The Poulterers' Arms

Thomas Rogers issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in Newgate Market.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2026; Obv inscription: THOMAS.ROGERS.IN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Poulterers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: NEWGATE.MARKET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = T.S.R. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

The arms of the Worshipful company of Poulterers are: Argent on a chevron azure between three cranes proper three swans argent (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). Newgate Market, lay in the middle of Newgate Street before the Great Fire of London, 1666, see Adrian Prockter and Robert Taylor, The A-Z of Elizabethan London (London, 1979 p. 9), after this time it lay 'between Rose Street, Newgate Street, and Paved Alley, Paternoster Row, in Castle Baynard Ward and Farringdon Ward Within' (O.S. 1848-51, as cited in Henry A. Harben, A dictionary of London (London, 1918), in Castle Baynard Ward, and the ward of Farringdon Within, in the City of London.