BRISCOE, Stafford (Grimwade p.449)

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He married Abigail Toke at St Dunstan in the West in 1710. He was recorded as a bachelor and goldsmith from St Vedast parish.
Sons of Stafford and Abigail were buried at St Olave, Hart Street in 1716 and 1717 respectively.
He was entered in the 1722 London Poll Book entitled to vote as a goldsmith.
Stafford, the son of Stafford Briscoe of the Goldsmiths Company, was apprenticed in 1728 to Thomas Beech of the Clothworkers Company at the (very high) premium of £105. He was made free in 1736.
Trade Directories record Stafford Briscoe as a goldsmith and jeweller at Cheapside from 1736 to 1768.
Stafford Briscoe from Cambridge was entered in the 1750 London Poll Book as entitled to vote as a goldsmith and one of the same name, presumably his son, was entitled to vote in 1768 as a clothworker.
Stafford Briscoe of Twickenham married Catherine Morrison of St Matthew, Friday Street parish, London at St Mary the Virgin,Twickenham in 1752. Grimwade notes that Briscoe and Morrison traded at Friday Street from 1762 to 1772.
This information suggests Stafford Briscoe father and son traded as goldsmiths or silversmiths.
The burial in 1789 of a Stafford Briscoe, a silversmith from Cheapside, at St Mary the Virgin,Twickenham is noted in a book of obituaries written by Sir William Musgrave. It is reasonably clear this burial was of Stafford the Younger.
Unfortunately website death and burial records for the provinces are sparse and the record of the death of Stafford the Elder has not been found.

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The Will of Stafford Briscoe, silversmith late of Twickenham, was proved for probate on 26th November 1789 (National Archives reference PROB 11/1185/226).