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Description: | A post medieval copper alloy trade token farthing of Will Chandler of from Bishop's Stortford dating AD1648-1674. Williamson no. 44.Dimensions: diameter: 15.65mm; weight: 0.89g.Williamson (1889) writes: "This is a rebus, and, with the following token, no doubt alluded to the name of the place, and to the fact of its having been bestowed by William the Conqueror upon Maurice, Bishop of London, and his successors about A.D. 1066. The name of Chandler occurs frequently in the parish register down to the present century. Thomas Chandler was a churchwarden the 5th year of Edward VI (1552). William Chandler, a shoemaker, married Margaret , and was overseer of the poor in 1662; he died October 10, 1691, and his wife July 27, 1666. They had four children at least, viz., Thomas, who died March 31, 1663 ; Jane, August 3 and Margaret, August 7th, 1666, both of which died of the plague which raged here from July to October in that year, and which took many members of several families of the token-issuers; and Henry, who died March 11, 1675.There was also another William Chandler, who married Mary , and had a daughter, who was buried September 30, 1636, and a daughter Margaret, August 14, 1653. In 1611, a Robert Chandler, being excommunicated, was buried in a place appointed for excommunicants. Robert Chandler was a gardener in 1638, and was buried in that year. In 1660, Francis Chandler was ejected from Theydon Mount, in Essex, and became a Nonconformist. In 1662 he went to London, and in 1666 removed to Bishops Stortford, and died, in the prime of his life, June 18, 1667. A George Chandler was overseer in 1658 ; constable in 1663. His son, George, was a tanner by trade, and churchwarden in 1698. The father died in 1667, and lost a daughter, Dorcas, by the plague, September 1 1, 1666. There was also John Chandler, a cordwainer, and Anne, his wife ; a Joan and George, children of a Thomas Chandler ; and old Edward Chandler and Denis, his wife. This Edward Chandler held Low Meade in 1625, paying 4d per year. George Chandler had a house and yard in South Street in 1680, paying 4d per year. In 1042, Robert Chandler had a house on lease in Water Lane, and paid 4d church rent, and £1 per year. He died the same year, and his widow held Sexten's Mead and land in Hockerel field for £1 10d per year. John Chandler, sen., in 1642, paid 4d to the church for a house and yard; and in 1692 a widow Chandler lived in a tenement called the Round House, situate on the Poultry Hill, Leather Market. William Chandler paid £1 l0d per year for a house to the churchwardens in 1658.Reference: Williamson, G. C. 1889. Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century. Elliot Stock: London.
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