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maker is resjionsible for the crude colouring- and ba<l drawing 

 that distigiire the east window of the north aish^. This latter 

 window and others in the church have the defect so common a 

 few years ago, the result of trying to make a picture on as largo 

 a piece of glass as possible, instead of a rich mosaic broken up }»y 

 irregular leading. 



The church plate is good, one of its most interesting vessels 

 being a large paten (bearing the mark of John Martin iStoker 

 and Edward Peacock, as makers, and entered in 1705) inscribed 

 "Pendarves de Pendarves Ecclesiae dedit anno 1713," and 

 engraved with the Pendarves crest. It weighs 15 oz., 5;} dwt. 



According to the churchwardens' accounts of 1650, there 

 were then " Two silver llagons holding above a pottle each," the 

 gift of Grace, widow of Lewis Hurley, of St. Ives, Vintner ; and 

 '' two silver cups with covers." One of these cups is inscribed 

 " The guift of Alles Sise To the Church of St. Ives, Anno 

 Domini 1641." It has a cover inscribed " St I." on the foot. It is 

 now used as a paten. The other cup appears to be Elizabethan, 

 but is not of the best design of that period. The two silver flagons 

 are still preserved. Each is 14 inches high and 7 J inches in 

 diameter at the base and weighs 59 oz. 5 dwt. The date mark in 

 each is 1640 and the maker's mark 'I.M.' over a pig. There 

 are also a paten without foot, weighing 12 oz. 7 dwt., and 

 inscribed " H.K.K., 1675," date mark 1675, maker "E.G."; 

 two alms basins with handles weighing each 9 oz. 5 dwt., of 

 Exeter make, entered 1743; silver handled knife and fork, 

 weighing together 9 oz. 2 dwt., without date mai'k, but i)robably 

 those referred to in the churchwardens' accounts as follows : 

 " 1743. To Mr. John Boutett for a knife for cutting the 

 Sacrament bread with the Postage, &c., £1 17s. Id." In the 

 same accounts we find : " 1744. To Mr. Boutett for two silver 

 basins to collect offerings, £7 Is. lOd.," these basins being 

 evidently those above mentioned. 



The vessels now in use are recent (1903) but very beautiful, 

 the chalice being a replica of the celebrated chalice at 

 Nettlecombe, Somerset, dated 1479, and the paten a shallow one, 

 almost entirely plain. 



