Hall marks on gold & silver plate

6 HALL MARKS ON PLATE.
works in the precious metals that he was invited by the King of
Denmark tO' superintend his goldsmiths' works, and be his banker
and money-changer. A pair of candlesticks, made of silver and
gold, and presented by Robert, Abbot of St. Albans, to Pope Adrian
(our countryman), were so much esteemed for their exquisite workmanship
that they were consecrated to the basilica of St. Peter at Rome.
Twelfth century. Solomon of Ely was a pupil of Anketil of
St. Albans, and assisted him in his works at the monastery.
1 1 89. Henry Fitz Alwyn, goldsmith. King Richard I, Coeur
de Lion, in order to maintain the expenses incurred in the Crusades,
levied large subsidies upon the city, and in return granted to the
citizens the privilege of electing their own chief magistrate, who
"
was designated Maior," a title taken from the Norman Maire. The
first elected to this high office was Henry Fitz Alwyn, whose ancestor
Alwyn, cousin of King Edgar, was styled "Alderman of all England."
Henry Fitz Alwyn was mayor for twenty-four years
(1189-1213).
1 ig2-7,. Henry de Cornhill was Warden of the Mint, fourth
and fifth Richard I. In the third year of Richard I he accounted for
the profits of the Cambium of all England, except Winchester.
1212. William Fitzwilliam, a goldsmith, about this time
founded at St. Helen's, in Bishopsgate, a priory of Benedictine Nuns,
and probably built a church for them, against that of St. Helen's,
which afterwards came into their possession; the ruins of the nun-
nery were pulled down in 1799.*
Thirteenth century. William Fitz Oiho, or Otto, in the sixth
of King John (1204) made the dies for the Mint at Chichester, being
to the Mint,
Engraver
1222. Uger, goldsmith, was Master of the Mint in this year.
1224. Everard, a goldsmith of London, was Warden of the
King's Exchange at the Mint, ninth Henry HI.
1242. Ralph Eswy, goldsmith, was one of the Sheriffs in 1242.
" In 1 243 he was again chosen Mayor and presented to his Lordship
the King at Westminster." (Riley, "Mayors and Sheriffs of
London.")
1243. Hugh Bland, goldsmith, was one of the Sheriffs in 1243.
12^'^.^Richard Abel, goldsmith, succeeded William Fitz Otho
as Engraver to the Mint (twenty-seventh Henry III).
1243. Williajn Fitz Otho, probably the same mentioned above,
was goldsmith to King Henry III, and made many rich ornaments
for the use and adornment of the Lady Chapel in Westminster
Abbey. In the twenty-eighth year of this king's reign (1243) he
directed Fitz Otho to make "a dragon in manner of a standard or
ensign, of red samit, to be embroidered with gold, and his tongue to
appear as continually moving, his eyes of sapphires, to be placed in
* He was the son of " William the Goldsmith.'' Sir William FitzWilliam,
Merchant Taylor, servant to Cardinal Wolsey, Alderman of Bread Street Ward,
1506, was a lineal descendant, from whom is descended the present Earl Fitz-
William. (" Annals of St. Helens," by Rev. J. E. Cox, D.D.)