By the Rev. E. H. Ooddard. 



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Cup of Crudwell Anno 1628 " in the place of foliage. The edge 

 of the base is very often enriched with the egg-and-dart ornament, 

 and a belt of dotted lines sometimes takes the place of the foliage 

 on the bowl, the cover, and the base. A considerable number of 

 these cups bear only a maker's mark, or no marks at all, and seem 

 to have been of local manufacture. There is a series of cups without 

 hall marks in the Pewsey Vale at Wootton Rivers, Manningford 

 Bruce. Stanton St. Bernard, and Etchilhampton, all of the same 

 character and unlike any others in the north of the county except 

 one at Little Hinton. They have a broad belt of interlacing 

 strap-work, without any foliage, of the same character as the orna- 

 mentation of so many cups in Dorset which Mr. Nightingale 

 supposes to have been of local make, but their stems and knots are 

 of the usual Elizabethan type. There are, however, two others — 

 those of Enford and Great Cheverell — also in the same neighbour- 

 hood, which have the curious cable moulding, and the stem with 

 the knot close up under the bowl, which is characteristic of the 

 Dorset specimens. These also bear no hall marks. 



Two specimens, at Limpley Stoke and Littleton Drew, of 1577 

 and 1578, instead of the usual rounded knot in the centre of the 

 stem, have a rather narrow projecting horizontal moulding bearing 

 the ornament composed of short upright parallel lines which so 

 commonly marks the junction of the stem with the bowl and base, 

 while the Rowde (1576) and Winterbourne Monkton cups, (the 

 latter given in the present century and unmarked) have, on the 

 other hand, no knots at all, the stem being somewhat broad, and 

 plain. 



Those of St. Mary's Cricklade, and Somerford Keynes — both 

 bearing only the maker's mark of a Lombardic T eclipsed by a 

 heart, are beautiful cups, the former, inscribed 1577, having two 

 belts, the lower one of dotted lines the upper one of unusually rich 

 and elaborate foliage ; the latter, which is inscribed 1576, has only 

 one belt of foliage of the same character. In both cases the covers 

 are richly engraved in the same way. Wroughton has an unusually 

 large and handsome silver-gilt chalice and cover. In the Biddestone 

 specimen there is a projecting bead encircling the bowl above the 



