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The chalice and pa- 

 ten of silver and gilt, 

 engraved and in- 

 scribed, enclosed in a 

 case of polished oak, 

 were sent from St. 

 Andrew's Church, of 

 Hingham, England, 

 and still further gifts 

 of a lectern and bish- 

 op's chair, of oak, 

 massive and elabo- 

 rately carved, which 

 had been in use in 

 that ancient church, 

 were sent across the 

 ocean and presented 

 as a sign of Christian 

 brotherhood and in- 

 timate church rela- 

 tionship between the 

 old and the new Hing- 

 ham. The following 

 extracts from " The 

 Hingham Deanery 

 Magazine," of April, 

 1883, are interesting 

 in connection with 

 these latter gifts from 

 St. Andrew's Church, 

 of Hingham, Eng- 

 land : — 



" Hingham in Amer- 

 ica. — The Rector has 

 received a letter from 

 New York from an 

 American lady, who vis- 

 ited our parish last sum- 

 mer, in the hope of gain- 

 ing some information 

 concerning an ancestor, 



Thomas Joy, 'who left Hingham, England, with a band of Puritans about 

 the year 1630, and after a short stay in Boston, Massachusetts, founded 

 a town near by, which they named Hingham, in tender memory of their 

 English home.' The lady's letter enclosed a letter addressed to herself 

 by the ' Minister in charge of the Mission of St. John the Evangelist,' 

 dated Hingham, March 5, 1883. He gives an account of a small church 

 which is in course of building there, and which it is hoped to open for 

 Divine service in the beginning of May. This church is to cost about 

 £600, and there seems little doubt of the money being forthcoming. 



bishop's chair in the episcopal church. 



