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 Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
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 THE WORSHIPFUL 
 
 COMPANY OF PATTENMAKERS. 
 
 -^SS^- 
 
 A LIST 
 
 OF 
 
 MASTER, WARDENS, 
 
 COURT OF ASSISTANTS, 
 
 AND 
 
 LIVERY, 
 
 WITH A 
 
 "SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE PATTEN," 
 
 AND 
 
 "TWO YEARS' IN THE CHAIR," 
 
 By GEORGE LAMBERT, F.S.A., 
 ittsster, 1884— 1886. 
 
 1890.
 
 HERBERT H. BARTLETT. 
 
 ALFRED JOSEPH BAKER. 
 
 mentfr SaavUcn. 
 PETER TOCHER. 
 
 ©ouvt of Slssistants. 
 
 * BARROW EMANUEL, M.A. 
 
 * WILLIAM HENRY PANNELL, C.C. 
 
 * JAMES ALFRED THORNHILL, F.R.G.S. 
 ** GEORGE LAMBERT, F.S.A. 
 
 * RICHARD CLOUT. 
 
 * JOHN ALEXANDER BRAND. 
 
 * WITHAM M. BYWATER. 
 HENRY LAWSON HOPKINS. 
 
 AUGUSTUS FREDERICK GODSON, M.A., M.P. 
 AUGUSTUS H. G. HARRIS, L.C.C. 
 WILLIAM JOSEPH FOSTER, C.C, F.S.A. 
 CLIFFORD PROBYN, L.C.C. 
 
 Clfrfe. 
 
 HENRY FREDERICK YOULE, 
 
 Guildhall. 
 
 Those marked * have served the office of Master.
 
 :57/-/7 
 
 THE LIVERY. 
 
 Abercrombie, John, 
 
 2, King William Street, e.g., and 
 
 Bratten Lodge, Green Lanes, Stoke Newington, n. 
 
 B. 
 
 Baker, Alfred Joseph, 
 
 11, Queen Victoria Street, e.g., and 
 Harlesden Lodge, Harelsden, Middlesex, n.w. 
 
 Barker, William Robert, 
 143, New Bond Street, w. 

 
 Bartlett, Herbert Henry, 
 
 25 and 26, Tredegar Square, Bow, E., 
 
 City Carlton Club, E.c, and 
 
 The Royal London Yacht Club, Savile Row, w. 
 
 Brand, John Alexander, 
 Guildhall, e.g., and 
 Avenue Road, Crouch End, Hornsey, n. 
 
 Bywater, "Witham Matthew, 
 5, Hanover Square, w. 
 
 Cartwright, Samuel, 
 
 ID, Basinghall Street, e.g., and 
 43, Elmore Street, Islington, n. 
 
 Clout, Richard, 
 
 Brome House, West Mailing, Kent. 
 
 Clowes, Richard, 
 
 Clayton Wickham, Hassocks, Sussex,
 
 CoLLARD, Frederick Ernest Wotton, l.c.c, 
 9, Southwark Street, s.e., 
 96, Tyrwhitt Road, Brockley, s.e., and 
 Canterbury, Kent. 
 
 Cox, William John, 
 2, Coleman Street, e.g., 
 53, Arthur Road, Hornsey Road, n. 
 
 E 
 
 Emanuel Barrow, m.a., 
 2, Finsbury Circus, e.c. 
 
 Thatched House Club, St. James's, s.w,, and 
 36, Orsett Terrace, Hyde Park, w. 
 
 Foster, William Joseph, c.c, f.s.a. 
 21, Birchin Lane, Cornhill, e.g., and 
 42, Hogarth Road, South Kensington, s.w. 
 
 Eraser, William, 
 Jeffrey's Square, St. Mary Axe, e.g., and 
 3, Railway Terrace, Epsom, Surrey.
 
 French, David, 
 
 51, Crutched Friars, e.g., and 
 Beresford Villas, Amhurst Road, 
 
 Hackney Downs, n.e. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gant, John Castle, 
 
 Willow Hyrst, Chiddingley, Sussex. 
 
 Godson, Augustus Frederick, m.a., m.p., 
 2, Pump Court, Temple, E.c, and 
 23, Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington, s.w. 
 
 Grantham, Richard Boxall, 
 Northumberland Chambers, 
 
 Northumberland Avenue, s.w., and 
 14, Randolph Crescent, Clifton Gardens, 
 
 Maida Vale, w. 
 Gray, Robert, 
 
 6, Moorgate Street, e.c, and 
 
 70, Buckleigh Road, Streatham Common, s.w. 
 
 Gresham, James Harebooth, 
 
 ig, Macaulay Road, Clapham, s.w.
 
 H. 
 
 Hand, Henry Augustus Frederick, 
 74, Bridge Road, Hammersmith, w. 
 
 Harris, Augustus Henry Glossop, l.c.c, 
 The Elms, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, n.w. 
 
 Hawkins, Alfred Templeton, c.c, d.l., j.p., 
 
 22, Budge Row, e.g., and 
 
 32, Lee Terrace, Blackheath, Kent, s.e. 
 
 Holland, William, 
 
 23, Park Road, Blackpool, Lancashire. 
 
 Hopkins, Henry Lawson, 
 
 42, 43, and 44, Houndsditch, e.g., and 
 Kenley, Surrey. 
 
 Hudson, Charles William, 
 
 Hudson's Buildings, Wilton Road, Pimlico, s.w. ; 
 St. Thomas's Street, Southwark, s.e., and 
 Brighton, Sussex. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ironside, William, 
 
 T, Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street, e.g., & 
 Fairleigh, Sutton, Surrey.
 
 PATTENMAKERS' COMPANY. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jacob, William Heaton, 
 
 Legacy Duty Office, Somerset House, w.c, and 
 29, Sinclair Gardens, Kensington, w. 
 
 JOURDAIN, NeVILL, 
 
 18, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, e.g., and 
 Fellows Road, South Hampstead, n.w. 
 
 K. 
 
 Knight, Charles Frederick, m.d,, 
 Sussex House, 341, Brixton Road, s.w. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lambert, Major George, f.s.a., 
 
 10, II, and 12, Coventry Street, Piccadilly, w. 
 
 Lovegrove, Henry, 
 
 26, Budge Row, Cannon Street, e.c, and 
 Eboracom, Trinity Road, Tulse Hill, s.w.
 
 M. 
 
 Margrett, Edward, 
 I, King Street, and 
 25, Eldon Square, Reading, Berks. 
 
 McKenzie, Alexander, 
 The Warren, Loughton, Essex. 
 
 Miller, Albert Hindson, 
 8, Moorgate Street, e.g., and 
 Spencer Cottage, Putney, Surrey, s.w. 
 
 Murnane, George Webster, 
 
 Vestry Hall, St. Martin's Place, w.c, and 
 Roselea, Putney Common, s.w. 
 
 N. 
 
 Norman, His Excellency General Sir Henry 
 Wylie, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., C.I.E., Govemor of 
 
 Queensland. 
 United Service Club, Pall Mall, s.w.
 
