Obv: (cinquefoil)IOHN.MATRAVERS.IN , around beaded inner circle, a fleur-de-lis.
Rev: (cinquefoil)WESTBVRY.1669:: , around beaded inner circle, (cinquefoil)M(cinquefoil) over IE, (cinquefoil) below.
M. Dickinson 263.

John Matravers, Quaker. At the Trinity Quarter Sessions in Warminster in July 1671 Patient, a chandler, was indicted for 'striking farthings...four of which were only worth a halfpenny'; pleading guilty at the subsequent Hilary Quarter Sessions in New Sarum in 1671/2 (OS), he was fined 3s 4d which he paid to the Sheriff in court (Kempson, BNJ 1973, p. 129).


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