This entry occurs in a document under the Privy Seal of Charles I, dated Westminster, June 29, which refers to the using of a hall-mark for armour. The principal portion of this is given in Appendix K, page 191. 1643. _State Papers Domestic, Car. I, Nov. 20._ Letter from Privy Seal to treasurer & under Treasurer of Exchequer to pay Wm. Legg Master of the Armoury £100 by way of imprest upon account to be employed in building a mill at Woolvercote near Oxford for grinding swords & for building forges providing tools & other necessaries for sword blade makers to be employed to make swords for our service. 1644. _State Papers Domestic, Car. I, D, Feb. 26._ Warrant of the Privy seal to Exchequer. By our special command Legg has caused to be erected a mill for grinding swords at Woolvercote co Gloucester & forges at Gloucester Hall, you are therefore to pay upon account to Wm. Legg Master of the Armory a sum not exceeding £2000 for grinding swords and belts in the office of the armory the same to be made at the usual price and according to pattern as by us appointed also to provide tools and other necessaries for sword blade making employed by the said Master of the Armory. In the second of these extracts “co Gloucester” is a slip of the pen due to the close proximity of “Gloucester Hall.” It should of course read “Oxford.” The mill was originally owned by the nuns of Godstow, who received it from Henry I. It is now used by the Clarendon Press for paper-making. Gloucester Hall is now Worcester College. There are no records either in the city or university to throw more light on these entries. 1649. _Parliamentary Survey, Feb., No. 30._ The Armory Mill consisted of two little rooms and one large one in which stood two mills, then lately altered. The mill with stables stood in an acre of ground abutting on Lewisham Common and was used till about twelve years before the above date for grinding armour and implements for the King’s tilt-yard. The mill is described in the rental of the manor, 44 Edw. III, 1371, as one for grinding steel and valued at 3s. 4d. per ann. 1660. _Harl. MSS._ 7457. A view and Survey of all the Armour and other Munitions or Habiliaments of Warr remayneing at the Tower of London.[53] Armorers Tooles. Small bickernes, Tramping stakes,[54] Round stake,[55] Welting stake,[56] straite sheres,[57] fileing tonges, Hamers, Old tew iron,[58] Great square anvill, Bellows, Smiths vices, Threstles. The entry which refers to the loss of the “Great Bear,” a large anvil formerly at Greenwich, is given in full in Appendix M.