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W39: Norfolk, East Harling (Uncertain): (1660)
O | 1660 |
IOHN HILTON |
R | Three doves |
EAST HARLING | |
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W40: Norfolk, Emneth (Farthing): (1660)
O | The Grocers' Arms |
GEORGE WHYTING |
R | G W |
OF EMNETH 1660 G W | |
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W41: Norfolk, Fakenham (Uncertain): (Date Unknown)
O | The Mercers' Arms |
WILLIAM DIDDLESFOLD |
R | W D |
OF FAKHAM MERCER W D | |
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W42: Norfolk, Fakenham (Farthing): (1667)
O | The Merchant-Tailors' Arms |
EDMOND PECKONER |
R | 1667 |
IN FAKENHAM GROCR 1667 | |
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Edmond Peckover served as a trooper in the Commonwealth Army under the command of General Fleetwood from 1646 to 1655. The certificate he received after his discharge is still in the possession of his descendants; it is as follows: "Thes are to sertyfey home it may Concern that Edmund Peckover Gentillmane served as a Solger in the troupe of Will. Collman, Magor: after him Joseph Blisitt Capting had and hath still the Command of the same troupe under the Command of the Right honorabull Leftennante General Charles Fletewod whom is Colonell in the service of the Comonwellth both in England and Scotland from the yeare of our Lord on thousand six hundred forty six untill the yeare on thousand six hundred fiftey and five: dureing which time he behaved him sellvef faithfull ley and honesley as becom a Solger in witnes whereof we have here Uonto set our hands and Seels this Sixen of Auguste 1655. "Joseph Blissett "Hugh Parrye" Edmund Peckover, after the last-mentioned date, settled at Fakenham, where he joined the Society of Friends, and, owing to the persecuting spirit of the times, he suffered frequently for his religious principles. Some of his family are buried in Norwich at the churches of St George of Colegate and St Martin-at-Palace, where there are tablets to them. Edmond Peckover, grocer, sone of Matthew Peckover, esquire, was sworn a freeman of Norwich in 1654. The house in which the issuer of this token resided is still a grocer's shop. |
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W43: Norfolk, Fakenham (Uncertain): (1667)
O | The Apothecaries' Arms |
ROBERT SHELDRAKE |
R | R S |
IN FAKENHAM 1667 R S | |
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W44: Norfolk, Fakenham (Uncertain): (1657)
O | W S |
WILLIAM SHILDRACK W S |
R | 1657 |
IN FACKENHAM 1657 | |
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W45: Norfolk, Fordham (Cambridgeshire?) (Farthing): (1667)
O | The Grocers' Arms |
IOHN BADCOCK |
R | I B |
IN FORDHAM 1667 I B | |
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This token may belong to Cambridgeshire |
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W47: Norfolk, Foulsham (Uncertain): (Date Unknown)
O | The Grocers' Arms I M A |
IOHN ATTHILL OF I M A |
R | Legend in three lines across the field |
FOVLSHAM GROCER IN / NOR / FOLK | |
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The family of Atthill have been landowners for at least four and a half centuries in Foulsham and the neighbouring parish of Guestwick. Foulsham Hall and estate were purchased by the family in 1692 of Philip Skippon, son of Major-General Skippon, who was an active officer in the Parliamentary Army. |
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W48: Norfolk, Foulsham (Farthing): (1668)
O | The Mercers' Arms |
EDWARD BENN 1668 |
R | E R B |
OF FOVLSHAM MERCER E R B | |
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One of Benn's tokens was found a few years since in pulling down the old King's Head Inn at Foulsham |
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