CHARLES I. COMMONWEALTH PROTECTORATE, CHARLES II. JAMES II. Gold. Treble unit or £3 piece; unit, broad, or 20s. piece; double crown, half-broad, or 10s. piece; crown, British crown, or 5s. piece; angel, and some siege pieces. Silver. Pound or 20s. piece, half-pound or 10s. piece, crown or 5s. piece, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, groat, threepence, half-groat, penny, half-penny. Also numerous siege pieces, which may be briefly enumerated as follows:— Beeston Castle, 2s, 14d., 13d., 18., 11d.; Carlisle, 3s., 18.; Colchester, 1s.; Newark (lozengeshaped), half-crown, 1s., 9d., 6d. ; Pontefract, 1s.; Scarborough, crown (5s.), half-crown, 2s. 1s. 6d., 1s.; other mintages of the same value, and of 7d. and 4d. each. Gold. Twenty shilling piece, 10s. piece, 5s. piece. Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, half-groat, penny, half-penny. Gold. Fifty shilling piece, broad or 20s. piece, half-broad or 10s. piece. Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, ninepence, Gold. Broad or 20s. piece, half-broad or 10s. siege pieces. Copper. Half-penny, farthing. Tin. Farthing. Gold. Five-guinea piece, two-guinea piece, guinea, half-guinea. Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, groat, half-groat, threepence, penny. Gun money. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence. Tin. Half-penny, farthing. WILLIAM III. AND MARY II. ANNE GEORGE I. GEORGE II. GEORGE III. GEORGE IV. Gold. Five-guinea, two-guinea, guinea, and half-guinea pieces. Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, groat, threepence, half-groat, penny. Copper. Half-penny, farthing. Tin. Half-penny, farthing. Gold. Five-guinea, two-guinea, guinea, and half-guinea pieces. Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, Gold. Five-guinea, two-guinea, guinea, half- Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, Gold. Five-guinea, two-guinea, guinea, and Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, Gold. Guinea, half-guinea, one-third guinea Silver. Crown (5s.), half-crown, shilling, sixpence, groat, threepence, half-groat, penny. Dollars and half-dollars were also counterstruck with a small head of the king and made current, and bank tokens for various sums were also issued. Copper. Twopence, three-halfpence, penny, half-penny, farthing. Gold. Five sovereign, double sovereign, sove- Silver. Crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, WILLIAM IV. VICTORIA. Gold. Double sovereign, sovereign, half-sove- Copper. Penny, half-penny, farthing. Gold. Five sovereign, double sovereign, sovereign, half-sovereign. Silver. Crown, half-crown, florin or 2s. piece, shilling, sixpence, groat or fourpence, threepence, half-groat, penny. Copper. Penny, half-penny, farthing, halffarthing. Bronze: Penny, half-penny, farthing. Traders' tokens were issued in the middle of the seventeenth century in almost every town and village in the kingdom, and the same kind of issue obtained at intervals until the early part of the present century. Those who wish to study seventeenth-century tokens cannot do better than consult Mr. Boyne's excellent volume on the subject. CHAPTER X. AMONG CHURCH BELLS. A VERY fascinating study, but one that has been sadly neglected, is that of church bells, and therefore a short time may well be devoted to learning something of their history, and more of their historical interest and importance. They were, it is more than probable, introduced into this country long before the time of the coming of Augustine, in 596. It is said that, in 550, Odoceus, Bishop of Llandaff, removed the bells from that cathedral during a time of excommunication; and earlier still they are assumed to have been in use in Ireland as early as the time of St. Patrick, who died in A.D. 493. In those days much superstitious feeling, as in later ages, hung around the bells, and many sweetly pretty and very curious legends are known respecting them. Thus it is said St. Odoceus of Llandaff, "being thirsty after undergoing labour, and more accustomed to drink water than anything else, came to a fountain in the vale of Llandaff, not |