This is the year that the Goldsmiths' Company decided to take action both against an individual pewterer and later in 1636 against the Pewterer's Company for the malpractice of using silver hallmarks on pewter.
The librarian of the Goldsmiths' Company, Mr David Beasley, has kindly researched this incident from the Company's archives and given his permission for his observations to be published here: