Hall marks on gold & silver plate

ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS. 17
1478. The ordinances or statutes of the Goldsmiths' Company
contained in a MS. book, written on vellum with illuminated initial
letters, commences thus :
"
Thys Boke was made and ordeynyd by
Hugh Br ice, Altherman.
Henry Coote,
Mylys Adys, and
William Palmer, Wardens.
" The XX day of September, in the yere of our Lorde God
MCCCCLXXVIIJ, and in the xviij yere of the Reigne of King Edward
the Fourth.
"
Htmtfrey Hayford, then Mayre of the Cyte of London, John
Stokker and Henry Colett, Sheryffs of the same Cyte."
1480. "To Selys, goldesmyUhe, for Mlij (1,052) ageletts of
silver and gilt, weying CClxxj (271) unces iij quarters, and for Civ
(155) unces grete and small spanges of silver and gilt, cont' in all
CCCCxxvj unc' and iij quarters, price of every unce vj^ = Cxxviij^*
vj^. These were afterwards given out to Martyne Jumbard for embrowdering
and setting of them in the garnysshing of vj coursour
barneys, and a hoby barneys of grene velvet." (Wardrobe Accounts
of King Edward IV.)
1480. Matthew Shore, goldsmith of Lombard Street, husband
of the notorious Jane Shore. His shop was called the Grasshopper.
Concerning his wife, we find in the Pepys collection an old blackletter
ballad, entitled, "The woful lamentation of Jane Shore,* a
goldsmith's wife in London, sometime concubine of King
Edward IV."
"
In the reprint of Heywood's Edward IV," by the Shakespeare
Society (first part, pp. 16, 23, 58, Ed. Lond., 1842), Falconbridge
having raised a rebellion, marched on to London, encouraging his
forces to restore King Henry (who had lately been deposed) from
the Tower. On arriving at the gates of London Bridge, entrance
to the city is refused by the Lord Mayor and citizens, together with
the city apprentices. Matthew Shore, the goldsmith, is also of the
party, and, having answered Falconbridge's appeal, is asked his
name, and Falconbridge replies, " What !
not that Shore that hath
the dainty wife the flower of London for her beauty ?" In the
second act, at the Mayor's house, Jane Shore is represented as officiating
as the Lady Mayoress, whereby the King first becomes acquainted
with her. This cannot be a fact, as Shore never was Lord
Mayor.
1482. Sir Edmund Shaa, or Shaw, son of John Shaa, of Dronkenfeld,
Chester, was a goldsmith and Engraver to the Mint in
1462. He was chosen Sheriff in 1474, and Lord Mayor, 1482-3,
Warden of the Company in 1474. At the coronation of King
Richard III, which took place during his mayoralty, he attended as
cup-bearer with great pomp, and his claim to this honour was form-
Jane Shore died, at an advanced age, in the reign of King Henry VIII.