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mitres, and are connected at the top by festoons of drapery. On the middle 
of each festoon hangs a harp, and over each harp stands an eagle. A band of 
raised ornamentation runs round the stem, and also round the splay foot. The 
cover has spiral top, with raised ornamentation. A rough Latin cross has 
been pricked inside cover.” 
This latter mark was probably made at the time of its dedication to a 
sacred use. 
The Kedleston chalice, 1601-2, is a most beautiful silver-gilt secular cup, 
given to the church in 1715 by Lady Sarah Curzon. It is engraved all over 
with trefoils, and bears also the arms of Penn impaling Leake. 
The inscription on what is now the chalice at Edale Chapel tells its own 
tale :— 
““This Oration Prize, the legacy of Dr. Hooper, adjudged to Daniel 
Creswell, of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1795, was by him given to this 
chapel of Edale, 1810.” 
Spondon, too, possesses a large two-handled plated cup, given about 1700, 
and now used as a flagon, which was undoubtedly originally designed for 
secular use. 
Both the arms and the inscriptions on post-Reformation Church Plate, that 
were often engraved thereon in the two last centuries, though distasteful in the 
extreme to the reverent mind, have their value and interest for the heraldic 
student and the genealogist. Amongst instances of this character in Derby- 
shire, it may be mentioned that the arms and name of Pegge are on the Shirley 
flagon ; inscriptions of the Harpur and Crewe families on the Tickenhall 
patens ; Curzon arms on the Kedleston patens ; Horton inscription on the 
Croxall flagon ; Willoughby arms and inscription on all the plate at Risley ; 
and Lord Exeter’s arms on the noble plate at All Saints’, Derby. On the 
Normanton chalice and paten the Harpur arms are beautifully quartered ; the 
Sacheverel arms are on the Morley paten; the Benskin arms on the plate at 
Alvaston ; and the Gilbert arms on the Spondon paten. In the churchwardens’ 
accounts of Youlgreave is an entry which gives an excellent excuse for the 
engraving of the name of the donor and parish ;— 
‘©1731, May 14.—There was given two salvers for bread and two stoops for 
the wine, all made of pure silver, and weighing by averdupois five pounds and 
half an ounce altogether, by Mrs. Mary Hill, of Woodhouse, during her life- 
time, to the parish of Youlgreave, with her name engraved thereon only to 
prevent its being imbeziled away—in testimony of which I have hereunto set 
my hand.—DANL. HARDINGE, Curt. of Youlgreave.” 
The consideration of the question of the post-Reformation use of pewter, 
without which this paper would be incomplete, leads me back to certain 
Eucharistic vessels upon which no comment has hitherto been offered— 
namely, crewets, and their later development into flagons. 
