Capitolo 28
it was known as "plateresca." The shrines to hold relics became
in these centuries positive buildings on a to staircase redoubt in precious
material. In England it was also many of these shrines but few of
now they remains.
The first Mayor of London, from 1189 to 1213 it was a jeweler,
Henry Fitz Alwyn, the Founder of the Real Change; Mr. Thomas
Gresham, in 1520 it was also a jeweler and a banker. There is a
amusing piece of cynical satire on the Jewelers in Stubbes'
Anatomy of the Abuses, written of duration of Regina Elizabeth while showing
what the makeups of the work had come to the full development from that
time, and that the public woke up on the subject. Stubbes
he/she explains as the shops of the jeweler they are decorated with chains and rings,
"marvelous richly." Then he follows to say: "They will manufacture him to Them some
monster or I articulate any of what you want. It is
there any falsehood in these shows of goodlye? Yes, too much many; if you want
you buy a gold chain, a ring or some kind of dish, besides that You
it will almost pay mean more than it is worth... You are perhaps able also
has that gold that is nothing, otherwise at least it mixed with drossie
rubbage.... But this happeneth very rarely from reason for good orders,
and constitutions constituted the punishment of them that offends in
some kind of the falsehood, and therefore they rarely offends therein,
although now and then they happens to stumble in the dark!"
It says Fynes Moryson, a traveller that died in 1614 that "the jewelers'
you negotiate in London... you/he/she is continually furnished richly exaggeratedly
with gold, with flat of silver and with jewels.... I never see of it
so daily show, anything so sumptuous, in some place in the world,
as to London." He admits that to Florence and Paris the similar one
shops are very rich on special occasions; but it is the you consolidate
state of the market in London to which he has reference.
Jewelers' Society in Dublin held a social prominent truth
you position in the community. In 1649, a great party and parade