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Tivo Wiltshire Augers. 
By W. Cunnineron, F.GS. 
GHE vessel of which a photo-print appears on the opposite: 
page! is a mazer, or drinking-cup, which was obtained by 
myself from a cottage at Bromham, Wilts, about forty years ago. 
It was exhibited at the Inaugural Meeting of our Society in 1853, 
also at a Meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Dec. 
19th, 1889; and it has since been shown at the Tudor Exhibition, 
in Regent Street, 1890. 
A short description of it, by Mr. St. John Hope, appears in the 
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1889, 
The bowl is of maple wood, with moulded stem, and foot of its 
own, and has a simple thin moulding just below the curved part of 
the cup. 
The band, or mounting, round the edge of the bowl is of silver, 
four-tenths of an inch deep inside, and six-tenths of an inch outside, 
- It is plain, except a triple-edged fringe. On it is inscribed :— 
“Thy blessing O Lord, grante mee and mine: 
Thatt in life and death; wee maye be thine.” 
A short distance from the commencement of this inscription is a 
rude engraving of a seven-branched candlestick. The silver rim of 
the foot is of good design, with egg-and-dart pattern, and above 
this springs a triple-lobed fringe, which bending over the wood of 
the mazer, secures the rim to the foot. 
Diameter, four inches and two-tenths. Height, three inches and 
eight-tenths. Interior depth, two inches and three-tenths. Diameter 
of silver rim of foot, three inches and five-tenths. 
It is of English workmanship, cirea 1590, but has no hall-mark. 
1 The Society is indebted to Mr, Cunnington for the kind gift of half the cost 
of the illustration of his mazer, 
