ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS.
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Robert Harding, goldsmith and Alderman, Sheriff in 1485. He gave, in money, \o to the new work of the ob. 1485. 1478, steeple of Bow Church, Cheapside, in which church he was buried.
Thomas Wood, Sheriff in this year, was an opulent goldbuilt Goldsmiths' Row, in Cheapside, where most of the " It containeth in number, ten goldsmiths resided. Stow states faire dwelling hou/es and fourteene /hops, all in one frame, uni1491.-
smith,
and
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formly built f oure /tories high, beautified towards the /treete with the Goldsmiths' Arms, and the likenc//e of Woodmen, in memory of his name, riding on mon/trous bea/ts all ca/t in lead, richly painted and gilt; the/e he gave to the Goldsmiths, with /tockes of money, to bee lent to young men having the/e /hops," etc. Wood Street was named after him. /o/in Vandelf, or /o>kn of Delft, goldsmith. In the privy 1497. " To John Vandelf for a collar purse expenses of Henry VII (1497) " For garnyshing a salett of gold for the King xxx /z." Also :
:
xxxviij
li.
1500.
i
sh.
iiij
d!'
Christopher Eliot, goldsmith, died 1505, was buried in
the church of St. John Zachary. Sir Bartholomew Reade, 1 501-2.
goldsmith. Alderman and
He was Master of the Mint in 1481, 501-2, Sheriff, 1497. To have a house and 1492 1493. large and important enough to maintain the dignity of Lord Mayor, and befitting the splendour which he had determined should signalise his mayoralty, he purchased Crosby Place. It was here he received the ambassadors of Mayor,
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Emperor Maximilian during their ttay, who had been sent to sympathise with Henry VII on the death of his Queen, Elizabeth of York, and his son. Prince Arthur, which events happened within a few months of each other; and it was at Crosby Hall he gave his grand inauguration dinner recorded by Stow, at which were present more than one hundred persons of great estate, in which hall was "a paled park furnished with fruitful trees, beasts of venery," etc. Bartholomew Reade was a great benefactor to the Goldsmiths' Company. He founded a grammar school at Cromer, in Norfolk. He was buried in the Charterhouse, and gave i^ioo to the church of St. John Zachary, where his wife was buried.
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1508.
of
Wood
Sir
John Shaw, goldsmith. Warden to the Mint, 1492-7, Cheapside, Engraver to the Mint in 1483, was Mayor
Street,
in 1 05 1 -2, probably the son of Sir Edmond. In the privy purse expenses of Henry VII (1497) we find: "To Master Shaa for a George of Diamants iiij li. iiij sh." Also "To John Shaa for iij
Sir John Shaw was knighted on the field at Lord Mayor's feast in the present Guildhall was given by Sir John Shaw. He was the first Mayor who caused the Aldermen to accompany him on horseback to the water side, to
rings of gold
Bosworth.
viij li." first
The
take barge for Westminster. 1509. Henry Coste, goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs; deceased, 1509; buried in the church of St. Foster's, Foster Lane. He built St.
Dunstan's Chapel there.