Gents Mag 1853 part 1 p.493

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1853 part 1 p.493 was used for brushing the cloth - a brush being held in each hand. This operation is now also performed by machinery, the teasels being placed in a long, narrow iron frame, which is worked by steam-power. The vegetable teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) continues still to be used - no artificial brush having yet been found better than the natural one. 6. In the same year a token was issued conjointly by Thomas Wilson and Thomas Warde of Kirkland. Though there are other Kirklands elsewhere, the arms of the town show that the token is rightly assigned to Kirkland in Kendal, which is thus described by Nicolson and Burn:- Adjoining to the town of Kendal on the south is Kirkland, which is commonly reckoned part of Kendal (it now forms part of both the parliamentary and municipal borough), but it is a distinct township, separated from the town of Kendal by a little brook, which having but a small current, and as it were seeking a passage, is called Blindbeck. This place, being out of the mayor's liberty, is much resorted to by tradesmen that are not free of the corporation. Kendal church stands in Kirkland. Whether Messrs. Wilson and Warde were partners in trade, or merely joint-issuers of the token, has not been ascertained; but instances of joint-issue by neighbours in trade are not unfrequent. 7. In 1667 James Cocke junior of Kendal issued a halfpenny token, ex- hibiting a rebus upon his name.* This Mr. Cocke was sworn a member of the Mercer's Company in 1655, and became mayor of Kendal in 1681. His residence was in the Park; and a house which stood on the site of that now occupied by Mr. Hudson, druggist, in Butcher's Row, belonged to the family, and before it was rebuilt in 1812, had the figure of a cock in stained glass in one of its windows. 8. Richard Rowlandson of Grayrig in Kendal parish issued a Halfpenny in 1669. The device is described by Mr. Brockett as "a pair of scales on a pedestal," but the pedestal looks exceedingly like a shovel. Richard Rowlandson was a fellmonger and woolstapler, and lived on his own estate at Lambert Ash, Grayrig, where he carried on his business. Grayrig is at a few miles distance from Kirkby Kendal; but Rowlandson had a branch establishment in the town, and others at Kirkby Stephen and Kirkby Lonsdale. It is related that he walked to London and back on business three times, and that he was there in the time of the Great Plague of 1665. This was probably the last Token coined for Kendal, as the tokens struck by towns, trading companies, and individual tradesmen, at the period in question, "for necessary change," range for about 24 years, that is, from 1648 to 1672, and were checked as early as 1669. In that year the citizens of Norwich had a pardon granted them for all transgressions, and in particular for their coinage of halfpence and farthings, by which they had forfeited their charter, all coinage being declared to be the king's prerogative.† In 1672 all such currency was "cried down" by royal proclamation. The remaining Westmerland tokens described by Mr. Brockett are - Two for Appleby, 1. the halfpenny
	* The obverse is nearly identical with that of the token of John Cocke of Leeds, the reverse of which is inscribed "William Balley, 1666, a half peny." Snelling, fig.12. † Blomefield's History of Norfolk, vol.ii. p.290.
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