 Packe, George James, 
 
 64, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, w, 
 
 Palimer, Augustus Cufaude, 
 7, and 8, Railway Approach, London Bridge, 
 
 Southwark, s.e., and 
 Manor Villa, Albert Road, Norwood, Surrey, s.e. 
 
 Pannell, William Henry, c.c, 
 
 Library Chambers, Basinghall Street, e.g., and 
 6, Mandeville Street, w. 
 
 Parnell, William Henry, 
 
 90, Tollington Park, Finsbury Park, N. 
 
 Peacock, Thomas Francis, 
 
 12, South Square, Gray's Inn, w.c, and 
 Fernlea, Sidcup, Kent. 
 
 Phillips, Lewis Henry, c.c, 
 
 52, and 53, Newgate Street, e.c, and 
 
 4, Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square, w.c. 
 
 Powell, George, 
 
 76, Finsbury Pavement, e.c, and 
 60, Graham Road, Dalston, e.
 
 Probyn, Major Clifford, l.c.c, 
 55, Grosvenor Street, w. 
 
 Pulley, Thomas Jell, 
 
 ID, Grosvenor Road, Westminster, s.w., and 
 Jesse Terrace, Reading, Berks. 
 
 R. 
 
 Rait, Logan McCulloch, 
 31, Moorgate Street, e.g., and 
 Pembroke House, Upper Park Road, 
 
 Hampstead, n.w. 
 
 Richardson, Ernest George, 
 27, Newgate Street, e.g., 
 
 Receiver and Accountant General's Office, 
 General Post Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, and 
 20, Hermitage Villas, The Vineyard, 
 
 Richmond, Surrey. 
 
 Robinson, Edward Lewis Gavin, j.p., 
 23, Sackville Street, w., and 
 Poston, Peterchurch, Herefordshire.
 
 Sewell, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Davies, 
 Guildhall, e.g., 
 
 29, Grosvenor Road, s.w., and 
 Junior United Service Club, s.w. 
 
 Skinner, Alfred Ernest, 
 
 5, Orchard Street, Portman Square, w., and 
 31, Norfolk Street, Park Lane, w. 
 
 Soanes, Temple Hillyard Hicks, 
 95, Bishopsgate Street Within, e.g., and 
 Pembury, Kent. 
 
 Spier, Julius, 
 25, Bedford Place, Russell Square, w.c. 
 
 Stiebel, Edward, 
 
 Elm Bank, Carlton Road, Putney Hill, s.w. 
 
 Stoner, William Edward, 
 
 5, and 6, Bucklersbury, e.g., and 
 19, King Edward Road, Hackney, e.
 
 T. 
 
 Terry, James, 
 
 143, Tufnell Park Road, Holloway, n. 
 
 Terry, John, c.c, f.r.g.s., 
 
 31, Milk Street, e.g., and 
 
 The Grange Piatt, Boro' Green, 
 
 Sevenoaks, Kent. 
 Tetley, George, 
 
 13, Norfolk Crescent, Hyde Park, w. 
 
 Thompson, Alfred, 
 
 The Estates Department, South Eastern Railway, 
 
 London Bridge, s.e., and 
 Wychwood, Clarendon Road, Putney, s.w. 
 
 Thornhill, Captain James Alfred, f.r.g.s., 
 London Hospital, Whitechapel, e., and 
 Bradbourne Villa, Bushey Hill, Camberwell, s.e. 
 
 Tocher, Peter, 
 
 West Smithfield, e.g., and 
 
 2, Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, n.w. 
 
 Todd, William Ansell, 
 
 The Clock House, Catford Bridge, Kent, s.e., and 
 Broad Street, Bristol, Gloucestershire.
 
 i6 PATTEN MAKERS' COMPANY. 
 
 TwiGG, William James, 
 West Smithfield, e.g., and 
 Croxted House, Croxted Road, DuKvich, s.e. 
 
 W. 
 
 Wade, Charles Josiah, 
 
 153, Leadenhall Street, e.g., and 
 
 North Lodge, Queen's Road, Teddington. 
 
 Walker, Robert, f.r.i.b.a., 
 27, Garrick Street, w.c, and 
 Marquess Road, Canonbury, n. 
 
 Walker, Samuel, 
 
 22, Morgate Street, e.g., and 
 Woodberry, Sydenham Hill, s.e. 
 
 Wallis, Henry Ellis, g.e., 
 
 34, Drayton Gardens, South Kensington, s.w. 
 
 Welford, John, 
 
 Elmwood, Harlesden Lane, Harlesden, n.w. 
 
 Western, Harry, 
 
 II, Halkin Street West, Belgrave Square, s.w.
 
 THE LIVERY. 17 
 
 Wetenhall, Henry Horatio, 
 
 4, Copthall Buildings, Throgmorton St., e.g., & 
 The Limes, Green Lanes, Stoke Newington, n. 
 
 WiLDASH, Frederick Charles, 
 
 Comptroller's Office, Guildhall, e.g., and 
 33, Stanley Gardens, Haverstock Hill, n.w. 
 
 Wilkin, James Harry, 
 
 47, Kensington Gardens Square, w. 
 
 Williamson, Captain William Blizzard, 
 
 Alderman and J. P. for Worcester, 
 Battenhall, Worcester. 
 
 Wink, John Adam, 
 
 2, Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate, e., and 
 Gordon Villa, Claremont Road, Highgate, n. 
 
 Y. 
 
 YouLE, Henry Frederick, 
 Guildhall, e.g., and 
 Lion House, Angell Road, Brixton, s.w. 
 
 N.B. — It is particularly requested that any change 
 of address may be notified to the Clerk.
 
 A SHORT ACCOUNT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE PATTEN. 
 
 ITH respect to coverings for the feet and to 
 guard them from harm " lest Thou dash 
 Thy feet against a stone," Ps. xci. 12, 
 very little can be said, because we are treating 
 about clogs or skates called patins and not about 
 shoes ; but that the Greeks protected the sole of 
 the foot with a flat piece of wood fastened round 
 the angle and leg by a strip of untanned hide, is 
 beyond all doubt " si fides statuis Telamonis 
 Pyrrhi," and Philostratus calls them (javSdXia, a 
 term used in later times by the Romans under the 
 same word sandalicc, or sandals : — 
 
 Pythagoras in Vita Apollonii (Lib. viii. p. 387) 
 " discipulis calceamenta ex arborum corticibus fieri 
 mandavit : quae sane materia fragilior esse vide- 
 bantur, quam ut posset in talem usum assum
 
 longe firmior calceorum Empedoclis materia, qui, 
 si fides quibusdam a Strabone allatis senei toti 
 erant." (Lib. vi. p. 189). 
 
