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In 1570 several ornaments were stolen from the monument of King Henry VII, among which were some of the gilt images here spoken of. The thief, one Raymond, was prosecuted by the Church. Torrigiano must have resided many years in this country, and designed and executed other monumental tombs and effigies. In the dingy Chapel of the Rolls, Chancery Lane, is the tomb of Dr. Young, Master of the Rolls in the time of Henry VIII. The aged master reposes, in the sublime serenity of death, upon a marble sar-
cophagus, shaped like a Florentine cassons or marriage chest. In the panel of the pedestal beneath the inscription is the date MDXVI. The whole is the work of the immortal Torrigiano. He also designed candelabra and other decorative objects belonging tO' the goldsmith's craft, for
Henry VIII and
the nobility.
ancient altar of the restored tomb of Edward VI, Westminster Abbey, a splendid work of Torrigiano, was destroyed in the civil wars; but part of the frieze was found in 1869 in the young King's grave, and has been let into the modern altar. It is an admirable carving of the Renaissance, and shows the Tudor roses and the lilies of France interwoven with a scroll-work pattern.
The
Robert Taylebois was a goldsmith in the reign of Elizaof his sons, Ralph and Thomas, were scholars at Merchant Taylors' School in 1 563 the former became prebendary of 1570.
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Canterbury. 'Nicholas Hillyard, born at Exeter, 1547, died, 1619, 1570. brought up as a goldsmith and jeweller, also a celebrated miniature He was "goldsmith, carver, and portrait painter" to Queen painter. Elizabeth, and continued in favour by James I and appointed sole " Round his portrait, painted by himpainter of the Royal image." " Nic^ liillyard, aurif aber, sculptor, et Celebris illumself, is written, inator serenissimae Elisabethas." (In the collection of Lord De L'Isle and Dudley.) 1 571. John Lonyson, goldsmith, was Master of the Mint, 1 He died in 1583, aetat fifty-nine, and was buried in the 57 1 -6. church of St. Vedast, alias St. Foster, in Foster Lane. Richard Robmson was celebrated for his misdeeds. He 1577.
was
in this year, according to Holinshed, drawn from the Tower to Tyborne, and there hanged for clipping of gold coins. ^'zV 1577John Langley, goldsmith, was Mayor in this year,
1576-7, Sheriff in 1566.
Alderman Heydon bequeathed to the Goldsmiths' Com1579pany the sum of ;"ioo for the poor. 1583. John Speilman, goldsmith, afterwards knighted by James I, erected a paper-mill at Dartford. In the State records of the year 1597: "July 4. Grant to John Speilman, Queen's goldsmith, for fourteen years, on surrender of a former patent, of the sole license of collecting old rags and stuff for paper-making"; prohibiting any others to erect paper-mills without his license. His first patent was taken out in 1583.