In the accounts for carrying on the war in 1513 there is an item mentioning “nailes and yeran worke,” and just thirty years later (according to Holinshed) the first cast-iron cannon was made at Buxted, in Sussex, by Rafe Hoge and Peter Bawde. Among the State Papers there are a quantity relating to the casting of cannon not only in Sussex, but in other counties. The Lamberhurst furnace was a large foundry, for the woods of the Weald were plentiful, and here, at a cost of 11,202_l._, were produced the 2,500 fine iron railings and seven iron gates, weighing 200 tons and 81 lbs., for the enclosure of Wren’s Cathedral of St. Paul’s, London. It is worthy of note that as early as 1290 Master Henry of Lewes received a payment for the ironwork of the monument of Henry III. in Westminster Abbey. The parish of Mayfield was famous for its iron; at the palace were preserved many relics, and among these the hammer, anvil, and tongs of St. Dunstan. Lower says “they seem to refer as much to the iron trade, so famous in these parts, as to the alleged proficiency of the Saint in the craft of a blacksmith. The hammer and tongs are of no great antiquity, but the hammer with its iron handle may be considered a mediæval relic.” The old legend of St. Dunstan and his successful encounter with “the Evil one” must form part of the history of the blacksmiths, and will not be an uninteresting portion of their “mystery.” In 1559 the value of iron and ironwork brought into the port of London, “the excess of which is prejudicial to the realm,” is set down in a State Paper to be 19,559_l._ In 1622 Thomas Covell and others received a certificate permitting them to sell round iron shot at 11_l._ per ton.