Chapter I: Front Matter

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF IRONMONGERS

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THE
WORSHIPFUL COMPANY of IRONMONGERS,
MARCH, 1889.

HENRY MAUDSLAY, Esq., _Master_.
EDWARD HADHAM NICHOLL, Esq., _Senior Warden_.
JAMES LANGTON, Esq., _Junior Warden_.

(Who, with 44 others, form the Livery and Court.)

T. C. NOBLE, _Warden of the Yeomanry_.

(Who, with 260 others, constitutes the remaining Freemen
or Yeomanry.)

R. C. ADAMS BECK, Esq., _Clerk_.
Rev. R. M. BAKER, _Chaplain_.
Mr. R. ROBERTS, _Surveyor_.
Mr. C. W. McCONACHY, _Beadle_.

(With other Officers.)

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_The following separately-printed Works (among others) by T. C. NOBLE may be consulted in the British Museum or Guildhall Library_:—

=The Lord Mayor of London.= 1860.

=Memorials of Temple Bar, with Some Account of Fleet Street.=
1869.

=A Ramble Round the Crystal Palace.= 1875.

=A Brief Account of the Westminster Tobacco-box.= 1879.

=A Caxton Memorial.= 1880.

=A Brief Memorial of W. F. Bray.= 1880.

=Biographical Notices of Thomas Wood, D.D., Bishop of
Lichfield.= 1882.

=An Historical Essay on the Rise and Fall of the Spanish
Armada, 1588.= 1886.

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(See page 14.)]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF IRONMONGERS

LONDON A.D. 1351-1889

With an Appendix Containing Some Account of the Blacksmiths’ Company

by

T. C. NOBLE

Warden of the Yeomanry of the Ironmongers’ Company 1888-1889

_With Numerous Illustrations by George Cruikshank and Others_

London Printed for Private Circulation Only March 1889

Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square London