May I be permitted to make a few supplementary observations upon the late Mr. P. A. S. Phillips's valuable contribution to the history of the Goldsmiths' Art in England by his article on John Cooqūs, goldsmith to Charles II, in Antiq. Journ. for July 1934?

‘The most humble petition of John Cassen & John Cooqus Silversmiths, & Foreigners’, printed on p. 286, is interesting for several reasons: that they had practised the art and mystery of the silversmith in England since 1664; that their method of working, presumably their style of decoration, was different from that of the English silversmiths; that they were forced to employ foreigners as their journeymen; and that the Goldsmiths' Company of London refused to recognize their work, so far as to refuse to accept it for assaying and touching, i.e. hall-marking.