140 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Presbyterian Congregation Halifax Nova Scotia 1788 



With these notes the writer ends his itinerary of the churches of 

 Halifax. 



Little opportunity was afforded for the examination of the silver 

 of New Brunswick churches, except an exhaustive investigation of the 

 vessels of Trinity Church, St. John, all of which bear the royal arms 

 and cipher of George HI and are inscribed: 



Trinity Church, St. John's New Brunswick. 



This service was brought there in 1790 by the good ship RASH- 

 LEIGH with the sacramental vessels for Christ Church, Windsor, 

 Nova Scotia, and is mentioned at the same time in the journal of 

 Bishop Inglis. Varying in date, the earliest are the plain paten and 

 alms dish, both having been wrought in 1694-95 by the well-known 

 royal silversmith, Francis Garthorne, previously mentioned. The 

 writer throws out the suggestion that this silver was part of the 

 Sacramental plate which Rev. Henry Caner, the resolute and distin- 

 guished loyalist minister of King's Chapel, Boston, carried away with 

 him to England in the early days of the Revolutionary war. Next 

 in date is a large plain chalice of the year 1729 or 1731 by the same 

 makers Joseph Allen & Co. as several of the vessels at Christ Church, 

 Windsor, previously described. A second English paten with a 

 gadroned edge, and chased in the centre and on the border with a 

 decoration of acanthus leaves, is unmarked, but was made at the 

 end of the seventeenth century. The last vessels are a pair of plain 

 flagons, of the same form as those at St. Paul's, Halifax, and Christ 

 Church, Windsor, already described, and were made in London in 

 1763-64 by Thomas Heming, a prominent silversmith to the Court 

 of George HL 



In the most modern of churches old silver may occasionally be 

 found. The writer in his quest neglected not the new Anglican 

 Cathedral at Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, Here are 

 to be seen two old English silver Apostle spoons of the sixteenth or 

 seventeenth century, the gift in 1845 of Bishop Medley. One is 

 inscribed: W.T. 1661 G.C. The unknown maker's mark on this 

 spoon is that of a cinquefoil or rose, perhaps for Carlisle or Leicester, 

 while the marks on the other were undecipherable in the dim light of 

 the evening. Unfortunately, the bowls of both spoons were pierced 

 as straining spoons for the sacramental wine at the time of their gift 

 to the Cathedral. 



Reference should have been made earlier to two pieces of old 

 Scotch silver at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. Both were 

 made at Aberdeen, one in the seventeenth and the other in the eigh- 