 The Romans used various foot-coverings, but 
 only with the "caligse," the " sandaliae " and the 
 " soleas," have we to deal. All three had wooden 
 " solese," and hence the word soles, and all were 
 tied on to the foot by bands of tanned leather or 
 raw hide thongs. The shoes of the chiefs of the 
 army and the emperors, were called " campagi," 
 which differed but little from that of the soldier * 
 who, like the legionaries, wore the " caligcC," as is 
 figured upon the columns of Trajan. The flat 
 part under the foot was made of wood, and it was 
 from the thongs that bound the wood to the leg 
 that the Emperor Caius Casar (a.d. 37 — 41) took 
 his name " Cahgula,"f he having been born in the 
 army, and bred up in the habit of a common 
 soldier, and hence his troops were called •' Caligati " 
 (Suetonius Calig. Chap, ix.) 
 
 * " Imperatorum Ducum Tribunorumque exercitus calcea- 
 mentum campagus vocabatur parumque a caligis militum 
 differebat." — Montfaucon, tome v., p. 219. 
 
 \ A harness for the legs set full of nails used by soldiers, 
 especially of the common sort in the Roman army. 
 
 B 2
 
 The sandals, "caligae," and the campagi, covered 
 only the flat of the foot with a sole of leather or 
 wood, to which was attached bands of leather, 
 which crossed the top of the foot, leaving an 
 interval here and there to show the naked flesh, 
 but so little and few passages occur in the ancient 
 writers to explain this mode of protecting the foot, 
 that it is impossible to discover the changes which 
 came into use from time to time, or even the form 
 and denomination of them. Cicero mentions in 
 two places that " soles'," or soles, were made of 
 wood, and that they were applied to the feet of 
 criminals when going to prison, but taken off on 
 their arrival there.* 
 
 It has been said " that Mercury was the first 
 maker of skates, and that the wings upon his feet 
 are the symbols of the invention." (S. T. Coleridge). 
 
 Strutt, in his Sports and Pastimes^ confesses his 
 inability to trace the introduction of skating into 
 
 * " Ez iis quffi Cicero bis ait de inventione (b. 2) liquet soleas 
 illas ligneas aliquando fuisse, cujusmodi solea reorum pedibus 
 admovebantur. Quidam (inquit) judicatus est parentem 
 occidisse et statim, quod effugiendi potestas non fuit, ligneae 
 sole* in pedes inducts sunt. . . . Deinde est in carcerem 
 deductus."
 
 this country; and it would be very difficult to 
 fix any correct date, for we are constantly finding 
 below the level of the surface of the north-eastern 
 and eastern parts of London (which it is well 
 known was a swamp), skates made of the bones 
 of sheep and other beasts, which, according to 
 Fitz-Stephen, who lived in the time of Henry II., 
 1154— 1188, " they placed under the soles of their 
 feet by tying round their ankles, and then, taking 
 a pole, shod with iron, into their hands, they push 
 themselves forward by striking it against the ice, 
 and are carried on with a velocity equal to the 
 flight of a bird, or a bolt discharged from a cross- 
 bow." 
 
 In 1841, February 18, Mr. Charles Roach Smith 
 exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries an ancient 
 bone skate. " It was formed of the bone of some 
 animal made smooth on one side, with a hole at 
 one extremity for a cord to fasten it to the shoe. 
 At the other end a hole was also drilled horizontally 
 to the depth of three inches, which was to receive 
 a plug, with another cord to secure it more 
 effectually." It was found in Moorfields, near 
 Finsbury Circus in the boggy soil peculiar to that 
 district. 
 
 Later on they wore wooden skates shod with
 
 iron, and bound about the feet and legs with straps 
 like the talares of the Greeks and sandals of the 
 Romans. These seem to have been introduced 
 into England from the Low Countries, where 
 during the winter season skates are the only means 
 of " circulation " (getting about), and are used 
 by both sexes. 
 
 Fosbroke, in his Dictionary of A ntiquities, says : — 
 "The Icelanders also used the shankbone of a 
 deer or sheep about a foot long, which the}' grease, 
 because that they should not be stopped by drops 
 of water upon them." 
 
 In Danish the word for skate is " schaats "* 
 and is described as a framework of wood furnished 
 with a smooth iron ; this is fastened under the 
 foot for moving rapidly on the ice. 
 
 " He smote the sledded Polacks on the Ice." 
 
 Hamlet, Act I, Scene i. 
 
 In the translation of Runic poetry by Bishop 
 Percy from the Icelandic language (London, 1763), 
 skating is alluded to as one of the accomplish- 
 
 * Skate in Dutch, " schsetsen," which is the derivation of 
 the English word. Vlcemisch Dictionary, 1699.
 
 ments of the north. Harold, in the poem called 
 His Complaint, says: "I glide along the ice on 
 
 scates, and yet a Russian maid 
 
 disdains me." 
 
 In the 24th table of the Edda, skating is spoken 
 of thus : — 
 
 " Then the King asked what that young man 
 could do who accompanied Thor. Thialfe answered 
 ' that in running upon scates he would dispute the 
 prize with any of the countries,' whereupon the 
 King said he owned the talent was great, a very 
 fine one." * 
 
 Now if there may arise any question among 
 Runic scholars, as to whether the above passage 
 refers to the traversing the snow on skates of wood, 
 Olous Magnusk agrees perfectly with Fitz-Stephen, 
 for he speaks of it as being of polished iron, or of 
 the shank-bone of a deer or sheep a foot long, 
 filed down on one side and greased with hog's lard 
 to repel the wet. 
 
 " Aliud vero genus quod ferro piano et polito 
 sive planis ossibus, cervinus vel bovinis scilicet 
 tibiis, naturalem lubricitatem ob innatum pingue-
 
 dinem habentibus, pedali longitudine sub plantis 
 affixis, in sola glacie lubrica cursum indendit 
 velocissimum ; quemque in glaciali aequalitate 
 semper currendo continuat. Caeteris bravium 
 lucraturi currendo praeveniunt, qui cervinas tibias 
 late limatas plantis affigunt, porcina, axungia 
 perunctas, quia gelidis aequae guttis velut per 
 poros glaciei in vehementi frigore surgentibus 
 tibiae sic unctas impediri aut constringi non 
 possunt. — " Hist. Olai Magni de Gent. Sep- 
 tentrion." Basileae. Archceologia, vol. xxix. pp. 
 
 397> 398. 
 
 It is believed that the name of patten comes 
 from the French pattin or patin, for in England in 
 early times, French or Norman French was as much 
 spoken as English, and the word patin was applied 
 to the skate. It was used thus: patin de femme 
 a clog — and patin also serves to denote a horseshoe 
 sorte de fer de cJieval (Boyer's Dictionary, 1727). 
 In Grue's Dutch Dictionary (Amsterdam, i6gg) 
 patins or skates are called schaetsen, to run upon 
 the ice. A better explanation than from the 
 clumsy iron-shod clog, worn by women during the 
 last century and well into the middle of this. 
 This view is somewhat supported by a paragraph 
 in the Gentleman s Magazine, 1789, in which it
 
 states that " Crupers were a sort of patten, having 
 three knobs of iron instead of the ring still in use." 
 Old Pepys says skating was introduced by Cavaliers 
 who had been with Charles II. in Holland, in 
 vol. ii., page 73, under the date of December ist, 
 1662 : " To the Parke, where I first in my life, it 
 being a greate frost, did see people sliding with 
 skates, which is a very pretty art." Mr. Evelyn 
 mentions in his Diary on this very December ist, 
 1662, how he " Went to the park to see the 
 dexterity of the sliders on the new canal in 
 St. James's, with what swiftness they pass with 
 skates after the manner of the Hollanders ; how 
 suddenly they can stop in full career upon the 
 ice." 
 
