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artist called Hans Lobsinger, who lived at Nuremberg in 1550, 

 is supposed to have been one of the earliest makers of large and 

 small bellows, which were used for both furnaces and organs. 

 By one writer the discovery is dated as late as in 1630. The 

 York register tells us that we were indebted to a Fleming for the 

 knowledge of this useful machine at a much earlier period. 

 ** Nicholas le Yhonge de Flandres" appears to have been the 

 person who first brought it to York. 



The admission of about 40 Potters shews that the manufacture 

 of earthenware had become a business of some importance. 



Of the artificers of armour and weapons there is a great 

 increase ; and to many Furbours, * Armourers, and Boughers, 

 are now added a proportionate number of Flechers or Arrow- 

 smiths, Bladesmiths, Reveters, and Shethers. Lorimers, Sellers 

 or Saddlers, and Sporiers, are also numerous. 



Of workers in metals, the most important is the Aurifaher, 

 Orfevevy or Goldsmith ; and under one or other of these names 

 nearly 40 persons are registered during this reign : and there 

 are several called Batur, Orbatur, and Goldbeter, terms 

 which are probably synonymous. There are six Mouneours, 

 two of whom were from Italy, viz., Laurentius de Florence, ^ 

 and Bonache de Florence. ^ A few years previous to these 

 foreigners becoming citizens of York, an act of parliament* 

 had authorised " money of gold and silver to be made in the 

 City of York, in the manner as it was made in the Tower of 

 London ;" and it may be presumed that under the sanction of 

 this act, a coinage of some extent and importance would be esta- 

 blished in York. The business of the King's mint was, in 

 early times, carried on within the precincts of the Castle of 

 York, in certain houses and buildings there appropriated 



' Several of these were importations from Germany : viz., 



Amaldus de Almaygne, Furbour ; 



Ingilbright de Alman, Furbour ; 



Christianus de Devenesrode, Furbour d'Alman ; 



Tydkynus van-the-rode, Furbour. 

 s Admitted in 1362. 3 Admitted in 1364. 



* 18tb Edward III. c. 6. The first coining of gold in England was in 1844. 

 Anderson, I. 317; Rym. Feed. V. 403. 



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