17th Century Tokens : Cheshire-01 in Cheshire

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Click Images to View Coin Details W25: Cheshire, Chester (Farthing): (Date Unknown) O  A ram's head PETER LEE OF THE R  P L conjoined CITTYE OF CHESTR P L Image not available Peter Lee, whose name is sometimes spelled Leigh, was a wealthy grocer and Mayor of Chester in 1656. He was fined £1,000 for visiting the celebrated William Prynne at his lodgings in Chester, Prynne being then on his way to Carnarvon. W27: Cheshire, Chester (Farthing): (Date Unknown) O  A star and crescent RICH MYNSHALL R  R M OF CHESTER R M Image not available W37: Cheshire, Chester (Farthing): (1663) O  Arms of the Travers family; a chevron between three boars' heads, a mullet on the chevron for a difference IOHN TRAVERS R  I T IN CHESTER 1663 I T Image not available Bishop Cartwright records in his diary, March 1687, that he "supped with Col. Roger Whitley (a celebrated Cheshire Royalist), Mr. Travers being one of the party." W45: Cheshire, Congleton (Farthing): (Date Unknown) O  The Feltmakers' Arms THOMAS WELCH R  T A W IN CONLETON T A W Image not available W49: Cheshire, Knutsford (Farthing): (Date Unknown) O  A lion rampant RICHARD LEIGH OF R  R C L KNUTSFORD MERCER R C L Image not available W52: Cheshire, Macclesfield (Uncertain): (Date Unknown) O  [Unknown] SAMVEL LEAH R  S I L OF MACKLESFILD S I L Image not available Samuel Leah was an Alderman and one of the original capital Burgesses of Macclesfield, and named as such in the charter of Charles II to that Borough in 1685. He died about three years after that event. W55: Cheshire, Macclesfield (Farthing): (Date Unknown) O  A black boy smoking, with a roll of tobacco under his arm IOHN TOWERTON R  I T MACKLESFILD I T Image not available W68: Cheshire, Nantwich (Farthing): (1665) O  The Mercers' Arms IOHN TENCH IN R  I M T IN NAMPTWICH 1665 I M T Image not available The following was kindly supplied by James Hall, Esq, Willaston, near Nantwich. John Tench was a tanner; he married "Mrs. Mary Demock, after publication three severale Markett days in Namptwich Markett," on the 6th of March, 1653-4; and was buried at Nantwich, on the 14th November, 1675. The Tench family had been respectable residents in Nantwich as early as 1545, and occur in the Parish Registers as "dyers," "tanners," "mercers," "gentlemen," etc. The last mentions of the family as follows: John Tench, Attorney, buried in the Church, 5th Feb., 1756. Miss Mary Tench [buried] 2 Dec., 1780. Thomas Tench [buried] 5 May, 1783.

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