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was by trade a silversmith and the maker of the plate in 

 question. He informed Mr. Bates, who wrote to Mr. E. A. 

 Fry asking him if he could find Richard Orenge's will. Mr. Fry 

 did so, and found that he was a silversmith at Sherborne at the 

 time required. The writer suggests that the mark on the plate, 

 " like a guelder rose," is an orange denoting the maker's name in 

 a rebus ; the orange with its stem is represented on the chalice 

 by the same maker at Charlton Horethorne. 



W. M. B. 



CERNE PARISH REGISTER IN THE COMMONWEALTH PERIOD 



(OR REGISTRARS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH). 



To occupy an idle hour when at Cerne Abbas last year 

 endeavouring to trace the site of the Monastic Church, which, if 

 fixed, would give the positions of the various domestic buildings 

 of the Abbey, I took up the Old Parish Register and copied the 

 following entries : 



1653 



11 1 doe allow and approve of Robert Talbot to be Register for 

 y e parish or town of Cerne Abbas he having y e consent of y e 

 parish and was sowrne befor me one of y e Justices of Peace of 

 this county this 24 th of October in y e yeare of oure Lord God 

 according to England's computation 1653 



J. Bingham. 



Underneath was this note in a different handwriting : 



" The above mentioned Parliament had noe colour of a 



Parliament but a convention by Oliver Cromwell, General, 



w th out the choyce of the people. A Register in every parish 



was noe act and since made void by the soe called Parliament 



1656.' 



W. M, B. 



