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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DEVONSHIRE TOKENS. 165
No. 135) has i over the Church to show its value ; this is
not noticed by him. The eight men in the legend were the
Wardens and Sidesmen of the Parish Church (Plate 3).
It seems strange that so small a town should have had
two town-pieces, for besides the one now engraved, there
was another, unknown to Boyne, described in my previous
paper on Devonshire Tokens in vol. xvi., page 255, No.
49. As the former emanated from the Churchwardens
and " Feeffees," it may be the latter was issued by the
Overseers. They both claim it to be " FOR YE BENEFIT OF
YE POOR."
A similar occurrence took place at Peterborough, be-
tween two apparently rival bodies of that old city, " the
Overseers' halfpenny " appearing in 1669, and " a halfe
penny to be changed by the Tonme bailife" doubtless as repre-
sentative of the Corporation, came out in 1670. (See
Bpyne, page 361, Nos. 82, 83.) The same page contains
the two Oundle town-pieces, Nos. 67, 68, one " TO BE
CHANGED BY YE FEEFEES," undated, the other " FOR . THE
VSE . OF . THE . POOR," struck in 1669, probably by the
Overseers.
I am informed by a local collector, Mr. Thos. Beal, of
that town, the latter is much the rarer of the two.
No. 4 on the plate illustrates the token described in my
former list, vol. xvi., N.S., page 250, No. 8 ; it is an
early date for a halfpenny, very few 1660.
being issued before
No. 5 has been engraved, not only because of its rarity,
but of its being the only id. known of Exeter ; it is de-
scribed in N.S., vol. xvi., at page 253, No. 31.
No. 6, described in N.S., vol. xvi., page 258, No. 69,
was engraved as being an unique specimen, and also the
only rhyming Devonshire token known.