T. C. Noble,
Warden of the Yeomanry,
1888-1889.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I.— | The Old City, its Citizens and Guilds | [1] |
| II.— | Iron, Ironworks, and Ironmongers | [6] |
| III.— | The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers | [11] |
| IV., V., VI.— | Four Hundred Years of the Ironmongers’ History | [19-40] |
| VII.— | The Apprentices, the Hall, and the Irish Estate | [41] |
| VIII.— | The Ironmongers’ Charities and Charitable Ironmongers | [51] |
| APPENDIX. | ||
| Some Account of the Blacksmiths’ Company and their Exhibition at Ironmongers’ Hall | [61-74] | |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PLATE | PAGE | |
| I.— | [Frontispiece]: Arms of the Ironmongers’ Company | |
| II.— | (a) The Old Church of Allhallows Staining, Mark Lane, 1807, now removed (except the tower), and the parish united with St. Olave, Hart Street; Ironmongers’ Hall is in the parish of Allhallows | [1] |
| (b) The Church of St. Luke’s, Old Street, Middlesex, 1807; erected on land part of the Ironmongers’ estate; consecrated on St. Luke’s Day, 1733 | [1] | |
| III.— | (a) One of the ancient silver-gilt salt-cellars | [12] |
| (b) One of two fifteenth-century maple-wood mazer-bowls, with silver-gilt mountings | [12] | |
| IV.— | A cocoa-nut cup, or hanap, of sixteenth-century date, with silver-gilt bands and mountings, and 8½ inches high | [18] |
| V.— | (a) The “Estridge,” or ostrich, carved in wood, about 4 feet high, which was used in the Lord Mayor’s pageant of 1629, and now preserved at the Hall; it has a horseshoe in its beak | [26] |
| (b) A bronze token representing the fourteen almshouses erected under Sir Robert Geffery’s trust, in the Kingsland Road, 1713-1714 | [26] | |
| VI.— | The hearse-cloth, or Ironmongers’ funeral pall, of crimson velvet and cloth-of-gold tissue, the gift of John Gyva, 1515, 6 feet 5 inches long by 22 inches wide; the centre of each side represents “The Blessed Virgin Mary in Glory”—Plate I. | [34] |
| VII.— | (a, b, c) Ditto, Plate II.—The Three Saints | [42] |
| VIII.— | Ditto, Plate III.—Monstrance at each end | [50] |
| IX.— | (a) The Devil gives St. Dunstan a morning call | [60] |
| (b) St. Dunstan compels the “Evil One” to sign a treaty of peace | [60] | |
| X.— | St. Dunstan gives a practical reminder of the power of the horseshoe | [65] |
| XI.— | (a) The “Evil One” on his rounds sees the effect of the treaty | [69] |
| (b) The horseshoe puts to flight the Devil and pursues the “Evil One” and all his evil companions | [69] |
The Old Church of Allhallows Staining, Mark Lane, London, 1807. ([See page 45.])