17th Century Tokens : Maze-Mint in Southwark

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Click Images to View Coin Details The Maze and Maze Pond The Maze formed part of the garden of the Abbots of Battle, and was attached to "Battell House," their town residence. The Pond was a pool in the same garden for "fancy fysshe." There was a Particular Baptist meeting-house in Maze Pond originated by those who separated from Benjamin Keach's church in Goat Yard (q. v.), occasioned by a difference of opinion upon the subject of singing in public worship. Mr Samuel Mee was first pastor in 1691, and the church existed till at least 1814. W306: Southwark, The Maze and Maze Pond (Uncertain): (Date Unknown) O  A cock MICH BLOWER AT THE R  M A B MAZE IN SOVTHWORKE M A B Image not available W308: Southwark, The Maze and Maze Pond (Uncertain): (Date Unknown) O  The sun NICHOLAS MACKRETH R  N S M MEASE SOVTHWARKE N S M Image not available The Mint The Mint was opposite St George's Church, and was in the seventeenth century an Alsatia or refuge for the worst and lowest people. Henry VIII established a mint there for coinage. The Mint was first carried out in Suffolk House, the residence of the King's brother-in-law, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and when the King took over his house as a mint he gave the Duke in exchange the house of the Bishop of Norwich, in St Martin's in-the-Fields. In the Mint in 1832 the first case of Asiatic cholera appeared in the Metropolis. The Harrow and Three Bells were the two chief inns in the Mint. W312: Southwark, The Mint (Uncertain): (Date Unknown) O  A harrow IN THE MINT R  I G IN SOVTHWARKE I G Image not available W313: Southwark, The Mint (Uncertain): (Date Unknown) O  The Mercers' Arms RICHARD PERKINS R  R M P IN MINT SOVTHWARKE I G Image not available

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