We shall include in this second chapter of our history another most interesting document which Mr. Riley found when making his extracts from the Guildhall treasures a few years ago. It is nothing more or less than the appraisement of the goods and chattels of Stephen le Northerne, in the thirtieth year of Edward III. (1356), and gives us a very curious picture of what an ironmonger’s shop contained at that date. It would appear that the goods were in the house of one John Leche, in the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, on June 6 that year, and that the appraisers were William Sunnyng, carpenter, Robert de Blithe, “brasyere,” Robert Russe, “brasyere,” Henry Clement and Stephen Basham, “lockyers” (locksmiths), and Adam Wayte, “upholder.” The total value of the household goods and stock-in-trade came to the sum of 9_l._ 14_s._ 2_d._, but even this amount was a large one in those days. Among the articles enumerated and appraised we find five carpets, 7_s._; five bankeres, (bench-covers), 12 quyshynes (cushions), and one dosere (tapestry hanging), 3_s._ 9_d._; three tablecloths and one towel, 21_d._; one surcoat, 8_s._; one aumbrey (portable cupboard) and chest, 18_d._; one balance, called an “auncere” (weighing-machine), 12_d._; pair of iron gauntlets and pair of bracers (for the arms), 6_d._; 20 lbs. pewter, 2_s._ 11_d._; two querne (or mill) stones, 18_d._; three brass pots, two pitchers, a basin, seven brass plates, nine pieces of holdshrof, 19_s._ 11_d._; feather bed, three carpets, three sheets, 9_s._ 6_d._; two balances, 6_s._; trivet and four iron slegges (sledge-hammers), 3_s._ 6_d._; two plonchones (iron punches) and four cart-strokes (tires), 3_s._ 8_d._; pair of irons for Eucharist, five fire-forks, four heynges, one tin pan, six latches for doors, four small goldsmiths’ anvils, two kerfsheres (chaff-shears), 5_s._; eight pairs of kemstercombs (wool-combers), and one boweshawe (bowshave), 11_d._; old iron and balance, 6_s._ 8_d._; two iron spits and iron for bedsteads, 5_s._ 8_d._; fifteen battle-axes, 7_s._; four hatches and nine pair of hinges, 6_s._; two small andirons, twelve hatchets, five pickaxes, seven carpenters’ axes, three twybilles, three woodbilles, four masons’ axes (old), pair of pincers, flesh-hook, &c., 10_s._ 4_d._; twelve dozen hinges, 5_s._; ten pairs linch-pins, nine pairs of bar-hooks, 6_s._; iron grate, anvil, &c., 2_s._ 3_d._; thirty-three pairs of okees (ornamental mouldings), 6_s._; twenty bolts and sockets, 6_s._; twelve pairs of Utt garnets, eleven pairs of Ambry garnets, ten plate-locks, 8_s._ 6_d._; five latches, iron chisel, 120 keys, twelve cart-clouts (axle-tree plates), 3_s._; pikestaff, 4_d._; sixty columns (axle trees) for wheels, three barrels and two vats, 2_s._ 3_d._; pair of mustard querns (mills), 6_d._: mincing-bowl and shoe-horn, 1_d._; bacinet, dagger, and buckler, 5_s._; wooden bedstead, 2_s._; &c.