By J. E. Nightingale, F.S.A. 



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diameter, are perfectly plain, and have each an incised Maltese 

 cross. The marks are foreign, and have not yet been identified. 

 Mr. Cripps states that they are neither French nor Dutch. 



Dr. John Earles was appointed chaplain to Philip, Earl of Pem- 

 broke, and became Rector of Bishopstone, which living he held 

 from 1639 to 1662. On the fall of the monarchy he retired to 

 Antwerp. In 1647 he was with the Prince of Wales as his chaplain; 

 in June of that year he officiated in the English Ambassador's 

 Chapel at Paris, at the marriage of Evelyn, the writer of the "Diary," 

 to a daughter of Sir R. Brown. Soon after the Restoration he 

 became Bishop of Salisbury, and died in 1665. Some allusion to 

 this gift to the parish, which seems to have been made after Dr. 

 Earles became Bishop of Salisbury, are found in a note attached to 

 a copy of the will of Dorothy Gorges, a benefactress to the parish 

 in 1642, and still preserved in the parish register ; by which we 

 learn that before the bishop's gift the parish possessed an ancient 

 chalice and paten, of which nothing now is known. This entry is 

 dated 1685, and says that, amongst other benefactions, the bishop 

 "gave three gilted patens or plates for the communion; and two 

 communion gilded cups to the parish for the communion ; these with 

 an ancient communion cup and paten are in the churchwarden's 

 keeping. The said Lady Gorges gave a fair velvet communion 

 table cover and a fair velvet cushion and pulpit cloth to the parish, 

 which are now in use this 1st day of May, 1685, in the clerk's 

 keeping." 



j Britfokd. A complete set presented in 1750, consisting of a 

 Chalice, two large Flagons, 11 in. in height, two Dishes, 10 Jin. in 

 diameter, with shaped edgea, all inscribed with the sacred monogram, 

 also the following inscription : " The gift of Jacob Bouverie Viscount 

 Folkestone to the Church of Britford in Wilts for the use of the 

 Sacrament in the year 1750." Maker's marks, the letters I.W., also 

 E.W. under the Prince of Wales' feathers. The family of Wakelin 

 were goldsmiths to the Prince of Wales. The date-mark is 1749-50. 



Burcombe. Silver Chalice and Paten. The chalice is of large 



