17th Century, Winslow, William Gyles, Farthing, hat, 1.03g/6h (Berry & Morley 195; SCBI Norweb 347, same dies; BW. 150); William Giles, Halfpenny, 1666, hat, 1.11g/6h (Berry & Morley 196; SCBI Norweb 348, same dies; BW. 149) [2]. First fine and with green patina, rare, second very fine (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Tokens.

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Provenance:
B & M 195 bt N Clark November 1990.

*B & M 196 J Maitland Collection, BDW Auction 8, 16 November 1994, lot 737 (part) [from F Schwer, July 1987].

William Giles (†April 1713), feltmaker, a prominent Puritan and baptist; descended from an old Winslow family, he married Mary Muncke of Bierton, March 1653. A signatory of the Orthodox Confession of 1679, Giles owned several properties in the neighbourhood of Winslow market place (where he is known to have traded from stalls between 1661 and 1677), including the baptist meeting house popularly known as Keach’s meeting house, after the dissenting preacher Benjamin Keach (1640-1704); now a cottage restored in 1959, it still bears the initials of Giles and his wife Mary carved on a stone in the porch, dated 1695, the year before Giles surrendered the building to charitable uses and vested it in four trustees, one of which was his son. Further details are sold with the lot