The Cordwainers' Arms

William Watts issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in King Street, Westminster, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 1625; Obv inscription: WILLIAM / WATTS / 1650 (in three lines of Roman capitals, in field); Rev inscription: KING.STREET.WESTMINSTER (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Cordwainers' arms (in field).

See also token numbers 8750a - 8750c, and 8751a - 8751c 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. The arms of the Worshipful company of Cordwainers are: Azure a chevron or between three goats' heads erased argent horned and bearded (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). 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.