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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...of their doings or the marks they adopted. By the Act 12 and 13 William III. (1700), York, Bristol, and Norwich, and in 1701-2 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, were reappointed, with the addition of Exeter and Chester, in which two last-named towns, mints had lately been appointed for recoining the silver monies of the kingdom--Coventry, Salisbury and Lincoln having then evidently ceased working; Bristol and Norwich, if they ever did exercise the privilege, must have ceased shortly after, as we have no evidence of their having assayed plate since 1700. BRISTOL. Bristol may, perhaps, have had an office, for there were several silversmiths in that city who afterwards sent their goods to Exeter to be assayed. There is a cup on a stem, ornamented with punched diamond pattern, which from the inscription appears to have been made in this town, although it bears no hall mark. It is late 16th century work: --" From Mendep I was brought, Out of a leden mine; In Bristol I was wrought, And now am silver fine." There are some interesting pieces of plate preserved by the Corporation of Bristol, especially a pair of gilt tankards richly decorated, the gift of John Dodridge, Recorder of Bristol, 1658, and a gilt ewer and salver, the gift of Robert Kitchen. These were both assayed and marked in London. The salver made in 1595 was stolen during the Bristol riots in October 1831, and was cut up into 167 pieces, in which state it was offered for sale to a silversmith of the town who apprehended the thief, and he was sentenced to 14 years transportation. The pieces were rivetted together on a silver plate by the same silversmith, in which state it now remains, its history being recorded on the back. A state sword, bearing date 1483, ornamented and enamelled, is...