"'Good Queen Bess,' when she visited Worcester, borrowed £200 of the Corporation, which still stands as a 'bad debt' on the town books." On the occasion of the Royal visit alluded to, a "fare cupp" was bought at London "for the presenting the gyfte to the Queen's Majestie, and xl. pounds in sov'raignes and angells of her own coign and stamp;" a crimson velvet purse, with £20 in it, was also presented to the Queen on her visit to the Cathedral. The total outlay by the city for entertaining her Majesty was £173. 8s. 4d., but the writer is not aware of any record of the Queen's having borrowed £200, or of such an item standing as a "bad debt" on the books, which he has closely examined from a date prior to the Queen's visit. WORCESTERSHIRE TOKENS--SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Traders' tokens were issued from the year 1648, towards the close of the reign of Charles I, until the year 1672, when they were cried down by proclamation of Charles II, and a new copper currency issued, the first we had in England, all previously being Royal tokens. During the Commonwealth they were not very numerous, but after the Restoration, in 1660, to the year 1672, they are exceedingly abundant, and were issued in nearly every town and village in England. They were issued without authority, no doubt, as many of them state, for necessary change. In London alone nearly 4000 were issued, and the remainder of England are estimated at 15,000 more. In the year 1669 (when this kind of coinage was first checked) 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; and in 1670 the Worcester Corporation petitioned his Majesty's pardon for "putting out farthings in this city." The following list of Worcestershire tokens, recently published by Mr. W. Boyne, in "Aris's Birmingham Gazette," I now reprint, with a few additions: WORCESTER. 1. (_Obverse_) A WORCESTER FARTHING Arms of Worcester; a castle with a bird above it. (_Reverse_) FOR NECESSARIE CHAING C. W. (City of Worcester) Value. 1667 1/4d. 2. RICHARD ALDNEY 1/2d. 3. _O._ EDWARD BARON OF YE CITTY E.B. conjoined. _R._ OF WORCESTER HIS HALF PENY Arms of Worcester; three pears 1/2d. 4. _O._ RICHARD BEDDOES OF YE Arms of Worcester. (16)59. _R._ CITTY OF WORCESTER Mercers' Arms. R. B. 1/4d. 5. _O._ RICHARD BEDOES Arms of Worcester. _R._ HIS HALFE PENNY Mercers' Arms. R. B. 1/2d.