 Lines under an Old Engraving. 
 
 " Sur un mince chyrstal I'hiver conduit leur pas, 
 Le precipice est sous la glace, 
 Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface 
 Glissez mortels ; n'appuyez pas." 
 
 " O'er the ice the rapid skater flies, 
 With sport above and Death below, 
 Where mischief lurks in gay disguise, 
 Thus lightly touch and quickly go." 
 
 Translated by Dr. Johnson (?). 
 
 Notes and Queries, Series ii., vol. ii., p. 508.
 
 " In frosty season when the sun 
 Was set and visible for many a mile" 
 
 " I wheel'd about, 
 Proud and exulting, like an untired horse 
 , That cared not for its home. All shod with steel 
 We hissed along the polished ice in games 
 Confederate, imitative of the chase." 
 
 ***** 
 
 " Not seldom from the uproar I retired 
 
 Into a silent bay, or sportively 
 
 Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng, 
 
 To cut across the image of a star 
 
 That gleamed upon the ice. And oftentimes 
 
 When we had given our bodies to the wind, 
 
 And all the shadowy banks on either side 
 
 Came sweeping through the darkness, shunning still 
 
 The rapid line of motion, then at once 
 
 Have I, reclining back upon my heels, 
 
 Stopped short." 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Pattens and clogs were anciently worn by 
 persons of quality as well as others, and the 
 makers of them were an ancient company, and 
 there is a parish church in London, called from 
 them, St. Margaret Pattens, those of the trade of 
 Pattenmakers having their stalls or shops set up 
 in the immediate precincts of that church. In an 
 Act of 4 of Edward IV. they are called the 
 " Mysterie of the Pattenmakers," &c. They
 
 made a complaint to the King asking for an Act 
 of Parliament, and they obtained it, in their behalf, 
 upon a complaint which they made of the grievous 
 hurt and damage which they and other persons in 
 time past, of the same occupation, had suffered by 
 an Act of Parliament, 4 of Henry V., that abridged 
 them of the using of timber of " asp" in making 
 pattens and clogs upon a penalty for the benefit of 
 the fletchers who used that wood, that they might 
 sell their shafts at easier prices. But they showed 
 how that this wood was the best and lightest 
 timber for pattens and clogs and most easy for the 
 wearing of all estates, gentlemen and other people 
 and that persons of other crafts and occupations, 
 as turners, carpenters, woodmongers, and coal 
 (charcoal makers), used this wood and had no 
 restraint put upon them ; and that there was 
 much asp-timber, and fit for the fletchers' use to 
 make shafts, which they, the Pattenmakers, could 
 not use, but which they, the fletchers, should use; 
 whereupon the Parliament enacted that it should 
 be lawful from henceforth, that the Pattenmakers 
 might make pattens of such timber of asp, as was 
 not apt nor convenient to be made into shafts ''' or 
 
 * Strype upon Stowe, Ed. 1755, vol. li., book v., page 328.
 
 arrows ; wherefore upon this showing, the Act 
 was granted to them conferring on them all the 
 benefits that they desired. 
 
 The poltine or poltint was called a patten ; it 
 was a sort of shoe, sharped or pricked, and turned 
 up at the toe. They first came into fashion in the 
 reign of William Rufus, and by degrees came to 
 be of such excessive length, that in Richard II. 's 
 time they were tied up to the knees with chains of 
 silver and gold, according to the dignity of the 
 wearer. They were forbidden by Edward IV. in 
 the fifth year of his reign, under a penalty, to be 
 worn so long, but were not utterly laid aside till 
 the reign of Henry VIII. William of Malmes- 
 bury speaking of the excesses of those times, 
 hath these words : " Tunc fluxus crinium, tunc 
 luxus vestium — tunc usus calceorum cum arcuatis 
 aculeis inventus est." 
 
 Speaking of clogs or pattens, Shakspere in 
 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, says : — "By'r lady, 
 your ladyship is nearer heaven, than when I saw 
 you last, by the altitude of a ' chopine,' " and the 
 best description of them is to be found in Coryat's 
 Crodilies, published in 1611. Mr. Evelyn, writing 
 in 1645, says : — " It is now Ascension week. . . . 
 the noblemen stalking with their ladies on ' chop-
 
 pines,' .... it is ridiculous to see how these 
 ladies crawl in and out of their gondolas by 
 reason of these choppines, and what dwarfs they 
 appear when taken down from their wooden 
 scaffolds. They wear things made of wood, 
 covered with leather of sundry colours, white, red, 
 yellow ; they are called ' chapineys,' which they 
 wear under the soles of their shoes. Some are 
 painted, some I have seen fairly gilt; they are 
 such uncomely things that it is a pity that this 
 foolish custom is not banished and exterminated 
 out of the city (Venice). There are many of 
 these chapineys of a great height, even to half 
 a yard high. A person was once asked * how 
 he liked the Venetian ladies ; ' he replied, they 
 were ' Mezzo carne, mezzo legno,' half flesh, 
 half wood. The wives or widows of wealthy 
 gentlemen are supported on either side by 
 men or women servants when they walk abroad 
 to the end that they may not fall, and they are 
 borne up mostly by the left arm." The old 
 patten was shaped like the more modern clog. 
 The ringed patten is not older than the time of 
 Anne. 
 
 "The tongue runs on pattens," was a saying of 
 the sixteenth century, to denote garruhty.
 
 " Had ye heard her, how she begun to scold, 
 The tongue it were on pattens." 
 
 Gammer Girton^s Needle. 
 
 Dickens, in his Cricket on the Hearth, page 3, 
 says : — " Mrs. Peerybingle going out into the raw 
 twihght, and clicking over the wet stones in a 
 pair of pattens that worked innumerable rough 
 impressions of the first proposition in Euclid all 
 about the yard. That pattens were difficult to 
 walk in is shown by the fact that Mrs. Peerybingle 
 returned without the pattens, for they were tall, 
 while Mrs. P. was but short, for the water being 
 cold, and in that slippy, slushy, sleety, sort of 
 state, wherein it seemed to penetrate through 
 every substance, patten rings included." 
 
 Gay, in his Trivia, or The Art of Walking the 
 Streets of London, writes : — 
 
 " Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, 
 Defended by the riding-hood's disguise ; 
 Or underneath th' umbrella's oily shed 
 Safe through the wet, on clinking pattens tread. 
 But O ! forget not, Muse, the Patten's praise. 
 That female implement shall grace thy lays ; 
 Say from what art divine th' invention came 
 And from its origin deduce its name. 
 Where Lincoln wide extends her fenny soil 
 A goodly Yeoman lived, grown white with toil; 
 One only daughter blest his nuptial bed
 
 Who from her infant hand the poultry fed. 
 
