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elongated into the form of an inverted truncated cone, slightly bell-shaped. 
The form of the paten is also much changed, the sunk part of the platter is 
often considerably deepened, the brim narrowed, and thereon is fixed a rim or 
edge, by which it is made, when inverted, to fit on the cup as a cover, whilst 
a foot is added to it, which serves also as a handle to the cover, as though it 
were intended to place the wine in the chalice and cover it with the paten 
cover until the administration of the sacrament, when the cover would be 
removed and used as a paten for holding the bread. On the bottom of the 
foot of the paten was a silver plate, which almost always bears the date when 
it was made, and the name of the parish to which it belongs. The ornament 
on all these chalices and paten covers, as they may be called, is invariably the 
same ; it consists simply of an engraved band round the body of the cup and 
on the top of the cover, formed by two narrow fillets which interlace or cross 
each other, with a particular curvature, in every instance the same, the space 
between them being occupied by a scroll of foliage, and this ornament is 
marked bya total abstinence of letters, monograms, emblems, or figures of 
any kind. It is curious how this exact uniformity of shape and ornament was 
so universally adopted, unless there had been some regulation or standard 
pattern to go by, but I have not been able to find any such to guide the 
makers.” 
So far as my own knowledge of the Church Plate of this county is con- 
cerned, and I suppose I have seen more of it than any other individual, with 
the exception, most probably, of the Ven. Archdeacon of Derbyshire—coupled 
with the information as yet received from the society’s returns—Derbyshire 
possesses eleven Elizabethan cups, but a few others may yet be brought to 
light.* One of these, the Findern example, is one of the earliest known 
instances of her reign, and a singularly goud specimen. The Hall marks give 
the year 1564-5. The ornamental band is a handsomer one than any noticed 
by Mr. Cripps, or amongst the large number of Elizabethan cups in the 
diocese of Carlisle. The date, too, is exceptionally early, but few being 
known earlier than 1571. The Wilne example is 1566-7, that of Taddington 
1568-9, Norton 1568-9 (a large fine sample), Derwent 1584-5, Fairfield 1593-4, 
and Kedleston 1601. There are four unmarked samples of this reign, one at 
Osmaston-by-Derby, which is early in the reign, one at Dalbury, one at 
Shirley, and one at Whittington, which is late Elizabethan, or possibly early 
Jacobean. Dovezridge, 1619, is very similar to Elizabethan. 
The further changes of the next century and their various diversities are best 
illustrated by the examples before you—the chief difference being in the 
increasing plainness and lack of ornament. The patens also cease to be used 
as covers, though they will often fit on the top of the cups. 
* Several other examples of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean chalices have since turned 
up, @.é., at Mickleover, Weston, Marston Montgomery, and Willington.—W. H.Sr. J. H. 
