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stated that when the Mandevilles from Ireland pillaged 

 the Island in 1315 they carried away large quantities of 

 silver money which they found secreted.* 



Under the head of Furniture and Ornaments may be 

 mentioned the stone reliquaries at Peel Cathedral, several 

 rude stone fonts (pre-Eeformation), as at Maughold, 

 Bride, Marown, and a beautiful stone holy-water Stoup, 

 4in. high, and 6in. to Tin. diameter, recently found at 

 a holy well by an ancient keeil on Grenaby, Malew (fig. 

 53). Yery little pre-Eeformation Church plate has been 



Fig. 53. Stone Holy-water Stoup, at Grenaby. 

 From a sketch by B. S. Herdman. 



found. At Jurby we have a beautiful silver chalice, which 

 was figured and described in the Illustrated Archseologist, 

 January, ,1895. The hall-mark shows it to date from 

 1521 ; the bowl is broad and shallow, stem plain and 



* List of Manks Antiquities. P. M. C. Kermode. Manx Society, XVII. 