 Martha (her careful mother's name) she bore, 
 
 But now her careful mother was no more ! 
 
 Whilst on her father's knee the damsel played, 
 
 Patty he fondly called the smiling maid. 
 
 As years increased, her ruddy beauty grew, 
 
 And Patty's fame o'er all the village flew. 
 
 Soon as the grey-eyed morning streaks the skies. 
 
 And in the doubtful day the woodcock flies, 
 
 Her cleanly pail the pretty housewife bears. 
 
 And singing, to the distant field repairs ; 
 
 And when the plains with evening dews are spread. 
 
 The milky burthen smoaks upon her head. 
 
 Deep through a miry lane she picked her way. 
 
 Above her ankle rose the chalky qlay. 
 
 Vulcan by chance the bloomy maiden spies, 
 
 With innocence and beauty in her eyes ; 
 
 He saw, he loved : for yet he ne'er had known 
 
 Sweet innocence and beauty met in one. 
 
 Ah, Mulciber ! I recall thy nuptial vows, 
 
 Think on the graces of thy Paphian spouse ; 
 
 Think how her eyes dart inexhausted charms. 
 
 And canst thou leave her bed for Patty's arms ? 
 
 The Lemnian Power forsakes the realms above, 
 
 His bosom glowing with terrestrial love ; 
 
 Far in the lane a lonely hut he found. 
 
 No tenant ventured on the unwholesome ground. 
 
 Here smokes his forge, he bares his sinewy arm. 
 
 And early strokes the sounding anvil warm ; 
 
 Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. 
 
 And for the steed he shaped the bending shoe. 
 
 When blue-eyed Patty near his window came, 
 
 His anvil rests, his forge forgets to flame ; 
 
 To hear his soothing tales she feigns delays,
 
 What woman can resist the face of praise ? 
 
 At first, she coyly every kiss withstood, 
 
 And all her cheek was flushed with modest blood ; 
 
 With headless nails he now surrounds her shoes, 
 
 To save her steps from rains and piercing dews. 
 
 She liked his soothing tales, his presents wore, 
 
 And granted kisses, but would grant no more. 
 
 Yet winter chilled her feet, with cold she pines. 
 
 And on her cheek the fading rose declines. 
 
 No more her humid eyes their lustre boast. 
 
 And, in hoarse sounds, her melting voice is lost. 
 
 This Vulcan saw, and in his heavenly thought, 
 
 A new machine mechanic, fancy wrought, 
 
 Above the mire her shelter'd steps to raise, 
 
 And bear her safely through the wintry ways ; 
 
 Strait the new engine on his anvil glows. 
 
 And the pale virgin on the Patten rose. 
 
 No more her lungs are shook with drooping rheums, 
 
 And on her cheek reviving beauty blooms ; 
 
 The god obtained his suit : though flattery fail, 
 
 Presents with female virtue must prevail. 
 
 The Patten now supports each frugal dame, 
 
 Which from the blue-eyed Patty takes the name." 
 
 Gay's Trivia, book i., line 202 to 282. 
 
 The Pattenmakers' Company was incorporated 
 by Charles 11. in 1670. By their charter, all 
 persons using the art or mystery of making pattens 
 or clogs within the cities of London and West- 
 minster, and ten miles every way distant therefrom, 
 are incorporated by the name of the Master, 
 Wardens, Assistants and Fellowship of the
 
 Company of Pattenmakers of the City of London, 
 with power to make bye-laws for the government 
 of its own members, and for the regulation of the 
 trade, and to impose fines and amercements for 
 offences against such bye-laws. 
 
 The Court of Aldermen, by an order dated 1674, 
 decree that all persons using the trade of Patten- 
 makers are to be admitted into the freedom of the 
 city in that city only. 
 
 The Company's bye-laws were made on the 27th 
 of October, 1673, under the provisions of an Act, 
 ig Henry VII. 
 
 The effect of the bye-laws is to regulate the 
 estate, rule and government of the Fellowship, 
 and the members thereof, and in what manner the 
 Company and all persons using or exercising the 
 art and mystery of making pattens and clogs 
 within the cities of London and Westminster, and 
 ten miles every way distant therefrom, shall 
 demean and behave themselves as well in all 
 matters touching and concerning the trade, as in 
 their offices, functions, places and businesses 
 touching or concerning the Company. 
 
 These bye-laws were approved by Sir Heneage 
 Finch, Bart., Lord Chancellor Sir Matthew HaLe, 
 Knight, and Sir John Vaughan, Knight, the
 
 Lords Justices of the Courts of King's Bench, 
 and the Common Pieas, dated June 20, in the 
 twenty-sixth year of the reign of Charles II. 1674. 
 The Company is the 76th of the 8g Companies 
 of London ; it has a Livery as before set out, but 
 no Hall. 
 
 V
 
 EXTRACT FROM 
 MR. SCRIMSHAW'S BEQUEST. 
 
 HE late Mr. Thomas Scrimshaw, by 
 
 his Will, left, after the decease of his 
 
 will, the interest of ;^iooo in the Three 
 
 per Cent. Government Securities, being ^30 per 
 
 annum to the Pattenmakers' Company in trust 
 
 as under : — 
 
 ;^500 part thereof, to defray the expenses against 
 all unlawful workers ; and if that should not be 
 wanted to pay for a march and dinner once 
 in three years, on the Lord Mayor's Day (gth 
 November) for ever: and ;^5oo, the remainder, 
 that they should, every year, for ever, give or pay 
 unto four poor men, free of the said Company, and 
 working Pattenmakers, and free of the City of 
 London, or to the widows of the aforesaid four 
 such Pattenmakers, 405. each per annum, being 
 £%, and the remainder [£'] per annum) to pay for 
 a dinner every year, for ever, for the Court, 
 of Assistants on the election day for Master and 
 Wardens ; and on that day to pay the aforesaid 
 ;^8 to the aforesaid poor people, either men or 
 women, as above named, for ever. 
 
 c 2
 
 Charges and Expenses upon binding 
 
 Apprentices and admission to the Freedom 
 
 and Livery. 
 
 Bindings, exclusive of Stamp 
 
 Duty, which is governed 
 
 by the amount of Premium . . . . 
 Admission to the Freedom by £ s. d. 
 
 Patrimony or Servitude . i 17 6 
 Stamp Duty 100 
 
 Admission to ditto by Redemption 9 18 6 
 Stamp Duty 300 
 
 £ 
 
 I 13 
 
 2 17 o 
 
 12 8 6 
 
 Admission to the Livery, 
 including £2 for the 
 redemption of Quarterage 
 
 The Admission to the Court is a fee or fine of 
 
 £so. 
 
