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the mark of the maker, WilHam Grundy, who was the maker of a 

 chaHce and paten in St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia. A 

 similar cup in this church, dating from the last quarter of the 18th 

 century, is inscribed: 



Presbyterian Congregation Halifax Nova Scotia 1792. 



The maker was Thomas Streetin of London. 



The silver vessel in use for the Communion bread is in th,e form 

 of a plain circular dish, which is inscribed: 



THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, HALIFAX, NOVA 

 SCOTIA, 1817. 



From the marks stamped upon this dish the place of manufacture 

 is ascertained as Edinburgh in Scotland, the makers as W. & P. 

 Cunningham and the exact date as 1790-91. 



The inventory of the silver in this Presbyterian church concludes 

 with a plain tea spoon of London origin of the year 1808-09 by the 

 makers Richard Crossley & George Smith. It has been used for 

 extracting sediment from the wine. Domestic spoons of different 

 sizes, sometimes with their bowls pierced as strainers have often been 

 presented to or bought by churches for this purpose. A perforated 

 spoon, intended for the same use, of the same date and by the same 

 makers is in the church of All Hallows, Bromley-by-Bow, England. 

 Two old silver spoons in Fredericton Cathedral have had their bowls 

 similarly pierced, as will be observed later. 



A pair of large, circular pewter dishes, in use as alms dishes, bear 

 the date 1788 on the backs and the stamp of the eighteenth century 

 maker, one William Hunter, who was in all probability a Scotch 

 pewterer. 



The last of the relics of this Presbyterian church are two circular 

 Communion tokens of pewter, inscribed: 



P C 

 H 



1784 



The initials, it need scarcely be added, represent "Presbyterian 

 Church, Halifax." Tokens such as these were in common use in 

 Scottish churches in the eighteenth century. 



An eighteenth-century pewter fiagon of the Scotch laver shape 

 has been transferred from St. Matthew's Presbyterian church to the 

 Grove Presbyterian Church in Halifax, an offshoot of that church. 

 This flagon was wrought by the same pewterers as the above pair of 

 dishes and is inscribed: 



