Hall marks on gold & silver plate

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1 440- 1. Sir John Pattesley, or Paddesley, goldsmith, Master
of the Mint, 1434 and 1483, Sheriff, 1432, Mayor in 1440-1, son of
Simon Pattesley, of Bury St. Edmunds. In the privy purse ex-
penses of Henry VII (1437): "
Fyrste delivered by your gracious
commandment and appointment to send to Queen Katerine for her
yerisgifte on New Year's Day, she being at Bermondsey, j tablett
of golde with a crucihxe garnized with sapphires and perles weyng
aboute xiiij unc' of golde, and was bought of John Patteslee, goldesmyth,
for the some of xl li." He was buried in St. Michael's,
Crooked Lane.
1442. In this year the following wardens of the craft of the
Goldsmiths' Company were chosen: William Walton, William
Basenire, or Bismere', William Porter, and William Rakeley, or
Rockley.
They were re-elected in 1444, but their names were differently
spelt, as is frequently the case in early MSS.
1450. John Sutton, goldsmith, was one of the Sheriffs in 1440.
Among the epitaphs in St. John Zachary's Church,* Stow gives the
following :
"
Here lieth the body of John Sutton, citizen, goldsmith,
and Alderman of London, who died 6th July, 1450. This brave
and worthy alderman was killed in the defence of the city, in the
bloody nocturnal battle on London Bridge, against the infamous
Jack Cade and his army of Kentish rebels."
1450. German Lyas, a foreigner, was admitted into the franchise
of Goldsmiths of London, to use the same craft as a freeman,
for which privilege he paid to the Almesse of St. Dunstan ^ 6s. 8d.
In 1452 this same German Lyas was brought before the Wardens for
various offences, and particularly for selling a "tablet of gold"
which was dishonourably wrought, being two parts of silver. On
deliberation it was awarded that he should give to the fraternity a
gilt cup of 24 oz. weight, and "
lowley obey himself on his knees."
"
"
This he did, bringing into the <strong>Hall</strong> a cuppe chased with a sonne
(sun), weighing 26 oz., and was pardoned.
1450. William Breaks-peare, goldsmith, died 1461, buried in St.
John's Zachary, where he is styled "sometime merchant, goldsmith
and alderman, the Commonweale attendant."
1452. Thomas Harrison, goldsmith, is thus lauded in the Company's
books in 1452: "Considering how much the Company was
indebted and their livelihood ruinous and in decline, great part of
which could not be helped without great and notable cost, had of
his blessed dispocition given twenty pounds towards making a parlour
in one of the Company's houses in Wood Street."
1452. Thomas Baby, Chaplain to the Goldsmiths' Company,
"
was buried in St. Foster's, Foster Lane, thus recorded : Dominus
Thomas Baby quondam capellanus aurifabrorum London, qui obiit
3 die Novembri 1452" (Stow).
*
The old church of St. John Zachary, Maiden Lane, near Goldsmiths'
<strong>Hall</strong>, was destroyed in the great fire and not rebuilt. The parish is annexed
to that of St. Anne.
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