[JONES] OLD CHURCH SILVER L^I CANADA 137 



ing extract from the Journal of Charles Inglis, first Bishop of Nova 

 Scotia, under the date of April 16th, 1790; 



"The Rashleigh, Captn. Wyatt, arrived 

 from London, and brought two Setts of 

 Church Plate from his Grace of 

 Canterbury — 

 One of those Sets was for Christ Church in Windsor, in 

 Nova Scotia, and consisted of — 

 2 Flaggons 



1 Chalice 



2 Patens 



1 Large Dish or Paten." 

 Before passing from the Church silver of Nova Scotia to that of New 

 Brunswick, a brief description may be included of the Sacramental 

 vessels of the Parish Church (Christ Church), of the united parishes 

 of St. George and St. Patrick at Shelburne, to which the legend 

 lingers that a chalice and paten were the gift of Sir William Pepperell, 

 the first American-born baronet and commander of the Massachusetts 

 forces at the celebrated seige of Louisburg in 1745. But alas! faith 

 in this time-honoured legend is banished by the inexorable decree of 

 the infallible hall mark, which in this instance reveals the fact that 

 these two vessels were wrought in London in the year 1820-21, sixty- 

 one years after the death of the alleged donor. ^ The present writer 

 has failed to trace the Cirigin of this venerable tradition. It is not 

 supported by the presence of an inscription, recording the name of 

 the donor. It may be that the donor was the second Sir William 

 Pepperell. Another suggestion which may be worthy of credence is 

 that the chalice and paten may have been re-made in 1820-21 from the 

 original gifts of the first baronet — a fate which has befallen countless 

 ecclesiastical vessels in the precious metals in the history of Christi- 

 anity in all countries from the earliest times until our own day. On 

 the North American Continent, as well as in Europe, the transfor- 

 mation of historic silver sacramental vessels, the gifts of pious donors 

 to their churches, has been of frequent occurrence. 



The building of the present St. George's Church, Halifax, "the 

 round church," was begun in 1800 from plans suggested, from rem- 

 embrance perhaps of the Temple Church in London, by the Duke of 

 Kent, Queen Victoria's father, who was then in command of the 

 British forces stationed at Halifax and from designs by William 

 Hughes. This church replaces the old German church, and the silver 



1 Sir William Pepperell bequeathed money for the purchase of a piece of silver 

 for the First Congregational church at Kittery, Maine, which still survives. Ibid. 

 p. 236. 