 The governing body of Master, Wardens, and 
 Assistants, are paid 105. eacli for their attendance 
 at the four Quarterly Courts of the Company. 
 Non-Attendants are fined 55. to be put into the 
 poor box, to be annually divided, with the other 
 sums, among the Company's poor.
 
 Parties can be bound and admitted to the Freedom 
 and Livery on application to Mr, Youle, the Clerk 
 of the Company, at Guildhall, any day, Sundays 
 excepted, between the hours of Eleven and Three. 
 
 George Lambert, 
 
 lo, II, & 12, Coventry Street, 
 London, IV. 
 
 planter, 1884-5.
 
 M^mm^^^ 
 
 TWO YEARS' WORK IN THE CHAIR 
 
 PATTENMAKERS, 
 1884—1886. 
 
 SSUMED the Chair of the Pattenmakers, 
 Thursday, March 20th, 1884, and ad- 
 journed to the " Guildhall Tavern," 
 where a select dinner was held. 
 
 On the 24th April the new Master gave his 
 Inauguration Dinner at the " Holborn Restaurant," 
 at which the Lord Mayor, Sir Nicholas R. Fowler — 
 (who came late from the House of Commons) — and 
 the Sheriffs, Messrs. Faudel Phillips, and Mr. Alder- 
 man Whitehead, supported by 170 gentlemen of the 
 Court and Livery and general visitors, including 
 Admiral Stopford, Sir E. Lechmere, M.P., Major- 
 General Milman, the Hon, S. A. Joseph, Member 
 of the Upper House of Legislature of New South 
 Wales, and several Masters of City Companies 
 were present.
 
 On the 29th April, the Master of the Patten- 
 makers took his seat as the President of the City 
 Waiters' Pension and Provident Institution, that 
 office having been most generously surrendered by 
 Sir John Bennett. 
 
 On the 3Qth April, the Master dined, by the kind 
 invitation of the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion 
 House, with the Masters of other City Companies. 
 
 On the 8th May he attended at the Health 
 Exhibition, South Kensington, to meet His Royal 
 Highness the Prince of Wales, who had graciously 
 consented to open the Exhibition. The Master 
 took up his position at the door of the Patten- 
 makers' Shop, which, by the untiring energy of 
 Mr. Warden Brand (the Comptroller of the Chamber 
 of London), had been supplied with a collection of 
 Clogs, Shoes, and Pattens, which Exhibition was 
 not equalled by any other Shop in the Old London 
 Section, 
 
 The Master of the Pattenmakers' Company, 
 having been appointed .Chairman of the Jur}' for 
 awarding prizes and judging the Works in Horn, 
 by the Worshipful Company of Horners, dined 
 with that Company, on the 19th May, and received 
 his instructions from their Master and Clerk. 
 
 On the 9th June, the Master and Wardens
 
 entertained at the " Holborn Restaurant " the 
 Honourable and Learned Societies of London, 
 notably the Royal Society of London, represented by 
 Sir Frederick Bramwell, John Evans, Esq., LL.D., 
 Jas. Glashier, Esq. (of balloon celebrity), and 
 others ; the Antiquaries, the Deputy-Master of the 
 Royal Mint, the British Archaeological Association, 
 the Royal Arch^ological Institute, the British 
 Association, the London and Middlesex Archaeo- 
 logical Association, the Numismatic Societ}', 
 Officers of the Navy, Army, and Volunteers, and 
 several Members of the House of Commons. 
 
 On the nth June the Master dined with the 
 Honourable the Traders' Society. 
 
 On the 20th June, he dined with the Glass 
 Sellers' Company at the " Ship Tavern," Green- 
 wich. 
 
 On the 2ist June, the Master, having received a 
 very polite invitation from Frederick Gordon, Esq., 
 of Bentley Priory, near Bushey, Herts, attended at 
 a magnificent fete champetre and public breakfast. 
 
 On Monday 23rd June, he was present at a 
 banquet of the Needlemakers' Company, at the 
 " Albion Tavern," Aldersgate Street. 
 
 On the 26th June the Master dined by invitation 
 of the Worshipful the Armourers' and Braziers'
 
 Company at their splendid hall in Coleman Street, 
 where he had the honour of returning thanks for the 
 City Companies, particularly the Pattenmakers' 
 and the Goldsmiths', of which he was a Warden. 
 
 On July 2nd, 1884, the Master had the honour 
 to preside over a dinner given by the Royal Gar- 
 deners' Benevolent Institution, at the " Albion 
 Tavern," Aldersgate Street, to which 180 gentle- 
 men — French, Belgian, Dutch, and English — sat 
 down ; and the subscription exceeded any that 
 had been collected before, although Royalty and 
 other notabilities had taken the chair. The Patten- 
 makers are now Life Governors of that Charity. 
 
 On the 3rd July, the Master of the Patten- 
 makers having accepted the polite invitation of 
 the Worshipful the Curriers' Company, dined at 
 the " Star and Garter " at Richmond. 
 
 On the loth of July, he had the honour of 
 dining with the Vintners' Company, and returned 
 thanks for the Army, Navy, and Reserve forces. 
 
 On the 19th July, he presided at the Annual 
 Festival of the Dressing Case Makers' and Fancy 
 Leather Goods Makers' Benevolent and Provident 
 Institution (which Institution rejoiced, if they 
 got a collection of £50), now netted a subscription 
 of just under ;^4oo.
 
 On the 23rd of July, at the " New Falcon " Hotel, 
 Gravesend, the Master of the Pattenmakers' Com- 
 pany entertained the Wardens and the Members 
 of the Court and their Ladies, and the Master and 
 their Ladies, of six of the City Companies. 
 
 After this the Master had two months' repose, 
 until the i6th October, 1884, when he invited 
 the Court and their Ladies to meet him, and 
 dine at the Holborn Restaurant, when some 
 American ladies and gentlemen formed part of 
 the Company. Mr. Delille, the representative 
 of the American Register (newspaper), returned 
 thanks for their kind reception. 
 
 On the 7th November, the Master of the Patten- 
 makers was duly elected a Member of the Court 
 of the Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' Company 
 of London, and subscribed his declaration 
 accordingly. 
 
 On the 2ist November, he had the honour of 
 dining at a banquet of the Cutlers' Company. 
 
 On the 26th November, the Master of the 
 Pattenmakers had the honour to represent his 
 Company at a grand dinner, given by the 
 Worshipful the Turners' Company, and returned 
 thanks in the name of his Company for the favour 
 thus conferred.
 
 On the loth December the Master represented 
 the Company at the Honourable the Traders' 
 Society, and this last dinner brought the year 
 1884 to a close. 
 
 1885. 
 
 The first dinner of the year, was held January 
 15th, at the " Ship and Turtle Tavern," where the 
 Master of the Pattenmakers' Company enter- 
 tained the gentleman of the Court and a few 
 friends. 
 
