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many other legacies to relatives and favoured clients we 

 read : " To his two sisters, Marie, wife of Clement Perchard, 

 and Elizabeth, wife of Richard Winne, 30 livres tournois each 

 to buy " une coupe d'argent " for themselves. 



To Mr. Jean de Sausmarez, and to Jeanne, daughter of 

 Mr. William de Beauvoir, £5 sterling each to buy themselves 

 respectively " un tanquard d'argent," while Mr. Charles 

 Andros is left £7 sterling for the same purpose, and £3 sterling 

 is left to Mr. John Andros's eldest daughter to buy herself 

 "une coupe d'argent" and £5 sterling for another silver cup 

 to Monsieur Elie Le Boutillier "mon viel amy." 



By this time silver cups seem to have been fairly plentiful 

 in the Island. Marie Ollivier, the unmarried daughter of 

 James Ollivier, in a Will dated 6th July, 1660, bequeathed 

 most of her estate to her niece Perotine Ollivier, who had 

 married Bernard Hanson, Miller of the Town Mills ; in this 

 Will she disposes of no less than six " coupes a vin " and one 

 " coupe a biere " and also of six spoons, five being of silver, 

 and one of silver gilt. 



In 1667, Anne Perchard, wife of Pierre de Lisle, 

 bequeathed to her son Pierre " ma coupe a biere," to her son 

 Thomas " ma coupe a vin avec six cueilliers d'argent," and to 

 her grandson Thomas de Lisle " ma grande coupe doree." It 

 is possible that this large silver-gilt cup may have been 

 another 16th century tazza ; it would certainly have been 

 more ornate than the ordinary wine and beer cups. 



Time does not permit of my detailing the other numerous 

 bequests of silver cups and spoons I have come across 

 previous to the year 1700. In one or two cases — such as in 

 the Will of James Bougier, fils Jean, dated May 4th, 1674 — 

 where he leaves to his fiancee Marie, daughter of Helier du 

 Maresq, " une coupe d'argent bastie en goubelot " and to 

 Michel Vaucourt, fils Michel, " une tasse d'argent "; as also 

 in the Will dated November 22nd, 1670, of Abraham Lyhou, 

 who leaves to Pierre Fiott " un petit gobelet a vin " and to 

 his nephew Nicolas Lyhou " un gobelet d'argent a biere " 

 while leaving to his nephew Pierre a "grande coupe d'argent " 

 it is again probable that more elaborate pieces of plate than 

 the ordinary silver cups are in question. 



There are also various bequests of other ornate pieces of 

 plate ; thus Sarah de Beauvoir, daughter of Henry, and widow 

 of Mr. Thomas Le Marchant, in her Will, dated October 

 2nd, 1657, bequeathed to her cousin, Mr. James de Beauvoir 

 of the "Manoir" (the estate now known as the Ivy Gates) 

 " une saliere d'argent dore," Evidently one of those large 



