XXV1 REPORT. 
I should mention that instances do occur where the old English traditional 
shape of hemispherical bowl, stem with knop, and hexagonal indented foot 
has continued. A very fine one is found at Ashby-de-la-Zouch (1676), S. 
Peter’s College, Cambridge—the gift of Bishop Cosin (1626), and two at 
Rochester Cathedral (1653-4). The points of the hexagonal foot usually 
terminate in cherubs’ heads. The several chalices of the Kniveton gift in 
this county, noticed below, cannot be surpassed as examples of this kind of 
work. They are exceptionally large and beautifully finished. The cherubs’ 
heads and other details are singularly well preserved in the Bradley chalice 
now before you ; its date is 1640-41. 
Derbyshire has a good many examples of chalices of the first half of the 
17th century. The plain but interesting one from Ashford is undated, but I 
take it to be Jacobean. Such are Sandiacre and Tissington 1624-5, Stanton- 
by-Dale 1629-30, Risley 1632-3, and Normanton-by-Derby, with paten cover, 
1645. The period of the Commonwealth, when Puritan malevolence culmi- 
nated against the Church, was not so fatal to the sacred vessels of the altar as 
is usually supposed. With the exception of those places wherein the violence 
of civil war specially centred, such as the diocesan city of Lichfield, there is no 
proof that the chalices and patens of our ordinary parish churches, as a rule, 
suffered spoliation. ‘‘The Directory for the Publique Worship of God,” 
which in 1634 took the place of the Book of Common Prayer, provides that 
what the schismatics termed the Lord’s Supper was ‘‘to be frequently cele- 
brated,” and for this purpose the ancient vessels would be required. Plate 
was not infrequently given during the Commonwealth ; Richard Goodwin gave 
“one large silver chalice” to the church of Taddington, Derbyshire, in 1651 ; 
and the Alvaston chalice is dated 1653-4. But by far the most interesting 
piece of Church Plate of the Commonwealth in Derbyshire is the chalice and 
paten of Normanton-by-Derby, with heraldic quarterings, most beautifully 
engraved, for it is of the year 1645, of which date hardly any plate at all has 
been found, the very year after the forcible suppression of the Prayer Book. 
Morley, too, has an unmarked paten of about the same date, and there is an 
excellent chalice at Spondon of the year 1646-7. 
Of chalices of the second half of the century may be mentioned Morley 
1663-4, Tideswell 1683-4, Spondon 1685-6, Christ Church, Derby, with 
interesting engravings of the crucifixion and resurrection, 1698-9, and Sudbury 
1678-9, which, with its accompanying large paten, has below the unusual 
monogram of the Sacred Heart and three nails. The ancient chapel of S. 
John Baptist, Belper, has a small two-handled chalice of 1685-6. 
Of eighteenth century samples, Derbyshire possesses a large variety, which it 
would be tedious now to enumerate. The chalices of the Derby churches of 
S. Werburgh and S. Michael are good samples of the middle of the century ; 
and the silver-gilt tankard flagons of S$. Werburgh’s of 1717 may be compared 
