Hall marks on gold & silver plate

Opus quale sit, ignis probabit." 1 Cou. iii, 13.
(Motto of the Goldsmiths' Company of Boxien.}
THE GOLDSMITHS' COMPANY
T HE
following account of the Goldsmiths' Company is from a
plate
of their arms in the clerk's office :
" To the Master Warden & Wardens with the rest of the
Worthy Members of the R' Worship^' Company of Goldsmiths.
Plate.
" T. B. Wisheth Event of all Felicity & humbly
dedicates this
" The R' Worship'^ Company of Goldsmiths London, bear for
their Ensigne Armorial 1 : Quarterly,
Gules and Azure; In the i"
g
and 4*'' a Leopards head Or. In y 2^ & 3'* a Cup
2 Buckles of the last : On
covered between
a Helmet a Wreath of their Colours, a
denty* Lady her Arms extended proper, in y Dexter hand a Pair of
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.Scales, & in y Sinister an Ingot as y 3^^. Supported by
2 Unicorns
Gold Underneath on an Escrole for their Motto JUSTITA vlRTUTU^r
REGIN.'\. Patron, St. Dunstan.
"It is to y v'ery great LIcmour of this Company, that severall
Persons of Eminent worth in Antient & Modern times, have been
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of Hen
e
y first
inrolled among them (particularly) in y Reigne :
Leofstane Goldsmith, was Provost of this City. That Henry Fitz
Alwin Fitz Leofstane Goldsmith was Maior of London: i'* of
Rich: I** 1 189. That Gregory Rokcsby Goldsmith continued Maior
7 year together. That W" Farringdon Goldsmith was Sheriff 9*" of
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Edw : I** 1280. & his son Nicholas after him 4 times L** Major in y
Reigne of Edw^ 2 1308. Besides King
ladv.
Prince Earle Lord and L*
* Dainty, an old word ioi- fine or elegant, here used for an elegantly dressed
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