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showed me the very interesting relic here depicted. He and his 
brother, Mr. F. Little, have published a short history of the 
Church. From the latter I obtained a photograph of the relic, 
this he has kindly allowed me to reproduce. I have mentioned 
the Mint because some people are of opinion that this box was 
used for keeping the standard coins in. By others that it was 
used for keeping the Pyx or Ciborium in. I sent the photograph 
to a member of the British Archzological Association; he brought 
it before the Council on the 6th March. In the June number of 
the Proceedings of the Association appeared the following :— 
“Mr. T.S. Bush exhibited a photograph of a curious wooden 
chest or box, now belonging to St. Peter’s Church, Bristol. The 
box is 64 inches diameter outside and 5 inches inside, and is 
63 inches high to top of cover, which is raised or pie-shaped. 
The box is bound with iron, hinged at the back, and has a strap 
over the cover with a top plate and ring, the strap is hinged at 
the front and carried down to the bottom band, forming a hasp 
over the lock plate, which has three keyholes, one on each side 
of the strap or hasp, and one at the bottom, smaller than the 
other two. There is no slit in the top for dropping in coins, and 
the box was most probably used for keeping money previously 
collected, the three locks being for the Incumbent and the two 
Churchwardens, so that the box could not be opened except in 
the presence of all three. The box would seem to belong to the 
second half of the sixteenth century.” At a personal interview 
with one of the secretaries of the Association—the Rev. H. J. 
Dukinfield Astley—it was arranged that they should reproduce 
the photograph and then let me have the block for our 
Proceedings. I understand that the box has lately been brought 
under the notice of the Society of Antiquaries. The least that 
can be said about it is that it is a most interesting relic, if it is 
not an unique one. 
