By J. E. Nightingale, F.S.A. 379 



William Chiffinch — whose portrait will be found in the Council 

 House at Salisbury. He was Master of the Wardrobe to King 

 Charles II. , and was a considerable benefactor to Trinity Hospital 

 in that city. 



A third Paten, with a foot, measuring 8|in. in diam. inscribed 

 with the sacred monogram, also "St. Martin's Sarum 1 728/' The 

 date-letter is N. enclosed within a square shield, giving the year 

 1728. The maker's initials, G.S. (Gabriel Sleath). 



A Flagon, with cover, lOin. high, plain and good, with a broad 

 base tapering upwards. The date-mark is 1669 ; the maker's mark 

 T.L. It is inscribed thus : " This flaggon belong eth to the Parish 

 Church of St. Martin in Sarum. William Antrum, William Ginaway 

 Churchwardens 1670." 



The Alms Dish is a fine piece of plate of the period of the Res- 

 toration. It was, no doubt, originally intended as a rose-water dish. 

 It measures I8in. in diameter. The centre is plain, surrounded by 

 a broad border very richly decorated with foliage and amor in i in 

 repousse work. At some later period a large and cumbrous foot has 

 been added to it. The hall-marks are : the black-letter capital (B., 

 indicating the year 1662; the maker's mark, D.R. over a pellet, 

 within a shaped shield. In the centre is engraved the arms of Hyde 

 quartering Norbury, surmounted by an earl's coronet, shewing that 

 it once belonged to the great Earl of Clarendon, Edward Hyde 

 was born at Dinton, Wilts, he was made Lord Chancellor, with an 

 earldom, by Charles II. in 1661. As the hall-mark shews that the 

 dish was manufactured in the following year, it is thus one of the 

 few remaining grandiose pieces which were so abundantly made for 

 the court and courtiers immediately after the Restoration. The 

 Chancellor lost favour and was exiled in 1667, and died abroad in 

 1674. This dish was presented to the parish in 1686, as appears 

 by the following inscription at the back : " The gift of Mrs. Alice 

 Derham to the Parish Church of St. Martin in the City of New Sarum. 

 Anno DnJ. 1686." 



Salisbury, St. Thomas the Martyr. The present plate in use 

 is modern. Some few years ago the old pieces were " re-modelled," 



