BARTHOLOMEW GOLDBETER. 
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of Northumberland, who was to deliver it to the Sheriff of York¬ 
shire, at the city of York. In the 48th year of Edward III. John 
Fenwick, the Sheriff of Northumberland, received 4000 marks at 
Berwick, which he conveyed to York, going himself with it, and 
having a guard of seventeen men at arms and nineteen archers. 
He set out on June 23rd or 24th, and did not reach York till the 
4th of July. Percyhay, then Sheriff of Yorkshire, received it, and 
sent it forward to London under the charge of six esquires and 
eighteen mounted bowmen. They were ten days going and return¬ 
ing. The successive halting places for the night were Doncaster, 
Newark, Stamford, Caxton, Waltham, and London. He returned 
by Royston, Stamford, Tuxford, and Sherburn. 1 
No other provincial mints were in operation during the reigns 
of Richard II. and Henry IV. than those of the cities of York and 
Durham. Silver pennies were coined at York during the two 
reigns and also in the reigh of Henry V. In 1423, Bartholomew 
Seman otherwise Goldbeter, a London goldsmith and under Henry 
V., mint master at London and Calais, was authorised to coin at 
York and Bristol as well as at London and Calais. He was sent 
to York to coin there the gold and silver of the said country that 
was not of right weight and to remain there during the King’s 
pleasure. Soon after Goldbeter arrived at York, he reported to the 
lords of the council that the houses and buildings for the making 
of the King’s money in the Castle of York were so ruinous and 
wanted so much repair that they were not fit for the purpose. On 
April 8th, 1423, a writ was issued to the Sheriff commanding him 
to cause them to be sufficiently repaired and amended, or if 
necessary new buildings to be erected at the discretion of the mint 
master. The new or the renewed buildings comprised a dwelling- 
house for the moneyer and his servants, a melting-house with the 
requisite furnaces, and a treasury. The cost of the same was 
£■88 8s. 5d. 2 
On July 15th, 1423, Goldbeter was constituted warden and 
changer of the King’s exchanges of gold and silver in the city of 
York. On the 20th, Thomas Roderham was made comptroller, 
exchanger, and assayer ; and Thomas Haxey, warden of the mint 
at the city of York. 
1 Joseph Hunter. “ Proc. Archse. Inst. York, 1846.” 
2 The detailed account rendered by Sir W. Harrington, Sheriff, 
is printed by Davies, p. 72, 
