History of the Company. 51 



Henry VH., by Charter granted in the eleventh 



A.D. 149-. y^^^ ^^ ^'^^ reign, 28th October, 1495, 



Charter from recites and confirms the first of Henry 



enry . yj^^ which, as already stated, is an in- 



speximus of that of Edward HI. The Charter 



of Henry VH. contains no additional words. ^ 



A Return in the Public Record Office of all 

 The Company in the Companies' members for the year 



A.D. 1537. 1537 places the Saddlers' Company 

 twenty-sixth in order of precedence, with a mem- 

 bership of sixty. The last three names men- 

 tioned in the list of the Company's members are : 

 ** The good wife Pounde, the good wif Coupir, 

 and the good wif Yong." 



Henry VHL, in the thirty-second year of his 



A.D. 1540. reign (nth June, 1540), granted a 



Charter from Charter which confirms and recites 



that of Henry VH., but adds nothing 



to it.^ 



In this year we have the earliest historical 

 notice of Saddlers' Hall, which was 



A.D. 1545. r 1 • 1 r 



the scene of one of the trials ot poor 

 Anne Askew, one of the first English protestant 

 martyrs, who was burned at Smithfield the follow- 

 ing year.^ 



^ Recited in Charter of Elizabeth. Patent Roll, i Eliz., 

 part 2, mem. 4. 

 2 Ibid. 

 2 Foxe's " Acts and Ordinances." 



