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Cup of Crudwell Anno 1628 ” in the place of foliage. The edge 
of the base is very often enriched with the egg-and-dart ornament, 
and a belt of dotted lines sometimes takes the place of the foliage 
on the bowl, the cover, and the base. A considerable number of 
these cups bear only a maker’s mark, or no marks at all, and seem 
to have been of local manufacture. There is a series of cups without 
hall marks in the Pewsey Vale at Wootton Rivers, Manningford 
Bruce, Stanton St. Bernard, and Etchilhampton, all of the same 
character and unlike any others in the north of the county except 
one at Little Hinton. They have a broad belt of interlacing 
strap-work, without any foliage, of the same character as the orna- 
mentation of so many cups in Dorset which Mr. Nightingale 
supposes to have been of local make, but their stems and knots are 
of the usual Elizabethan type. There are, however, two others— 
those of Enford and Great Cheverell—also in the same neighbour- 
hood, which have the curious cable moulding, and the stem with 
the knot close up under the bowl, which is characteristic of the 
Dorset specimens. These also bear no hall marks. 
Two specimens, at Limpley Stoke and Littleton Drew, of 1577 
and 1578, instead of the usual rounded knot in the centre of the 
stem, have a rather narrow projecting horizontal moulding bearing 
the ornament composed of short upright parallel lines which so 
commonly marks the junction of the stem with the bowl and base, 
while the Rowde (1576) and Winterbourne Monkton cups, (the 
latter given in the present century and unmarked) have, on the 
other hand, no knots at all, the stem being somewhat broad, and 
plain. 
Those of St. Mary’s Cricklade, and Somerford Keynes—both 
bearing only the maker’s mark of a Lombardic T eclipsed by a 
heart, are beautiful cups, the former, inscribed 1577, having two 
belts, the lower one of dotted lines the upper one of unusually rich 
and elaborate foliage ;. the latter, which is inscribed 1576, has only 
one belt of foliage of the same character. In both cases the covers 
are richly engraved in the same way. Wroughton has an unusually 
large and handsome silver-gilt chalice and cover. In the Biddestone 
specimen there is a projecting bead encircling the bowl above the 
