Hall marks on gold & silver plate

ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS. 13
to buy the said corn, and each alderman laid out twenty pounds to
the like purpose." He was buried in the Church of St. George,
Botolph Lane, where his son, Richard Bamme, of Gillingham, Kent,
also lies, ob. 1452.
1395. Thomas Pole, goldsmith, was buried in the Church of
St. Matthew, Friday Street, in 1395.
1397. Adam Browne, goldsmith, was Lord Mayor in 1397.
1399. ] ohn May hew. "Paid for a stone of adamant, ornamented
and set in gold, xl /i." First Henry IV. (Devon's " Pell
Records.") The stone of adamant was a loadstone frequently
worn about the person as an amulet against maladies set in metal.
1400. Walter Prest and 'Nicholas Broker executed in gilt metal
the effigies of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, in the Confessor's
Chapel, Westminster Abbey, in the beginning of the fifteenth century.
In the Kalendar of the Exchequer, eighteenth Richard II, is
a copy of the indenture for the construction of the tomb of Richard II
and his Queen, in Westminster Abbey, between the King and Master
Yevele and Stephen Lote, stonemasons (latomos), for a marble tomb
for Anna, recently Queen of England, and the said Lord King; also
an indenture between the King and Nicholas Broker ?nd Walter
Prest, "coppersmiths" of London, to make two statues (ymagines)
in the likeness of the King and Queen, of brass and laton gilt upon
the said marble tomb ; with other clauses contained in the indenture ;
also a design or model (patron) of the likenesses of the King and
Queen, from which model the said work was to be completed. This
tomb was placed in the Abbey before the King's death, his body
being subsequently removed from Pontefract Castle and placed
under his effigy by Henry V, the son of his murderer.
1400. Sir Drugo, or Dru, Barentyne, goldsmith, was twice
Mayor, 1398, 1408, Sheriff in 1393, M.P. for the City of London,
1394. He lived in Foster Lane. He built the second Goldsmiths'
<strong>Hall</strong> in 1407. In 1395 a singular grant was issued to Margaret,
Countess of Norfolk, and Drugo Barentyne, goldsmith of London,
licensing them to melt down groats, half-groats, and sterlings, or
pennies, to the amount of ;^ioo, and to make thereof a silver vessel
for the use of the said Margaret, notwithstanding the Statute. It is
not easy to ascertain the object of this grant, for it is scarcely possible
that there was not a sufficiency of bullion in another form to
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be readily obtained. He gave fair lands to the goldsmiths," ac-
cording to Stow, " and dwelled right against the Goldsmiths' <strong>Hall</strong>,
betweene the which <strong>Hall</strong> and his dwelling-house he builded a gallory
thwarting the streete, whereby he might go from one to the
other." He was buried in the Church of St. John Zachary, on
December 15, 141 5.
1 400- 1. Sir John Frances, goldsmith, was Mayor in this year,
1400-1. Sheriff, 1390 He was buried in the Church of St. John
Zachary. "Johannes Frances, civis et aurifaber et quondam Maior
London, qui obiit, 13 December 1405."