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COMMUNION PLATE 



AT HENSTRIDGE, DATED 1574, NORTH WOOTTON, DORSET, 

 DATED 1582. 



HE Hall mark on this plate, as described by the 

 Rev. E. H. Bates, is " a single mark a circle 

 filled with pellets, so as to bear some sort of 

 resemblance to a guelder rose ;" in one 

 instance, the mark is accompanied by the 

 letters R.O. From the disposition of the 

 parishes in which this plate was found, it 

 occurred to Mr. Bates that evidence of the 

 owner of the mark should be sought at Sher- 

 borne ; he, therefore, wrote to Mr. Wildman, asking if he could 

 give him the name of a silversmith at Sherborne during 

 the years 1570-1600. Mr. Wildman examined the transcripts 

 he had made of the Sherborne Church accounts, and found 

 mention of goldsmiths, but none by name ; but in the parish 

 account for 1595-6, he found the following entry: "To Mr. 

 Orenge for exchanging of half-a-crown of goolde that I r d at 

 the last accompte 4 d ." and under the date 1585-7, was Richard 

 Orenge's name as Churchwarden, and it seemed probable from 

 these two entries that Richard Orenge, churchwarden, in 1585-7, 



