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Standing at London Stone, the site of Oxford House was associated with the temporal governance of the city and the livery from the twelfth until the twentieth century. Originally the dwelling place of London’s first lord mayor, Henry Fitz-Alwine, by Stow’s time this house was known as Oxford House or Oxford place by London Stone, after the Earls of Oxford who dwelt there. The site subsequently housed lord mayors Sir Ambrose Nicholas and Sir John Hart and was eventually purchased by the Salters’ Company to serve as their company hall.

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The first mayor of London, Henry Fitzalwine, lived at London Stone, and the site of his house has been associated with the temporal governance of the city and the livery until the twentieth century. Kingsford traces the history of the site back to Henry Fitzalwine (Kingsford 2.315–16; Stow 2:149–152). In the possession of the Prior of Tortington for a time, Fitzalwine’s house passed to the Earls of Oxford at the dissolution of the religious houses in the sixteenth century. The fifteenth and sixteenth Earls of Oxford (both named John de Vere) made their London home here. Stow tells us in Of Customs and Orders that the latter rode to this house with a great retinue of 80. Gentlemen in a liuery of Reading Tawny and 100. tall yeomen in the like liuery (Stow 1:89). The earl’s homecoming must have been quite the spectacle, sure to have made an impact on the denizens of Candlewick Street.

Known to Stow’s contemporaries as Oxford House or Oxford place by London Stone (Stow 1:224), the house was then home to two other mayors. Stow tells us: In this Oxford place sir Ambrose Nicholas kept his Maioralitie, and since him the said sir Iohn Hart (Stow 1:224; see Stow 2:184 for dates of office). Sir John Hart’s daughter married Humphrey Smith, Alderman of Walbrook Ward (Kingsford 2.316), and they continued to live at the London Stone address.

The house was purchased by the Salters’ Company in 1641 and became the site of their company hall until 1941 (Kingsford 2.316; see also the Salters’ Company’s online history of their hall).