Watch List notes:

Halsall, Col. Charles Mordaunt (cotton mill owner), Penny, arms of the Earls of Peterborough, rev. value, (DH 1). Another but lesser condition, first Almost Extremely Fine second about Very Fine, Rare. [2] £75?100 Col. Charles Lewis Mordaunt (c.1729?1808), ex Guards, JP in 1763, acquired the Mohun estate at Halsall, near Ormskirk, in 1758. A few years later he had built a large cotton mill there and by 1782 was employing some 160 women and children. In around December 1783, Mordaunt's superintendent, John Moon, contacted Boulton's mint in Birmingham, with a view to having tokens made for his workers to use; they were probably in use around 1784/85 and if this were so, they would therefore pre?date the large Anglesey series which are generally recognised to be the first 18th. C. tokens. However, local documentation suggests that they were no longer in circulation in 1791. Today, the mill is no longer standing and Halsall Hall is divided up into flats.