John Mabbe, the goldsmith, married Isabell Colley, and was Chamberlain of London from 1577 until his death.
[4] His son Robert Mabbe, a goldbeater, inherited the property and pledged a share of the inn to the goldsmith Affabel Partridge.
[8][9] His stock included jewels with the story of Joshua and Caleb, Charity, Hercules, Narcissus, Julius Caesar, a mermaid, the story of Mars, Venus and Cupid, Phoebus Apollo and Daphne, and the emblem Fama Perennis.
A gold tablet or locket with a "Roman burning his hand in fire" told the story of Gaius Mucius Scaevola.
[10] Kim F. Hall notes the representation of Black Africans depicted on gold brooches in Mabbe's 1576 inventory, with cameos of a "Mores-head", a "Blackamoore", and a woman like a "More".