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<p>[QUOTE="Larry Moran, post: 1409172, member: 4580"]<b>Suffolk DH-15 from Joel Spingarn Collection</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><b><font size="3">Suffolk, Woodbridge DH 15 </font></b></font></span>from Joel Spingarn Collection<span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><b></b></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><b><br /></b></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><b>1796 One Penny Conder Token • Thomas Sekford / Arms of Thomas Sekford</b></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><b></b></font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">From the collection of Joel Spingarn. ex-Jerry Bobbe, ex- Bill McKivor.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"></font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><b></b></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><b>Thomas Seckford</b> (1515 – January 1587) was an official at the court of Queen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" rel="nofollow">Queen Elizabeth I</a>.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Born near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge,_Suffolk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge,_Suffolk" rel="nofollow">Woodbridge</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk" rel="nofollow">Suffolk</a>, England, Seckford was educated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" rel="nofollow">Cambridge</a>,[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford#cite_note-0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford#cite_note-0" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>[/SUP] and in 1540 entered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray's_Inn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray's_Inn" rel="nofollow">Gray's Inn</a>, Thomas became one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_I_of_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_I_of_England" rel="nofollow">Queen Elizabeth I</a>’s two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Requests" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Requests" rel="nofollow">Masters in Ordinary of the Court of Requests</a> which dealt with poor men’s causes. One of the duties of this post was to accompany the monarch as she journeyed around her realm. He would thus have been particularly known to the Queen. He is believed to have played a prominent part in arranging the Elizabethan Church Settlement. In 1564, she sold him the manor of Woodbridge, including the site of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_Priory" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_Priory" rel="nofollow">Woodbridge Priory</a>, and he became a benefactor to both the church and town.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford#cite_note-list-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford#cite_note-list-1" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>[/SUP] He was junior <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_the_Shire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_the_Shire" rel="nofollow">Knight of the Shire</a> (MP) for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" rel="nofollow">Suffolk</a> in 1571.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Elizabeth is known to have held court at the Seckford family seat, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seckford_Hall" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seckford_Hall" rel="nofollow">Seckford Hall</a>.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">In 1574 Thomas commissioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Saxton" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Saxton" rel="nofollow">Christopher Saxton</a> to survey all the English counties and produce an atlas of the realm. This was published in 1579, the first ever done from an actual survey. Elizabeth granted him a patent for its sole publication for ten years.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">He founded seven <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almshouse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almshouse" rel="nofollow">almshouses</a> in Woodbridge in 1586 which he endowed with an income of £112 13s 4d (£112.66p) per year from land in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell" rel="nofollow">Clerkenwell</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex" rel="nofollow">Middlesex</a>. He also paid for the old Woodbridge Abbey to be rebuilt. His wealth is still benefiting Woodbridge today.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">He died in 1587 aged 72, never having had children, and was buried in a chapel on the north side of Woodbridge Church which is now an organ chamber. His coat of arms can be seen in the north window of the west wall of the church.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Sekforde Street in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell" rel="nofollow">Clerkenwell</a>, London, is built on land once owned by Seckford and is named for him. Sekforde Street adjoins Woodbridge Street, laid out at the same time in the 1830s. In the film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_a_Boy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_a_Boy" rel="nofollow">About a Boy</a></i> starring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grant" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grant" rel="nofollow">Hugh Grant</a> the main character, Will, lives in a flat in No.1 Sekforde Street. Woodbridge Chapel on Woodbridge Street also features in the film as the scene of the "Single Parents Alone Together" (SPAT) meeting.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Source: </font></span>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford</p><p><br /></p><p>Edge reads:</p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After%2012-6-10/PublishedbyRLoder1796600pixelswide.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After 12-6-10/BillsSekfordOBV.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After 12-6-10/BillsSekfordREV.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Moran, post: 1409172, member: 4580"][b]Suffolk DH-15 from Joel Spingarn Collection[/b] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif][B][SIZE=3]Suffolk, Woodbridge DH 15 [/SIZE][/B][/FONT][/COLOR]from Joel Spingarn Collection[COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif][B] 1796 One Penny Conder Token • Thomas Sekford / Arms of Thomas Sekford [/B][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]From the collection of Joel Spingarn. ex-Jerry Bobbe, ex- Bill McKivor. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif][B] Thomas Seckford[/B] (1515 – January 1587) was an official at the court of Queen [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England"]Queen Elizabeth I[/URL]. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Born near [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge,_Suffolk"]Woodbridge[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk"]Suffolk[/URL], England, Seckford was educated at [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge"]Cambridge[/URL],[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford#cite_note-0"][1][/URL][/SUP] and in 1540 entered [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray's_Inn"]Gray's Inn[/URL], Thomas became one of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_I_of_England"]Queen Elizabeth I[/URL]’s two [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Requests"]Masters in Ordinary of the Court of Requests[/URL] which dealt with poor men’s causes. One of the duties of this post was to accompany the monarch as she journeyed around her realm. He would thus have been particularly known to the Queen. He is believed to have played a prominent part in arranging the Elizabethan Church Settlement. In 1564, she sold him the manor of Woodbridge, including the site of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_Priory"]Woodbridge Priory[/URL], and he became a benefactor to both the church and town.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford#cite_note-list-1"][2][/URL][/SUP] He was junior [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_the_Shire"]Knight of the Shire[/URL] (MP) for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)"]Suffolk[/URL] in 1571. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Elizabeth is known to have held court at the Seckford family seat, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seckford_Hall"]Seckford Hall[/URL]. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]In 1574 Thomas commissioned [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Saxton"]Christopher Saxton[/URL] to survey all the English counties and produce an atlas of the realm. This was published in 1579, the first ever done from an actual survey. Elizabeth granted him a patent for its sole publication for ten years. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]He founded seven [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almshouse"]almshouses[/URL] in Woodbridge in 1586 which he endowed with an income of £112 13s 4d (£112.66p) per year from land in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell"]Clerkenwell[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex"]Middlesex[/URL]. He also paid for the old Woodbridge Abbey to be rebuilt. His wealth is still benefiting Woodbridge today. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]He died in 1587 aged 72, never having had children, and was buried in a chapel on the north side of Woodbridge Church which is now an organ chamber. His coat of arms can be seen in the north window of the west wall of the church. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Sekforde Street in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell"]Clerkenwell[/URL], London, is built on land once owned by Seckford and is named for him. Sekforde Street adjoins Woodbridge Street, laid out at the same time in the 1830s. In the film [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_a_Boy"]About a Boy[/URL][/I] starring [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grant"]Hugh Grant[/URL] the main character, Will, lives in a flat in No.1 Sekforde Street. Woodbridge Chapel on Woodbridge Street also features in the film as the scene of the "Single Parents Alone Together" (SPAT) meeting. Source: [/FONT][/COLOR]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seckford Edge reads: [IMG]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After%2012-6-10/PublishedbyRLoder1796600pixelswide.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After 12-6-10/BillsSekfordOBV.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After 12-6-10/BillsSekfordREV.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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