1669–70. Serjeant Surgeon John Knight wainscotted the Parlour at his own charge, and Mr. Barker glazed the Windows; part of this glazing is still preserved. It should be borne in mind that the present Court room or Parlour (as it was formerly called) and which was the work of Inigo Jones in 1636 was not destroyed in the Great Fire.
1670–1. The freehold property in Conyhope Lane, Grocers’ Hall Court, was sold to the Corporation of London for £190.
1671–2. The livery this year numbered one hundred and eighty-five persons.
1672–3. The Company sold an extensive property at Holborn Bridge to the City for £650.
| To — Woodroffe for measuringe all the hall worke April ye 19th 1673 | 7 | 17 | 0 |
The whole of the Wardens’ accounts from 1674 to 1715 are unfortunately lost, and the next book embraces the years between 1715 and 1785.
1715–16. The Ironmongers’ Company rented at £5 per annum from the Barber-Surgeons a portion of their Barge House at Lambeth for the Ironmongers’ Barge. Our Company still retained their Barge and Bargemaster and this year purchased for him a new livery.
| Paid Mr Wiseman the Painter for new Painting and Gilding the Company’s Banner | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Paid the maids who strewed the flowers to Church upon Election Day | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1716–17. Received of Mr George Stevenson S. his ffine for practising Surgery before he was admitted being | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Paid a person to go to Islington to see after a dead body which had been drowned[269] | 0 | 5 | 0 |
1717–18. The Company sold a large property in East Smithfield for £1,250.
| Paid the Hangman for his Christmas Box | 0 | 2 | 6 |