 The Masters and Wardens of the Worshipful 
 Company of Fruiterers kindly sent an invitation 
 for the Master to dine at the " Albion " to 
 H. F. Youle, Esq., the Clerk, which the Master^ 
 in obedience to the polite summons, accepted, and 
 after the dinner, returned thanks for the toast of 
 the City Companies, and, prior to resuming his 
 seat, proposed the toast of the Master and 
 Wardens of the Fruiterers' Company. 
 
 On the 20th February the Master had the 
 honour to receive an invitation (sent to the Clerk 
 of the Company, H. F. Youle, Esq.) to dine with 
 the Spectaclemakers' Company, where he re- 
 turned thanks for the Reserve Forces, the Master
 
 of the Pattenmakers' Company being a Captain 
 in the Queen's Westminster Volunteers. 
 
 On the i8th March he had the honour of dining 
 with the Glass Sellers' Company, and responded 
 on behalf of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman 
 Nottage, the Sheriffs and the Corporation of the 
 City of London. 
 
 On the 19th March, the Master had the un- 
 paralleled honour conferred upon him of being 
 elected for the second time Master of the Patten- 
 makers' Company, to which he demurred — nay, 
 even objected ; but, being overruled by the 
 members of the Court, he submitted ; and after- 
 wards the Master of the Company, by the per- 
 mission of the Wardens, entertained a brilliant 
 company of 188 gentlemen to dinner in the 
 Venetian Saloon at the Holborn Restaurant, 
 amongst whom were the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and 
 Under-Sheriffs, Alderman Sir Robert Carden, 
 Alderman Savory, Sir W. Charley, Q.C., The 
 Prime-Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company, the 
 Masters of fourteen of the City Companies, F. H. 
 Fowler, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Metro- 
 politan Board of Works. 
 
 On the 25th March the Master of the Company 
 presided over a banquet given on behalf of the
 
 United Waiters of London, Westminster, and 
 Brighton, the subscription amounting to ;^io8, 
 ably and most kindly added to by Colonel Peters 
 and Frederick Binckes, Esq.. who not being them- 
 selves " United Waiters," yet, hearing that the 
 Master of the Pattenmakers' Company was in the 
 Chair, brought up the subscription some ;^30, 
 besides their very handsome and liberal donations. 
 
 April ist, the Master had the honour of dining 
 at the New Hall of the Leathersellers', and 
 gratefully acknowledged the toast of the Visitors. 
 
 On the loth April, he partook of the kind 
 hospitality of the Wheelwrights' Company, and 
 acknowledged the toast of the Reserve Forces. 
 
 It was on Saturday night, April nth, that the 
 lamented death of the Right, Hon. the Lord 
 Mayor, Mr. Alderman Nottage, occurred, and cast 
 a gloom over the city ; and on the following 
 Sunday the Master of the Pattenmakers left his 
 card at the Mansion House, being one of the first 
 callers to show to Mrs. Nottage and family that 
 respect which was felt for the illustrious deceased 
 citizen, who, only a few days prior to the awful 
 event had invited the Master of the Pattenmakers 
 to be present at the Reception of the Lady 
 Mayoress. The Master attended in his robes the
 
 State Funeral of the late Lord Mayor at St. 
 Paul's Cathedral. 
 
 On Wednesday, the 22nd April, he had the 
 honour of dining with the Cooks' Company, and pro- 
 posed the health of the Master of that Company. 
 
 On the 23rd the Master having accepted the 
 invitation to dine with the Girdlers' Company, 
 responded to the toast of the Navy, the Army, and 
 Reserve Forces. 
 
 On the 30th, he was entertained at a banquet 
 given by the Needlemakers' Company at the 
 " Albion Tavern," Aldersgate Street. 
 
 On the 14th of May, the Court of the Patten- 
 makers dined together, and entertained visitors. 
 
 On Thursday, the 19th May, the Master, as 
 President of the City Waiters, supported the 
 Honourable Member for Brighton, W. T. Marriott, 
 Esq., Q.C., M.P., who took the Chair at the Guild- 
 hall Tavern on behalf of that excellent Charity. 
 
 On the 2nd of June, the Master dined with the 
 Worshipful the Carpenters' Company at their 
 New Hall, and had the honour to return thanks 
 on behalf of the Visitors. 
 
 On the 4th he, having been favoured by an 
 invitation from A. F. Godson, Esq., dined with 
 the Worcestershire Society.
 
 Also on the gth, at the instance of the Master 
 and Wardens of the Curriers' Company dined at 
 their New Hall in London Wall. 
 
 The Worshipful Company of Tin-Plate Workers 
 invited him to dine at the " Albion " on the 30th 
 of June, and, in obedience to the summons, he 
 attended, and was very elegantly entertained, 
 returning thanks for the Reserve Forces and 
 Volunteers, 
 
 On the ist of July, the Master was honoured by 
 an invitation to dine at the Mansion House at the 
 invitation of the Lord Mayor, R. N. Fowler, Esq., 
 M.P. 
 
 On the 3rd, he attended a dinner of the 
 Gardeners' Benevolent Institution to support 
 Edward Tidswell, Esq., in the Chair, and had the 
 honour to return thanks for the toast of the Lord 
 Mayor, Sheriffs, and Corporation of the City of 
 London. 
 
 On the 6th, the Master was favoured by an invi- 
 tation to dine at the Drapers' Hall, which had been 
 most kindly placed at the disposal of the Worship- 
 ful Company of Fanmakers, and had the honour 
 conferred upon him of speaking on behalf of the 
 Reserve Forces. 
 
 On the gth July, after a Court of Pattenmakers,
 
 the Master and Wardens had the honour to enter- 
 tain the Members of the Court and their Ladies at 
 a small dinner at the " Holborn Restaurant." 
 
 On Friday, the loth, he was invited to a dinner 
 with the Union Society of St. James', held at the 
 " Trafalgar Hotel," Greenwich, which he attended, 
 together with his Ladies, (who were invited to 
 attend,) and returned thanks for the Navy, Army, 
 and Volunteers. 
 
 Saturday, igth September, the Master of the 
 Pattenmakers had the honour to entertain the 
 Wardens, their Ladies, and a select party of 
 Masters of City Companies and their Ladies at the 
 " New Falcon Hotel," Gravesend, at a small return 
 Dinner, for favours already received. 
 
 On the 15th October, he had the honour to enter- 
 tain the Members of the Court and many friends, 
 together with their Ladies, in the New Rooms at 
 the " Holborn Restaurant," several Masters of City 
 Companies and their Ladies being present, to 
 whom Mr. Hamp, the respected manager and 
 partner, presented bouquets on leaving. 
 
 On the gth November, the Master of the Patten- 
 makers attended at the office of Wynne Baxter, 
 Esq., Laurence Pountney Hill, to take part in the 
 Procession of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman
 
 Staples, by the courtesy of the Gold and Silver 
 Wyredrawers' Company, who were graciously 
 pleased to give him a seat in a carriage. He had 
 the honour of being invited to lunch with the High 
 Officials in a private room of the Royal Courts of 
 Justice, and by this delay very nearly missed his 
 carriage, which was driving off as the Master 
 reached the entrance-hall in the Strand. On 
 returning to the Guildhall and alighting, got into 
 conversation with William Holland, Esq., one of 
 the Pattenmakers' Company, whereupon, being 
 informed by one of the officials that if the Master 
 was going home to dress, he had no time to lose, 
 so he returned home, but was too tired to go back 
 to the Guildhall, so did not dine there, but later in 
 the evening put in his appearance. 
 
