Excerpt from Tradesmen's Tokens, Current in London and Its Vicinity Between the Years 1648 and 1672: Described From the Originals in the British Museum, and in Several Private CollectionsThe Leg and Seven Stars, The Axe and the Bottle The Tun and the Lute The Eagle and Child, The Shovel and Boot.Several of the tokens here described are of taverns in the vicinity of the Inns of Court and Temple Bar, the great thoroughfare from the city to the west end. This neighbourhood, though it has undergone many changes, still preserves some relics of its former state. Its taverns - snug enough when you reach them - at the ends of narrow courts its quaint looking houses, Bell-yard and Shire-lane, 7 with their ancient tenements huddled together and cramped for room, all tend to convey an idea of what London was in old times.The list which follows is a fair average sample of the quasi currency which provoked the scorn of Evelyn, and inundated the country in the middle of the 17th century, supplying small change to dealers and chapmen, until a legitimate coinage of farthings succeeded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.