Obv: (mullet)AT(lozenge)THE(lozenge)2(lozenge)DRAY(lozenge)MEN , around two dray men carrying tun.
Rev: (mullet)IN(lozenge)S(lozenge)KATHERINS(lozenge)LANE , around cable inner circle, (lozenge)D(lozenge) over T(rosette)A .
M. Dickinson 2608. Dies as Norweb 8417.

The King's brewery was in the olden time at St. Catherine's. Henry Machin, in his Diary-October 9, 1551-records: "Giles, the king's beer-brewer, dwelling at St. Catharine's, who had bled to death from a scratch on his leg, was buried this day at Aldgate, with heraldic emblazonments of his arms, and the craft of the Brewers."
The brewhouse was probably that spoken of elsewhere, in 1650, as the Bear Brewhouse. There are frequent illusions to it in the ballads of that day.-Vide No. 2624.


Sold Dec 2013