Hall marks on gold & silver plate

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HALL MARKS ON PLATE.
1403. The four wardens of the Goldsmiths' Company were
William Grantham, Salomon Oxeneye, Thomas Lenyde, Robert
<strong>Hall</strong>.
1405. Thomas Atte Hay was a benevolent goldsmith; he bequeathed
the "Horn Tavern" in 1405, now known as " Anderton's
Hotel," Fleet Street, to the Goldsmiths' Company, for the better
support and sustentation of the infirm members of the Company.
The estimated value of his bequest was formerly 760 per annum.
1409. -William- Chicheley, goldsmith, was Sheriff in this year.
141 5. William Fitzhugh, goldsmith, was Comptroller of the
Mint from 1400 down to 141 8.
1 41 9.
Solomon Oxney was one of the Members of Parliament
for the City in 1419.
1422. Gilbert Van
Mint.
Brandeberg, goldsmith, Engraver to the
1422. Bartholomew Seman, gold-beater, usually called "Bartholomew
Goldbeter," was Master of the King's Mints, tenth of
Henry V, and first and second Henry VI, within the Tower of London
and the town of Calais. He died in 1430, and was buried in
the Church of St. John Zachary.
1422. In first Henry VI, Johjt B ernes, of London, goldsmith,
was appointed by the King to make the money weights for the noble,
the half and quarter, and to stamp them, according to the form of
the statute of the ninth year of the late King.
1429. William Russe, goldsmith, Sheriff, 1429, Master of the
Mints of London, Calais, Bristol and York, tenth and eleventh
Henry VI (143 1-2), and Warden of the Exchange, tenth Henry VI.
(Stow spells his name Rous.) He was buried in St. Peter's Church,
in Chepe.
1432.^ -John Oreivell, goldsmith, Engraver to the Mint, 1432-40.
1437. .... Remonde, a goldsmith. In the privy purse expenses
of Henry VII (1437): "Item delivered by your said com-
of Gloucestre a nouche
mandment to send that same day to my Lady
maad in manner of a man, garnized with a faire gret balay, v gret
perles, i gret diamand pointed, with three gret hangers garnized with
rubies and perles, bought of Remonde, the goldsmyth, for the some
of xi ur
1439. William Austin, of London. Flaxman, speaking of
the monument of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, at Warwick,
describes the figures as being natural and graceful, the architecture
rich and delicate, and that they are excelled by nothing done
in Italy of the same kind at this time, although Donatello and
Ghiberti were living when this tomb was erected in 1439. He
" says,
The artist was William Austin, of London." We insert his name
among the goldsmiths, although we have no positive record that
he was actually a worker in the precious metals; but the arts were
so nearly allied, the sculptor having so frequently received instruction
in the workshop of the goldsmith, as in the case of Ghiberti, to
whom we have just alluded, that we may be excused in thus recording
his name in the list as an English artist and goldsmith.