Goldsmiths' Hall--Its Early Days--Tailors and Goldsmiths at Loggerheads--The Goldsmiths' Company's Charters and Records--Their Great Annual Feast--They receive Queen Margaret of Anjou in State--A Curious Trial of Skill--Civic and State Duties--The Goldsmiths break up the Image of their Patron Saint--The Goldsmiths' Company's Assays--The Ancient Goldsmiths' Feasts--The Goldsmiths at Work--Goldsmiths' Hall at the Present Day--The Portraits--St. Leonard's Church--St. Vedast--Discovery of a Stone Coffin--Coachmakers' Hall 353 CHAPTER XXXI. CHEAPSIDE TRIBUTARIES, NORTH:--WOOD STREET. Wood Street--Pleasant Memories--St. Peter's in Chepe--St. Michael's and St. Mary Staining--St. Alban's, Wood Street--Some Quaint Epitaphs--Wood Street Compter and the Hapless Prisoners therein--Wood Street Painful, Wood Street Cheerful--Thomas Ripley--The Anabaptist Rising--A Remarkable Wine Cooper--St. John Zachary and St. Anne-in-the-Willows--Haberdashers' Hall--Something about the Mercers 364 CHAPTER XXXII. CHEAPSIDE TRIBUTARIES, NORTH (_continued_). Milk Street--Sir Thomas More--The City of London School--St. Mary Magdalen--Honey Lane--All Hallows' Church--Lawrence Lane and St. Lawrence Church--Ironmonger Lane and Mercers' Hall--The Mercers' Company--Early Life Assurance Companies--The Mercers' Company in Trouble--Mercers' Chapel--St. Thomas Acon--The Mercers' School--Restoration of the Carvings in Mercers' Hall--The Glories of the Mercers' Company--Ironmonger Lane 374 CHAPTER XXXIII. GUILDHALL. The Original Guildhall--A fearful Civic Spectacle--The Value of Land increased by the Great Fire--Guildhall as it was and is--The Statues over the South Porch--Dance's Disfigurements--The Renovation in 1864--The Crypt--Gog and Magog--Shopkeepers in Guildhall--The Cenotaphs in Guildhall--The Court of Aldermen--The City Courts--The Chamberlain's Office--Pictures in the Guildhall--Sir Robert Porter--The Common Council Room--Pictures and Statues--Guildhall Chapel--The New Library and Museum--Some Rare Books--Historical Events in Guildhall--Chaucer in Trouble--Buckingham at Guildhall--Anne Askew's Trial and Death--Surrey--Throckmorton--Garnet--A Grand Banquet 383 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE LORD MAYORS OF LONDON. The First Mayor of London--Portrait of him--Presentation to the King--An Outspoken Mayor--Sir N. Farindon--Sir William Walworth--Origin of the prefix "Lord"--Sir Richard Whittington and his Liberality--Institutions founded by him--Sir Simon Eyre and his Table--A Musical Lord Mayor--Henry VIII. and Gresham--Loyalty of the Lord Mayor and Citizens to Queen Mary--Osborne's Leap into the Thames--Sir W. Craven--Brass Crosby--His Committal to the Tower--A Victory for the Citizens 396 CHAPTER XXXV. THE LORD MAYORS OF LONDON (_continued_).