The Livery Companies And Art Treasures.

bowl are the Company ' s aims enamelled in their proper colours , fifteenth century ; cocoanut cup , or banap , mounted in silver-gilt frame on a fluted stand , late fifteenth century . The joiners' Company : eighteen ancient silver spoons ; loA'ing cup and cover , hall-marked 1770 .- The Leatbersellers' Company : tAVO drinking cups , silver parcel-gill , presented by George Humble , 1640 ; rose-Avater dish ancl eAver , sih * er-gilt , presented by Bentley , Augsburg

hall-mark ; IAVO garlands of tbe masters and wardens of tbe Company . The Mercers' Company : grace cup and cover , ornamented Avitb maidens' beads and flagons , the badges of tlie Company , ball-marked 1499-1500 ; silver-gilt tun or wine-barrel with Ava <™ -on , formerly belonsnno- to College of St . Thomas of Aeon , early sixteenth century ; pair of loving cups , silver , gift of Governor and Company of Bank of England in 1718 , hall-marked 1694 ; epergue , silver ,

gift of National Debt Commissioners in 1794 , hall-marked 1794 ; " Evidences of Dean Colet ' s Lands , " MS . book of early part of sixteenth century ; Original Ordinances of Wliittington College , illuminated ; Original Ordinances of Dean Colet for St Paul's School , Avitb portrait of tbe dean . The Merchant Taylors ' Company : beadle ' s mace , sih'er ; standard yard measure , silver ; two sih'er lovingcups , with handles and cover's , presented by Thomas Roberts iu 1795 ,

ballmarked 1795 . The Needlemakers' Company : rose-water dish ancl eAver , silvergilt , presented by Thomas King in 1809 , hall-marked 1799 ; two silver saltcellars , hall-marked 1692 and 1705 ; charters . The Painter-stainers' Company : silver cup and cover , bequeathed by Mr . W . Camden , hall-marked 1623 ; salt ( in three pieces ) , gift of Mr . J . Beston , hall-marked 1635 ; three spoons , seal toppedhall-marks from 1560 to 1590 . The PeAA-terers' Company : silver-ilt

, g cups and cover ; beadle ' s staff-head , silver ; two touch-plates of the pewter manufacturers ( now out of use ) . The Saddlers' Company -. cocoanut cup , gift of T . Layborne iu 1627 , sixteenth century work , subject , " Life of Christ ; " rose-water dish ; four tall salt-cellars , etc . ; mace , silver-gilt , presented by

John Heylin in 1711 ; ballot-box , given in 1619 for three balls of cork . Tbe Salters' Company : tea urn ; rose-water dish ; tankards , 1716 ; a bill of fare of 1506 , showing a dinner for fifty persons given at a cost of £ 2 17 s . 6 d . The Shipwrights' Company : tAVO silver-gilt cups , with handles ancl covers , date 1808 ; sih'er-gilt Lubeck Shipper ' s cup and coA'er , foreign ; silver claret jug , Indian . T 1 \ e Skinners' Company : peahen cup , silver , presented by Mary

Peacock in 1642 ; two Cockayne loving cups , silver-gilt , bequeathed b y William Cockayne , hall-marked 1605 ; a silver snuff-box , in the shape of a leopard , the Company ' s crest , the gift of Robert Kemp , master , in 1610 . Tbe Spectacleraakers' Company : silver cup , Irish , Dublin hall-marked 1726 . The Stationers' Company : Two cups , silver , presented by Thomas Davies , hallmarked 1676 ; two-handled cup , silverpresented bElizabeth

Crookhall-, y , marked 1674 , and several other interesting pieces of plate . Tbe Tallowchandlers' Company : rose-water dish , silver , seventeenth century ; bargemaster ' s badge , silver , framed ; grant of supporters , 1602 , framed , under band and seal of William Camden , Clarencieux . The Tilers and Bricklayers' Company : three silver fish slices , shaped like bricklayers' trowels , ball-marked 1770 ; Breeches Bible , and old Bible with padlock and chain . The Vintners '

Company : square salt and cover , silver-gilt , presented by -J . Powell in 1702 , ball-marked 1569 ; small wine cup , of silver , in shape of a female carrying a a milk-pail , forming two drinking vessels ; tankard , stoneware , mounted in silver-gilt , with cover , hall-marked 1562 ; cocoanut cup , mounted in silver-gilt , ornamented Avith pineapples , etc ., hall-marked 1518-19 ; embroidered pall , le silkbrocaded in goldfifteenth century framed and lazed

purp , , ; tapestry , g , originally made for Canterbury Cathedral , A . D . 1400 . The Weavers' Company : beadle ' s mace , silver , Tudor period ; the Company ' s charter ( Henry II . ) , attested by Thomas a Becket . In almost all cases more objects than those enumerated were sent b y the Companies named , but time prevents us from particularizing them now ,