The Three Morris Dancers

John Lisle issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at the sign of the 3 Morris Dancers in Aldersgate Street, Aldersgate Ward, City of London.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 43; Obv inscription: IOHN.LISLE.AT.THE.3 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Three morris dancers (in field); Rev inscription: IN.ALDERSGATE.STREET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALFE / PENNY / I.A.L (in four lines of Roman capitals with triad of initials as bottom, in field).

See also tokens issued by John Lisle from Old Change (Farringdon Within Ward, Bread Street and Castle Baynard wards). See lease from the Town of Sheffield assigned to John Lisle, who was to rebuild (Fire Court: Calendar to the Judgments and Decress of the Court of Judicature appointed to determine Differences between Landlords and Tenants as to rebuilding after the Great Fire, ed. Philip E. Jones (London,1966-, i. 240); three foundations set out of John Lyle in 1667 (Peter Mills and John Oliver, The Survey of Building Sites in the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666, (London, 1962-7,vol. i. 56, ii. 40). For the Three Morris-Dancers in Old Change, see Bryant Lillywhite, London Signs (London, 1972) no. 14936. For other tokens by this issuer see numbers 7443a and 7443b in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 59, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VII - City of London.