828 Notes on the Church Plate of Wilts. 
of gold in it. It has no foot, but there is a central boss hammered 
up within, which seems to show marks as of having had something 
soldered to it. It has four rings, apparently for suspension, attached 
to dragon’s-head hooks, with a distinctly “ early ” look about them, 
the details of which are given on a larger scale in the illustration. 
Its diameter is llin., its height 44in. Dr. Rock, writing in the 
Archeological Journal (vol. xiv., p. 174), says of this vessel :—‘ The 
beautiful example found at Wilton might with considerable proba- 
bility be a specimen of the Anglo-Saxon Gadate, or vessels sus- 
pended in Churches, often mentioned amongst rare and precious 
gifts to the Churches of Rome and elsewhere in early times.” These 
Gabate seem to have been for the support of lamps or other lights. 
This interesting relic—in all probability of the great monastery of 
Wilton—was dug up some thirty years ago midway between the 
Abbey and Kingsbury Square. 
The earliest chalice found in Wiltshire, that of Berwick 8. James, 
of the thirteenth century, now in the British Museum, has been 
already described and illustrated in this Magazine (vol. xxi., p. 867), 
as also has the fine sixteenth century one at Wylye (/did, p. 383) ; 
but the chalice and paten now in the Sacristy of Salisbury Cathedral 
have not before been illustrated. They are of thirteenth century 
work, parcel-gilt, the foot of the chalice and the edge of the paten 
being much injured. They are supposed to have been taken from 
the tomb of Bishop Longespée, who died in 1297, together with an 
episcopal ring and the fragments of a wooden pastoral staff, still 
preserved with them. The shallew bowl and round foot are charac- 
teristic of their early date. 
The next illustration is that of the chalice belonging to the parish 
of Ebbesborne Wake. Mr. Nightingale’s account of it is as follows : 
“ It falls easily into type G. of Messrs. St. John Hope and Fallow’s 
classification, It is an elegant vessel and agrees in size and some of 
its details with the Jurby chalice. The bowl is wide, conical, and 
shallow; it has a plain hexagonal stem with the usual six-lobed 
knot, with untraceried Gothic perforations and either lions or angels’ 
heads on the facets. The spread of the foot is hexagonal, and the 
junction of the stem, then slanting outwards it loses itself in the 
