RELICS LEFT BY PHILIP AND JOAN OF CASTILE. 5 



Rev. George Pickard-Cambridge, of Bloxworth House and 

 Rector of Bloxworth.* 



Passing on to the two Iron chests, the rather larger one 

 measures 2ft. 3in. in length, 1ft. Sin. in width, and 1ft. Sin. 

 in depth ; it is very massive, and its structure can easily be 

 seen from the very accurate photograph exhibited, quite 

 precluding the necessity of a technical description, even if I 

 were qualified to give it. One of the views given of it shews 

 the work on the front and on the inside of the lid ; the other 

 view shews the outside of the back and lid. The original 

 key is also given very accurately, and is six inches in length. 

 The apparent keyhole in the front is a sham, the real one 

 being at the middle of the lid. This chest, formerly in the 

 possession of the late John Trenchard Trenchard, of Poxwell 

 and Greenhill House, Weymouth, has from him come now 

 into the possession of his great nephew, Jocelyn Pickard, 

 R.E., and -only son of the late Rev. Henry Adair Pickard, 

 M.A., of Airedale, Oxford. 



The other chest mentioned measures in length 2ft. 5in., 

 its width is 1ft. 4Jin., and depth 1ft. 3Jin., and, although 

 differing somewhat in several points of detail from the above 

 described, bears an unmistakable family resemblance to it. 

 I am unable to give a figure of this chest. It was formerly 

 in my own possession, having come to me from my late 

 father (the Rev. George Pickard-Cambridge, of Bloxworth 

 House). He received it from John Trenchard, before 

 mentioned, of Newton House, Stur minster Marshall (from 

 whom also the one I have already described was received by 



* In Gulland's work (above referred to) Vol. II., p.p. 271, 278, Fig. 

 488, a Chinese Porcelain Bowl in the possession of New College, 

 Oxford, is described and figured under the name of " The Warham 

 Bowl." This bowl is much smaller than the " Trenchard " one, and 

 has a quite different silver-gilt setting from the *' Trenchard Bowl." 

 Whether this last or the Warham Bowl can claim to be the earliest 

 known piece of Chinese Porcelain brought into England is uncertain. 

 On this point Gulland says, p. 278, it is " a matter of opinion and 

 fortunately of no consequence," to which I quite agree. 



