S. MYLOE AKD MABE CHURCHES. 415 



"WTiatever the motive which led to the treasuring up of these 

 pieces of stone, we have very good reason to he grateful for 

 their preservation. 



The plate used in the services of St. Mabe is good of its 

 kind, hut quite recent. Preserved in the vicarage, however, 

 are some older vessels of peculiar interest. The first to notice is 

 an Elizabethan Communion Cup with paten cover, of the 

 ordinary shape and design of that period, with narrow fillets 

 interlaced and enclosing a scroll of foliage, the knop of the cup 

 having a series of the well-known hyphen marks, and the foot of 

 the paten bearing the legend "Anno Domine 1576" (sic). These 

 two beautiful vessels are worn to an extreme thinness, and have, 

 moreover, been very badly served. Another very beautiful 

 vessel is a tazza dated 1577, and which I do not remember to 

 have ever seen referred to in any notice of Mabe Church. The 

 bowl is engraved on the outside with the legend, "I. Worth to 

 the Church of Mabe," in characters of the 18th century and 

 with his arms. Probably, I. Worth was the man of that name 

 who purchased Tremough, in this parish, in 1703. On this 

 vessel are the easily recognised fillet and scroll of Elizabeth's 

 day. In the centre of the bowl is what is probably a head of 

 Medusa. On this vessel, Mr. Wilfred Cripps writes: "The 

 tazza is a very interesting specimen. I cannot quite make out 

 the maker's mark, but I think there is no doubt about the date 

 of it being 1577. I know of several jiist of that period, and all 

 very much alike, — the style a little Dutch — I know of quite a 

 number of such tazze in Holland." Mr. Cripps names in his 

 letter other churches where these secular vessels are used as 

 chalices, and adds that the Duke of Cambridge has one dated 

 1579, almost exactly like this of Mabe.* The only remaining 

 vessel other than the recent set already referred to is an old 

 flagon, bearing the Exeter stamp of 1750, and inscribed: 

 " Grivento the Church of Mabe by lohnTaylder, Grent., 1751." 



The detached granite tower at the west end of this church 

 is one of three in West Cornwall (St. Mawgan and St. Anthony 

 being the others) which have the same peculiarity as those of 



* The weights of these three vessels are : 7'azza 11 oz. 6 dwts. ; Communion 

 Cup 6 oz. 12 dwt. ; Paten Cover 2 oz. 65 dwts. 