 On the 25th November, the Master, having been 
 honoured by an invitation to dine with the Worship- 
 ful Drapers' Company, had the honour to propose 
 the Health of the Master, George Lawford, Esq., 
 and this dinner brought the labours of the year 
 1885 to a close. 
 
 1886. 
 
 On Thursday, 14th January, the Master gave his 
 last and Farewell Dinner to gentlemen of the Army
 
 and Navy, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Clarke, the 
 Deputy-Master of the Mint, Colonel Howard 
 Vincent, C.B., M.P. for Sheffield (his Colonel), 
 twenty-two Masters of the City Companies — viz. : 
 The Prime Warden and Wardens of the Gold- 
 smiths' Company. 
 
 The Master of the Drapers' Company. 
 ,, ,, Cutlers' Company. 
 
 „ ,, Tallow Chandlers' Company. 
 
 „ ,, Girdlers' Company. 
 
 ,, ,, Butchers' Comgany. 
 
 ,, Carpenters' Company. 
 , ,, Curriers' Company. 
 
 ,, ,, Founders' Company. 
 
 ,, ,, Cooks' Company. 
 
 „ ,, Loriners' Company. 
 
 „ ,, Spectaclemakers' Company. 
 
 „ ,, Clockmakers' Company. 
 
 ,, ,, Tinplate Workers' Company. 
 
 „ . ,, Wheelwrights' Company. 
 
 ,, ,, Glass Sellers' Company. 
 
 , ,, Wyredrawers' Company. 
 
 ,, ,, Playing-Cardmakers' Company. 
 
 „ ,, Horners' Company. 
 
 And the Clerks of their respective Companies. 
 The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Alderman
 
 Staples, the Sheriffs, Alderman Savory, the Under- 
 Sheriffs, the Town Clerk, L. H. Phillips, Esq., C.C., 
 and C. D. Miller, Esq., C.C., representing the 
 Corporation of the City of London. Admirals Sir 
 William Hewett, K.C.B., and Sir Henry Keppell, 
 G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet, General Gipps, Sir 
 CharlesWarren, Col. Duncan, M.P., Col. Moncrieff, 
 Sir James McGarel Hogg, Bart, M.P., Col. 
 Shadwell H. Clerke, Col. Mahon, Capt. Phillips, 
 Col. Lynch, Col. J. Davis, Col. Harding, Col. 
 Shipway, Major Mends, Major Roper D. Tyler, 
 Major McKenzie, Capt. C. Probyn, Capt. H. 
 Scrivener, Capt. Bowyer, Lieut. H. C. Lambert, 
 The Hon. C. Fremantle, The Mayor of Reigate, 
 F. H. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C., Rev. Dr. Maguire, 
 Rev. J. H. Rose, M.A., A. White, Esq., F.S.A , 
 W. Brabrook, Esq., F.S.A., G. R. Wright, Esq., 
 F.S.A., W. J. Foster, Esq., F.R.G.S., Dr. Cowell, 
 Dr. Cross, Dr. Mickley, Dr. Swaine, Dr. R. Graves 
 Burton, Dr. C. F. Knight, Dr. Arthur Cross, who, 
 with other gentlemen, representing many of the 
 learned societies of London (^except the Antiquaries, 
 which had a meeting on the same night, and were 
 not present — yet represented by some of the 
 Fellows) and numbering 238 guests sat down 
 under the Master's presidency.
 
 OF THE PATTENMAKERS, 1884— 1886. 53 
 
 On the 25th January, the Master was honoured 
 with an invitation to the Consecration of the Drury 
 Lane Lodge, but was unable to attend, having to 
 attend the banquet of the Fruiterers' Company to 
 meet the Lord Ma};or, the Right Hon. John 
 Staples, and the Sheriffs at the " Albion." 
 
 On the 27th, the Master was invited by the 
 Lodge of Antiquity which he attended. 
 
 On the 4th of February, the Master was invited 
 by Deputy Master Benjamin Venables to dine with 
 the Butchers' Company, when he had the honour 
 responding for the Army, Navy, and Reserve 
 Forces. 
 
 On the 6th March, the Master had the honour of 
 an invitation to dine with the Fanmakers' Com- 
 pany at Drapers' Hall, which, by the courtesy of 
 the Master, G. Lawford, Esq., and the Wardens, 
 had been lent to the Fanmakers for the occasion, 
 and he returned thanks for the Reserve Forces. 
 
 This last dinner brought the labours of the 
 Master to an end, and he feels bound to return 
 his best and most grateful thanks to the Masters 
 of City Companies, who have honoured the Wor- 
 shipful Company of Pattenmakers, in the person 
 of the Master, with a round of invitations, almost 
 unprecedented in the annals of the Pattenmakers
 
 Company. And the Master earnestly hopes that 
 the gentlemen who are now about to assume the 
 chair (which he vacates) will not lose the oppor- 
 tunity to keep the Pattenmakers as prominently 
 before the public and the City as he has done. 
 
 If it be worth the time, to sit as Master, and 
 enjoy the honour, it is worth the trouble to keep 
 the Company in the proud position in which it 
 now is, for the Pattenmakers' Company is a 
 household word amongst the City Companies, and 
 the Master on leaving the Chair — (and returning 
 his sincere thanks to those gentlemen who elected 
 him to it, and to Richard Clout, Esq., who stood 
 aside to let your Master take that high and 
 onerous position) — trusts that those who follow 
 him will do their best to preserve the Company in 
 the same state as he now leaves it. 
 
 The Master commits the Company to your charge 
 with the full conviction that each in his vocation 
 will follow in the steps of those who have gone 
 before him. Need he point out the Grand Ban- 
 quets and Hospitality, the Visitors, &c., who were 
 invited under the rule of Barrow Emanuel, Esq., 
 of the late C. W. Thompson, Esq., of our lamented 
 friend and Master, Mr. Taylor, and others, who 
 had gone before him, and in whose shoes he has
 
 endeavoured to tread. And with these words he bids 
 you farewell as Master, yet with the fullest inten- 
 tions to back up each succeeding Master, with such 
 help as your retiring Master can give ; and that 
 the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers may 
 flourish, root and branch, and continue for ever, 
 notwithstanding the blasts of political opinion, is 
 the best wish of your retiring Master, and may 
 the Almighty bless each and all of you, is the 
 prayer of your Sincere Friend, 
 
 GEORGE LAMBERT, F.S.A., 
 
 Major i^th Middlesex.
 
 LONDON : 
 
 T. BRETTELL AND CO. PRINTERS, 
 
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