That the patronage was forthcoming quickly is suggested by the picture of another merchant of the Steelyard dated the same year, and now in the Windsor collection.
To theSteelyard came all the traffic of the Orient, all the spices of the merchant.
Steelyard and Wilkinson, who had lately become the law-agents of Henry Beauchamp.
Steelyard and Wilkinson, might soon be necessary to complete the charitable purpose he entertained towards the family at Emberton.
Steelyard and Wilkinson; but as to advancing the ten thousand pounds more, really he did not see his way in the business clearly.
In this dilemma, a bright idea occurred to him; he would so manipulate the steelyard that it should serve his purpose, and enable him to pay his gambling debts, and still give him funds to pursue his favourite vice.
The cook would no more dream of going out to market without his steelyard than he would think of going without his fan in the dog days.
Here is a man that is evidently an important one, for he comes up with a dignified air and with his steelyardin his hand, as though he were going to buy the whole of the peddler's stock-in-trade.
Lying beside the pork is a large chopper, with which he cuts off the pieces that his customers may desire, and a steelyard for weighing his sales.
Overcharges, for example, and skilful manipulations of the steelyard to make it lie, are not considered so much moral defects as tokens of an unusually active brain.
The steelyard is an invention that is intended to promote honest dealing.
It is not simply, however, in the question of overcharges and the manipulating the steelyardthat the servants' ideas of morality differ materially from our own.
They converted the steelyard into platform scales.
The favour shown by the Crown to the merchants of the Steelyard was especially annoying to the freemen of the city.
There is a fine drawing at Berlin by Holbein which is thought to be the original design for the triumphal arch erected by the merchants of the Steelyard on this occasion.
But that of the merchants of the Steelyard took its place, for whom Holbein executed the long and important series of portraits that lie scattered throughout the galleries and collections of England and the Continent, and bear date after 1532.
The steelyard was then produced; a tray was suspended to the hook, and upon this coffee was thrown until the needle registered the weight of one pound.
I believe old Hakkabut has a steelyardon board his tartan," said Ben Zoof, presently.
That deceitful steelyard had been the mainspring of his fortune.
Will you, therefore, have the goodness to provide me at once with a steelyard and a tested kilogramme?
Hardly a minute elapsed before the Jew was back again, carrying his precious steelyard with ostentatious care.
All at once it occurred to the professor that the steelyard would be absolutely useless to him, unless he had the means for ascertaining the precise measurement of the unit of the soil of Gallia which he proposed to weigh.
The steelyardwas committed to the keeping of Ben Zoof, and the visitors prepared to quit the Hansa.
Consider, it is the only steelyard in all this new world of ours; it is worth more, much more.
Because I think, perhaps--I am not quite sure--perhaps thesteelyard is not quite correct.
The bridle of stout plaited greenhide held, and after a few wild plunges the horse went careering madly away over the plain towards the acacia scrub, the steelyard still dangling from the rein.
Steelyard and Wilkinson, might soon be necessary to complete the charitable purpose be entertained toward the family at Emberton.
Steelyard and Wilkinson whether he really has money.
The steelyard and weighing-balance are their especial objects of dislike.
By the position of the weight or pea on the steelyard she knew that it was put somewhere near the sixty notch.
With a complacent feeling he stood waiting his turn as the great baskets, one after another, were swung on the steelyard and the weights announced.
Many privileges were also conceded to the Steelyard merchants by the City, in return for which they undertook to maintain Bishopsgate in good repair and to assist in its defence when necessity arose.
As English traders became more enterprising, the monopoly of the Steelyard merchants disappeared, and finally, in 1598, Elizabeth expelled them from the country.
The Steelyardwas the residence of the Hanse Merchants, who obtained a settlement in London as early as 1250.
The steelyard principle was also applied by the Romans to balances, with a view to avoiding the use of numerous small weights.
It was used when the steelyard was suspended by the middle hook.
This scale was used when the steelyard was suspended by the hook nearest the graduated bar (as in the fig.
By constructing a steelyard scale, the greatest facility is attained, one weight answering for all.
Nothing can be more convenient than these steelyard scales, as one weight answers for all, and never drops, and gets lost.
Further, he was reproached for having in 1563 made a journey, leaving the Steelyard and the care of the treasury to young men incapable of so high a trust, who had done great damage to the factory.
As at Bergen, and at the Steelyard in London, the whole establishment partook of a monastic character, in which most stringent rules prevailed.
In these straits the merchants of the Steelyard came forward to aid their representative, offering to stand surety for him.
Whether all that was stated by the Steelyard in this memorandum was true, it is difficult to decide.
In 1553, therefore, the members of the Steelyard drew up a series of new statutes which they proposed to lay before the King of England for approval.
Commissions searched for the said pamphlets; stationers and merchants were put under bond not to trade in them; and the German merchants of the Steelyard were examined.
The privileges to the Germans of the Steelyard confirmed and extended by him were abridged by his son, partly restored by Mary and again taken {527} away by Elizabeth.
It came too in company with Luther's bitter invectives and reprints of the tracts of Wycliffe, which the German traders of the Steelyard were importing in large numbers.
Wolsey took little heed of religious matters, but his policy was one of political adhesion to Rome, and he presided over a solemn penance to which some Steelyard men submitted in St. Paul's.
It came too in company with Luther's bitter invectives and reprints of the tracts of Wyclif, which the German traders of the Steelyard were importing in large numbers.
Even at this last figure the smaller arm of the steelyard was somewhat depressed, showing that the table, for the moment, weighed less than sixty pounds.
The heavy steelyard was bought for the occasion from a hardware-store in the neighborhood.
As late as 1790, long after the monopoly of the foreign merchants had been abolished, Pennant says, "The present Steelyard is the great repository of imported iron, which furnishes our metropolis with that necessary material.
The merchants from the Hanse towns, with their dwellings, warehouses, and offices at the Steelyard in London, were subjected to a narrower interpretation of the privileges which they possessed by old and frequently renewed grants.
The German merchants of the Steelyard were attacked and driven through the streets, but took refuge in their well-defended buildings.
Illustration: The Steelyard in the Seventeenth Century.
Their trade was profitable to the king through payment of customs, and after the failure of the Italian bankers the merchants of the Steelyard made considerable loans to the English government either directly or acting for citizens at home.
Illustration: Ground Plan of the Steelyard in the Seventeenth Century.
As has been said, the Steelyard portraits are too many to even catalogue here, covering many years.
In 1533, also, theSteelyard placed its contribution to the celebration of Anne Boleyn's coronation in the painter's hands.
The merchants of the Steelyard were frequently the royal bankers, and many times were employed on high and delicate diplomatic missions to other courts.
Steelyard a company such as only the East India Company of later centuries may be compared to.
A study of the postulates together with the principle of the steelyard and the knowledge of picture balance will clear any apprehension of conflict.
As a necessary caution it should be observed that the small balancing weight of the steelyard should not become a point causing divided interest.
Balance constructed over this line will bring the worker to as unified a result as the use of the steelyard on the central vertical line.
The Scales or Steelyard in perspective, developing the notion of balance through the depth of a picture discoverable over a fulcrum or neutral space.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steelyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
