Sittingbourne

Above photos showing a half penny token dated 1670.

This could well be a new edition to my pub list that I haven't previously known about. It's location is as yet unknown, but likely to be in the two centre or High Street of Sittingbourne I would say.

Mark Reed kindly sent me the above photos of a half penny token dated 1670 from Sittingbourne. These token were used to pay for merchandise sold at inns and stores and would only be transferable at the named venue. Usually issued as a kind of loyalty scheme as they would be useless elsewhere.

The other side as you can see appears to have a symbol of St. George perhaps surrounded by the words The William Webb IV. Or does it say "William Web At The."

My thinking was the token reads William Webb at the and then in Sittingborn 1670 because the token has AT THE and then St George it would lead to being a tavern.

I don't think this would have been connected to the "George Inn" as I believe that pub wasn't called that till about 1768 and at the time was known as the "New Inn."

The connection I have made to the name William Webb is of a composer by that name who lived between 1600 and 1657, and who the pub could well have been named after.

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