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the stone to put it on, it only cost £3 18s. Depend upon it, they 
heard before hand from their aldermanic clients all about the “large 
silver salver Cawdle Cupp and cover, embost and thick washed with 
gold,” weighing seventy-five ounces, and costing £37 10s., which 
was given to John Sparke, one of the representatives of the town 
in 1679-80, “in token of the Respect and Gratitude of this Towne 
for his faithfull and diligent service.” Sparke was the last member 
of Parliament for Plymouth but one who had anything for his 
labours. The last paid in cash before him were Christopher Ceely 
and Timothy Alsop, rewarded for their attendance under the Pro- 
tectorate up to June 7, 1659; but so late as 1695 John Trelawny 
had one hundred guineas in consideration of his services to the 
town in Parliament. By 1710 the tables were turned, and the 
Corporation were not above taking £100 each from Charles Tre- 
lawny and Sir George Byng. It does not appear whether Joseph 
Willcocks, the goldsmith, found this ‘‘cawdle cupp ;” and the gold 
wine fountain which now forms part of the Crown Regalia, and ~ 
which was presented to Charles II. on his “happy Restauration,” 
was bought in London by Timothy Alsop. Willcocks or his son, 
however, supplied sundry silver boxes to contain the seals of the 
honorary freedoms which the Corporation began to grant shortly 
after the commencement of the last century. Plymouth loved a 
lord mightily in those days. Never a notable came within hailing 
distance, but the Mayor asked him to dinner, and the town had to 
pay for it. The granting of the freedoms was an additional sign 
of polite attention, and not as a rule an expensive one, for the 
silver boxes did not average thirty shillings. It was a much more 
serious matter when, in 1736-7, the Prince of Wales was made 
free. Nothing less than a gold box would serve his turn, and for 
that Mr. Tolcher was paid £24 2s. 6d. All this must have been 
long after the time of our tonsorial friend on the New Quay, or 
his unplaced competitor, unless they came of the race of Old Parr, 
If either was alive then, however, I can fancy how delighted he 
must have been with the ‘four Indian kings”—who were they ?— 
whom the Corporation entertained in 1709-10, and how he would 
have “admired” at the Prince of Chesroan, to whom £5 5s. was 
given as a “benevolence” in 1729-30, with 19s. for his travelling 
expenses to Liskeard ! 
It is much more likely, I think, that Voysey enjoyed the fun 
when “ Babb”—an odd nickname for the Anne Lang to whom it 
