The Woodmongers' Arms

John Hudson issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business at the Brewers' Yard, in King Street, Westminster, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 1605; Obv inscription: IOHN. HUDSON. AT. YE. BRVRS. YARD (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Woodmongers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: KINGS. STREET. WESTMINSTER (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.H (in field, in Roman capitals).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Woodmongers are: A sword erect point upwards in pale proper Pomel and Hilt Gules between two Cart Wheels in fesse of the last (J. Bromley, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London: a record of the heraldry of the surviving companies with historical notes; with...[illustrations] by Heather Child...(London, 1960). See also token number 8641 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 62, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces. King Street is in the City of Westminster, having previously been part of Middlesex. It has been recorded that it became part of Whitehall, see Plate 37 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 62, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces.