10 seaven-pound dishes, 14 platters of the 2nd sort.

45 platters 3d sort, 5 of the 4th sort, and 50 of the 5th sort.

35 platters of the 6th sort, 24 of the 8th sort, 19 of the 9th sort, and 8 pastry plates. 37 round plates, 10 dozen of trencher plates, 6 flaggon potts.

10 dozen of sawsers, wanting 11.

1 peece of tapestry for the upp end of the parlo', of Sir James Cambell's guift.

3

greene cotton coochers.

In the Hall.

2 long tables with frames.

2 long table boards behinde the skreene.

1 bench along the windowe.

3 frames aboute the long table.

1 cupboard with wainscott.

2 foot benches.

1 carving table, with a foote.

Banner staves.

Fire shovell and tonges.

1 paire of iron andeirons.*

2 curtain rodds of iron.

1 old short ladder.

6 great skutchins and fifty small.

2 carpetts of Mr. Easte's and Mr. Brown's guift.

2 greene silke curtaines for the window.

1 wainscott seate for the wardens.

21 joynte stools, 2 shorte formes of deale.

1 bench cloth fringed on both sides.

7 pictures of benefactors.

2 pictures, one of the king and another of the queene.

4 wainscott formes, 4 new hatches.

1 livery cupboard of wainscott.

In the Parlor over the Court Roome.

1 long table with a frame and tressell.

1 long settle made faste to the wainscott.

* And-irons, or fire-dogs.-Many specimens of these ornamental castings are given in a paper by Mr. M. A. Lower, entitled, "Historical and Archæological Notices of the Iron-works in the County of Sussex," and printed in the 2d volume of the Sussex Archæological Collections, Lond. 1849. "The series of the Sussex andirons ranges from the end of the fifteenth century to that of the seventeenth or later." The devices are various, and sometimes elegant; some terminate with a human head and human bust: most of the andirons are decorated with one or more shields, which, previous to the Reformation, are charged with the sacred monogram, and after that period with the armorial bearings of the families for whom they were cast, and other devices. Fosbroke mentions a pair of andirons at Machen Place, in the county of Monmouth, that weighed 300 lbs., "which were sometimes employed in roasting an ox whole, with a large table on which it was served."-Vide Encyc. of Antiq. vol. ii. p. 728.

2 old forms, covered with new cloth.

12 low stools of blew cloth with buckrome covers.

6 chaires of Red Muscovia lether with buckrome covers.

1 new suite of course tapestry hangings, of the guift of Mr. Robert Cambell, ald", deceased, cont. 5 p.

In the little house neere ye Parlor.

1 standard, wth 1 yard and 1 ell therein.

1 iron beame wt scales, and 1 p' of scales more.

2 piles of brasse weights compleate.

2 2-q' and 2 seaven-pound waights of leade, and 1 q' of hundred in brass. Wooden mallett, 1 p' of iron andirons, and 1 p' of tongs.

In the Buttery.

1 bread beame wt 2 pticons and cover.

1 old wainscott table wth a board at the bottome.

4 shelvs by the side of the buttery.

In the Counting-house.

1 great chest wt 4 locks and keyes.

Boxes containing writings, &c.

A box wth the supscripcon of Woodstreete, 9'. 16 p3.*

A box wth theis Writings:

A charter from King Edward the 4th.

A charter from King Phillipp and Queene Marye.

A charter from Queene Elizabeth.

A box with 2 charters from King Henry 8th of 12 houses of Sir Willm Denham.

A box concerning St. Giles, 9t. 4 p3.

A box win where leases in force are.

A box wherein is written Allhallows Steyning, Love Lane, Old Jurye, and Silver

Streete.

* i. e. containing sixteen pieces.

53 evidences concerning the Hall.

13 acquittances and pap for rent.

A box with 4 bonds.

A box with the pattent of the Compas armes.

A box written upon Sainte Olave, Bread Street, 91 55 p3.

A box wt this supscripcon: St. Leonarde, Eastcheape; and it is the will of Mr. Fend, butcher, w1 a copy thereof, 9t. 17 p3, concerning the Xpofer in Eastcheape.

An exemplificacon upon a pleading tempore Phil. & Mary.

A bundle of controversies by concealment.

A little money-box for the poore.

A booke of parchment wherhin the Compas ord's are written.

Then follows an enumeration of the Company's plate, with the names of the donors, and in most instances the weight attached, amounting altogether to upwards of seventeen hundred ounces, and consisting of the following articles: 4 basins and ewers parcel-guilt, one white basin, 2 livery pots, 2 stopes, 12 gilt cups and covers, 6 gilt salts and covers, 1 white salt, 1 gilt tankard, 5 nests white beer bowls, 6 nests white wine bowls, 2 flat bowls, 1 ale-pot which came from the lottery, 1 small white trencher salt and cover, 41 gilt spoons, 11 white spoons with lions' heads, 16 spoons parcel-gilt with heads, 8 spoons parcel-gilt with arms, 2 flat gilt bowls, 1 small gilt cup and cover, 1 caudel pot, 1 spout pot, and 1 white beer bowl.*

The calls made upon the Ironmongers' Company by the Government of the country for contributions and loans of money compelled them on several occasions, as we have before noticed, to dispose of almost every article of plate in their possession, and the only ancient specimens which have been preserved consist of a mazer, a pair of hour-glass salt-cellars of the early part of the 16th century, and a mounted cocoanut or hanap.†

The Company's present service of plate, though not equal to that of the Goldsmiths' or perhaps some other of the twelve Companies, is, notwithstanding, highly respectable and sufficiently ample for their largest entertainments, nor is it deficient in articles of considerable beauty and elegance, amongst which we may notice the three capacious rose-water dishes and ewers of silver gilt, a pair of large branch silver candlesticks, formerly in the possession of his Royal Highness the late Duke of York, and the four standing or Livery Cups of noble dimensions, and of which we shall have occasion to speak hereafter.

† Cups of this shape are generally termed Hanaps, but the term seems applicable to almost

The most curious of these pieces is the mazer, which exhibits the true form of that early drinking cup, and is simply a saucer-shaped bowl made of maple wood without foot or stand of any kind, having in the centre or

every kind of vessel. Hannapus, hanappus, hanaphus; vas, patera, crater, ex Saxonico hnæp, hnappa; calix patera. Glossar. Elfrici, cap. de Vasis, &c.-Hanappi argentei superaurati; Du Cange. See also Lye's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Mounted cocoa-nuts, like this belonging to the Ironmongers' Company, are frequently called "standing nuts."

The Company have a second mazer, but greatly inferior to the one described above.