family. An Oxnam was Sheriff 

 of Cornwall in 1810. There is a John Oxnam, a farmer, now living in 

 Newlyn, near St. Columb. 



ST. IVES. 



Mr. Boyne assigns every token dated St. Ives, to St. Ives in Huntingdon, 

 whereas St. Ives in Cornwall was not only in a flourishing state two cen- 

 turies since, but the more important town of the two. In this way St. Ives 

 in Huntingdon is credited with 24 out of the 64 tokens given to that county, 

 Huntingdon itself having only nine. Some of these, however, a Cornish eye 

 recognises as Cornubian at a glance ; and further examination reveals the 

 .curious and suggestive fact that whilst in the other towns of the eastern 

 county there are 25 half-pence to 15 farthings, in St. Ives the proportion is 

 17 farthings to 7 half-pence — a preponderance of farthings that at once re- 

 veals the characteristics of the western. Upon a careful examination of Mr. 

 Boyne's list, it is clear that 8 of the 24 are correctly assigned. There remain 

 then eighteen. Of these I believe we can claim for our own St. Ives, with 

 confidence, 13. The other five are doubtful. Of the 18 tokens, all except 

 four are farthings, so that their subtraction would bring the Huntingdon St. 

 Ives into harmony, so far as the proportion of half- pence is concerned, with 

 the rest of that county. There can be no doubt, that instead of being wholly 

 barren in the matter of tokens, St. Ives was really the most prolific com- 

 munity in that respect in Cornwall. 



60A. 0. THE . OVERSEERS . HALFE . PENY . OF . ST. . IVES . 1669 



(in 5 lines) ^ 



R. POOR . WOMEN — Two women packing fish (?) 



60b. 0. THE . OVERSEERS . FARTHING . OF . ST. . IVES . 1669 (in 



5 lines) \ 



R. POOR . WOMEN — Two women packing fish (1) 



These are two of the tokens that Mr. Boyne assigns to Hunts, and his 

 reading of the device is two women washing in a tub. Both these tokens are 

 in the possession of Mr. Golding, and on that gentleman examining them 



