  | 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.) The Church of St. Luke the Evangelist, Old Street, Middlesex, 1807. (See page 57.)
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE
IRONMONGERS’ COMPANY.
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