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when the Commissioners were authorised to seize all that remained 
unsold. But perhaps it would be safer to say early all, for their 
orders were even then to leave “ one, two or more challices or cuppes 
according to the multitude of the people.” And we need not be sur- 
prised to find that even these few have disappeared also, if we consider 
that, although the instructions given to the Commissioners directed 
them to leave two or more chalices or cups, there was a final general 
clause that “all monuments of feigned miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry 
and superstition were to be taken away and destroyed.” Now, of 
course, any vessels that had been used at the Mass, especially such 
as contained any representations of saints, &c., or even of the events 
of our Saviour’s death, might easily be classed under the head of 
“superstitious monuments,” and Mr. Cripps estimates that about half 
of the parishes might already have changed their chalices into cups, 
though from the inventories of St. Saviour’s, Southwark, it seems that 
the exchange of four chalices weighing 54 oz. for two new ones weigh- 
ing 52 oz., resulted in a balance against the parish of 17s. 8d. A few 
of these exchanged cups are still to be seen. I have not come across 
any myself, but there are two at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 
mentioned by Mr. Cripps, but far the greater part of them (we may 
suppose) were destroyed on Queen Mary’s accession as unfit for the 
restored ritual, and any of the old relics which remained were very 
promptly dealt with under the rigour of the renewed Protestant zeal 
which burst forth on the accession of Queen Elizabeth. The 
“Tnjunctions” of King Edward were re-inforced almost word for word, 
and the proscribed goods were followed even into Jrivate hands, lest 
any should keep them in their houses for the purpose of adoration. 
The Articles of the Archbishops of this period enquire into these 
matters, viz., those of Parker, in 1569, and Grindal, in 1576, and the 
latter shows the origin of the cover made to fit on the cup, which is 
nearly always found with the Church Plate of this period. The 
enquiry is: ‘‘ Whether you have in your Parish Church or Chapel a 
fair and comely Communion Cup of silver, and a cover of silver for 
the same, which may serve also for the ministration of the Communion 
bread.” There is a very curious unanimity in the Jattern of these 
Elizabethan cups and paten-covers, though they are not always the 
same size, but no Royal or other orders can be found prescribing any 
pattern or anything of the sort. Mr. Cripps has discovered a great 
many in the neighbourhood of London which bear the date of 1562, 
and in the Diocese of Norwich many of the cups which remain bear 
the date 1567 or 8. But in the West of England, Archdeacon Lea, in 
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