Acknowledgements                                                                                                 8

Preface to Third Edition                                                                                         10

Preface to Second Edition                                                                                     13

Preface to First Edition                                                                                          15

Chapter I            Introduction                                                                                 19

Chapter II          The Standards for Gold and Silver Wares                                    26

Chapter III         The Assay                                                                                   30

Chapter IV         London Part 1: Evolution of Marks                                              36

Chapter V          London Part 2: Cycles of Hallmarks on London

Plate                                                                                                                      47

Chapter VI         London Part 3: Makers' Marks                                                    87

Chapter VII        London Part 4: List of Makers' Names

1090-1850         237

Chapter VIII      English Provincial Goldsmiths                                                     264

Chapter IX         Wessex and the South East

Salisbury — Dorchester — Guildford — Lewes

Sandwich — Sherborne — Southampton — Warminster Winchester

Wessex Unascribed                                                                                             271

Chapter X          The South West

Exeter — Bristol — Barnstaple — Bath — Bideford Bridgwater

Bruton — Chard, Crewkerne, Dunster and Honiton — Falmouth

Gloucester — Launceston Penzance — Plymouth — Taunton

Truro — West Country Unascribed                                                                     280

Chapter XI         East Anglia

Norwich — Bury St. Edmunds — Cambridge

Colchester — Great Yarmouth — Ipswich

King's Lynn — Waveney Valley                                                                          326

Chapter XII        The Midlands

Birmingham — Coventry — Leicester — Lincoln Nottingham

Stratford-upon-Avon

Midlands Unascribed                                                                                           348

Chapter XIII      Chester and Associated Towns

Chester — Liverpool — Manchester and Salford

Preston — Shrewsbury — Wigan                                                                        377

Chapter XIV      Sheffield                                                                                    425

Chapter XV       York and Associated Towns

York — Hull — Leeds — Unascribed                                                                452

Chapter XVI      Newcastle and Associated Towns                                             477

Chapter XVII     Wales and Unascribed English Provincial

Carmarthen — Newport                                                                                     513

Chapter XVIII Scotland Part 1:

Introduction — Edinburgh                                                                                   530

Chapter XIX      Scotland Part 2:

Glasgow — Aberdeen — Arbroath — Ayr — Ballater Banff

Canongate — Cupar — Dumfries — Dundee Elgin — Ellon

Fochabers — Forres — Greenock Inverness — Keith — Leith

Montrose — Nairn Paisley — Perth — Peterhead — St. Andrews

Stonehaven — Tain and Wick                                                                             564

Chapter XX       Ireland Part 1: Dublin                                                                 619

Chapter XXI      Ireland Part 2:

Cork — Limerick — Belfast — Galway — Kinsale

Youghal — Unascribed Irish Provincial                                                                706

Appendix 1: Dublin Silver Marks                                                                         740

Bibliography       754

Index of Initiais   755

Index of Symbols                                                                                                763

Addendum and Corrigendum to 1994 reprint                                                       767