John Shaa

John Shaa succeeded him in the post, and served for several years as engraver until, on 20 November 1492, he and his fellow goldsmith, Sir Bartholomew Rede, were appointed joint Masters of the Mint.

He is exempler, loode-ster, and guye; Principall patrone and roose orygynalle, Above all Maires as maister moost worthy: London, thou art the flour of Cities all.

During Shaa's term as Lord Mayor, Catherine of Aragon arrived in London as the bride of Henry VII's eldest son, Arthur, Prince of Wales.

[16][10] He also instituted another tradition, the procession from the Guildhall to the state barge on which the Lord Mayor travelled to Westminster to be sworn.

He made his will on 26 December 1503, which was proved 14 May 1504, and was buried in the Mercers' chapel in the church of St Thomas of Acres.

[17] In 1479, Shaa married Margaret Ilam, the daughter of a London mercer, Thomas Ilam (d. 1482), and Jane Verdon,[18] by whom he had three sons and several daughters, including:[19] After the death of Sir John Shaa around 1503, his widow, Margaret (née Ilam), married, as his second wife, Sir John Raynsford of Colchester and Bradfield Hall, Essex, by whom she had a daughter, Julian Raynsford, who married Sir William Waldegrave of Smallbridge, Suffolk.