Hall marks on gold & silver plate

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HALL MARKS ON PLATE.
1452. Sir Humphrey Hayford, goldsmith, Comptroller to the
Mint and King's Assay Master, 1452-9, Mayor in 1477-8; son of
Roger Hayford, of Stratford-le-Bow. He was buried in the church
of St. Edmond, Lombard Street.
1455. William Wodeward, goldsmith. Engraver to the Mint.
1456. William Hede, goldsmith, being liveryman of the Goldsmiths'
Company, and his wife, both made complaint to the wardens
of their apprentice, William Bowden, " who irreverently, shamefully,
and of frowwinesse " had beaten his said mistress. His punishment,
ordered by the wardens, was that he should be " had into the kechyn
of the <strong>Hall</strong> and there stripped naked, and by the hand of his master
beaten until such time as he raised blood upon his body, in likewise
as he did upon his mistress, and that he should there be made to ask
his master and mistress of grace and mercy, naked as he was betyn."
Herbert's "History of the Goldsmiths' Company."
1458. Edward Raivdon, a goldsmith, circa 1458.
1460. John Adys, civis et aurifaber, London, qui cbiit ultimo
die Februarii 1461. Buried in St. John Zachary's Church.
1 1. 46 German Lynche, of London, goldsmith, Warden of the
Mint, was elected Graver of the Puncheons for life (1460-83); Master
and Warden of the King's Mint in his realm of Ireland, within his
castle of Dybeln (Dublin), and he was authorised to strike money
for currency in Ireland, and was to make all manner of puncheons,
irons, gravers, etc., within the city of London, or elsewhere, as should
to him seem most needful.
1463. Thomas Muschamp, goldsmith, was Sheriff in 1463, in
the mayoralty of Sir Matthew Philip, and was buried in the Church
of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street.
1463-4. Sir Mathew Philip, goldsmith. Mayor of London in
1463-4, made Knight of the Bath by Edward IV with other aldermen,
for bravery on the battlefield, on the occasion of the routing
of Falconbridge and the Kentish rebels in their attempt to force the
city. He was warden of the Company in 1474, and subscribed
6s. 8d. towards St. Dunstan's feast, which altogether amounted to
iS 5s- 2d.
1465. ''Item, my master bout of Thomas Cartelage, goldsmith,
of Chepe, v chargers of sylver, xvj dysshes, and vij saussers, weyinge
Ixix^* xix* vj*^, after iij* the unnce." (Expenses of Sir John
Howard.)
1465. "Item, the yeare aforesaid
Marche, my
and the xxviij day of
master bout of Umfrey the Goldsmythe, a chaffer of
sylver weyinge xviij unces and a quarter, and my master payd hym
therefor of old grotez i" and in new grotez ij^ vj* paid for every
unnce iij^" (Expenses of Sir John Howard.)
1474.
Oliver Davy, goldsmith, bequeathed to the Company, in
trust, certain property, of the present estimated value of ;^36 8s. per
annum, for poor pensioners.
1478. Mylys Adys, goldsmith, was warden of the Company in
1478, successor of John Adys before mentioned, who died in 1461.