Hall marks on gold & silver plate

ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS. 7
the church against the King's coming thither." Two years later he
ordered the Keeper of the Exchequer to "buy as precious a mitre
as could be found in the city of London, for the Archbishop's use,
and also one great coronal of silver to set wax candles upon in the
said church."
1255. William of Glouceste/, "the King's Goldsmith," was
Keeper of the Dies, Master of the Mint in 1258. In the forty-first
Henry III (1256) "This King, as a further ornament for St. Peter's
(Westminster Abbey), ordered a sumptuous monument to be erected
there, for his daughter Catharine, deceased, giving order to his treasurer
and his chamberlain of the treasury to deliver to Simon de
Welles, five <strong>marks</strong> and a half for his expenses in going to London
for a certain brass image to be set upon her tomb, and returning
home again. And upon the same tomb there was also set a silver
image; for the making of which William of Gloucester, the King's
goldsmith, was paid sixty and ten <strong>marks</strong>."
1262. In this year there was a quarrel between the goldsmiths
and the tailors, who met in great bodies, fully armed, with loss on
both sides. The riot was quelled by the Mayor and Aldermen, and
thirteen of the ringleaders executed.
1269. Among the fifty-eight adherents of Simon de Montfort,
who was defeated and slain at the battle of Evesham, when
Henry III was released from prison, were Conrad, the ;
goldsmith
John Fitzpatnck, goldsmith ; and Hubert, the : goldsmith they were
banished the kingdom
with the rest. On the submission of the
Barons, they were heavily fi.ned, and the City of London was obliged
to pay 20,000 <strong>marks</strong>. (Riley.)
13th century. Edward Fitz Otho, Engraver to the Mint, and Master.
1265. Thomas Fitz Otho, do. do.
1280. Hugh Fitz Otho, do. do.
1290. Thomas Fitz Otho, do. do.
1294. William Fitz Otho,^ do. do.
1275.' Ralph le Blount, or Le Blund, goldsmith, and one of
the wardens of the Company, was Alderman of Bassishaw Ward.
He was Engraver to the Mint in 1267, having succeeded Richard
Abel in that capacity.
In 1275. -Michael Thovy, goldsmith, for holding with the
Barons, was imprisoned with others, and, by reason of murders and
robberies imputed to him by the Aldermen, was hanged in 1275.
(Riley.)
1275. Gregory de Rokesley, b. celebrated goldsmith, lived in
the Old Change; he was Keeper of the King's Exchange and Chief
Assay Master of all the King's mints in England. Sheriff in 1271.
He was eight times Mayor, between 1275 and 1285, when, for re-
fusing to appear at the Tower as Lord Mayor before the King's
* No less than three tenants-in-chief under the Conqueror are entered in
Domesday, under the appellation of " Aurifaber." One of these. Otto .Anrifaber,
held in Essex ; and his descendants, under the siuname of Fitz Otho.
appear to have been almost hereditary Mint Masters to the Crown for two
centuries, becoming extinct about 1300.