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Senate House Library, University of London

Worshipful Company of Pewterers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 393

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Worshipful Company of Pewterers

Date(s): 1643

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 items

Name of creator(s): Committee for Revenue

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Worshipful Company of Pewterers is one of the oldest livery companies in the City of London. The earliest reference to it dates from 1348, though the members of the craft had probably formed a guild some time before this. The Company's own records are extant from 1451, and its first Royal Charter was granted by King Edward IV on 20th January 1474. In the Middle Ages, the use of pewter was unrivalled as a material for plates, dishes and drinking vessels. The height of its popularity was the late seventeenth century, after which the trade slowly declined.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript letter, dated 22 February, 1643, containing an Order of the Committee of Revenue to Thomas Fauconbridge, Receiver of Crown Revenues, to pay 'the poore Pewterers or Hammer men' of London the sum of £100, due to them by virtue of an Act of Parliament. The letter is signed by members of the Committee for Revenue, including Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Mildmay, Francis Rous, William Ashhurst, Thomas Hoyle and Dennis Bond. With a receipt dated 27 February 1643, bearing 56 signatures or marks and the signature of Robert Leeson, Warden of the Worshipful Company of Pewteres.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from Myers & Co., March, 1953. Shelved with MS.324.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The records of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, 1307-1934, are held at the Guildhall Library (Ref: 7086-7125, 8695-8715, 10298).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Guilds | Associations | Organizations
Pewter | Metals | Inorganic chemicals | Chemicals
Public finance | Finance

Personal names
Ashhurst | William | fl 1643 | politician
Bond | Dennis | fl 1643 | politician
Fauconbridge | Thomas | fl 1643-1651 | Receiver General
Hoyle | Thomas | fl 1643 | politician
Leeson | Robert | fl 1643 | pewterer
Mildmay | Sir | Henry | d 1664 | Knight | Keeper of the King's Jewel House
Rous | Francis | 1579-1659 | politician and theological writer
Vane | Sir | Henry | 1589-1655 | Knight | Secretary of State

Corporate names
Committee for Revenue
Worshipful Company of Pewterers

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe